Plan Your Visit to the Luton Funding Fair

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Plan Your Visit to the Luton Funding Fair

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You may need to queue to speak to some of the funders. To make good use of your time it is important to work out which funders may

be suitable for your organisation and the work that you want to do.

The Funding Fair will be open to the public from 12noon to 3pm.

We recommend that you allow a minimum of an hour for your visit.

Table

No.

Organisation

1 Big Lottery Fund

2 Heritage Lottery Fund

3 Lloyds Bank Foundation

4 BBC Children in Need

5 Team Beds and Luton

6 Sported

7 Beds and Luton Community Foundation

8 Luton Borough Council

9 SEMLEP

10 WENTA

11 Beds & Luton Community Learning Trust

12 Voluntaryworks

Use the information on the next 3 pages to find out

what funding and support is available.

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Big Lottery Fund Ed Hickman

Talk to us if you are….

a voluntary organisation, social enterprise or school

We offer….

Awards for All grants of up to £10,000 over 12 months or less

Reaching Communities more than £10,000 over 1 and 5 years

The Big Lottery Fund offers two funding streams: a small grants programme, Awards for All, which can make grants of between £300 and £10,000 towards projects that can be completed within 12 months and a large grants

programme, Reaching Communities, which can make grants of more than £10,000 towards projects lasting between 1 and 5 years. Voluntary organisations, social enterprises and schools are eligible to apply to both programmes.

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Heritage Lottery Fund

Dawn Bainbridge

a not-for-profit organisation

a partnership led by not-for-profit organisations

We offer….

a range of different grant programmes with grants from £3,000 to over £5million

Heritage lottery fund helps groups celebrate the heritage of their communities. Grants start at £3,000 and there are a number of grant programmes to choose from as well as specific programmes to help churches, parks and to work with young people or commemorate the First World War.

We support all kinds of projects as long as they make a lasting difference for Heritage, people and communities.

Heritage can include anything that people value and want to pass on to future generations. For example, we can help groups with funding to research the history of their local high street, or restore an historic building or monument, like an existing war memorial. We can also give funds to help record people’s memories, digitise archives, set up an archaeological dig and we can help with improvements and displays for wildlife sites.

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Lloyds Bank Foundation

Gary Beharrell

a registered charity with income between £25k and £1 million

supporting people (mostly adults) at critical points in their lives

We offer….

INVEST grants up to £25k per annum and up to six years

ENABLE grants up to a total of £15k over two years ENHANCE in-kind support to strengthen and develop charities

The Lloyds Bank Foundation invests in charities supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their lives, and promote practical approaches to lasting change. Our funding is adapted to the needs of small and medium sized charities (income between £25,000 and £1 million). We offer flexible and responsive grant making by providing the following programmes:

• INVEST – A flexible, long term core funding programme for organisations delivering clear, targeted outcomes for disadvantaged people (Grants up to £25k per annum and up to six years);

• ENABLE – A smaller and shorter grants programme for organisations that have identified clear development needs (Grants up to a total of £15k over two years);

• ENHANCE – provides an option of tailored in-kind support to strengthen and develop charities. If you are successful in applying for an Invest or Enable grant, we will work with you to identify whether support under the Enhance programme is right for you

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BBC Children in Need

Jessica Middleton

a not-for-profit organisation working with

disadvantaged children and young people aged 18 and under living in the UK

We offer….

Main Grants over £10,000 per year for up to three years

Small Grants up to £10,000 for one year

BBC Children in Need funds not-for-profit organisations who work with disadvantaged children and young people 18 years and under living in the UK. The focus is firmly on children and young people experiencing

disadvantage. General grant programmes include small and main grants with funding awarded for between one and three years. In addition, the

Emergency Essentials grants program (administered by Buttle UK) supports individual children and young people living with poverty by providing items that meet basic needs and are critical to children’s wellbeing.

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Team Beds and Luton

Graham Simpson

a not-for-profit community sports project

We offer….

advice and information on Sport England funding streams including

Inspired Facilities - to improve and refurbish facilities Small Grants – up to £10,000 to help more people play sport.

Team BEDS&LUTON is one of 45 County Sports Partnerships across England. They bring together a range of groups including local authorities, national governing bodies, coaches, clubs and volunteers to develop a strong sporting infrastructure that ensures sport and physical activity is easily accessible by all sections of the local community.

