Updates - Angus Funding News June 2007

Angus Funding News June 2007

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BE BETTER @ FUNDING FEEDBACK

The Be Better @ Funding seminars, arranged by the External Funding teams of Angus, Dundee and Perth Councils, and the Councils for Voluntary Service took place in Dundee, Carnoustie and Perth this week. All were well received by attendees, with each venue attracting around 30 delegates. This appears to be a winning formula for a funding training event, and we hope to bring you similar sessions in the future.

FUNDING SURGERIES

There are still two funding surgeries remaining in the summer series. These will take place on
18 June at Friockheim Hall  -4pm – 7 pm
25 June at Montrose Sports Centre 2 pm – 5 pm

Book by emailing externalfunding@angus.gov.uk or phone Linda Caston on 01307 473221, or just turn up.

BIG LOTTERY FUND – GROWING COMMUNITY ASSETS

Growing Community Assets is one of four strands of funding available through the Investing in Communities funding programme. It is administered by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (see AFN 29 January 2007)
The fund is available to help local communities to obtain assets that will help them become stronger and more sustainable, such as land, buildings or equipment. Further details are available from the Big Lottery website at http://tinyurl.com/yvfnfd
We are helping Andrew Bauer, who is responsible for projects in rural areas including Angus, to arrange one to one sessions with prospective applicants to discuss their project ideas in advance of applying to the fund.
If you have a project that you think could benefit from Growing Community Assets, email us at externalfunding@angus.gov.uk or phone Linda Caston on 01307 473221 and we shall arrange a mutually convenient day when you can meet with Andrew.

The Big Lottery Fund have advised of a policy change within Growing Community Assets that could impact on community groups who lease assets and intend to apply to Growing Community Assets for funding to develop these assets. The latest (but not final) guidance is:

1. Leasing will only be considered in exceptional circumstances.

2. An exceptional circumstance will need to demonstrate that leasing will accrue definite additional benefits to communities.

3. For example, it is acceptable to fund the development of a community owned building which is being built on leased ground with a long (e.g. 100 year) lease.

The exact lease lengths that BLF will accept are still being finalised, but it is clear that those in the current 'Land and buildings guidance notes' are now out-of-date.
 

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

ARTS

SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL FUNDS 2007/08

The Scottish Arts Council (SAC) has published its Guide to Funds 2007/08 available to organisations and individuals working within the arts in Scotland. The new priorities reflect the results of the strategic review carried out in 2006, and the decline in Lottery funds. In the words of SAC: “They include a sharper focus on the needs of artist; ensuring a healthy, sustainable arts sector; and reinforcing the Arts Council’s commitment to improving the opportunities for people who wish to participate in the arts”.
Brief details of the various grants are given below, but for full details visit www.scottisharts.org.uk or visit http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/publications/funding.aspx to download the Guide to Funds 2007/08

Crafts

For individuals –
Start up funding. £3k - £8k. Deadline – 1 October
Creative development. £5k - £10k. Deadline 1 October
For organisations –
Projects/exhibitions. £500 - £5k. Deadline 2 July

Dance

For individuals – 
Creative developments for choreographers. £8k maximum. Deadline 1 October
For organisations –
Professional dance companies to tour in Scotland. £5k upwards. Deadline 1 October

Drama

For individuals -
New work. £10,250 maximum. Deadline 1 October and 14 January 2008.
For organisations
Touring and production. £500 - £66,200. Deadline 2 July and 14 January 2008
New work development. £10,250 max.
Commissioning a playwright
Script development. £3,600 max.
Deadlines – 1 October and 14 January 2008

Literature

For individuals -
Writers, storytellers and new writers’ bursaries. £1,500 - £15k. Deadline 2 July, 14 January 2008
Scottish Arts Council Book awards. Up to £10k. Deadline 31 January 2008.
For organisations –
Book publication. £500 - £5k Deadlines 2 July 1 October and 14 January
Magazine publication. £2k - £14k range is likely. Deadline 14 January 2008
Literature and storytelling development workers. Around £9k. Apply anytime
Fellowships for creative literature development. Around £9k. Apply anytime.
Literature and Book festivals. £2k - £20k. Deadline 14 January 2008
Translation for Scottish works. £100 - £5k. Apply anytime
Storytelling events and festivals. £1,500 - £10k. Deadline 14 January 2008

