Access to Volunteering (6th Sept 2010)

deadline: 6 September 2010

Access to Volunteering, the Office for Civil Society’s pilot funding scheme to help disabled people volunteer, is now in its last two rounds of grant-giving.

To date, 95 organisations have received grants worth between £250 and £5,000 across the three test regions of Greater London, West Midlands and the North West. Current projects include helping disabled people to learn new skills, play a greater role in their communities and be active in the workplace.

Applications can be submitted online, by email, phone or post. Particularly welcome are projects that help remove the attitudinal barriers that sometimes prevent disabled people from volunteering as well as applications from organisations new to volunteering.

Successful awardees are able to apply for repeat funding subject to providing suitable monitoring feedback, although the remaining budget will be prioritised towards new applicants.

Please visit www.accesstovolunteering.org for more information or to view a list of successful bids. Alternatively phone the helpline for more information on 03000 123 346.

Target Sectors

• Creative Industries
• Non-Creative Industries