They work in partnership at the heart of the community to support, develop and promote high quality opportunities to allow everyone to get involved, stay involved, and succeed in sport and physical activity. They organise events, manage projects, improve and develop facilities and do all they can to encourage people to take part in sport and physical activity.

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Sported

Rob Danson

a community and grassroots organisation that delivers

'Sport for Development'

We offer….

support to organisations by providing business resources and fundraising support, amongst other services

We are a FREE membership organisation which provides support to community and grassroots organisations that deliver 'Sport for Development'. Our Members are amazing groups and individuals who operate across any number of sports but what makes them different from traditional clubs is that they put on sport in an effort to bring about social change within their communities.

We support these organisations by providing business resources and fundraising support, amongst other services. This enables them to become more sustainable so that they can concentrate on doing what they do best - improving the lives of disadvantaged young people through sport.

Visit our website to find out more information: www.sported.org.uk/get-involved/membership

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Beds and Luton Community Foundation

Jonathan Siegler

a local community group or charity

We offer….

a range of funds each with varying criteria most awards range from £500 to £5000

The Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation is an award/grant maker supporting local community groups and charities. It encourages philanthropy and its funds come from local businesses and individuals and from national charities and organisations which recognise our skills and local knowledge.

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Luton Borough Council Talk to us if you are….

a community group, local organisation or a resident

We offer….

Small grants through Participatory Budgeting decision days and through Area Boards

“Your Say Your Way” makes it easier for people to influence decisions locally. People living in each Ward of Luton have the chance to decide which

community projects to support in their neighbourhoods by voting at ‘Decision Days’. Community groups can apply for grants of up to £1,500 for projects that meet community priorities agreed for local neighbourhoods in Wards and Areas across the Borough. Opening dates for applications are published on an Area basis once a year from late autumn to spring (dates depend on the ward concerned). The “Your Say, Your Way” programme is led by the Council and supported by partners and donors including Luton Culture, Luton NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation, London Luton Airport Ltd, Luton Adult Learning, Bedfordshire Police and others.

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SEMLEP

Jane Roemer

small to medium-sized businesses in the South East Midlands

We offer….

grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 to implement business development and growth projects

developed in partnership with our business advisers

Velocity – free business advice, a grant of up to £10,000 and now FREE workshops for Luton and Bedfordshire businesses, please call 0300 01234 35 or visit www.VelocityBusinessSupport.com/workshops

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WENTA

Shahida Parkar

a small to medium-sized business

We offer….

a number of business grants across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire

Wenta provide a variety of tailored business advice and guidance to start-up, new and existing small businesses across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. We also provide business support for those being made redundant and offer customised business planning advice to suit you and your business.

Clients working with Wenta can gain access to workshops, business advice, mentoring & support through our My Incubator Ventures website

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Bedfordshire and Luton Community Learning Trust

Vanda Bailey

a voluntary and community sector organisation providing

community based learning opportunities adults 19 years and over

We offer….

Learning In Deprived Communities grants up to £12,000

The Learning Partnership and Luton Adult Learning circulate an annual prospectus inviting VCS organisations to apply for project funding to deliver community activity in the most deprived areas working with the hardest to reach adults. During 2014/15 the fund supported 19 partner organisations to deliver learning programmes to address the priority needs of learners in the area.

The first round of funding for 2015/16 was launched in August this year and a second round is planned for January 2016. The Leisure Learning Small Grants strand of the fund will operate on an on-going basis and expressions of interests received will be reviewed monthly commencing from October 2015 to March 2016. Review will take place during the last week of each month.

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Voluntaryworks Jane Owen

a voluntary and community sector organisation working in Luton

We offer….

Advice to organisations on funding and development Help to recruit volunteers

Training, networking and information

Services to voluntary and community organisations that are offered by Voluntaryworks include:

Funding and development advice - including support with making applications, details of funders together with guidance on setting up and running an organisation

Volunteer management – recruiting and managing volunteers

Networking and information – a directory of organisations working in the local area, email updates and networking opportunities

We also offer competitively priced services including community accounting (providing budgeting, bookkeeping and charity accounting), DBS checking and a wide variety of training courses.