NWFED

Discovering Places – grants for ‘introducing people to the natural environment’

Discovering Places*: 1st – 3rd May 2010. This Major Project is a campaign promoting local attractions in the heritage sector. Events and activities introducing people to our natural environment through guided routes and trails are invited to take part in this weekend. Small grants are available to support new ideas. Discovering Places are looking for 10 events in the North West. If you work in the heritage sector and want to use the Olympics to reach new people and get them to think differently about where they live, this is a project for you. For further information please contact Catharine Bull C.Bull@heritagelink.org.uk

please note that deadline for applications is unknown

Legacy Trust funding for Cultural Olympaid community celebrations

Community Celebrations is Legacy Trust Uk’s latest national programme, and applications are now open for expressions of interest. Legacy Trust UK have made up to £4 million of funding available for this programme, which provides an opportunity to create a high profile celebration in your area.

They are therefore looking to support five community celebrations that identify a moment that deserves enhancing – a chance to do something spectacular, extraordinary and innovative.

Successful projects will allow communities to come together to host large scale outdoor celebrations at moments of local significance. This could mean celebrating moments of national importance, media relevance, Olympic inspired or of sporting or cultural significance.

The intention is for these five projects, after premiering in their home cities will be given the opportunity to make their way, along with their many participants, to the five London Host Boroughs in July 2012 to join with the premiere of the Major Outdoor Arts Commission for 2012 to create a spectacular event which will involve thousands of people from the five Host Borough communities and from around the UK.

For further information go to http://www.legacytrustuk.org/national-programmes/community-celebrations/

The deadline for applications is 5 March 2010.

China-Uk Connections Development Grant

The 8th round of the China-UK Connections Development Grant has been launched. The grant will enable one member of staff from an organisation to visit counterparts, with the aim of furthering the face-to-face discussions needed to develop projects. The deadline for applications is Friday 26 February 2010 for visits taking place before 30 October 2010.The application form can be downloaded from the Connections through Culture (CtC) website and emailed along with a project budget (refer to the application form for detail) to connections.grant@britishcouncil.org.cn

This link gives more information and has an application form http://ctc.britishcouncil.org.cn/lang/en/home/devgrant

If you have any enquiries regarding the grant, please contact connections.grant@britishcouncil.org.cn

Funding opportunitiy for Youth led culture projects

Blazing a trail: New Cultural Journeys is inviting proposals for creative projects that will ‘Blaze a Trail’ across Lancashire and the Fylde Coast, UK, between March and September 2010.

New Cultural Journeys is an ambitious youth led culture and sport participation programme for Lancashire and the Fylde Coast that is part of WE PLAY, the North West cultural legacy programme for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Closing date for proposals is 29th January 2010.

Further details availble here (please note both documents contain the same information)

blazing-a-trail-commissions-revised-2 (word document)

ncj_emailer-2 (Pdf file)

Skills for the Future programme open for business

New £5million grant programme will deliver up to 1,000 paid training opportunitiesThe Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) Skills for the Future programme is open to applicants¹ as of today (Wednesday 2 December). This new £5million grant programme will deliver up to 1,000 paid training opportunities for people across the UK seeking a career in heritage. It will not only support traditional conservation training but also a wide variety of skills needed to engage people with heritage and utilise new media and technology.
http://www.hlf.org.uk/news/Pages/SkillsfortheFutureprogramme.aspx

The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund

The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund aims to reduce the environmental impacts of the extraction of aggregates and to deliver benefits to areas subject to these impacts. The objectives of the Fund support the delivery of Defra’s goals of tackling the causes and consequences of climate change and securing a healthy natural environment.Defra is responsible for programme management of the ALSF in England including setting its objectives and allocating money to organisations which fund projects to meet those objectives.

To help minimise costs and deliver the Fund’s four objectives, organisations with specialist expertise are used. Contact the relevant delivery partner to make an application.

Details can be found here: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/land/aggregates/funding.htm

Old Possum’s Practical Trust

Old Possum’s Practical Trust makes a number of grants each year to further the aims of the Trust. Grants are more likely to be given for projects that involve:

• children or young people
• disabled or disadvantaged people
• communities

and which fall within historic, artistic, architectural, aesthetic, literary, musical or theatrical criteria and which enhance the lives of others, rather than the well-being of the applicants themselves.

http://www.old-possums-practical-trust.org.uk/page.cfm?pageid=328

Grants: Additional funding for Low Carbon Buildings Programme

The Low Carbon Buildings Programme (LCBP) grants for the installation of micro- generation technologies have been extended until April 2011. LCBP Phase Two has received an additional £35 million of funding, which is to be made available for public sector buildings and for charitable bodies. Grants of up to £200,000 per site are available for solar, wind, ground source heat pump and biomass renewable energy technologies. For more information email events@bre.co.uk

or go to http://www.lowcarbonbuildingsphase2.org.uk/

AIM Conservation grants

The AIM Conservation Grant Scheme, supported generously by The Pilgrim Trust, is intended to assist AIM’s smaller members with conservation of important objects in their collections. Accessioned objects in any media are eligible. Whilst we expect museums to have a conservation plan, the object does not have to be the most at risk in the collection. The reason for choosing the object must be made clear in your application. For example, the object may be planned for use in a temporary exhibition. Conservation work should be carried out by a conservator chosen from the ICON register, unless there are exceptional circumstances where this is not possible.
Closing dates for the scheme are 31 March and 30 September in each year until at least 2013. The application form can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. For further information contact Roger Hornshaw, AIM Administrator on 02392 587751, email aimadmin@aim-museums.co.uk
Go to http://www.aim-museums.co.uk/pages/pg-16-aim-conservation-grant-scheme/

HLF launch ‘Skills for the Future’ Grants Programme

Skills for the Future is a new £5million HLF grant programme supporting organisations across the UK to create heritage training placements.

It will fund traditional conservation training and also the skills needed to engage people with heritage. This could include the skills to deliver education, community participation or volunteering programmes, or to use new media and technology to open up heritage.

For more information you can download their pdf flyer here http://tiny.cc/HLFskillsgrantflyer or go direct to the relevant website page here http://tiny.cc/HLFskillsgrantinfo