Application Deadline: 31^st May 2024

Attached is information regarding Cancer Innovation Grants offered by the North Yorkshire and Humber Cancer Alliance. These grants, ranging from 1K to 50K, support the development of innovative cancer approaches focusing on local improvement priorities. Priority areas include tumor sites with high late-stage diagnosis rates, notably lung, bowel, and breast cancers, particularly prevalent in deprived communities within the NEL region.

The Cancer Alliance welcomes applications from:

• Primary and Secondary Care organisations
• Patients
• Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs)
• Wider system stakeholders – e.g. social care organisations

Find out more information on the Cancer Alliance website.

Tesco and easyfundraising have come together again to support voluntary organisations, charities, and CICs. They will donate £1000 funding pots to 5 community organisations this May.

Follow these simple steps for a chance to win.

1. Firstly, register your organisation with fundraising platform easyfundraising. easyfundraising enables your community organisation to receive unrestricted funding from 8,000 leading online retailers including Tesco.
2. Then ask everyone connected to your organisation to use the easyfundraising platform to shop with Tesco in May. Each time one of them shops online at Tesco, your organisation will be entered into the draw to receive a £1,000 funding boost. The more people who shop online with Tesco on your behalf, the more chances your organisation has of winning. Plus, when your supporters shop with Tesco in May, they’ll raise £10 for you if it’s their first-time shop, and £1 for each subsequent shop they do. Take your first step by signing up to easyfundraising today: www.easyfundraising.org.uk/nel-sector-support/

*New customers can raise £10 on their first shop over £50, existing customers raise £1 per shop over £70

Click here to visit website

Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance launches the Cancer Innovation Grants 2024/25

If you have an innovative project that promotes early cancer diagnosis, treatment, recovery and/or patient experience in the Humber and North Yorkshire area, Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance could help you with the funding.

The Cancer Alliance, in collaboration with Health Innovation Network Yorkshire & Humber and the Innovation Research and Improvement System, is proud to announce the launch of the Cancer Innovation Grants 2024/25.

“This is an excellent opportunity to develop our local culture of innovation through adopting and developing new ideas, which have a positive impact on patient experience and outcomes and the local cancer system” Mr Kartikae Grover, Clinical Director of Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance

The Cancer Innovation Grants form part of the Cancer Alliance’s aim to build a culture of cutting-edge cancer innovations, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan. From small, grass-roots projects, to larger-scale innovation schemes, the Cancer Alliance is encouraging the development or adoption of innovative approaches to cancer that target local priorities for improvement, with a focus on (but not exclusive to) tumour sites with the highest volume of late stage diagnosis:

• Oesophageal
• Lung
• Pancreatic
• Colon
• Rectum
• Non-hodgkin’s lymphoma
• Prostate

Who can apply for a Cancer Innovation Grant?

The Cancer Alliance welcomes applications from:

• Primary and Secondary Care organisations
• Patients
• Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs)
• Wider system stakeholders – e.g. social care organisations

Collaboration is encouraged across organisations and sectors.

What kind of projects will the Cancer Alliance fund?

The Cancer Alliance is looking for newly identified innovations, as well as projects that adopt innovation ideas that have been proven a success elsewhere. Some examples include:

• Adopting technology or a workforce to implement or embed new ways of reducing demand on diagnostic services
• Developing patient education solutions, particularly those designed to address health inequalities
• Initiatives to support increase in uptake of cancer screening programmes, with a focus on specific groups where screening uptake is low

What kind of projects will not receive funding?

Cancer Innovation Grants will not be awarded to support current standards and processes in cancer care – e.g. posts and activities that are part of core services and staffing, such as Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS).

The Cancer Alliance is not able to fund research or projects that require capital funding.

Grants timeline

Applications Open – w/c 8 April 2024

Applications Close – 5pm, 31 May 2024.

Notification of Grant Award – 21 June 2024

What level of funding is available?

Individual grants will be funded to a maximum of £50,000 and applications to support community-based projects are also welcome at a minimum of £1,000.

How do I apply?

Find out more information on the Cancer Alliance website.

You can view and download the Cancer Innovation Grants Guidance and Application form or contact the Cancer Alliance Diagnostics and Innovation Team at hnyicb-ery.cdi.team@nhs.net.

Deadline 13th May 2024

The funding aims to support energy resilience initiatives in local communities served by Northern Powergrid and who are most affected by changes in the economy, environment and society because of the shifting energy landscape.

Grants of up to £20,000 will be made available to organisations through the Foundation. The funding priorities are:

1. The prevention and relief of poverty, and the relief of those in need due to financial hardship, ill-health, disability or other disadvantage including through the provision of advice and support for the optimisation of living conditions, particularly relating to the use of energy and resources among those in necessitous circumstances, including those in fuel-poor households, or who have suffered loss through weather related or other environmental events.
2. The maintenance, improvement or provision of public amenities for the public benefit in areas which are socially and economically deprived.
3. The preservation, conservation, protection and improvement of the environment including through supporting sustainability and the prudent and efficient use of resources.
4. The advancement of education through the provision and support of educational support and training about all aspects of efficient and sustainable use of energy and resources.

https://www.northernpowergridfoundation.com/

Deadline 10th May 2024

The Community Champions scheme aims to support the local community in Lincolnshire, to help make life better in our communities. The fund comes from the Lincolnshire co-op outlets to support the scheme.

The successful organisations can receive up to £500 – £1,000.

