The Ironmongers’ Company

Deadline 15th December 2024

The aim of this fund is to support registered charities in the UK providing opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people under the age of 25 to fulfill their potential.

The maximum grant is £10,000.

to be eligible, the project must meet the following criteria below:

  • Be for children and young people under the age of 25 who are disadvantaged
  • Consist of educational activities that develop learning, motivation and skills
  • Have clear aims and objectives to be met within a planned timescale
  • Be within the UK

Click here for The Ironmongers’ Company website.

easyfundraising Advert Calander

The easyfundraising’s Advent Calendar is returning this December. You can open the Advent windows from 1st – 24th December for daily chances to win up to £200 for your organisation, charity, or CIC. Plus, every window opened is an automatic entry to win a big Christmas Day prize of £1,000! To take part, sign your organisation up here: www.easyfundraising.org.uk/nel-sector-support/

easyfundraising is year-round fundraising solution for organisations which runs through 8000 retailers including eBay, John Lewis, Tesco, M&S, Trainline and many more. They will donate money to your organisation when your supporters shop with them. 

Charity Fraud Awareness Week

Preventing Charity Fraud week is 25 November – 29 November. The aim is to raise awareness and how to tackling fraud and cybercrime by raising awareness and sharing good practice. 

The Preventing Charity Fraud website includes resources to help you understand the risks and get the tools to better protect your charity from fraud and cybercrime.

https://preventcharityfraud.org.uk/awareness-week/

Cash4Clubs

Deadline 12th December 2024

Cash4Club are offering grants of up to £2,000 for 6 months.

The 2024 programme is exclusively focused on supporting adult clubs who deliver activities to over 18s only, with an emphasis on 18–25 year olds. The funding will be unrestricted but with an outcome of increasing participation, meaning clubs are able to decide how best to use the grant to engage more adults from their local communities.  

For further information or to apply, please visit the Cash4Clubs website here.

NEL Member’s Survey – Post-Budget Survey 2024

Deadline for Completion of this survey is: 12noon, 20th December 2024

Following the Autumn Budget 2024, we would like to ask you some specific questions concerning the impact of these proposals on your group or organisation.

In particular there is a proposed increase in employer *National Insurance Contributions (NICs), the National Living Wage and the Real Living Wage.

Your responses will be anonymous but will help us to capture the challenges North East Lincolnshire VCSE are facing. The results of this survey will also support us to campaign to allow the sector to be exempt from the increases and to raise this issue with our public sector partners.

If you would like this survey in an alternative format, including a printed copy, please email news@forumcio.org.uk.

*Outlined in the budget is the government’s decision to:

  • Raise the National Living Wage to £12.21 an hour,
  • Increase the Real Living Wage to £12.60 per hour
  • Increase employer National Insurance contributions to 15% on salaries above £5k, instead of 13.8% on salaries above £9.1k currently.

These changes pose major challenges for our sector, with an estimated additional cost (nationally) of £1.4 billion that will affect VCSE organisations at a time when funding pressures are already high.

Click here for the survey.

Lloyds Bank Foundation – Specialist programme

Deadline 23rd January 2025

This fund is open to small, local and specialist charities that support people facing complex issues are being invited to apply to this funding programme.

You can apply for up to £75,000.

You can apply for a three-year unrestricted grants. Applicants must have an annual income between £25,000 and £500,000 and be working to support people in eight specific areas which are:

  • Addiction
  • Asylum Seekers and Refugees
  • Care Leavers
  • Domestic Abuse
  • Homelessness
  • Offending
  • Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
  • Trafficking and Modern Slavery

For further details, click here.

The Radcliffe Trust

Deadline 31st January 2025

This fund is for UK charities, not-for-profit and Exempt organisations working in the areas of music, especially chamber music, composition and music education, or in heritage and crafts.

The fund will cover project costs, with most grants given falling in the region of £2,500 to £7,500

Music Grants – Aims to support classical music performance and training especially chamber music, composition and music education. Particular interests within music education are music for children and adults with special needs, youth orchestras and projects at secondary and higher levels, including academic research.

Heritage & Crafts Grants – Aims to support the development of the skills, knowledge and experience that underpin the UK’s traditional cultural heritage and crafts sectors.

Click here for The Radcliffe Trust website here.

NELC Foster Panel – Independent Panel Members and Vice Chair Role

North East Lincolnshire Council are looking for Independent panel members to join the Foster panel. Panels are held twice a month and they are currently seeking enthusiastic individuals who have an interest in developing their own knowledge around fostering and supporting the children in our area by growing our fostering community.

The Fostering Panel membership consists of a range of people who have personal or professional experience relevant to fostering.  The ideal candidate will have experience of working with children or from a range of organisations within the community who have an interest in fostering or community-based work. Individuals must be able to demonstrate an understanding of current legislation, policy and good practice in relation to fostering matters. They are also interested in candidates who are care experienced; those with experience of being a foster carer for family and friends (Kinship carers) and those with experience or background within the Police, Education and Health.

As a member of Fostering Panel, you will:

  • Attend Fostering Panel meetings and take responsibility for participating in the making of a recommendation as to whether or not a person is suitable to be a foster carer by drawing on both personal and professional knowledge and experience.
  • Read the electronically circulated papers carefully before the meeting and attend the meeting prepared with questions and contribute to the panel discussion.
  • Participate with other members in advising on policy and procedural matters as required.
  • Address diversity issues and promote anti-discriminatory practice.
  • Safeguard the confidentiality of all panel discussions.
  • Participate in the annual review of panel membership
  • Participate in induction and annual training

NELC provide:

  • Full induction
  • Annual training
  • Annual review of Independent Panel Members
  • The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS Check.

As NELC is a foster friendly business, the opportunity to undertake a panel member role alongside your day-to-day role can be discussed further with your manager – additional information around the role of a panel member is attached, along with an application form which can be returned to Kayleigh Forrington Practice Supervisor at kayleigh.forrington@nelincs.gov.uk or Service Lead Michelle Turner NELC Fostering Service at michelle.turner@nelincs.gov.uk.

Festival of the Sea Grimsby

Deadline 11th December 2024

This tender is by North East Lincolnshire Council. The contract value is £5,000.

The specifically aims of the Provider are to:

  • Showcase Grimsby’s relationship with the Sea with a particular focus on seafood
  • Be a great family day out
  • Deliver content which showcases local skills and talents
  • Deliver a market selling food, drinks and crafts from primarily local providers
  • Bring businesses, educational establishments, community groups, heritage experts, creative individuals and arts organisations together
  • Encourage people and organisations to find creative ways to highlight Grimsby’s seafood in an innovative and exciting way that appeals to both local and national audiences.
  • Develop national and international links connecting Grimsby’s creativity with other places
  • Secure funding to deliver the festival via a newly established fundraising strategy

Click here for more information.