Grants and Community News 14 October 2022

The Robyn Charitable Trust

The Robyn Charitable Trust is a small grant-making charity that focuses its grant support on charities in the UK and overseas working in the areas of the welfare of children, particularly for the relief of need and education.

The charity was founded by the musician Mark Knopfler, of Dire Straits fame, in 1988. His wife, the actress and writer, Kitty Aldridge Knopfler, is also a trustee.

The Trust doesn’t have a set minimum or maximum grant award levels. In the past, its grants have ranged from £100 to around £30,000.

As the Robyn Charitable does not maintain a website, the best source of background information is its Charity Commission entry

Applications may be made at any time in writing, addressed to: The Robyn Charitable Trust, 64 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 8TB. Tel: 020 7467 6300

 

Magic Little Grants 2022

Magic Little Grants 2022 has launched, with applications taking just 10 minutes to fill out and submit!

Magic Little Grants of £500 will be awarded to 2,650 charitable organisations on Localgiving.

This year funding can go towards any of the following projects:

  • Improving mental wellbeing
  • Enabling community participation in the arts
  • Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty
  • Supporting marginalised groups and promoting equality
  • Improving biodiversity and green spaces
  • Enabling participation in physical activity
  • Responding to the climate emergency and promoting sustainability
  • Increasing community access to outdoor space

If your organisation is carrying out a project within these themes, make sure to get your application in. The application process is short and simple, taking ten minutes to complete. Each organisation may only apply once in 2022.

Organisations must either be in their first year of operation or have an annual income under £250,000. Funding can be used to launch new projects, support existing ones, or cover core costs associated with ongoing work.

Please note that schools are eligible to apply if they are a registered charity. Groups in Northern Ireland are not eligible to apply for this funding.

Visit the Local Giving Website to apply.

 

Displacement Education Fund – UK Projects

The British & Foreign School Society’s Displacement Education Fund awards grants of between £10,000 and £60,000 per project (maximum £30,000 per year) to registered charities or educational establishments and between £10,000 to £20,000 (maximum £10,000 per year) to organisations which are not registered charities or educational establishments.

The Fund will support work which aims to improve access to educational opportunity (including further education or employment opportunities for those aged 16-25), or reduce barriers to achievement, for children and young people living in the UK who are refugees or asylum seekers, unaccompanied children or children of undocumented migrants.

Funding is available for new or pilot projects or projects which have started within the past 12 months to meet a newly arisen need. Grants will not retrospectively fund activities that have already taken place for projects which have already started.

Applications will be received and reviewed on a rolling basis.

Grants are available for UK registered charities, not for profit, community based organisations and schools, academies, colleges and other educational establishments.

The full criteria, and the online application, is available at the British and Foreign School Society website.

 

Hubbub Foundation

Environmental charity, the Hubbub Foundation has recently launched a “#InTheLoop” grant fund in partnership with the Coca-Cola Foundation.

The £100,000 programme will provide 4 grants of up to £25,000 for innovative, ambitious and large-scale initiatives that will improve opportunities to recycle in public spaces close to waterways such as coastal areas, rivers, canals and wetlands. The Foundation is particularly keen to receive proposals that focus on recycling plastic bottles and cans. Projects that result in the recycling of coffee cups and glass are also welcomed.

It is anticipated that the vast majority of InTheLoop funding will go towards the purchase of infrastructure on new bins or improvements to old bins.

Funding can also be used for:

  • Costs associated with promotion and marketing, and
  • Salaries (although funding is not available for core costs)

Apart from a grant of up to £25,000, each of the 4 successful applicants will receive additional support and advice from the Hubbub Foundation to help deliver their project. Successful applicants will be expected to share learning with the public and other organisations.

A wide range of agencies can apply to the fund, including not-for-profit organisations, local authorities, transport hubs, businesses and property owners.

Partnership/consortia bids are welcomed. However, only one proposal may be submitted per partnership/consortia (although a lead applicant for one proposal may be a partner in another application).

Further information, guidance and an online application form is available on the #InTheLoop website.

The application deadline is Thursday 15th December 2022.  Projects should be designed to start from Spring 2023.