Music

For individuals
Creative development. £500 - £5k. Deadline 1 October
Commissioning new music. £500 - £5k. Apply anytime
Training and continuing professional development for young people. £100 - £750. Apply anytime
For organisations
Education and outreach. £500 - £3k. Deadline 1 October
Creative development/recording. £500 - £5k. Deadline 1 October

Commissioning new music. £500 - £5k. Apply anytime
Training and continuing professional development for young people. £500 - £5,000. Apply anytime
New music making activities for young people 0-5 and 5-25. £100 - £5k- apply anytime and £5k - £30k Deadline 2 July and 1 October.

Visual arts
For individuals –Creative and professional development. £1k - £5k. Deadline 1 October
Visual artists awards. £15,000. Deadline 1 October
Artists film and video. £5k - £15k. Deadline 2 July
New Media residency bursary of £10k at University of Abertay, Dundee. Deadline 2 July
Amsterdam residency bursary of £16k. Deadline 2 July

In addition, there are programmes across all art forms for:
Professional development for individuals. £75 - £2k. Apply anytime
Audience development for organisations. £5k - £50k. Deadline 2 October

Capital funding for building projects, equipment, artists work in public places. £5k - £250k. Apply anytime
Cultural diversity. £5k - £20k. Deadline 1 October
Performing Arts Programme £1,000 - £70,000 Deadlines – 2 July, 1 October, 14 January 2008

 2007 AWARD FOR ART IN A RELIGIOUS CONTEXT

The scheme – The Art and Christianity Enquiry (ACE) invites entries for its 2007 Award for Art in a Religious Context. The Award is being presented in association with the Michael Marks Charitable Trust.

Artworks in any medium sited within a building or grounds of an active faith community (of any major world religion) may be submitted. The artwork must have been created in the UK between April 2002 and September 2007. Temporary and permanent commissions are eligible.
Contact - forms and guidelines can be downloaded from www.acetrust.org/awards.php or are available from Ross Mooring, Art+Christianity Enquiry Awards, All Hallows on the Wall, 83 London Wall, London, EC2M 5ND, Telephone/fax: 020 7374 0600
Deadline - 7 September 2007

YOUTH MUSIC INITIATIVE - INFORMAL SECTOR FUND

The scheme - Informal sector grants can be used to run music making activities for children and young people aged from 5-25, out of school hours or for children under 5 both in and out of nurseries. Organisations can apply for either a large or a small grant. YMI want to encourage applications from organisations that aim to widen music making opportunities for young people and who programme high quality and sustainable activity in any musical genre.
Amount – Large grants - £5,000 -£30,000. Partnership funding required, minimum 10% in cash. Length of programme: 6 months - 2 years long and completed before 31 March 2009. Small grants -. Level of grants: £500-£5,000. Partnership funding required, minimum 10% in cash. Length of programme: no minimum length of programme.
Any organisations working in the informal sector that wants to programme musical activity for young people can apply. This year, local authorities (except Instrumental Music Services) are also eligible to be the lead applicant.
Contact - If you need any help or advice contact Jennifer McGlone. E-mail: ymi@scottisharts.org.uk  Tel: 07795 273453. Full guidelines can be viewed at www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/funding/apply/organisations/music.aspx 
Deadlines – for large grants these are 2 July and 1 October 2007. For small grants, applications can be accepted at any time until 14 January 2008.

Scottish Book Trust - Live Literature Scotland 2007/2008

The scheme - Live Literature Scotland is a national initiative that enables Scottish citizens to engage with the nation's authors, playwrights, poets, storytellers and illustrators. It is the only writer bursary scheme of its kind in the UK subsidising the cost of 1200 sessions by writers in all areas of Scotland. More than 500 writers available to conduct readings and literary events in Scotland are listed and searchable on the Scottish Book Trust database. The scheme aims to develop literacy and readers across Scotland, support Scottish writers at all stages of development in their craft and career and to develop audiences for literary events in Scotland.

