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Please find below links to a number of external funding websites that can help to fund a wide variety of community, business and public sector projects. Please get in touch if you have any queries or require any help in accessing these funds.
Lottery Funds
Big Lottery Fund Funding Programmes - uses Lottery funding to help make big, positive changes for communities. Whether we are providing smaller grants for local groups or funding big, national 'transformational' projects, we want to regenerate and revitalise communities, with a particular emphasis on tackling disadvantage.
Heritage / Sport / Arts Funding (from Sport England - Arts Council)
Heritage Lottery Fund - The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) enables communities to celebrate, look after and learn more about our diverse heritage. From museums and historic buildings to parks and nature reserves to celebrating traditions, customs and history, the HLF has awarded over £3 billion to projects that open up our nation's heritage for everyone to enjoy.
http://www.hlf.org.uk/English/
Repair Grants for Places of Worship
Townscape Heritage Initiative
Landscape Partnerships
Young Roots
Sport
England
Football
Foundation
Arts Council North East - grants are for individuals,
arts organisations and other people who use the arts in
their work. They are for arts-related activities that
benefit people in England or that help artists and arts
organisations in England to carry out their work. Your
project must take place mainly in England.
Trusts / Foundations (from County Durham Foundation - Lloyds TSB Trust)
County Durham Foundation County Durham Foundation gives grants to local good causes that make a real difference to people's quality of life in County Durham and Darlington. Individuals, families, local companies and public bodies make this possible by setting up funds with us. We fulfil their wishes by ensuring that the right projects that really need their support are chosen, with as much involvement from them in the decision making as they wish.
Northern
Rock Foundation Despite the difficulties of the
Northern Rock Bank in 2007, the foundation still has
grants to help disadvantaged groups in the North
East.
Coalfield Regeneration Trust A new funding programme
is expected to be announced in early 2008.
Esmee Fairbairn
Foundation This foundation plans a new approach to
grant-making from January 2008.
Sir James Knott Trust
For registered charities only, this trust aims to help
the conditions of people living and working in the North
East of England.
Barbour Charitable Trust
The Barbour Trust supports local projects dealing with a
variety of community issues including welfare, health,
homelessness and unemployment. Most grants are small
(£1000 or less), but occasionally larger grants are
awarded. Applications can be obtained by writing to PO
Box 21, Guisborough, Cleveland, TS14 8YH or to the
address below.
Email: edith.howse@barbour.com
Tel: 0191 455 4444
Fax: 0191 427 4259
Address: J. Barbour & Sons, Simonside, South Shields,
Tyne & Wear NE34 9PD
Area benefited: Mainly Tyne & Wear, County Durham,
Northumberland and Cleveland
Lloyds TSB
Foundation Supports small and medium sized registered
charities to make a significant difference to the lives
of disadvantaged people.
Business / European / Other Funding (from ONE NE - Durham County Council)
One NorthEast - Regional Business Support - a summary of the major equity, loan and grant schemes available to companies within the North East region. Click on one of the headings below to be directed to more comprehensive scheme details. Please Note: This is an overview of the available schemes and as such we cannot guarantee that monies are always available. http://www.onenortheast.co.uk/page/regionalsupport.cfm
One NorthEast - UK Government Business Support
County Durham Sub Regional Partnership