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Third Sector Funding

Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund

Submission deadline: Friday 5th July 2013

Funding is available to selected museums and galleries throughout England in order to make improvements to buildings or collections in England.

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English Lacrosse Minor Grants

Submission deadline: Sunday 30th June 2013

Grants are available to lacrosse groups and clubs across England.

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Grants4Growth Capital Grants

A Programme to improve efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and assist a business to invest and grow.

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Social Incubator Fund

Submission deadline: Friday 6th September 2013

Funding for social incubators in England to help them to provide investment and support to early stage social ventures.

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Arts and Older People in Care Commissioned Grant

Submission deadline: Wednesday 14th August 2013

Grants are available to residential care providers or arts organisations in England to provide access to high quality arts experiences for older people in residential care.

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Guardian Charity Awards

Submission deadline: Friday 19th July 2013

The Guardian Charity Awards seek to recognise and encourage UK charities that make an outstanding and valuable contribution to social welfare in the community.

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Wolfson Foundation

Submission deadline: Monday 1st July 2013

The Foundation aims to support excellence in the UK, generally through the funding of capital infrastructure in the fields of science and technology, arts and humanities, education, and health and disability.

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Global Fund for Women - Women’s Fund

Submission deadline: Sunday 30th June 2013

Grants are available to organisations outside the United States that promote the human rights of women and girls.

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Macmillan - Supporting You to Help Others Grants

Submission deadline: Friday 28th June 2013

Funding for both new and established cancer self help and support groups in the UK and their activities and user involvement projects and associated activities.

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Centre for Social Justice Awards

Submission deadline: Friday 28th June 2013

Awards recognising charities and voluntary organisations in the UK that are working to prevent poverty or that are helping people and families caught in damaging situations, to turn their lives around.

Fund Value: £10,000

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SITA Trust Enhancing Communities Programme

Submission deadline: Monday 17th June 2013

Grants are available for community projects in qualifying areas of England, Scotland and Wales.  The type of projects supported include improvements to community amenities such as village halls, public parks and sports facilities, and improvements to historic buildings and structures.

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Homeless Hospital Discharge Fund

Submission deadline: Monday 8th July 2013

Grants are available to voluntary sector organisations providing services to homeless people to ensure that homeless people receive the best possible support and care after leaving hospital.

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HLF - Our Heritage

Submission deadline: Monday 30th September 2013

Funding is available for projects that make a lasting difference for heritage, people and communities in the UK.

No deadline

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Community-based English Language Competition

Submission deadline: Monday 15th July 2013

A competition to discover and support organisations in selected areas of England than can deliver community-based English language programmes to enable individuals with low levels of spoken English to fulfil their potential.

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Bridges Social Impact Bond Fund

Submission deadline: Monday 30th September 2013

Capital investment and support to UK based charities and social enterprises to deliver programmes designed to improve social outcomes in areas such as education, employment, housing and care for vulnerable young people in the UK.

Maximum Fund Value: £3,000,000

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Preparatory Actions in the Field of Sport

Submission deadline: Friday 19th July 2013

Support is available for transnational projects put forward by public bodies or civil society organisations within the EU in order to identify and test suitable networks and good practices in the field of sport.

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PRS for Music Foundation - Women Make Music

Submission deadline: Monday 23rd September 2013

Support is offered towards the creation and performance of new music, across any genre, which is written by a woman creator living and working in the United Kingdom.

Maximum fund value: £5,000

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Education Endowment Fund (EEF)

Submission deadline: Thursday 3rd October 2013

Funding available to organisations to help raise the standards of underperforming schools in England.

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Paul Bush Foundation Trust

Submission deadline: Monday 2nd September 2013

Grants are available to registered charities who are working to support the needs of adults and children with physical disabilities in England.

Fund Value: £10,000

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Where did you learn our language? … I listened!

Natasha James and Julie Smith

I finished the last blog with a quote and have started this one with another. The ‘title’ of this piece is a quote from the film 13th Warrior, described by Time Out in the following terms: “At its best, this achieves the beauty and grandeur of a Kurosawa epic - at its worst, however, it feels like a Python remake of The Vikings.”

Published by Natasha James and Julie Smith of Breaking Barriers Community Arts on 13/06/2013 View this entry

Accountants in charities are important!

Sarah Case FCA DChA

Accountants within charities are important ... well I would say that wouldn’t I! But realistically they have to be important. I have heard service departments of charities grumbling that “finance rules this organisation” and whilst finance shouldn’t rule they should certainly have a hand in ruling.

Published by Sarah Case FCA DChA of Broomfield & Alexander on 12/06/2013 View this entry

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