The Community Radio Fund 

Racial Equity 2030 challenge

Grants to Protect Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Deadline: 31/01/21
Outdoor clothing company Patagonia has funding of up to $12k for projects that address the root causes of environmental problems. Small, grassroots, activist organisations working on action orientated and multi-pronged campaigns to preserve and protect biodiversity and the environment can apply for grants to run projects that protect local habitats. 

Creative methods to engage communities to take action, including film, photography and books will only be supported if they are tightly linked to a direct-action campaign on the issue, with specific goals that go beyond education and awareness. 
Learn more on Patagonia’s website.

New round of the Active Inclusion Fund is now open

Deadline: 5/02/21
Alongside two existing categories of funding, the scheme is now also funding projects with an environmental focus and those which provide work for people through housing associations. Learn more on the WCVA’s page for the Active Inclusion Fund.

Business Wales Barriers Grant

Deadline: 19/03/21
Welsh Government have created a programme of employment and skills support to help people back to work. This includes additional support for individuals considering self-employment. As well as the existing start-up service, a grant of up to £2k to support unemployed individuals that face greater economic barriers to starting a business is available. This discretionary grant will help up to 600 individuals become self-employed or start a business.

The grant is open to all unemployed individuals. However priority in allocating funding will be given to those most affected by the pandemic: 

• women
• disabled people
• people from BAME backgrounds
• young people not in education or training (NEETS) aged 18-24 or a college and university leaver in 2019 or 2020

See guidance on the Barriers’ Grant.

Crowdfund Wales

• a subsidised Localgiving annual membership
• a crowdfunding mentor and ongoing training
• a £250 grant when you deliver a successful crowdfunding campaign

The Screwfix Foundation

Grants of up to £5k are available to charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects that fix, repair, maintain and improve the properties and community facilities of people in need due to:

• financial hardship
• sickness
• disability
• distress
• another disadvantage

Learn more on the Screwfix Foundation’s website.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

The Waterloo Foundation

This foundation has allocated funding for projects with themes of:

• Working Wales
• Caring Wales
• Educating Wales

They note that the Caring Wales theme typically attracted awards of between £5k and £25k. Learn more on The Waterloo Foundation’s website.

Institute of Fundraising Cymru Free Coaching

Apply to the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Cymru’s Coaching Covid Response Programme and receive five hours of professional responsive coaching free of charge. Read more on Richard Newton Consulting’s website.

Interlink RCT Network Event on Volunteer Management

Date: 2pm 20/01/21
Gain tips and best practice for managing volunteers at this network event. It will be a forum for volunteer managers in Rhondda Cynon Taf to help each other provide a better volunteering experience through sharing knowledge.
Book your place on the Volunteer Management event on Eventbrite. 

Updated charity commission advice on running meetings

BAME helpline provides support in range of languages

A More Equal Wales: A Practical Guide for Employers to Employing Disabled People