21st July 2022

As many of you will know, we ran a very successful Bid Writer project last year where we provided bid writer services to our members to enable to them to be able to submit high quality applications when applying for funding.

Unfortunately we are not able to provide this service free of charge anymore, however we will be able to provide bid writers to our members at a rate of £400 per day. Please note that CSO will receive no money for this service, as we will only be responsible for introducing you to the bid writer. After initial introductions CSO's involvement will finish and all other communications will be between the member and the bid writer.

Please contact our Membership Operations Coordinator, Harriett Johnson on 0208 064 0874 / harriett@councilofsomaliorgs.com 

Funding is available for mental health services and associated running costs, including psychotherapy, counselling, and talking therapies delivered in community settings.

City Bridge Trust welcome applications that support:

• racialised communities, including refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
• disabled people including those with long-term mental health conditions
• people experiencing or at risk of homelessness
• people leaving the criminal justice system
• people who identify as LGBTQ+
• disadvantaged older people
• disadvantaged children and young people
• survivors of abuse, exploitation, and hatred.

Learn more about their funding for mental health on our Positive Transitions funding page.

City Bridge Trust can provide revenue support for environmental projects, capital funding for green improvements and free Eco-audits to help you identify the positive changes your organisation could make.

Their revenue funding can support small or large projects. They could be neighbourhood, borough, sub-regional, or even pan-London approaches to mitigating and/or adapting to climate change. Applications must have a clear community benefit and show evidence of community engagement.

Examples include work focused on protecting, managing, expanding, or enriching green spaces, tackling poor air quality, flood/drought mitigation, promoting biodiversity, adapting to climate change, or enabling access to growing spaces.

Their free Eco-audits already help organisations to be more sustainable and reduce their carbon footprint. Now, following an Eco-audit, eligible organisations can apply for up to £150,000 of capital funding to fund building works or improvements to reduce carbon footprint, improve resource use, and/or enhance biodiversity.

Examples of works could include insulation, solar panels, heat pumps, on-site biodiversity schemes, and energy efficient lighting systems.

Learn more on our Connecting the Capital funding page.

City Bridge Trust's capital funding grants are increasing from £100k to £150k.

This funding boost applies to our new environmental strand (above) and also to the thier funding for access improvements to community buildings.

Their Transition Funding initiative, which offered interim grants of up to £100k over two years, has now closed.

The seven funding strands offered under Transition Funding are now available for up to five years, under our Connecting the Capital and Positive Transitions funding programmes.

Building Strong Communities Fund 

Are you part of and/or work with a community that has been badly affected by COVID-19, socially or economically? 

Do you have a great idea for a project to help rebuild community strength, voice and/or connection? 

Perhaps you already run a successful programme that you are ready to expand - to benefit more people or to reach new groups.
 
The Greater London Authority (GLA) is inviting applications from London voluntary and community sector organisations with an annual turnover of £200k or less to the Building Strong Communities Grants Fund. There are two types of grants available: 

• Microgrants of between £1,000 and £5,000
• Small Grants of between £5,001 and £10,000.
 
The Deadline for applications in this round is 8^th August 2022. All of the information for applicants can be viewed from our webpage: Building Strong Communities Fund

Veolia's new Sustainability Fund provides cash sponsorship, in-kind resources or staff volunteers to support not-for-profit organisations and community groups to transform their local community or environment.

A successful project will provide evidence of one or more of the following:

• Enhancing biodiversity
• Promoting sustainable waste behaviours (reduce, reuse and/or recycle)
• Protecting or preserving resources and the environment
• Its use of recycled, reused or reclaimed materials

Application deadline is 4 November 2022. 

Find out more on the Veolia website.

Grants between £10,000 and £25,000 are available from the Steel Charitable Trust to registered charities in the UK working in the areas of arts and heritage, environment, health, or social and economic disadvantage.

 

Applications under the social or economic disadvantage category must have a focus on either disadvantaged children or people experiencing homelessness.

 

Applications under the health category must have a focus on either mental health or healthcare for older people.

 

Deadline: Oct 2022

 

To learn more click here

 

 

To improve the mental health of young women (16-25). Fund runs until 2026, in 2022 you must be in North East & North West England & Northern Ireland.

 

You need to be an organisation that:

• Directly engages with young women aged 16-25 years old

• Offers age, gender and trauma informed mental health services

• Strives for equality

• Is embedded within the community and offers culturally and community sensitive services

• Is willing to form a cohort with other grantees throughout the 3-year grant period. This gives you the chance to explore best practice and advocate for wider change.

• Works or runs your project in Northern Ireland or the North East or North West* of England to be eligible.

*Counties: Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. County Durham, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and part of North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough, and Redcar and Cleveland).

 

Grants of £60,000 to £90,000 spread across three years are available.

 

Deadline 29 July 2022

 

To learn more click here