The funding is available to individuals and organisations in every part of Scotland working in the following contexts: schools, libraries, hospitals, community centres and groups. Each host organisation can choose how they work with a writer - applications for sessions are accepted on a bi-annual basis through a simple online process. Their database of over 500 writers and inspirational case studies of successful events and projects can be accessed at www.scottishbooktrust.com/lls
A session lasts approximately an hour and organisations can apply for multiple sessions to form a project.
Amount - from 1st April 2007 the fee for a session will increase to £150, the first increase for four years. Organisations will pay £75 + VAT per session they host with a writer. The remaining £75 per session will be paid by Scottish Book Trust, plus any travel, accommodation or subsistence costs incurred by the writer.
Deadline - 1 October 2007 for sessions planned to take place between December 2007 and March 2008.Apply online at www.scottishbooktrust.com/lls  or contact Caitrin Armstrong for an application form. Tel: 0131 524 0166. E-mail: caitrin.Armstrong@scottishbooktrust.com

COMMUNITY

ABBEY CHARITABLE TRUST

The scheme – there are three priority areas aimed at disadvantaged communities:
Education and training;
Financial advice;
Community regeneration, particularly environmental projects and activities which help bring different groups together.
Funding is for capital items, salaries and sessional worker fees. They prefer to fund a complete element of a project and do not make partial donations to large fundraising appeals.
Amount - £500 - £4,000
Contact – apply in writing to Abbey Charitable Trust PO Box 911, Milton Keynes, MK9 1AD. Further details of what to include in your application letter are on the website at www.abbeynational.com and follow the CSR link 

ENVIRONMENT

PATHS TO HEALTH GRANT FUNDING

Paths to Health exists to support walking for health schemes in Scotland. A deadline of 31 August 2007 has been set for the next round of grant applications from community health walk projects. Please call the Paths to Health office on 01259 218855 and ask to speak to the Development Officer for your area if you would like to discuss a potential grant application, or visit website AT http://www.pathsforall.org.uk/pathstohealth/

 

OLDER PEOPLE

PRIMETIME                                                                                                                                          NEW

The scheme - Primetime, the latest collaboration between the Big Lottery Fund and BBC Scotland, are looking for projects aimed at helping older people get together to keep healthy and active.
The country is split into six region areas: Highland and Islands, Edinburgh and Lothian, North East, Glasgow and West, Central and Fife, and Ayrshire and South Scotland. 18 projects will be chosen from around the country for the final BBC series which will enable viewers to vote for the project they would like to see funded. Sample ideas of the kind of thing the Primetime project is looking for can be seen on a series of televised shorts, which will be broadcast on BBC One and Two Scotland from June 1.
Amount –The winners from each region can apply for between £100k and £500k from the Big Lottery Fund.
Contact - further information is available at www.bbc.co.uk/primetime with applications forms available to download from www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/primetime. The public telephone number for applications is 0845 367 1020.
Deadline – 24 August 2007.

TESCO CHARITY TRUST

The scheme - the 2007 deadline for funding applications from organisations supporting elderly people and people with disabilities is on 30 June. The Tesco Charity Trust provides support to the amount of £360,000 each year to

local and national charities throughout the UK in areas with a Tesco store. As well as supporting projects aimed at elderly people and people with disabilities, the scheme provides funding for organisations that support children's welfare and children's educational projects, including special needs schools.
Amount - between £1,500 and £5,000 are awarded as one-off contributions through the Community Awards Scheme.
Contact – To apply, organisations must submit brief details of the proposed project before the closing date. If the criteria fit the project, application forms are sent out in July and decisions are made known in October or November Details can be found at http://www.tescocorporate.com/images/tesco_4pp.pdf and applications should be sent to Tesco Charity Trust, Tesco House, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire Tel: 01992 646768 Fax: 01992 646794

