- Do you want to improve and increase your success rate when applying for grants?
- Do you want to speak to 14 national grant funders from the comfort of your office/home?
- Do you want the benefit of attending national funding talks for free?
If so, you need to sign up for one or more of the webinars hosted by W3RT CVS in partnership with Community Matters Yorkshire and other national CVS organisations. Taking place on the 19th and 20th March 2024, you can join series of online funding talks, detailed below with a range of national grant funders. All these talks are FREE and a few of the funders in attendance include:
- Lloyds Bank Foundation
- People's Postcode Lottery
- National Lottery Community Fund
Once you sign up for a webinar, you will be sent the Zoom link to you. If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
National Funding Fair Day One (19th March 2024)
| Time | Funder | Overview |
| 9-10am | Grantscape | Grantscape administer community funds (CF) on behalf of Local Authorities, large scale renewable energy developers including wind farms and solar farms, landfill operators (through the Landfill Communities Fund), and other renewable energy plants. |
| 10-11am | Lloyds Bank Foundation | Lloyds Bank Foundation have committed to funding at least 700 charities at any one time, for longer, more flexibly and with more money. We will provide a wide range of developmental support, including training, consultancy and mentoring alongside our funding to strengthen charities. |
| 11-12pm | Easyfundraising | Easyfundraising is the UK’s biggest charity shopping site where you can raise money for your good cause when your supporters shop on line. easyfundraising turns everyday online shopping into free donations for your cause – your supporters shop as normal (but start on your easyfundraising cause page), and then retailers will make a small donation to say “thank you”. |
| 12-1pm | Good Things Foundation | The Foundation helps people to improve their lives through digital. We tackle the most pressing social issues of our time, working with partners in thousands of communities across the UK. |
| 1-2pm | Groundwork | Groundwork have a number of grant programs including Tesco Bags of Help. |
| 2-3pm | Heritage Lottery Fund | The Heritage Lottery Fund believes that understanding, valuing and sharing our heritage brings people together, inspires pride in communities and boosts investment in local economies. We distribute National Lottery grants from £3,000 to £5million and over, funding projects that sustain and transform the UK’s heritage Increasing resilience. |
| 3-4pm | People's Postcode Lottery | Six community focused trusts award funding from £500 up to £20,000 to support smaller charities and local community groups that are working for the benefit of people and planet. |
National Funding Fair Day Two (20th March 2024)
| Time | Funder | Overview |
| 9-10am | Bernard Sunley Foundation | A family grant making foundation which supports charities in England and Wales working to raise the quality of life and provide greater opportunities for the young, the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged. |
| 10-11am | Clothworkers' Foundation |
The Clothworkers’ Foundation improves the lives of people and communities – particularly those facing disadvantage, deprivation and/or discrimination – through grant-making. The Foundation was set up in 1977 to be the primary vehicle of charitable giving for The Clothworkers’ Company. Since then, The Foundation has awarded more than £152 million in capital grants to charities registered in the UK or not-for-profit organisations working across the nine areas of priority defined in its Main and Small Grants programme. |
| 11-12pm | Co-op Local Community Fund | Funding is available to local charities and grass-roots community organisations to maintain and enhance vital community projects through Co-op’s Local Community Fund which comes from the money raised when Co-op members buy own-brand products and services. In addition, Co-op and Crowdfunder have teamed-up to unlock additional funding as now Local Community Fund grants are able to count on Crowdfunder’s website towards match funding. |
| 12-1pm | Key Fund | The Key Fund offers flexible loans and grant/loan packages to help the community and social enterprises to start up, become sustainable, or grow. |
| 1-2pm | National Lottery Community Fund | The National Lottery Community Fund aims to support ideas and projects that matter to people and communities. Using funding and relationships to help create stronger, more connected communities, the National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery. |
| 2-3pm | People's Health Trust | The People's Health Trust has two funding programmes: Health Justice Fund and Active Communities. The Health Justice Fund is our fund which provides a route through which communities experiencing the sharp end of health inequalities can work with us, using their experience and practice to improve health |
| 3-4pm | Benefact Trust | Benefact Trust (formerly Allchurches Trust) was established to empower Christian churches and charities across the UK and Ireland, giving them the means to make a positive difference in the lives of the people and communities they serve. Our support of churches and Christian charities in the UK and Ireland is more than just the preservation of history and heritage, it's the preservation of hope, it's a potential lifeline for many of our most disadvantaged communities. Since 1972 we have awarded over £235 million to churches, Christian charities and the communities they serve - £100 million in the last 5 years alone. Although Christian causes are at the heart of our giving, the wider social impact of what we do reaches much further. |
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