Meet the Funder Day

Meet The Funder Day 23 September 2024

 

Find out more about each of the funders by clicking on their name (info below) which will open up info about them. Please read carefully to be sure that  your organization/project is eligible for funding before the applying. 

Berkshire Community Foundation

Berkshire Community Foundation (BCF) works across Berkshire to raise, then distribute, money directly to vital local causes.  We ensure that any form of philanthropy, whether from an individual or an organisation, brings greatest benefit to those most in need in our local communities.

Our flagship Vital for Berkshire funding round, aims to support charities, community groups and projects that work to tackle the most salient and pressing issues within Berkshire’s communities at any given time. We invite applications from groups that support vital needs in Berkshire, such as (but not limited to): physical and mental health, supporting young and vulnerable people or groups, combating isolation, tackling poverty and disadvantage, offering equal opportunities for all, and more. Applications are also invited to enable groups to fund their essential resources in order to secure services for their beneficiaries in the current cost of living crisis.

Bernard Sunley Foundation

We are 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.

The Foundation has awarded over £136 million in grants since it was established in 1960. Each year we give just over £4 million to capital projects that deliver a real community focus or provide facilities to support those in need. We typically fund:

  • Capital projects which include new buildings, extensions, refurbishments and recreational spaces.
  • New minibuses and other vehicles that provide a vital service to those most in need in their local community.
  • Churches and other places of worship with a strong, secular community focus.
  • Charities or CIOs (Charitable Incorporated Organisations) registered in England and Wales.
  • Certain organisations with exempt status such as specialist schools, scout and guide groups, housing associations, cooperatives and community benefit societies.

What we don’t fund

BWB Technologies Community Fund

We are offering cash or product grants valued from £50 to £500 to individuals, community groups, schools, and organisations within a 20 mile radius of our offices at RG14 5TL. Our support is designed to encourage and enable people to get outdoors and have great, formative, experiences; e.g. giving a cash grant to a school to fund transport costs or paying for new buoyancy aids to replace aging kit at a cadet unit.

Greenham Trust

Greenham Trust support projects across West Berkshire and North Hampshire. We not only provide funding but advice and contacts, helping to bring charities, organisations and communities together.  We are currently focussing on finding solutions in the areas of cost-of-living and homelessness. We also fund Arts, Youth, Health and Wellbeing, Environmental and Sport projects too.  You’ll find the full list of what we can and cannot offer on our website. We provide funding of all types – small, medium and capital.

Through our funding platform The Good Exchange, we also partner with over 20 other local funders and work closely with them to provide collaborative funding for larger projects.

Come and talk to us about your project today and see how we can help.

Lloyds Bank Foundation

We work in partnership with charities and communities that understand the needs and aspirations of people and can make a lasting difference to their lives. We provide flexible, unrestricted funding and additional support to develop to help charities grow stronger and thrive beyond the lifetime of their grant.

Our focus is where our combination of funding and additional support can make the greatest impact on those we partner with. Our programmes aim to give charities the stability and freedom to use the funding as they best see fit.  These include:

  • Racial Equity – This programme is for small local charities and CICs which are led by and working with people who are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity.
  • Specialist Programme – Our focus is to support small, local, specialist charities with an income of £25,000–£500,000 where our three-year unrestricted £75,000 grant and support to develop, can make the greatest impact. Focusing on these 8 key themes: Addiction, Care Leavers, Domestic Abuse, Homelessness, Offending, Asylum Seekers & Refugees, Sexual Abuse & Exploitation, Trafficking & Modern Slavery.
  • Deaf and Disabled Peoples Organisations – This programme is for small and local charities and CICs with an income between £25,000 to £500,000 that are led by and working with Deaf and Disabled people who are experiencing poverty.
  • Organisation Development Support Programme – This is a two-year development support programme, for charities that help asylum seekers and refugees and have an income between £25k – £500k. This is not a funding programme and there is no cash grant linked to
  • Local Collaborations and National Influencing Programme focusing on improving the social security system, improving access to suitable accommodation, and support for asylum seekers and refugees.

Sport England

The Movement Fund offers crowdfunding pledges, grants, and resources to improve physical activity opportunities for the people and communities who need it the most.

If a project aligns with our priorities, we can fund a wide range of costs and items up to £15,000

Our focus is to support projects that match our goal of getting more people active, reducing the number of inactive people, and tackling inequalities.

The Clothworkers Foundation

The Clothworkers’ Foundation improves the lives of people and communities – particularly those facing disadvantage and marginalisation – through grant making. We award more than £7 million annually in capital grants to charities registered in the UK or not-for-profit organisations working across the ten areas of priority defined in our Large and Small Grants programme.

We award grants to UK registered charities, CICs, and other registered UK not-for-profit organisations (including special schools). Grants are awarded towards capital projects, which we define as: Buildings, Fittings, Fixtures, and Equipment, Digital Infrastructure and Vehicles. The size of grant awarded will depend on a number of factors including the size of your organisation and the cost and scale of your capital project. 

You must be able to demonstrate that the work of your organisation fits within one or more of our programme areas, and that at least 50% of service users benefiting from the capital project are from one or more of those groups. Our programme areas include:

  • Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities
  • Disabilities (including mental health and visual impairment)
  • Domestic and Sexual Abuse
  • Economic Disadvantage
  • Homelessness
  • LGBTQ+ Communities
  • Older people facing disadvantage
  • Prison and Rehabilitation
  • Sustance misuse and addiction
  • Young people facing disadvantage

The Wooden Spoon Charity

Wooden Spoon is the children’s charity of rugby. We are a grant-making charity and fund life-changing projects across the UK & Ireland. 

If your project is in the UK or Ireland and shares our aim of making a positive impact on the lives of children and young people, it may be eligible for a Wooden Spoon grant (Wooden Spoon project beneficiaries must be a group. Wooden Spoon cannot make grants to individuals).

If a project is a physical, tangible asset, of a permanent nature the following must apply:

  • It must have a minimum predicted life-span of five years, be non transferable and of a permanent nature
  • Grants will not be considered for salaries, administration costs, professional fees and on-going overheads related to a capital project

If a project is educational or disability sports focused the following must apply:

  • It must have a clearly defined project brief to include detail on: description of project need and objectives, stakeholders, description of participants (age, gender, geography), recruitment of participants, project activity and budget, legacy planning, monitoring and evaluation and finally reporting to Wooden Spoon
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