Following on from their highly successful 2004/5 veterans funding programmes, continued through their popular Awards for All scheme, BIG are keen to build on both programmes and are proud to be able to announce further financial support for veterans wishing to attend 65th anniversary events overseas.

WW2 veterans from the UK, Channel Islands and Republic of Ireland can apply for travel and accommodation costs to visit the places where they saw active service. They can also receive funding to take part in an official commemoration in the UK.

Those eligible are veterans who fought with or alongside British forces in World War 2 and who are resident in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. War widows and widowers of veterans are also eligible for funding, and carers and spouses can receive funding to travel with veterans.

You can apply between 1 April 2009 and 31 January 2011. Grants are £150 - £5,500, depending on the number of people taking part and the destination.  Look at the FAQs on website below.

If you have any questions about the scheme and whether you are eligible, ring the application helpline Tel: 0845 0000 121 Email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

Website: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_heroes_return.htm

There is specialist travel arranged by the Royal British Legion through Poppy Travel Website: http://www.heroesreturn2.org.uk

 Allowing WW2 veterans from the UK to visit the sites on which they served

Funding Websites

Safer Homes Fund - Community Alliance - www.comm-alliance.org/news/

Big Lottery - Changing Spaces -
 www.naturalengland.org.uk/leisure/grants-funding/docs/GeneralGuidanceNotes.pdf

Nominet - www.nominettrust.org.uk

Baily Thomas Charitable Fund - www.bailythomas.org.uk

Hilton in the Community Fund - www.hilton-foundation.org.uk
Sport England, Innovation Fund - http://funding.sportengland.org/funding_programmes/innovation_fund1.aspx

Parent participation funding and grants - http://www.togetherfdc.org/Topics/PPFundingandGrants.aspx

BIG Media Box - http://www.media-box.co.uk/funding.php?ID=1

Key Fund Yorkshire - www.keyfundyorks.org.uk

Wetland Vision Grant Scheme 2009-11 - www.wetlandvision.org.uk

Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust - http://www.austin-hope-pilkington.org.uk/

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Small Grants

The Nationwide Foundation has announced new funding criteria for registered charities in the UK. Its new Money Matters and Homes Matter grant programmes will help tackle the issues of housing and financial exclusion.

Under the programme the Foundation will make grants to registered charities that:

•·                     Tackle financial exclusion, affecting disadvantaged groups across the UK;

•·                     Address housing issues and homelessness among vulnerable groups in the UK.

The Foundation's Small Grants Programme is also open for applications. It makes grants of up to £5,000 to registered charities with incomes of under £500,000 on an ongoing basis.

www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk

The Small Health Grants Programme has finished.  The programme was run by the PCT but has now come to an end.  If you would like any funding information please do not hesitate to contact Judith McKelvey on 01482 871077 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Allen Lane Foundation

The Allen Lane Foundation is a grant-making trust set up in 1966 by the late Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, to support general charitable causes. The Foundation no longer has closing dates. Applications will be processed continually.

The Foundation wishes to fund work which: will make a lasting difference to people's lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems; is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination; and encourages or enables unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community. The Foundation is interested in funding work which benefits people in the following groups, or generalist work which includes significant numbers from more than one such group: