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Sport Works

With many sports clubs, community centres and charities losing vital revenues from the lack of sport and other activities taking place, Sport Works offers a way to introduce new members to your club, deliver new projects in your community whilst contributing vital revenues to your organisation.
Sport Works has been operating since 2009 and have partnered with sports clubs, community centres, carers organisations and other not for profit organisations across 16 of LondonÂ’s 32 boroughs. They work by supporting partner organisations to identify funding opportunities and to deliver new sports or activities sessions that benefit many different community groups. These groups include:
o Organisations supporting disabled individuals
o Carers organisations
o Women only groups
o Elderly groups
o Youth groups
o BAME groups
o Low income / Unemployed groups
To date, within Ealing and Hounslow, Sport Works have partnered with a Tennis club to deliver an over 50Â’s ladies fitness and Tennis programme, a Boxing club for disabled adults as well as two SEND schools to deliver extra-curricular sports programmes.
Sonal Parekh – Chair of Ashiana Charitable Trust recently commented on Sport Works – “We were introduced to Sport Works nearly six months ago and they have assisted Ashiana Charitable Trust to access funds as well as delivering a sports and activities projects for our members. The team at Sport Works are incredibly professional, knowledgeable about the funds available to organisations such as us, their coaching team have been amazing, we feel that they have been part of our team forever. I could not recommend Sport Works highly enough”.
If your sports club, community centre or not for profit organisation would like an initial consultation to see whether Sport Works can assist you in the same way that we have others, please send an email to mike@sportworksltd.co.uk who will arrange a call with one of the Sport Works team.

Match-fund campaign for children affected by Coronavirus

The Childhood Trust provides funds and additional support to charities participating in its match funding campaigns with the Big Give. You can find out more about our annual match funding campaigns on our website.
In light of the Coronavirus and its inevitable impacts on vulnerable children and young people across London, The Childhood Trust is launching the Champions for Children campaign to raise unrestricted funds for charities working with children whose lives have been impacted by the pandemic.
If you’d like to know more about the campaign and how to participate, please read on…..
(For reference, you will also find information about the Champions for Children campaign on our website.)
How does the campaign work?
Funds raised during the campaign are matched from two different pots: pledge donors and Childhood Trust funds.
Pledge donors can be anyone from your network (individuals or organisations such as your corporate partners or trusts/foundations). As part of the application process, you will need to sign up pledge donors to support your campaign.
Donations during the campaign will first be matched by your pledge donor and then by The Childhood Trust.
How do we support charities through the campaign?
The Childhood Trust will also be running TWO webinars/workshops to support charities through the campaign.
  1. The SUPPORT WEBINAR on 6 April at 11am will provide all prospective applicants with the opportunity to ask us any questions or seek any clarification about the Campaign.  We will also be offering tips and hints on how to get pledge donors on board. (You can sign up to this webinar below.)
  2. The second workshop will take place in the week of the 26th May, and will be about HOW TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN. More details on this workshop, including the date and time, will be sent out at a later date.
The Big Give also provides a lot of guides and resources through the application and campaign processes.
Finally, The Childhood Trust is also always around to support you through this process for any one-to-one advice you might need, so please do let us know if you’re struggling with anything or have a query!
What does ‘unrestricted funding’ mean?
This campaign is designed to support charities through the longer-term impacts of Coronavirus pandemic and ensure continued support for vulnerable children and young people. To this end, the funds raised through this campaign can be spend on whatever charities need to ensure this happens.
Unfortunately, however, there are two exceptions to this. We are unable to support campaigns raising funds for the following:

  • Capital expenses
  • Religious activities

In terms of timeframe, given the immediate need for these funds, it is expected that the funds will be spent within 12 months of the campaign (ie by July 2021).
Unrestricted funds do still require donor reporting. The Childhood Trust will require charities participating in the Champions for Children to tell us how the funds have been spent.
The Application Process
Eligibility
Champions for Children is open for applications from all charities that meet the following criteria:
  • Charities working with vulnerable children and young people based in London
  • Charities with at least one set of accounts showing on the Charity Commission
  • Charities with over £25,000 income as per their last financial accounts

Total funds to be raised in the campaign must be between £4,000 and £100,000.
How to apply
If you wish to apply, please register on the Big Give website and and click on the link to the Champions for Children campaign. If you have already registered on the Big Give site, you just need to login to your account.
If you have any questions about the Big Give platform, please email the Big Give directly on info@thebiggive.org.uk.
So, what happens next?
  1. The application process will open in the w/c 30 March. Please register on the Big Give website to receive notification when the applications open.
  2. Please check out the timeline below and ensure you are clear on what’s happening when. Exact dates will be made available in the Big Give guidance docs and deadlines will be sent to you by email in advance .The campaign timeline is tight due to the urgency of the need for this funding, so there is limited flexibility in the various deadlines.
  3. Finally, please sign up for the webinar on 6 April via the link below. You will have the opportunity to seek clarity on any aspect of the campaign, as well as gain tips and hints for getting your pledges in.
Sign up for the Support Webinar
The Campaign Timeline
Finally – and just to reiterate once again – if, at any point in the application or campaign process, you find yourself struggling, please do let us know so we can try to help!

