FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Small grants are available to groups and organisations in Essex County Council areas and Southend only to support working with young people involved in the criminal justice system or at risk of criminal behaviour and exploitation.

The Local Community Fund is an initiative for Community Groups to engage with their local County Councillors to fund programmes/projects against three key priority areas. These are:

• Youth services
• Levelling up
• Tackling climate change

Open to organisations that are led by and support people from under-represented backgrounds, people from ethnic minority communities, people with disabilities and people from the LGBTQ+ community.

The overriding funding objective of this grant framework is to mobilise projects that will help strengthen what is currently available in Maldon District for the following key outcome areas: Access to Services (including transport), Community and Community Cohesion, Community Safety, Mental Health, and Green Spaces

The purpose of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Community Safety Development Fund (CSDF) is to support local communities, and voluntary and community safety groups to deliver effective approaches to preventing and tackling crime and anti-social behaviour in support of the PFCC’s Police & Crime Plan.

Any youth sports team aged between 4-15 and with up to 30 members is eligible to apply. Successful teams will receive a brand-new sports kit for team members.

The strategic goal of the V&V Partnership is to reduce serious violence, the harm it causes, and to safeguard those at risk (including to gangs and knife crime). The Partnership has a long term approach based on prevention, using a public health model and an evidence based approach.

Aims to support targeted projects and programmes for both Adults and Children and Young People (CYP) as expressed in the Core20PLUS5 approach. Projects should focus on one or more of the three local Clinical Priorities for adults in South East Essex, on one or more of the five Clinical Priorities for Children and Young People in South East Essex, and/or provide preventative solutions with measurable outcomes based on the key local preventative priorities.

Grants of up to £10,000 are available for capital and revenue funding. The fund is open to Voluntary Community Faith and Social Enterprise organisations (VCSFE), groups, clubs or parish and town councils.

Single year grants between £2,000 and £10,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs

Projects must have a focus on Community Support

Grants for registered charities, community groups, social enterprises, community amateur sports clubs, and other organisations across the UK to deliver grassroots sports activities that positively impact local communities. Examples of projects that have previously received funding include:

Offering single yaer grants between £10,000 and £100,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs or multi-year grants for a maximum of 3 years,

Two Grants of Interest:

• Strengthening Communities
• Improving Lives

Funding available to create access to opportunities for sport and physical activity at a grassroots level that enable people across the UK who are physically, mentally, socially or economically disadvantaged to develop personal and life skills to fulfil their potential.

For voluntary and community organisations working in areas affected by the operations of Stansted Airport to support projects with long lasting benefit to the local community.

Supports charities delivering projects which help to improve people’s lives in communities across England, Scotland and Wales.

Funding available to enhance the lives of children and young people in the Southeast who are physically, mentally, or socially disadvantaged.

The grant can support capital projects, revenue/core costs or project costs.

We're here to support communities with the things that are important to them, including helping with the impact of the cost-of-living crisis.

You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges.

The Youth Fund is designed to be a strategic investment in your organisation, so we only fund for the full three years and at the amount appropriate to your plans for wider impact.

For organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help their community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.

Offer many programmes for schools and youth organisations, to help celebrate the achievements of young people in London and Essex.

We're here to support communities with the things that are important to them, including mitigating the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and supporting them as they seek to recover, rebuild and grow following the Covid-19 pandemic.

We’re looking to fund organisations that want to do more to help communities come together and help make us a better-connected society.

One off payments for capital expenditure of approximately £2,000 and over (the majority of grants fall within the range of £2,000 to £5,000)

Grants available for local and national charities in England and Wales who are working with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

We favour work which could change the way issues are tackled in our society and which could have lessons for others beyond the funded organisation

Working with young people aged 12-21 who are socially excluded or marginalised, and who may have experienced significant issues within their lives.

The grants can be used to support a range of activities, including core costs, project work, and capital expenditure.

The Trust distributes, on average, £400-500,000 annually to between 120-150 organisations principally for projects within Essex.

The Trustees are particularly interested in small, grass root organisations but will consider applications from larger groups. We provide grants to voluntary and community groups in Southend on Sea, Rochford and Castle Point local authority areas.

Allows councillors to give up to £1,250 in their ward to organisations and groups running local support projects and initiatives that will benefit the people of Braintree District (Essex). Ward councillors can pool their budgets to joint fund projects within the ward.

To support organisations throughout the county engage with more people to get them cycling. This can range from those needing support learning to ride or accessing a bike, to those who’re more confident wanting to explore more of Essex on two wheels.

Supports UK registered charities that Provide Hospice Care, Provide support for the Homeless, and Promote Health and Well-Being. Grants may be considered for a range of purposes which could include core funding to include staff costs and ongoing running costs for specific projects.

Organisations who have previously been in receipt of ECC funding for VCS Infrastructure support may apply for up to £250 per grassroots organisation they have supported. This is applicable where the grassroots organisation has an income band of less than £10,000 (as per the NVCO definition), supports the ambitions of Everyone Essex and there is a pay wall in place which might otherwise preclude them from accessing support.

Open to community organisations who operate in the same communities as CDS to promote health and well-being. Applications must demonstrate clear social value and support health and well-being of local populations.