Funding for Intergenerational Projects
New Funding 
Make IT Happy Competition (UK) Deadline for entries - 30th July 2010.
This competition is open to applications from primary schools. The theme is "Get your community online" and it will reward the most innovative, community-focused IT project created by 9 to 11 year olds. New projects can be entered, an already-running project or a recent project. These can be presented using a podcast, video, animation, radio show, website or radio advertisement. The winning school from each of the English Regions, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland will receive a cash prize of £1,200. There will also be a prize for the 1st (£4000), 2nd (£2,500) and 3rd (£1,500) placed school selected from the regional winners.
Tree Planting Packs Available to Community Groups and Schools and Youth Groups (UK)
Apply now - applicants will learn if they have been successful by 27th August. Free tree packs will be delivered in November 2010.
The Woodland Trust has replaced their grant scheme with a new community tree planting pack and with packs available to schools and youth groups.
These are designed to be planted in local shared spaces - by a church, community centre or playground for example or on patches of unused land.
There are two packs - 105 trees for a hedge or copse or 420 trees to cover an acre of land approx.
Each of these packs are available in four different themes -
Year-round colour: Wood fuel;: Jams, jellies, chutneys and cordials: wildlife. Packs of edible trees are available to schools and youth groups, sponsored by Sainsbury's Active Kids. Schools and youth group must register on the Sainsbury's Active Kids website.
Youth in Action Programme. Target group: young people and youth leaders. Closing date for applications is 10th September 2010.
The European Commission has called for proposals which support projects promoting information and communication actions with a European dimension. Preference will be given to those projects which best reflect the permanent priorities of the ‘Youth in action' programme as well as the priorities of media literacy and global issues affecting young people, such as climate change, sustainable development, migrations and the Millennium Development Goals.
Applicants need to submit projects that enhance the dissemination of quality information and increase young people's access to information and to various channels of communication at both national and European levels. Those eligible include non-profit organizations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), public bodies at regional or local level and national Youth Councils. Projects must involve partners from at least two different programme countries. The total budget allocated to the co-financing of projects under this call is estimated at €1,000,000. Financial assistance from the Commission shall not be granted for more than 80% of a project's total eligible expenses. The maximum grant available is €100,000. (Details on website.)
BIG Lottery Fund News - Scotland Update
£400 million of Lottery money will be invested in Scotland's communities between 2010 and 2015 by the Big Lottery Fund. This is an additional £100 million more than forecast due to a rise in lottery tickets sales plus revised financial forecasting. BIG has also announced plans for a new £50 million BIG Lottery Fund initiative to support young Scots leaving care and older people with dementia and their carers, with the potential to transform many thousands of lives across Scotland.
'Connecting Generations' Micro grants. Important Notice. Applications closed. Next round of Micro grants will be in September 2010.The Scottish Centre for Intergenerational Practice (Generations Working Together) provides funding to stimulate projects that demonstrate good practice and innovation in intergenerational activities in Scotland. There will be a limited number of grants of £250 to £750 through our one-off Micro Grants Programme.
Ongoing Funding
Forward Scotland's Sus it Out Plus
The 'Sus it Out Plus' programme has received a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to work with 200 community groups till 31 March 2012. It involves groups delivering improvements, services and other activities in their communities. Apply for support in helping your community come together, reduce environmental impact and increase the likelihood of funding. Through no-cost facilitated sessions and the drafting of a Sustainable Communities Action Plan, increase your organisation's skills and capabilities to apply for funding (up to £1,500) to support your training needs.
The Scottish Community Foundation can provide funds through a variety of grants programmes for community groups and charities to help build and sustain local projects.
Social Entrepreneurs Fund and UnLtd Millennium Awards Programme (managed by First Port). No upper age limit. Older adults are especially welcome and not only for intergenerational projects. (Scottish Government and Millennium Awards Trust.) Are you someone with a great idea to create positive change in your community and need some help to get going? Do you want to set up a business that will help people? The above funds will support you if you have a plan. Download the Award Programme Leaflet and Guidance Leaflet for more information.
"Our awards offer start-up cash plus support to help you turn your ideas into reality. We will provide advice, training, encouragement and other support services for all our Award Winners to give their initiatives the best chance of success." Judith Lowes, First Port Agent. Tel: 07880 691613
BBC Children in Need, Small Grants (UK) Apply for grants of up to £10,000 through this BBC scheme. Not-for-profit organisations (including registered charities, voluntary organisations, schools, local authorities, churches, social enterprises, community interest groups, universities etc) working with disadvantaged children and young people 18 years and under are eligible. The aim is to fund projects where a small amount can make a real contribution to success. The next deadlines this year for applications are 15 July and then 15 October 2010.
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts ( NESTA) - Although the latest deadline has passed ‘Age Unlimited Scotland' may provide further opportunities. Nesta targets people in their 50s and 60s to come up with ideas that could be turned into community projects to improve the lives of people in their 70s, 80s and above. In return they offer support and funding to make ideas become a reality. Click here to see NESTA video - Voices of Older People.
