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Kynan Eldridge Fund
The deadline for applications is Monday 14 March 2025Grants of up to £500 are available to support young people who are using music, both modern and classical, to help them overcome personal challenges and achieve their full potential. The fund is open to individuals and community and voluntary groups supporting musical activity.The funding can be used:For new equipment for start-ups and new…
The Gemini Fund
This fund closed for applications on Monday 1 July 2024Grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 are available to constituted voluntary and community groups, locally registered charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), Community Interest Companies (CICs), companies limited by guarantee with charitable aims, and social enterprises.Grants are available to qualifying projects under the…
Persimmon Homes Community Champions 2024
Applications are reviewed on a quarterly basisPersimmon Homes has 30 offices across the country that will each make a donation of up to £6,000 every quarter to those local organisations that are the lifeblood of their communities. Smaller donations are also available.To apply, complete their online form, telling them why your charity or group deserves to be supported, along with the amount of…
The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund
The fund closed for applications on Monday 27 May 2024, 12 noonThe Triangle Trust is accepting applications from voluntary sector organisations supporting young women and girls who are either caught up in the criminal justice system or on the edge of it. Organisations must be led by and for women and girls to be eligible for funding.Grants of between £10,000 and £80,000 are available for projects…
Best wishes as Pauline starts a new adventure
We would like to offer our best wishes to Pauline Dorey, Group Development Officer, as she begins a new role as Advocacy and Participation Officer at Services for Empowerment and Advocacy (SEA). Pauline has been part of the NCVS Team for nearly 5 years, providing group support for our many diverse and inspiring community groups and delivering training on how to write good funding bids, amongst…
System Wide Integrated Mental Health Strategy Development
Ruthe Sawyer (a previous NCVS employee) is now working in a system role for the Integrated Care System (ICS) to develop the new three-year mental health strategy and wants to hear from organisations about how they can inform the future of this work and stay updated.Work began in January 2024 within Nottinghamshire and Nottingham ICS to use an integrated approach to transforming the mental health…
NCVS in the Community - Healthwatch Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Community Roadshow
On Tuesday 30 April 2024 Davia, Projects Support Administrator, Billie, Communications and Marketing Coordinator, and Jules, CEO, went down to The Vine Community Centre to represent Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) at the first city-based Community Roadshow. It was a lovely spring day, and we were honoured to be working in partnership with Healthwatch Nottingham and…
Working towards a Trauma Informed Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Our Practice Development Unit (PDU) team, along with Changing Futures, attended a workshop this April to help shape implementation plans for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Trauma Informed Strategy. As a member of the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) Trauma Informed Implementation Group, we joined several agency partners to consider priorities and…
Sport England Small Grants Fund 2024
This is an open fund and you are welcome to apply at any time. Please apply for funding at least 12 weeks before you need the funding.The Small Grants Programme aims to develop opportunities for communities to get more people physically active and will support new or existing projects by providing National Lottery funding of between £300 and £15,000 for voluntary or community organisations.…
Volunteer Management software review
Dave Thomas, Volunteering Development Officer at NCVS, continues his series of articles in support of Leaders of Volunteers. This time, Dave looks into different Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems that could be used by organisations to manage their volunteer programme.While many of us are still using old-school solutions such as Excel and Google Sheets to manage our volunteer…
