Please see below an update on some sources of funding that are available for community groups.

The Parklife Community Fund has now closed.
Decisions will be made by a panel of Prestwich councillors and successful applicants will be notified by the end of February. In addition, there is £24,500 available in micro-grants to groups across the three local authorities. For more information visit https://www.parkliferesidents.org/community-fund or email communityfund@parklife.uk.com  and/or prestwichcommunityhub@bury.gov.uk

Sport England – Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Activity Fund

https://www.sportengland.org/how-we-can-help/our-funds/queens-platinum-jubilee-activity-fund

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Activity Fund aims to use sport and physical activity as a means of bringing a community together and tackling inequalities via awards of between £300 and £10,000 from a pot of £5 million of National Lottery funding.

Sports England want to mark and help celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year by supporting projects that bring a community together and provide opportunities for people who may be less physically active. As such they want organisations to consider how they could work more collaboratively across their community, in order to make the biggest possible impact. Funds are available for project costs such as facility hire and coaching, as well as for small capital improvements.

Arts Council England – Let’s Create Jubilee Fund

https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/our-open-funds/let%E2%80%99s-create-jubilee-fund

Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations are a special moment in our collective history; one that gives us a chance to look back at what has been achieved over the last 70 years  and also look forward to what is possible in the future.

The focus of this fund is to empower community organisations to work collaboratively with artists and cultural organisations in a way they might not have before, to produce creative events that are driven by them and highlight their ideas and creativity. 

Although our funding usually falls under several artform disciplines, we don’t want to be too prescriptive over what kinds of creative responses we expect to see for the Let’s Create Jubilee Fund.  Instead, we want to encourage community organisations to think about what creative activity would mean the most to their local communities and why.

Voluntary and community organisations will be encouraged to partner with a practitioner or organisation who has received Arts Council funding in the last four years to deliver their activity. We believe that the strongest applications will demonstrate a strong partnership with a cultural organisation or artists or creative professional, to ensure the activity is high quality and relevant for the audiences and participants who will experience the event. Grants range £750-£10k. Application deadline 28^th February 2022.

Reaching Communities England

https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/reaching-communities-england

This programme offers a larger amount of funding (over £10,000) for organisations that work with their community to help them thrive. We fund projects that work to make positive changes in their community – whether that is for people living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.

With the COVID-19 pandemic still with us , we’ll continue to support people and communities most adversely impacted by COVID -19.We can support you to:

• Continue to deliver activity, whether you’re supporting your existing users, responding to the immediate crisis or undertaking recovery activity
• Change and adapt becoming more resilient in order to respond to new and future challenges.

In order to support communities to thrive we aim to:

• Build strong relationships in and across communities
• Improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
• Help more people to reach their potential by supporting them at the earliest possible stage

You can expect us to be flexible and responsive to your community’s needs:

• Whether you need long or shorter term funding
• Whether your request is for a particular activity or to create more fundamental change
• Whether the funding is to support a single organisation or to bring organisations together.

Given the ongoing pandemic we expect continued high demand for our funding and we will have to make some tough choices. Please bear with us as our funding teams respond to demand.

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