Tamworth & District

This brief outlines the requirements of the Stafford and South Staffordshire Building Better Opportunities (BBO) Programme for a programme of courses to improve the mental health and wellbeing of our participants. The brief begins with an outline of the project followed by a description of the scope of the courses/services needed.  Finally, the brief includes the quotation submission form which needs to be completed and returned by the submission deadline.

The Road Ahead is the NCVO's annual analysis of the changing operating environment for anyone working in the voluntary sector. It identifies and explains forces and trends that are shaping the sector and are likely to have an impact on organisations in the future.

One of the perennial bug bears I hear from local members in the voluntary sector is how frustrating it is to see local businesses and employee groups raising funds for Cancer Research UK, Macmillan or the British Heart Foundation (to name a few), whilst they struggle to make it by to the end of the year. The amounts involved will often be a drop in the ocean for such national ‘corporate’ charities, but locally could literally save a charity or community group from closure. Even more frustrating, is that these big names probably don’t even work locally in Staffordshire or Stoke-on-Trent.

Grants for UK charities working in the areas of homelessness, penal affairs, asylum seekers and refugees, community based initiatives for disadvantaged young people (16-25), and projects in developing countries working on community development, education, and health (with particular interest in projects that address the needs and potential of girls and women).

Although there are no set funding limits, the average grant is £5,000, and Hilden will consider funding projects for more than one year.

Grants of between £500 and £1,500 are available to voluntary and community groups in the UK to help run summer play schemes for the benefit of disadvantaged children.

The Hilden Charitable Fund Summer Play Schemes Grant is provided and administered by the Hilden Charitable Fund and is available to voluntary and community organisations throughout the UK.

Grants are available for businesses and not-for-profit organisations in England to support resource efficiency projects, with the goal of diverting, reducing and better managing waste, in the areas of food, plastics, textiles, recycling infrastructure and litter.

Value from Food Waste

These grants will fund both revenue and capital expenditure costs with project values between £20,000 and £100,000.  

Citizen Food Waste Behaviour Change Grant

This scheme will award grants between £25,000 and £100,000 for both capital and revenue project expenditure.