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Grants for projects focusing on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities and Dementia

The Life Changes Trust is looking to increase understanding about the particular issues that people from certain ‘protected characteristic’ groups may face when they are affected by dementia.

Projects must actively engage people living with dementia or people caring for someone who lives with dementia.

Grant size

The Trust is offering Awards of between £15,000 and £50,000, to be spent over a timescale of up to 2 years (starting from April 2018).

Deadline

If you are interested in applying for this funding, please contact Graham Hart no later than Thursday 30 November in order to arrange a face to face conversation with a member of the Dementia Programme Team.

How to apply

The application process includes two stages: 

  • Face to face conversation 
  • Short application form and budget sheet which will be completed with a member of the Trust’s Dementia Programme Team.

For further details and to apply please visit the Life Changes Trust.

 

Needing a grant for core costs? Check out EKCT grants

Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust (EKCT) is accepting applications from UK registered charities that aim to  ‘make a difference’. 

Grants will be considered for start-up costs, core costs or for a specific project for which applicants have requested support. This could include a contribution towards a building/refurbishment project, purchase of specialist equipment or other similar capital expenditure, or assistance with running costs.

What is funded

EKCT makes grants in the following areas:

  • Care of the Elderly
  • Disability
  • General Welfare
  • Hospices
  • Medical Research (particularly care of sufferers from lesser-known diseases)
  • Reproductive Health (International)
  • Wildlife & Environmental Conservation (UK and International)
  • Youth

Grant size

EKCT makes three types of grants:

  • Small Grants of up to £5,000
  • Medium Grants  of between £5,001 – £10,000
  • Large Grants of over £10,000

Eligibility criteria

In order to be eligible for a grant from EKCT, applicants must be UK organisations that have been registered as charities for at least one year. In addition, principal support is given to charities working in the following areas:

  1. Charitable work in the County of Sussex
  2. Wildlife & Environmental Conservation (UK and International)
  3. Reproductive Health (International)

Deadline

The deadline depends on the size of grant desired. Applications for Small Grants may be made at any time of year.

Medium grant applications are accepted four times a year between
the following dates:
4th January – 11th February
18th April – 19th May
10th July – 20th August
9th October – 19th November

Large grant applications are accepted twice a year between the following dates:
4th January – 4th March
10th July – 10th September

How to apply

Applications are completed online and can be found on the ‘Application Forms’ page. For more information, please visit EKCT.

Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants Grants

The Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants (SLF) is a fund to support legal work that goes beyond securing justice for an individual and makes a significant contribution to law, practice and procedures to uphold and promote the rights of
vulnerable migrant children and young people more generally.

The SLF aims to tackle injustices and inconsistencies in law and practice that disadvantage or discriminate against vulnerable young migrants as a result of their migration status.

The SLF supports strategic legal work which benefits vulnerable young migrants:

  • Migrants or the children of migrants, 
  • Who are under 25, 
  • Who are living in poverty, and 
  • Who face significant disadvantage or discrimination in connection with their (or their parents’) migration status.

What can be funded

The SLF funds strategic legal work in any area of law where vulnerable young migrants experience disadvantage or discrimination as a result of migration status. This includes (but is not restricted to) potential cases in the areas of:

  • Immigration 
  • Asylum and asylum support 
  • Human rights 
  • Education 
  • Housing 
  • Welfare benefits 
  • Discrimination 
  • Access to justice 
  • Community care

The SLF only supports strategic legal work. We define this as work where the impact is likely to go beyond an individual case, and to result in changes to law, policy and practice that will benefit a wider group of people.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible to apply from funding from SLF, organisations need to be based in the UK and be:

  • Not-for-profit (NFP) organisations that provide specialist level legal advice to vulnerable young migrants. If applicants work for a NFP organisation regulated by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) and are applying to undertake work in the asylum or immigration field, applicants must confirm that staff leading on the proposed work is accredited at Level 3, Advocacy and Representation, in the relevant category of law.
  • Firms of solicitors that provide specialist level legal advice to vulnerable young migrants. Solicitors’ firms need to demonstrate that the funded work does not include any element of profit and, as for all applicants, that there is a pro bono element included.

