Funding News
The RCC collates information from a wide variety of local, regional and national sources to help keep local voluntary and community organisations informed of policy issues, funding opportunities, training and events etc.
A few of these are listed below and in the News and Information and Training and Events sections and all the information is available in the RCC News and Information Sheets available via the link at the bottom of the page.
Concertina Charitable Trust
The registered charity, Concertina, which makes grants to charitable bodies which provide musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly, has announced that the next application deadline is the 31st October 2011. The charity is particular keen to support smaller organisations which might otherwise find it difficult to gain funding. Since its inception in 2004, it has made grants to a wide range of charitable organisations nationwide in England and Wales. These include funds to many care homes for the elderly to provide musical entertainment for their residents.
www.concertinamusic.org.uk
Young Film Fund (UK)
First Light Movies provides grants to projects that enable young people to participate in all aspects of film production has announced that its Young Film Fund is now open to applications. Grants are delivered through two different funding streams.
The Studio Awards
Funding for between two and four films of up to 10 minutes in duration
Maximum grant - £30,000
20% match funding requirement
Track record of filmmaking with young people necessary
Pilot Awards
Funding for one short film of up to five minutes in duration
Maximum grant - £5,000
20% match funding requirement
The next deadline for applications is the 14th June 2011. Website here
Protecting Playing Fields
Sport England's funding programme, Protecting Playing Fields ( PPF ) is part of our Places People Play Olympic legacy mas participation programme and is investing £10 million of National Lottery funding in community sports projects over three years from 2011-2014
The programme is being delilvered via fivefunding rounds with up to £2 million being awarded to projects in each round.
Confirmed dates for the first two rounds are:
Round 1 opens on the 25 May 2011 and closes on 6 July 2011.
Round 2 will open on 24 October 2011 and close on 12 December 2011.
Details of future funding rounds will be announced on this page, but we anticipate running two rounds in 2012 and a final round in 2013.
Delivering a mass participation legacy for sport from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a top priority for the Government and Sport England.
To help us achieve this, PPF will focus on protecting and improving playing fields and developing community sport. Through this programme, we intend to fund up to 300 projects for playing field improvements that will contribute to both retaining and increasing participants in sport across England at the local level.
The programme will fund capital projects that create, develop and improve playing fields for sporting and community use and offer long term protection of the site for sport. Projects are likely to involve the construction of new pitches or improvement of existing ones that need leveling or drainage works.
Website here
news and information IWRCC 9 August 2010.pdf