London Community Response Fund – applications open

The new London Community Response Fund is now open to applications, with a focus on supporting VCS organisations providing food and other essentials to vulnerable Londoners during COVID-19. Please share details of the funding with any relevant networks and frontline VCS organisations you work with.

What funding is available? 

  • Flexible grants of up to £5,000 are available to VCS organisations to cover the costs theyÂ’re incurring whilst supporting communities affected by COVID-19 and the impact of stricter social distancing and isolation measures – with a focus on food and other essentials.
  • The collaborating funders (including the GLA and City Bridge), have agreed a set of principles which will underpin all the activities of the London Community Response Fund.
  • There is a weekly rolling deadline for grant applications until further notice e.g. applications submitted by Friday 3rd April will be assessed in the following week.
  • Wave 1 small grants are intended to enable VCS organisations to cover the additional expenditure meeting short-term needs around food and essential items such as mobile phones and data, and cleaning products.
  • Please note, Wave 1 small grants cannot be used for staff costs or laptops.

 Who is eligible?

 Wave 1 small grants are only available to following organisation types (individuals are not eligible):

  • Registered charity
  • Registered Community Interest Company (CIC)
  • Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
  • Charitable company (limited by guarantee)

 How to apply?

 Submit an application here

Applications will be shared with multiple funders who are collaborating on the London Community Response Fund. Applications will be screened to check they meet the eligibility criteria and then shared with the group of collaborating funders. Funders will select applications they are able to fund (depending on their area of operation and interest) and make decisions on them. Funders are committing to make decisions within a week.

Further guidance on the application process is available here.

What further funding will be available?

A second wave of funding in early April for larger grants, service transformation costs, and ongoing work to support communities. Applications for Wave 1 small grants will not prevent organisations applying for future rounds of funding.

Please direct any further queries to this address and check the main website for daily FAQ updates.

Emergency Arts Council Funding

The Arts Council are making £160 million of emergency funding?available?for those organisations and individuals who will need it during this crisis, and we have also changed the funding requirements for individuals and organisations currently in receipt of our funding.

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Youth Futures Foundation launches grants programme to tackle youth unemployment

Our rolling grants programme is now live.  We are launching at a time of unprecedented challenge as we all grapple with the impact of Covid-19.  We know there will be significant implications for young people and the organisations that support them.
Separately to our planned launch the Youth Futures Foundation is doing two key things:
1. We are calling for government to unlock an emergency support package for charities and social enterprises working with children and young people.
2. We are working in partnership with other funders to develop a nationwide emergency funding response for the youth, community and employment sector. If you are seeking urgent funding to sustain your organisation over the next 3-6 months, this may be more appropriate for you than our rolling grants programme.
Rapid funding for the sector is critical, but we know from speaking to many of you over the past few days that long-term funding is also crucial. In launching our grants programme today as planned, we hope to be as helpful as possible with our simple-to-access, rolling grants programme, so that you can focus on the vital work of supporting some of the most vulnerable young people in our communities now and in the future.
It has been our longstanding intention to launch our grants programmes in Spring 2020, with the objective to find, fund, support and evaluate promising practice and to understand what works when tackling youth unemployment.
After listening to youth organisations we have decided to proceed with our funding launch as planned. Many organisations are finding innovative ways to continue delivering services and making plans for the coming years, and need to know how these activities will be funded.
Our new fund will be distributed to organisations across England that have a promising track record of supporting young people who face barriers to accessing employment. We will fund delivery work and related overhead costs for specific programmes, entire organisations, partnerships or consortiums. Our aim is to fund in the most helpful and flexible way possible for grant recipients. In addition, we will provide capacity building support to help organisations strengthen and grow their work. Our rolling programme allows organisations to apply throughout the year, with quarterly decision making rather than separate rounds or deadlines.
The launch of this fund is an important first step in our ability to build a lasting, robust evidence base of what works to help those young people who face the most challenges moving into work. Our aim is that this learning can help to better support policy makers, employers, funders and commissioners to ensure that all young people can pursue meaningful and sustained economic pathways for the future.
In the face of Covid-19 our work has become more important than ever. When this crisis passes there will be more young people with gaps in their education, more young people with inadequate training and more young people out of work. We are committed to addressing this now and for the long term.
 
 
Grants programme full details here