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Here's an interesting article from the Guardian Voluntary Sector network:

http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2016/may/27/how-to-start-charity-business-fundraising-sustainability

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How to create compelling direct mail fundraising: Direct mail remains a powerful tool for charity fundraising, says Sara Trumpp - but it's important to do it right.

MOD Launch Final Round of Education Support Fund

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) have launched the final funding round of their Education Support Fund.

The £6 million MOD Education Support Fund (ESF) will support schools in the UK to help mitigate the effects of significant mobility and/or deployment of their service communities.

Schools are a critical part of supporting service families. Children may have to change school when a service parent is posted or the school may support a pupil when a parent is absent for long periods of time. This fund is available to support schools in embedding practices that can benefit the service children and their school.

As this is the final year of the fund, bids that show long-term impact and exchange of knowledge between school staff and between schools will be particularly welcome.

The following are eligible to apply:

• Maintained Schools
• Academies
• Free Schools
• 6th form colleges
• Groups of any schools described above (referred to as ‘Cluster bids’ - these are strongly encouraged)
• Local authorities on behalf of the publicly funded schools in their area.

£6 million per annum has been made available until 2017/18.

The maximum amount of funding an applicant can request is not stipulated.

The deadline for applications is 30 September 2016.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mod-support-fund-for-schools-with-service-children-grant-application-form

(Source: Grantfinder) 

Money Advice Service - What Works Fund Opens for UK Applications

The Money Advice Service has launched a new £7 million fund to support financial capability projects in the UK and is open to a range of organisations.

The What Works Fund has been launched across the UK to help organisations pilot new approaches for improving financial capability and to evaluate their projects. It has been set up to provide financial support for projects which are focused on building evidence of the types of interventions that can make a measurable difference to people’s financial capability.

The Programme consists of two parts:

• Stream A will fund and evaluate projects seeking to help answer the ‘What Works questions’.
• Stream B will fund pilot activity focused on capacity building and sharing of best practice amongst financial capability practitioners.

Up to £7 million is being made available for 2016/17. Of this £600,000 is committed to Stream B, which will open for applications in July 2016.

As a general guide, the following grants are expected to be available for Stream A, which is currently open for applications:

• Grants to evaluate an existing intervention are estimated to be between 10–20% of the intervention’s delivery costs, although this is strictly a guide figure and the cost may be more or less.
• Grants to expand the scope of an existing intervention to reach a new audience and evaluate its impact could be between £50,000 and £1 million depending on scope and target group.
• Grants that would develop and test new pilot interventions for a specific audience could be up to £250,000.
• Effective, learning-focused evaluation is central to this grant programme. As such MAS does not expect to award grants under £5,000.

Applications for Stream A will be considered from any organisation in the UK that delivers financial capability interventions, or which may wish to do so in the future. This includes charities and other third sector bodies including trusts; commercial organisations (but not for projects that result in any commercial advantage or profit); social enterprises; local authorities; housing associations; and education bodies.

Applicants are encouraged to put in joint bids in partnership with other providers or other organisations.

Funding for Stream A is intended to support three types of projects:

• Existing interventions.
• Expanding existing interventions.
• Piloting new approaches.

Projects should help answer the questions 'what works' either fully or with a more specific focus on:

• Children and young people.
• Young adults.
• Working-age people.
• Retirement planning.
• Older people in retirement.
• Financial difficulties.

Projects must be delivered by the end of February 2018, although the preference is for projects that can deliver robust evidence of their impact within the 2016/17 financial year.

The deadline for Expression of Interest for Stream A funding is 8 July 2016 (12 noon).

https://mas.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html

(Source: Grantfinder)

Will Charitable Trust Open to Applications (UK)

The Will Charitable Trust is currently accepting applications from charities seeking funding for the care of and services for people suffering from cancer in the UK.

The Will Charitable Trust provides support within the following categories: care of and services for blind people; long-term care of people with learning disabilities; and care of and services for people suffering from cancer.

Grants are currently available for the care of and services for people suffering from cancer, and their families.

UK registered or exempt charities are eligible to apply. Applicants must be based mainly within the UK, although some work abroad may be permitted. Applicant organisations must have proven track records of successful work in their field of operation or, in the case of newer charities, convincing evidence of ability.

Grants vary in amount, but generally fall within the range of £5,000 to £20,000.

The deadline for applications is 31 August 2016.

http://www.willcharitabletrust.org.uk/grantspolicy.htm

(Source: Grantfinder)

Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity

The Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity provides grants between the range of £15,000 to £25,000 to registered charities throughout the UK for a wide variety of UK and worldwide causes. Applicants must be UK registered charities.

Grant awards can be made on a one-off or recurring basis.

Grants are available under the following broad headings:

o The prevention or relief of poverty;
o The advancement of education;
o The advancement of religion;
o The advancement of health or the saving of lives;
o The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science;
o The advancement of environmental protection or improvement;
o The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage; or
o General charitable purposes.

PLEASE NOTE: funding is not available for individuals.

During the financial year ending 5 April 2015 the Charity made donations totalling £357,500 to 29 registered charities  (2014: £358,500 to 33 registered charities).

Major awards included:

o About Play/Sheffield Out of School Network (£17,500);
o Bristol based, Networking Counselling and Training (£15,000);
o Sheffield's Pitsmoor Adventure Playground (£85,000 – this level of award is an exception to the Charity’s usual grant making policy); and
o London and Kent-based charity, St Christopher's Hospice(£15,000).

The Charity does not maintain a website or provide an email address.

Further information can be obtained, however, from the Charity Commission website.

Applications may be made at any time (the Trustees meet regularly to discuss requests) in writing and sent by post to:

H D'Monte
The Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity
Bircham Dyson Bell LLP
50 Broadway
London SW1H 0BL
Tel: 0207 783 3685  

(Source: GRIN)

Wales Rural Funding Network Funding Roadshows 2016

(Source: Arwain)