FREE Training Course - Fundraising with Local Giving

Kick start your digital fundraising in 2017 with this workshop for local voluntary groups & charities in Powys

Getting started with online fundraising

1st February - Plas Dolerw, Newtown - 13:30 to 16:30

21st February - Unit 30 @ Ddole Road Industrial Estate, Llandrindod - 13:30 to 16:30

By the end of this session, you will:

●       Understand the basics of online fundraising

●       Know how online fundraising can benefit your group

●       Be aware of free tools and resources available to you

●       Be registered on Localgiving,  enabling you to claim £200 of match funding

●       Be able to confidently use the Localgiving fundraising platform

●       Understand how to ask people to support your cause

●       Be equipped to secure your first digital donation

●       Understand how to develop and maintain relationships with donors

●       Have developed some new promotional materials for your cause

This is a practical session. To get the most out of the workshop, participants will need to bring a laptop or tablet.

Light refreshments available!

You must book a place in advance.  Please state which day you would like to attend. There is a maximum of twelve people for each session so a first come first serve basis will apply.

Contact PAVO:

training@pavo.org.uk

01597 822191

This workshop is offered under the Big Lottery funded Wales Development programme, through which local charities and community groups can learn to confidently run online fundraising campaigns. Participating groups will benefit from:

●     FREE membership of Localgiving for a year (usually £72) open to all local third sector groups – including those too small to be registered charities and therefore unable to subscribe to other online giving platforms

●     Face to face training, mentoring and support (tailored to your organisation’s needs) to help you raise awareness of your cause and raise funds online

●     £200 of match funding (ring-fenced for every group that signs up) as an extra incentive to fundraise online!

To sign up to the programme, visit join.localgiving.org/wales

BRECON - WE ARE COMING TO YOU!

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust’s UK Grant Programmes – 2017 Deadlines

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is inviting applications from charitable organisations carrying out work at a national level.

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is interested in funding work that focuses on removing problems through radical solutions, and not simply about making problems easier to live with. Generally, the Trust funds work that is about addressing the root causes of problems rather than delivering services or alleviating immediate needs and recognises that change can take many years to achieve. As a result, the Trust is willing to take the long view and to take risks.

Applications are currently being accepted under the following priority areas:

1. Peace and Security to support a transition towards:
   • The use of 'soft', rather than 'hard' power as a first line of response to conflict within society and around the world.
   • The de-legitimisation of violence as a tool for responding to conflict, securing interests or projecting power.
   • A culture of human rights and non-violent problem-solving, promoted at all levels of society.
2. Power and Accountability - to support people to create a world in which power is more equally shared, and in which powerful institutions are responsive and accountable to wider society and aligned with the long-term public interest.
3. Rights and Justice - to promote racial justice and equality of opportunity as a basis for a harmonious multi-racial, multi-ethnic society in the UK.
4. Sustainable Future - to develop and promote sustainable, low-carbon alternatives to the current consumerist and growth-based paradigm.
5. Northern Ireland - to fund work which will contribute as a strategic level to the ongoing transformation of the Northern Ireland conflict.

Cross cutting proposals which directly relate to more than one priority are also accepted; however, this must be clearly demonstrated in the application proposal. Organisations should be undertaking work at a national level. This means work that seeks to make positive change across the UK as a whole, or across one or more of its member countries - England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

The deadlines for applications for Northern Ireland, Sustainable Future and Cross Cutting applications are 27 March 2017 and 21 August 2017 (12 noon).

The deadlines for Peace & Security, Power & Accountability and Rights & Justice applications are 10 April 2017 and 4 September 2017 (12 noon).

http://www.jrct.org.uk/funding-priorities

(Source: Powys 4 Community)

BBC Children in Need Main Grants Programme – Imminent Deadline

BBC Children in Need is currently accepting applications accepting applications from not-for-profit groups and organisations in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.

BBC Children in Need is providing grants of over £10,000 to support projects for up to three years to not-for-profit organisations that work with children and young people of 18 years and under who are experiencing disadvantage through:

• Illness, distress, abuse or neglect.
• Any kind of disability.
• Behavioural or psychological difficulties.
• Living in poverty or situations of deprivation.

Organisations must be working to combat this disadvantage and to make a real difference to children and young people's lives.

There is no upper limit for Main Grants but very few grants over £120,000 (or £40,000 per year) are made and most grants are for much less.

The next deadline for applications is 19 January 2017.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/60DXlxYvbbtcTDm79Mjryj/main-grants-should-i-apply

(Source: Powys 4 Community)

Barchester Healthcare Foundation Continues its 2016 Priority in 2017.

Barchester Healthcare Foundation is continuing its 2016 priority to combat loneliness and engage older or disabled people.

Barchester Healthcare Foundation is accepting applications from small community groups and small local groups helping adults aged over 18 with mental and physical disabilities, and older people aged over 65.

Barchester’s Charitable Foundation is a registered charity based in London. It was created by Barchester Healthcare in 2000 to give something back to communities where the Barchester care homes operate.

The Foundation's priority is continued from 2016: connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community. Applications that combat loneliness and enable people to be active and engaged will receive the highest priority throughout the year.

Grants of between £100 and £5,000 are available to groups in England, Scotland and Wales.

Applications can be submitted online at any time.

http://www.bhcfoundation.org.uk/what-we-do

(Source: Powys 4 Community)

Postcode Local Trust Makes Changes for 2017

The Postcode Local Trust has announced that there will be two grant rounds in 2017, with a two stage application process.

The Postcode Local Trust, established in 2015, operates its own society lottery and receives all of its funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery. The Trust was created to provide financial support for charities and good causes which help communities enhance their natural environment in a way that benefits the wider community.

In 2017 Postcode Local Trust will fund projects that are of local importance across Great Britain which support wildlife areas, sustainability initiatives, local indoor and outdoor spaces and citizenship (local volunteering projects).

Registered charities in England and Scotland can apply for grants of between £500 and £20,000, and those in Wales can apply for grants of between £500 and £10,000. Grants of up to £2,000 are available to other not-for-profit organisations that do not have a registered charity number.

The grants will be for the following types of activities:

• Enhancing outdoor spaces such as:
  • Community gardens.
  • Community orchards.
  • Play areas, especially those made with sustainable wood sources or recycled materials.
• Local, biodiversity improvements or habitat restoration such as:
  • Wildflower meadow creation.
  • Flood prevention schemes.
  • Hedgerow boundary improvements.
  • Wetland area enhancements.
  • Tree planting/woodland creation.
• Outdoor education projects delivered with local communities by environmental charities.
• Green Energy projects which create more sustainable solutions to lowering, eg, energy costs in a community centre.
• Solar panel, wind turbine or micro-hydro schemes.
• Cultural heritage of an area (stories, exhibitions).
• Volunteering initiatives that help local projects, local areas and local people through, for example, uniform youth organisations.

Please note that this is a 'vastly' oversubscribed fund, and groups are strongly encouraged to read the new guidance document which can be found on the Trust's website.

There will be two grant rounds in 2017, with a two stage application process.

• Round 1 Expressions of interest: 23 January 2017 to 10 February 2017.
• Round 2 Expressions of interest: 01 August 2017 to 18 August 2017.

Full details can be found on the Postcode Local Trust website

Source: Postcode Local Trust, 02/01/2017

PAVO TRAINING - JAN - MARCH 2017