Grant size

The total amount available for SLF grants from October 2017 to September 2020 is £450,000. Maximum funding for any one application will be £30,000. The average grant size is around £12,000.

The maximum grant length is 12 months, and most grants are for six months or less. 

Deadline

Next application deadlines are:

  • Friday 3 November 2017
  • Friday 12 January 2018
  • Friday 2 March 2018

How to apply

For further details and to apply please read the SLF funding guidelines here.

UK based charities can apply for grants to protect tropical rainforests

The Waterloo Foundation is seeking applications for its environment grant programme entitled “Tropical Rainforests” to support initiatives working to protect tropical rainforests for their value to the climate, communities and biodiversity, principally through avoided deforestation.

The Foundation will support two types of projects:

Local Projects

  • Exposing, addressing and overcoming the local drivers of deforestation;
  • Management of the specified area;
  • Methods to measure and monitor the protected area;
  • Sustainable livelihoods for forest-dependent communities.

Strategic projects

  • Working on international or regional forest policy;
  • Campaigning for improved practices in commerce;
  • Innovative ways of reducing deforestation e.g. financial systems or solutions based on the value of forest ecosystem services.

Grant Size

The majority of the grants in this programme will be for a total of £50,000 – £100,000.

Eligibility Criteria

UK-based charities, many of whom work in close partnership with smaller local NGOs based in the countries in which they operate, are eligible to apply.
For tropical rainforest local projects applicants should be able to evidence previous successful tropical rainforest projects, with outcomes including:

  • Demonstrable protection of an area of tropical rainforest specified by hectare and cost;
  • Implementation of a management plan;
  • Improved livelihoods and income levels of forest-dependent communities;
  • The area of tropical forest the project will protect in hectares.

For tropical rainforest strategic projects:

  • Evidence of previous successful strategic programmes e.g. an attributable change in policy or improved supply chain. The Foundation may ask to see a full copy of the supporting data and evaluation at a later stage.
  • For your proposed programme, the specific measurable outcomes that you expect the programme to achieve, and the methods you will use to monitor these outcomes.
  • The strategy put in place to ensure the sustainability of the programme’s objectives for the long term.

Deadline 

1 June 2017

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted via email to applications@waterloofoundation.org.uk. For more information, please visit the Tropical Rainforests Programme.

UK based charities can apply for grants from the Waterloo Foundation for marine projects in Wales and internationally

The Waterloo Foundation is seeking applications for its “Marine Programme” to support initiatives working to halt the decline of fish stocks that communities in developing countries rely on, and those working to bring about sustainable fisheries in Wales.
Through the Marine Programme the Foundation will support two types of projects:

1. Local projects

Applications for local projects should demonstrate that they will positively impact upon the marine fisheries they are working to protect, and could include:

  • Development of marine protected areas or sustainable fisheries management;
  • Addressing local causes of over-exploitation of fish stocks and other seafood;
  • Creation of sustainable livelihoods for coastal and seafood dependent people.

2. Strategic projects

Applications for strategic projects that are working on addressing marine issues at a wider or international scale. These could include:

  • Working on international or regional marine policy;
  • Campaigning for improved practices in commerce;
  • Exploring different fishing practices and techniques;
  • Improving information exchange to eradicate illegal unreported and unregulated fishing.

Eligibility Criteria 

UK-based charities, many of whom work in close partnership with smaller local NGOs based in the countries in which they operate.

For local projects:

  • Applicants should be able to evidence previous successful marine projects, with outcomes including:
  • A demonstrable increase in fish stocks;
  • Implementation of a management plan over a specified and measurable area;
  • Improved livelihoods and / or income levels of fishery-dependent communities.

For strategic projects:

  • Evidence of previous successful strategic programmes e.g. an attributable change in policy or improved supply chain;
  • For your proposed project, the specific measurable outcomes that you expect the programme to achieve, and the methods you will use to monitor these outcomes;
  • The strategy put in place to ensure the sustainability of the programme’s objectives for the long term.

Deadline
1 March 2017

How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via email to applications@waterloofoundation.org.uk. For more information, please visit the Marine Programme.