SCHOOLS

PLAYGROUND PARTNERSHIPS 2007

The scheme – grants for playground improvements. Applicants need to submit a fold of work showing a clear plan of how the school would spend any award money and the work that the children have put in to decide on their dream play space.
Amount – there are awards of £1,000, £2,000, £5,000 and £10,000. All shortlisted schools will receive at least £250
Contact – www.playgroundpartnerships.org for full details of how to apply.
Deadline – 20 July 2007

YOUTH

HELP YOURSELVES! AWARDS

The scheme - Save the Children and British Gas are inviting applications to a further round of Help Yourselves!, an awards scheme to encourage young people (working in groups) and supported by adults, to work together to develop community projects that will have a lasting influence. The priority is for projects that relate to one of the following themes: poverty; health; education; and safety/protection. Priority will also be given to activities in the most deprived areas, or where young people face discrimination, for example within Gypsy and Traveller communities, Black communities, young asylum seekers, children with a disability, etc.
Amount - over 50 Awards are available up to £1000.
Criteria  - all projects must be planned by young people or children, and must take place within England, Scotland or Wales. As a rule grants/Awards should be for discrete projects that can go ahead with this funding alone.
Contact - full information is available at www.helpyourselves.org.uk:80/index.jsp or by contacting helpyourselves@savethechildren.org.uk Anne Carey, Save the Children, 5th Floor, Hawthorns House, Halfords Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands, B66 1BB
Deadline - 22 June 2007. The current funding round will support projects running between September and November 2007.

AWARDS

GlaxoSmithKline Impact Awards

The scheme - The Kings Fund, in association with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that the next round of the Community Health IMPACT awards will be launched on the 2nd July 2007. The awards are designed to recognise and reward the work of small- to medium-sized voluntary organisations in the UK with a proven track record in community health care.

The awards are open to registered charities that are at least three years old, work in a health-related field in the UK and have a total annual income of less than £1 million. During the last bidding round, the ten winners received £20,000 with the overall winner receiving an extra £10,000. Ten highly commended organisations each received £5,000. For more information, visit www.kingsfund.org.uk/funding/gsk_impact_awards/index.html
Deadline - 28 September 2007

FUNDING SUPPORT

Child Protection Seminars

Community groups in Angus can benefit from a series of seminars designed to help them find out more about child protection issues.  These seminars are part of an ongoing programme organised to help make sure that staff and volunteers in community and voluntary organisations have the information they need to give support to children and young people.

Seminars are planned for the autumn. All run from 7pm – 9pm
3 September     Angus Volunteer Centre, 32-324 Guthrie Port, Arbroath
18 October        Fairlie House, Kirriemuir
14 November    Next Generation, Monifieth
If you are a member of a community organisation working with children, these seminars may be of interest.  In addition to general information about child safety issues, the seminars will raise awareness of the Angus Child Protection Committee’s guidelines “Protecting Children in Community Groups”, available on the Angus.gov.uk website.  These guidelines have been produced to help small community organisations deal with their legal responsibilities in relation to the protection of children.

If you would like to come along to one of the seminars please contact Isobelle Stratton, email strattonij@angus.gov.uk or telephone 01307476352.

VILLAGE HALLS FUNDING PETITION

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, SCVO has launched a campaign to create a Scottish halls fund for refurbishing or modernising community buildings. Since the closure of the Scottish Rural Partnership fund in 2005, which offered up to £100,000 towards such projects, there has been a funding gap. The Big Lottery Fund in England and Northern Ireland is investing in village halls but the Growing Community Assets part of the BLF’s Investing in Communities, which is the Scottish programme, is likely to offer only a very limited number of grants to village hall projects, and is aimed at the purchase of existing facilities, rather than renovation projects.
SCVO has lodged an e-petition on the Scottish Parliament website at http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/list_petitions.asp  (CHECK IT’S UP) until July 27th.
You can also download a copy of the petition for gathering signatures locally, at http://www.scvo.org.uk/Images/Publications/petition%20-%20paper%20version.pdf 
Further information about the village halls funding campaign is available on the village halls website at http://www.villagehalls.org.uk/NewsAndEvents/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=726&al=t&from=Home

