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Self-Help Housing
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Fundraising Portals
Grant Programmes
Crowd Funding
Loans/Community Shares
PORTALS
NCVO Funding Central
http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk
A great free website run by NCVO that allows you to key in what your project works on and then will
provide you with a list of relevant funders.
Directory For Social Change
http://www.governmentfunding.org.uk/default.aspx
http://www.trustfunding.org.uk/default.aspx
Two very good subscription sites run by Directory For Social Change that allow you to search for
relevant funding/trusts depending on your work, beneficiaries etc. However, they’re a not cheap.
UK Community Foundations
www.ukcommunityfoundations.org
Community foundations are local organisations which support causes active in their area. There are
50 community foundations in England. You can search for your local community foundation on the
UKCF website, the umbrella organisation for all community foundations.
Locality
http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/
For those of you who are highly engaged with the community or a run by community members
Locality provide a “portal” to various funding government opportunities to assist you since the
Localism Act was introduced. Rights introduced under this act included community right to build,
community right to bid, community right to challenge and neighbourhood planning.
GRANT PROGRAMMES
Power to Change
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/powertochange
A fund of £150 million will be available as of autumn 2014 for all organisations involved in
community engagement projects. Currently applications are not yet open but there is a prospectus
available and potential applicants are urged to contact Big Lottery and let them know about their
work.
Reaching Communities
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/programmes/england/reaching-communitiesengland
The Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities funding is for projects that help people and
communities most in need. Grants are available from £10,000, upwards and funding can last for up
to 5 years. There is a specific strand to support projects that improve or replace existing buildings
where a wide range of community activities take place.
Awards for All
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/programmes/england/awards-for-all-england
The Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All gives groups a quick and easy way to get small Lottery grants of
between £300 and £10,000. They want to fund projects which address the issues, needs and
aspirations of local communities and people and will fund a wide range of community projects
aimed at developing skills, improving health, revitalising the local environment and enabling people
to become more active citizens.
Veteran Accommodation Fund
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/veterans-accommodation-fund/veteransaccommodation-fund-what-you-need-to-know-armed-forces-covenant
The Armed Forces Covenant - Veterans Accommodation Fund delivers financial support to projects
which support the aims of the Armed Forces Covenant and specifically Veterans with a housing
need. The Veterans Accommodation Fund is a one off scheme which will only run in 2014.
The Chancellor allocated up to £40 million which will be allocated by a panel which comprises of
MOD representatives, the Treasury, Devolved Administrations, representatives from the COBSEO
Housing cluster, The Royal British Legion and the Families Federations.
Prospectus and application forms are now available
DCLG Community Project Support Fund – Revenue Funding Administered By The HCA
http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/community-led-project-support
The Community Led Project Support Programme broadens the scope of the original Community
Right to Build programme which provided an alternative way for communities to deliver the
development they want – be it homes, shops, businesses or facilities – where the benefits of the
development will be retained by the community for the community.
There is £14m available over the next two years (2013-2015) for communities in England (excluding
Greater London). This will allow community groups to bid for revenue funding where they need help
and support to bring forward proposals which require planning application. Further details and the
application form are available on the HCA website (see above) and in addition Locality have been
engaged to provide assistance to interested organisations. www.mycommunityrights.org.uk
CROWDFUNDING/FUNDRAISING PLATFORMS
Buzzbnk
www.buzzbnk.org
Buzzbnk is a crowdfunding platform specifically established to enable social ventures, including both
charities and social enterprises to raise grants and loans from supporters and others interested in
helping make the project happen. Loans can be interest free, pay interest at a fixed rate or with a
revenue share. All supporters may be offered some sort of benefit in return for their support, and
these benefits are designed to engage the supporters more in the project or more generally in the
work of the organisation. Buzzbnk will help projects get on line and provide fundraising advice for
mobilising support.
Spacehive
www.spacehive.com
Spacehive is the world’s first crowdfunding platform for civic projects. We make it easy for lots of
people, companies and councils to fund things that make places better - like new playgrounds or
spruced up parks. For people with great project ideas, Spacehive allows you to build support direct
from your community. For everyone else it’s an effortless way to transform where you live: just find
a project you love and pledge a contribution. If enough others do too, it gets built!
Localgiving
www.localgiving.com
Localgiving.com is the UK’s leading online fundraising platform for local charities and community
groups. Localgiving.com’s goal is to help local charities and voluntary groups to raise funds and to
enable people who care about their communities to find and support community enterprises.
Indiegogo
http://www.indiegogo.com/learn-how-to-raise-money-for-a-campaign
An online platform where you can create your ‘campaign’ or project and share it with others to try
and drum up donations.
INVESTMENTS/SHARES
Big Society Capital
http://www.bigsocietycapital.com/finding-the-right-investment/
Directory Of Social Investors & Organisation Offering Business Support:
This is an excellent Directory dealing with organisations offering loans and social investment which
anyone would be hard pressed to better. Not only is it very comprehensive in terms of listing a huge
number of organisations (c140) , but when you click on the name of the organisation a text box
appears with the website address and the key information about the organisation. For example:
Type of support: Finance
For whom: Social enterprises; charities; voluntary and community organisations; social businesses;
cooperatives/mutuals
Specific eligibility criteria: Organisations with a track record and a plan to increase trading income
and deliver high social impact
Type of finance: Secured loans; unsecured loans; equity; quasi equity
Funding for: Property purchase; other asset/equipment purchase; working capital; development
capital; risk capital
Finance available: £50,000 - £1,000,000
The Investment and Contract Readiness Fund
http://www.beinvestmentready.org.uk/
The £10m Investment and Contract Readiness Fund enables social ventures to access new forms of
investment and compete for public service contracts. If you were tempted to try and raise some
money, perhaps via a bond, then it’s possible to get funding here to cover the cost of setting it up.
Grants between £50,000 and £150,000 will be available on a rolling basis to ambitious social
ventures who will go on to raise at least £500,000 investment, or who want to bid for contracts over
£1 million.
The Community Shares Unit
www.communityshares.org.uk
The Community Shares Unit is a dedicated support service for those interested in and involved with
community share offers. Delivered by Co-operatives UK and Locality and backed by the Department
for Communities and Local Government, it offers introductory advice for community enterprises
considering or developing share offers, supporters who are interested in purchasing shares and
advisers who provide support and assistance to enterprises considering and developing share offers.
Microgenius
www.microgenius.org.uk
Microgenius is a new online tool to help organisations co-ordinate share offers on the web.
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