This page is dedicated to news about funding opportunities, projects and schemes available nationally and locally that may be of benefit to local groups and organizations in Peterborough
Reaching Communities is oversubscribed.
Since it opened in December 2005, Reaching Communities has become the most popular programme. As a result, it is highly competitive and they receive far more requests than they can support. By the end of December 2006 they had received 7,454 outline proposals asking for a budget of £100 million This means that good applications that Big Lottery may wish to support will get turned down because there is simply not the funds available.
BASIS Infrastructure Funding Programme
Most organisations that have applied for the BASIS Big Lottery grant programme will have received a reply to the first round of the application process, which was orginially promised for Autumn 2006. Due to the high demand the programme has been oversubscribed by many millions of £'s, again reducing the availabilty of funds. The second and final round will be open again in August 2007.
The Fundraising Standards board have been formed to implement and operate a transparent and open self-regulatory scheme for the fundraising sector. Their purpose is to encourage excellence in fundraising and provide a robust and accessible complaints procedure for members of the public.
On their web site you can discover how the Fundraising Standards Board scheme works and exactly what it means to your charity or fundraising organisation. You can also register for a membership application pack, find out how the complaints process works, and refer to the Fundraising Standards Board Fundraising Promise and the Institute of Fundraising’s Codes of Fundraising Practice.
Contact details : If you have a general enquiry about the Fundraising Standards Board please e-mail info@fsboard.org.uk.
If you wish to find out more about how to make a complaint, please email complaint@fsboard.org.uk
If you have a membership enquiry, please email membership@fsboard.org.uk
By post
Fundraising Standards Board,
Hampton House,
20 Albert Embankment,
London,SE1 7TJ
By phone
0845 402 5442
This year raised a staggering £18,300,392!
The charity allocates grants to registered charities or voluntary and community groups that aim to make a positive difference to children and young people's lives. Grants are targeted at the areas of greatest need, and money is allocated geographically to ensure that children and young people in all corners of the UK receive a balanced share of the money raised.
An average BBC Children in Need grant is around £20,000, although grants can range from as little as £100 to many thousands of pounds. In an average year the appeal distributes around 1,500 grants to organisations across the UK, but receives about twice this number of applications for funding every year. All applications are carefully considered and grants allocated are followed up to ensure they are spent appropriately. The size and scale of the BBC Children in Need Appeal means that we're able to give grants to smaller organisations who don't have the fundraising infrastructure to raise significant funds for themselves.
Grants
BBC Children in Need distributes the funds raised each year as grants to organisations that work with disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.
Across the country there are thousands of voluntary and community organisations, large and small, working selflessly to improve lives in their own communities and beyond. Many of these organisations would benefit from extra help and support to enable them to fulfil their potential and offer even more to the people they serve. Capacitybuilders has been created to give organisations this kind of help and support through the funding of a high-quality, sustainable infrastructure.
What they do: Capacity builders strengthens infrastructure. By that, they mean strengthening physical facilities, structures, systems and relationships, as well as the people, knowledge and skills that help frontline organisations achieve their aims.
£70 million will be invested over the next two years in:
supporting the development of consortia throughout England; driving the work of the national hubs of expertise; and providing extensive grant programmes for consortia and other infrastructure bodies to support frontline organisations.
If you would like to receive updates on their future funding programmes please contact: Email: info@capacitybuilders.org.uk
Third Sector magazine 31 January 07 comments "Capacitybuilders has hit back at claims by the Directory of Seocial change that it is driving forward the Government's agenda. Ben Wittenberg, head of policy and research at the DSC, recently accused Capacitybuilders of supportign the Government's public service delivery agenda rather than the charity sector as a whole. However, Simon Hebditch Chief Executive of Capacitybuilders has responded by accusing the DSC of using "tendentious language". He said, "It is entirely untrue that our plans are based on driving forward a Government agenda around public service delivery. I have always said that this is just one aspect of voluntary sector interest."