PUBLICATIONS

A new series of introductory guides to help small and medium third sector organisations understand important trends that may affect them has been introduced by the organisation Performance Hub.
The series, called Future Focus, aims to provide information that will help voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations think about likely changes in their external environment and plan ahead. Each guide will focus on a different topic.
The first guide ("Future Focus 1: What will our funding be like in five years' time?") outlines how the funding environment will change for third sector organisations and suggests ways to use the information to help make strategic choices and plan ahead.
"Future Focus 1" which runs to 48 pages can be downloaded from: http://www.performancehub.org.uk/publications.asp?id=5&docPId=807&did=3914&detail=2

FUNDRAISING

The Invitation Book
This programme is run by Invitation Media Ltd, a Bristol-based company. The target is to have a book for every major city and town throughout the UK.
The Invitation Book is part of The Big Fundraiser community fundraising programme and is used by hundreds of local groups to generate additional funds. It contains £1,000s worth of voucher savings and is sold for less than £30 with no catches, no hidden costs or restrictive terms and conditions. If you are a fundraiser for your own charity, community group, school or good cause, you can arrange to sell copies to help your organisation to raise money. For each copy you sell you keep between £4 and £10 to add to your funds.

The scheme is hassle-free to administer, has no upfront costs and comes with a full sales support package. If you represent a fundraising group and want to benefit from a unique local community scheme with a proven track record of generating extra cash, just visit the website and register. Once registered, you will be contacted by an Invitation account executive who will help tailor a scheme to suit your specific needs.

The scheme is open to any bona fide fundraising organisation. If you have any queries, visit the FAQs section, email info@invitationbook.co.uk or call 08456 018 018.

Sus it Out

Sus it Out is a Scotland wide project that helps community groups to work out how sustainably they are developing;  what kinds of things are they doing at the moment that contribute to sustainable development and what more could they do.  For example, does the organisation involve its service users/members in making decisions about what activities the organisation should do? Does it produce information in accessible formats? Does it seek to minimise its use of resources – paper, ink, electricity, water? Does it explore how it can save resources and gain benefit from partnering with other organisations with similar or consistent objectives to theirs? Not all sustainable activities cost money to do – many of them just need a different way of thinking about how you think and act - and some can even save money and help you get the best use out of limited resources. Further details are available from http://www.ruralgateway.org.uk/item/1811

FUNDING SUCCESS

Starter Packs Angus has received £4,686 from BBC Children in Need, £1,000 from the Co-operative Society, £500 from Radio Tay Caring for Kids, £960 from Communities Scotland’s Seeing is Believing programme and £9504 from Awards for All’s Abolition of Slavery programme. Very well done!

Kinloch Kids Club, Carnoustie, and M&M Cool Kids Out of School Club were each awarded £950 from a £10,000 give-away publicised through the Evening Telegraph for the Hilton in the Community Foundation. KKC requested the money for toys and art materials and M&M Cool Kids for outdoor toys. The Hilton Make A Difference award scheme offered £10,000 to be shared between registered charity groups helping children in the areas of health and education.

Showcase the Street are getting £12,000 from Arts and Business towards a newly proposed building in Lindsay Street, Arbroath, due to the in kind support being given by Carswell Properties Ltd, possibly the first time an arts group in Angus have received money from Arts and Business. This is third time Showcase has had money from them, having 2 successful claims for new Dundee build. Fergus Storrier of Showcase is happy to help any other arts groups thinking of applying. He can be contacted at fergus@storrier2285.fsnet.co.uk

This newsletter was produced by the External Funding Team, Economic Development Division
Infrastructure Services Department, Angus Council,
County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar  DD8 3WD
Tel: 01307 473222  email externalfunding@angus.gov.uk