Antigone, Martha Lane Fox’s Foundation, has announced that the next funding round will open for application in September 2012. The Foundation are interested in helping charities think through how they use web and mobile technologies and are looking to support projects that can show that they are sustainable and use technology innovatively; can show that they are improving people’s lives; are managed by inspired and dedicated people; have ambitions for developing their work on a bigger scale; share lessons learned with other organisations in their sector; and form lasting partnerships to make the most of limited resources.
Previous grants have ranged between £5,000 – 15,000 per year for terms of 1-5 years.
For more information visit: http://www.marthalanefox.com/antigone
Tonic Theatre in partnership with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, Company of Angels and Zendeh is conducting a nationwide research study into levels of opportunity for girls in youth theatre and extra-curricular drama activity.
- Do you run extra-curricular drama activities with young people between the ages of 11-25?
- Are you a youth theatre leader?
- Do you run a community drama group?
- Do you work for a part-time stage school?
- Are you a school or college teacher that runs a drama club or stages end of term productions?
If so, please click here for further information and to take part: www.surveymonkey.com/s/6QP8P6P
You could win £100 worth of theatre books and scripts from Nick Hern Books.
vInspired, the Volunteering Charity, has announced that its Cashpoint grants scheme is once again open for applications. The Cashpoint grants scheme offers grants of up to £500 to give young people (aged 14-25) the opportunity to bring their ideas to improve their local community to life. The funding is available to individual young people (or small groups) who have developed a project idea and will run the project themselves. Projects must be run on a volunteer only basis.
There are no closing dates for applications and grants will be awarded on a continuous basis until all available monies are exhausted. For more information visit: http://tinyurl.com/cff6urt
The Clore Duffield Foundation has launched a new £1 million programme to fund poetry and literature initiatives for children and young people across the UK. The programme is due to run from 2011 to 2015 with two funding rounds a year. The programme is open to schools, FE colleges, community groups, libraries and other arts/cultural organisations. Grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 are available to support participatory learning projects and programmes focused on literature, poetry and creative writing for under 19s.
The next closing date for applications is the 1st October 2012. For information visit: http://www.cloreduffield.org.uk/page_sub.php?id=331&parent=35
Deadline: 25 May 2012, noon
The Woodward Charitable Trust awards grant funding to small-scale, locally-based charitable initiatives in the UK in the following areas:
- children and young people;
- minority groups including refugees, gypsies and travellers;
- prisoners and ex-offenders;
- disability;
- homelessness;
- arts outreach; and
- environmental projects.
For more information, go to: http://www.woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk/