The fund can be spent on the following:

• Items of equipment such as tables, crockery, gardening tools, laptops and tablets, craft materials etc
• Community events & Projects
• Running costs such as hall hire, insurance, petrol for community car schemes, refreshments etc. (not Salary)

Any charity, community group, not-for-profit, co-operative, school or council can apply.

https://www.lincolnshire.coop/community

Create North East Lincolnshire funds are to deliver one-off non-profit creative projects for the benefit of everyone in North East Lincolnshire (NEL), by:

• Empowering and uniting a creative community.

• Celebrating and sharing creative skills and talents.

• Linking creativity, heritage and community for social and environmental benefit.

• Creating opportunities and supporting development and growth in creative careers and businesses.

These grants are for new activity and ideas or new programmes or additions to existing regular events. You can also apply for funds to develop an idea to undertake research and development.

Large Creative Project Grants: available grants are between £1,500 and a maximum of £7,500. Deadline: 7th May.

Small Project Grants: available grants are between £500 and a maximum of £1,500. Deadline: date remains open on a rolling basis.

For more information, click here to visit their website.

Deadline 6th September 2024

The object of the Fund is to improve the wellbeing of people living in Greater Lincolnshire and to make life more comfortable, ease distress and isolation for those most in need.   

Grants of up to £6,000.

Themes:

• Social cohesion: Community activities; access to essential services; support for people leaving Prison and their families, women’s groups, projects that contribute to strong and cohesive communities
• Advice and Support: Debt counselling; Citizens Advice Bureau; welfare advice services, nutrition and diet
• Older People: Care at home, integration projects; projects tackling isolation, loneliness and dementia, volunteer costs, sitter and companionship
• Homelessness: Interventions/support to assist vulnerable homeless people, e.g. accommodation, advice, food/clothing
• Food Security: Seed swaps, community growing schemes, advice about food sovereignty and sustainability

Click here for Lincolnshire Community Foundation website.

Forwarded

The Wharfedale Foundation

The Foundation will provide grants of £500 – £25,000 over the next 2 years in 4 application rounds, to organisations operating in Y&H under 3 priority areas: breaking down barriers in society; integration of marginalised groups; tackling disadvantage.

What we fund

Grants for not-for-profit organisations with income under £300,000 for projects in Yorkshire & Humber addressing divisions in society and bringing communities closer together.

Grants will be for up to £10,000 over 1 or 2 years for organisations with an annual income of under £150,000. Grants will be for up to £25,000 for organisations with an annual income of under £300,000.  We encourage applications particularly from smaller organisations.

We will fund projects/activities/core and development costs (including staff salaries, training, pilot projects, on-going services etc.) and are particularly keen to support organisations to be more sustainable.

Our priorities are: breaking down of barriers in society, the integration of marginalised groups in communities and tackling disadvantage.  

Who can apply

We are open to applications from:

• registered charities
• charitable companies
• charitable incorporated organisations (CIO)
• Community Interest Companies (CIC). 

(CIC’s must be limited by guarantee, with at least 3 unrelated directors and no persons with significant control and have an asset lock).

• voluntary/community/faith organisations (with a constitution)
• other non-profit organisations will be considered

When can you apply

Applications will be considered over 2024-2025 over 4 rounds:

1. Round 1 opens on 1/3/24 to 22/3/24 for expressions of interest, with full applications invited to submit between 1/4/24 – 26/4/2024
2. Round 2 opens on 6/9/24 to 27/9/24 for expressions of interest, with full applications invited to submit between 7/10/24 – 1/11/2024

There will be 2 further rounds in 2025.

How to apply

Organisations are asked to submit a brief expression of interest on the Foundation’s website to check eligibility. If eligible applicants will be sent a full application form.

Further information

The Foundation will also be running short Meet the Funder on-line information sessions where you can find out more.  These will be:

• Thursday 22nd February at 2pm register here;
• Wednesday 6th March at 6pm register here; 
• We will also be delivering a session in partnership with Community Matters Yorkshire on Monday 18th March register here

Email: info@wharfedalefoundation.org.uk

To find out more visit website here.

Please view or download information below.

Lincolnshire Community Foundation are delighted to be working in partnership with SWEF Enterprise grants in being able to provide small start up grants to young people of Lincolnshire (aged between 18-30), looking to start up their own businesses.

Click here for more information.

This training is part of our Together for Childhood Workforce Development training offer.

Research has shown that the British public has a limited understanding of child development. This limits people’s ability to understand how family life can be improved and how abuse and neglect can be prevented. If people do understand child development and how it can be derailed by abuse, they quickly see how the work undertaken by services that support families can help to get a child back on track. This introductory training in Sharing the Science sets out 6 tested metaphors we can use to explain early child development, using a shared language across professional disciplines, that is easily understood by families and the community. These 6 metaphors have been found to help people understand key concepts of child brain development and to be memorable over time and easy to repeat. Using these metaphors can boost our understanding of child development and child abuse. The metaphors can increase support for ensuring children and young people have healthy development and grow up in supportive and loving families and communities.

How to Book

Booking is via the Children and Families Learning Zone here:

https://learn-nel.com/childrenslearningzone

If you have not accessed the system before, you will need to register first of all and enter the access key, which is CFLZ22.

Just click on the course Library icon on the left hand side of the page, then click on the ‘Workshops’ button, then ‘Children and Families’, ‘Together for Childhood’ and you will see the course dates listed. Just click on the ‘Book Now button at the right hand side of the screen to book your place.

Maintained Schools only: please use your Learn-NEL access to book your place.

Please see step by step user guide attached if needed.