New Funding Resource Published for Workforce Development

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 Youth Action Grants Scheme Accepting Applications

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).

http://www.ukyouth.org/

BFI Shorts 2012 – New Film Production Scheme Opens

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:

• have a duration of 10-30 minutes;
• are able to engage, inspire and entertain audiences;
• demonstrate that the filmmakers have the ability to dramatise stories that require a bigger canvas;
• are achievable within the allocated time-frame and budget range specified; and
• have no development or production finance already in place.

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.

http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/

National Lottery Awards – 2012 Round Open

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:

• Best Arts Project.
• Best Education Project.
• Best Environment Project.
• Best Health Project.
• Best Heritage Project.
• Best Sport Project.
• Best Voluntary/Charity Project.

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).

http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/

The Henry Smith Charity

The Henry Smith Charity makes grants totalling over £20 million per annum for a wide range of purposes across the UK, funded from investments. The charity covers areas such as:

• Hospitals and medical care (services operated by the NHS will not normally be funded)
• Hospices and palliative care
• Medical research
• Disability
• Elderly
• Young people
• Drugs and alcohol
• Family services
• Homeless
• Holidays for children.

 The Charity has three funding streams:

• The main grants programme which offers grants for more than one year, and up to three years. Grant applications must be for £10,000 or more per annum, and can be used towards core costs.
• The capital grant programme which offers grants of more than £10,000 for one year only for purchase/refurbishment of a building, purchase of specialist equipment, other similar capital expenditure, or one year’s running costs.
• The small grants programme which offers grants of £10,000 or less to organisations with an annual income of less than £150,000, for one-off capital items such as equipment purchase, or one year’s running costs.

 There are no specific deadlines, although Trustees meet quarterly in March, June, September and December to consider applications, so these must be received at least 8 weeks prior to a meeting.

For more information visit: http://www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk/index.html