Grassroots programme awards 5000 grants in first six months

The government’s three year £130 million Grassroots programme has awarded 5000 grants during its first six months of operation.

 

The programme, managed by the Community Development Foundation (CDF), has served to strengthen communities throughout England by awarding cash sums of between £250 and £5,000 to voluntary and community groups and has worked to target organisations that have never before received grant aid.

 

In addition, the scheme is determined to adapt to new economic challenges and has been recently adjusted on two levels – raising the maximum annual income of applicants to £30,000 in order to reach a larger number of organisations and ensuring a pound for pound match (rather than the previous 50p for every pound) from the Government for the Endowment Match Fund.

 

The 5000^th grant was awarded to a toddler group, Barnys Babs, in Solihull to pay for running costs and volunteer training.

 

For further information visit:

 

http://www.cdf.org.uk/bfora/systems/xmlviewer/default.asp?arg=DS_CDF_TECHART_23/_page.xsl/27&xsl_argx=3

Grassroots Grants Update!

Still waiting for information on the government’s £130 million Grassroots Grants programme?  Well, fear not – here’s the latest!

 

One of the criteria for the Grassroots Grants programme is that locally-based voluntary and community groups wishing to apply must have an income of less than £20,000 per year, taken as an average over the last three years.

 

This figure has now been raised to £30,000, in order to allow more groups to apply for funding.

 

For more information on Grassroots Grants generally, visit the Community Development Foundation website:

 

http://www.cdf.org.uk/bfora/systems/xmlviewer/default.asp?arg=DS_CDF_TECHART_23/_page.xsl/27&xsl_argx=3

Grassroots Update!

Still waiting for information on the government’s £130 million Grassroots Grants programme?  Well, fear not – here’s the latest!

 

It has been announced that the final region to name their Local Funder, Haringey, will be administered by the East London Community Foundation (ELCF).  The ELCF already administer Grassroots Grants for Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge.

 

For further information visit:

 

http://www.elcf.org.uk/

 

For more information on Grassroots Grants generally, visit the Community Development Foundation website:

 

http://www.cdf.org.uk/bfora/systems/xmlviewer/default.asp?arg=DS_CDF_TECHART_23/_page.xsl/27&xsl_argx=3

 

Grassroots Update!

Still waiting for information on the government’s £130 million Grassroots Grants programme?  Well, fear not – here’s the latest!

 

It has been announced that the Grassroots Grants for the London Borough of Hillingdon will be administered by the North West London Community Foundation.

 

For further information visit:  http://www.nwlcommunityfoundation.org.uk/.

 

So now there’s only one area left to announce their local funder: London Borough of Haringey.  As promised, we’ll keep checking on this and let you know as soon as anything is announced!

 

For more information on Grassroots Grants visit the Community Development Foundation website:

http://www.cdf.org.uk/bfora/systems/xmlviewer/default.asp?arg=DS_CDF_TECHART_23/_page.xsl/27&xsl_argx=3

 

Source: j4b

Grassroots Update!

More information on the government’s £130 million Grassroots Grants programme for voluntary and community groups across England…

 

It’s finally been announced that Community Network Bradford and District will be responsible for the Grassroots Grants for Bradford.

 

For further information, visit: http://www.cnet.org.uk/index.php

 

We are still waiting for news on local funders for the London Boroughs of Haringey and Hillingdon, however. As promised, as soon as we know anymore we’ll post it here!

 

For more Grassroots Grants information visit:

 

Community Development Foundation – Grassroots Grants: http://www.cdf.org.uk/bfora/systems/xmlviewer/default.asp?arg=DS_CDF_TECHART_23/_page.xsl/27&xsl_argx=3

 

Source: j4b

10.10.08 (2)

Grassroots Update!

 

More information on the government’s £130 million Grassroots Grants programme for voluntary and community groups across England…

 

Hull CVS, the Grassroots local funder for the Hull region, will kick start their programme of grant-giving with a number of introductory Q&A sessions.

 

Interested voluntary and community groups will be able to meet the Grassroots Grants administration team, find out about how the programme could assist their organisation, pick up useful hints and tips on the application process and get their hands on an all-important application pack.

 

The first Grassroots Grants launch session is:

 

Friday 17 October 2008

10am – 12 noon

Goodwin Centre, Icehouse Road, Hull

 

Attendees need to book their place with Jayne Patrick, Grants Administrator – jpatrick@hull-cvs.co.uk, 01482 324474.

 

For those unable to attend, a number of additional sessions will take place over the next month throughout Hull.

 

For further information visit:

 

Hull CVS: http://www.hullcvs.org.uk/

 

Community Development Foundation – Grassroots Grants: http://www.cdf.org.uk/bfora/systems/xmlviewer/default.asp?arg=DS_CDF_TECHART_23/_page.xsl/27&xsl_argx=3

 

Source: Hull CVS

 

 

06.10.08 (2)

Grassroots Update!

 

Still waiting for information on the government’s £130 million Grassroots Grants programme?  Well, fear not – here’s the latest!

 

It has been announced that the local funder for North Yorkshire is the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.  The Trust will administer the Grassroots Grants scheme throughout North Yorkshire on behalf of the government. As of yet, no information about scheme criteria, application forms or guidance notes have been released.

 

Keep checking the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust website for the latest updates:

 

http://www.ydmt.org/

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Currently, three regions involved in the Grassroots Grants programme are still to name their local funders.  They are:

 

• Bradford

• Haringey (London Borough of)

• Hillingdon (London Borough of)

 

As promised, we’ll keep checking on these and let you know as soon as they are announced!

 

For more information visit the Community Development Foundation website:

http://www.cdf.org.uk/bfora/systems/xmlviewer/default.asp?arg=DS_CDF_TECHART_23/_page.xsl/27&xsl_argx=3

 

Source: j4bCommunity