The National Youth Council for Voluntary Services (NYCVS) has published the 5th edition of the Funding Guide for Workforce Development. The guide is aimed at employers, training providers and learners who work with children, young people and families in the VCS. A new addition this year is a section devoted to funding schemes for training providers.
For more information go to http://www.ncvys.org.uk/Funding.html
Starbucks, working in partnership with UK Youth and the Irish Youth Foundation, is offering the Youth Action Grants scheme as a means “to encourage and inspire a generation of young people to take action and create positive local change.”
The scheme offers young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who have great ideas of how to improve their communities, £2,000 in seed funding and volunteer time from local Starbucks partners (employees) to bring their projects to life.
Groups working with young people must be based and working in one of the following areas: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Greater London, Leeds, or Manchester.
The deadline for applications is 5 March 2012 (9am).
BFI Shorts 2012 is a new short film production scheme that forms part of the British Film Institute’s commitment to supporting emerging filmmaking talent and providing opportunities for filmmakers to demonstrate their potential to create feature films.
The scheme will support live-action fiction projects and encourages a diverse range of films that tell compelling stories and have the ability to engage, inspire and entertain audiences.
Funding is available to support up to 20 live-action narrative fiction shorts which:
The budget for each film will be between £25,000 and £50,000 and will be fully funded through the BFI award.
Applications are accepted from directors, writers and producers in the UK.
The deadline for applications is 5pm, Friday 23 March 2012.
The 2012 Awards to celebrate the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects are now open to applications.
The Awards are open to authorised representatives of projects that have received Lottery funding at any time since 1994. The main beneficiaries of the project must be based in the UK.
Entries can be made in the following Award categories:
The winner in each category will receive a cash prize of £2,000, which can be put towards their project.
Winners will be determined by a public vote featuring on a special BBC1 television show in the autumn.
The deadline for entries is 12 March 2012 (noon).
Youth Music, the UK’s largest children’s music charity has announced its grant making programme is once again open for applications. Through its “Open Programme”, grants of between £5,000 and £30,000 are available to support projects that provide music-making activities for children and young people in support of Youth Music’s goals.
Youth Music will fund any non profit-making organisation more than one year old that is committed to music-making activities for children and young people up to 18 (or up to 25 if they have special educational needs, disabilities or are in detention). Youth Music aims to support music making activities principally in out of school hours such as during weekends, holidays as well as in breakfast and after schools clubs.
Youth Music understands that programmes may need to begin in school hours especially if the proposal involves encouraging first time participation in music. To help with this, Youth Music will consider applications for programmes where up to 25% of the time is spent in school hours. The proposed programme should aim to encourage children and young people to eventually make music outside of school hours.
There is a two stage application process and the next closing date for stage 1 applications is 5pm on the 11th April 2012. For more information visit: http://network.youthmusic.org.uk/funding
