Lottery Millions Making Playful Ideas Reality | |
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The Big Lottery Fund wants projects to bounce in with innovative ways of capturing the playful imagination of children and young people to make a big difference to the way our children play in their neighbourhoods. Playful Ideas is the new Lottery good cause programme seeking to fund projects with a creative and novel approach to play. This programme, open for applications from 28 March 2006, forms part of the Fund’s £155 million commitment to support children’s play. Ade Adepitan ...
Read more... Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
Category: Funding Topic: Funding |
Big Fund Reaches Out to Communities England-Wide With Lottery £100 Million | |
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The Big Lottery Fund is launching a major £100 million programme of funding for communities on 7 December. The Reaching Communities programme will support projects that improve the quality of life in communities across England, offering help to those most in need. The programme will provide funding of £100 million in its first year, with up to £500,000 available for individual projects. The new Reaching Communities programme was developed following extensive public consultation ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
Category: Previous News Topic: Funding |
Funding South West supports 'George' | |
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Research carried out for Funding South West (Funding Advice Services in the South West, Red Door Associates, 2004) found that 'the need and resources for funding advice is growing . . . more people flagged up the lack of capacity, the growing demand, and the inability to meet it, than any other issue.' Funding advisers now have their own support networks in a number of counties. Members of these networks want to work together to further their shared interests, and a steering group has been ...
Read more... Published: Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
Category: Previous News Topic: Funding |
Living Landmarks | |
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What Would Your Community Do With Up To £50 Million? Big Lottery Fund has launched Living Landmarks, an exciting new UK wide programme that will see communities working together to improve their quality of life and their environment through funding major capital projects. There are two parts to Living Landmarks. The first will see Big Lottery Fund award a small number of grants of between £10 million and £25 million, and secondly award a single grant of between £25 million and ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 |
Category: Previous News Topic: Funding |
New Website Resource - Funding and Funding Advisers database to go online | |
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January 2005 will see the launch of a new www.creatingexcellence.org.uk online database providing information on Regeneration Funding and Funding advisers in the South West region. Database access will be available to all registered website users.
The database is one of the key outputs of an extensive review of the delivery of Funding and Funding Advice in the South West. The study has been undertaken this year by Funding South West, a partner in Creating Excellence (see Funding SW description) ...
Read more... Published: Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
Category: Previous News Topic: Funding |
RISE Access to Loan Finance - research and case studies | |
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The New Economics Foundation, on behalf of RISE, is conducting research with social enterprises in the South West to review experiences of accessing loan finance. When the research is concluded, case studies will be produced to assist social enterprises in considering and preparing to access loan finance. Please contact AnneMountjoy@rise-sw.co.uk for more information. Link to RISE website: RISE website Link to New Economics Foundation website: New Economics Foundation Link to New Economics Foundation ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
Category: Previous News Topic: Funding |
Funding seen as critical barrier to regenerating the South West | |
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Nearly nine out of ten people in the South West believe that finding funding to regenerate rundown areas within the region is both difficult and complicated. This is the startling statistic to come out of research undertaken at a series of consultation events held across the region by the South West Regeneration Centre. Significantly, the Centre is the first organisation to pull together community groups, local authorities, regeneration practitioners and private enterprise (in fact all those with an ...
Read more... Published: Saturday, June 19, 2004 |
Category: Previous News Topic: Funding |