Voluntary Action Lewisham

The Philip Lawrence Awards reward and celebrate young people who are taking a lead and making a difference in their communities. Examples of this could tackling issues like bullying and anti-social behaviour, improving their communities and having fun. Groups of young people aged 11-20 are eligible to apply.

The awards are in memory of headteacher, Philip Lawrence who was killed outside his school in 1995 when going to help a pupil who was being attacked by a gang.

Winning groups will get recognition for their work, training, a short film about their work and £1,000 to spend on their project.

The closing date for the Philip Lawrence Awards is 15 September 2010.

For more information see the Philip Lawrence Awards Network website here.

The next deadlines for the Big Lottery’s Community Wildlife Fund are:

22 September 2010
24 November 2010

For more information on this programme, see our earlier posting here, and the Big Lottery website here.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has a research tender open, to investigate the earnings and employment of male and female employees aged 40 and over.

The deadline is 23 September 2010.

For further information, see the EHRC website here.

Derbyshire County Council is tendering for the provision of integrated support into employment for vulnerable people, who have little or no experience of paid employment.

The deadline is 10 September 2010. Tender documents must be requested by 6 September 2010.

For further information see the Source Derbyshire website here.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation funds research and development in the UK. They aim to “understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice.”

The Foundation works through inviting submissions to its calls for proposals. It is not a grant making trust and does not accept speculative applications for grant funding.

It currently has various calls for proposals on its website. Click here for further information.

The next deadline for the Department for International Development’s (DFID) Global Community Links grants is 1 November 2010.

The programme aims to develop the understanding of global development issues and funds community groups in the UK which have a link with a community group in a developing country. You must be a UK based community group in order to apply. Grants of £1,000 - £2,000 or £7,000 - £10,000 are available (smaller grants are for one-off activities, larger grants are for a series of related activities). Link groups need to be on the list of eligible counties which is available on the DFID website here.

For more information visit the DFID website here.

Patagonia, the clothing and outdoor gear company, has grants in the range of $3,000 - $8,000 available for small, grassroots, activist organisations which are doing environmental work. The next deadline is 30 September 2010, followed by deadlines at the end of February 2011 and the end of August 2011. Organisations in the UK can apply. You need to take an online eligibility test first.

For more information see the Patagonia website here.

Activity Grants and Transport Grants are available for Rotherham Tenants and Residents Associations (TARAs) from Rotherfed.

• Activity Grants are up to £500 and are to fund new TARA-led project activity. Funding is for revenue activities only and not to pay for equipment or travel. Grants can be for social, recreational or educational activities

• Transport Grants are up to £300 and can be used for TARA-led visits. Funding is for travel costs only to support new activities. Examples are funding to visit other groups in South Yorkshire, go to a regional conference or visit Northern College. Other examples are going to the theatre, sculpture park or going swimming.

The deadline for both grants is 15 October 2010.

For more information and application materials, see the Rotherfed website here.

The Arts Council has published a toolkit, a guide to working with MPs and a sample press release for arts organisations to use in helping to influence the Government’s forthcoming spending review. You can download the documents from the Arts Council website here.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is running a pilot to provide internships for PhD students within a business or third sector organisation, to develop their user engagement and knowledge exchange skills and apply their research experience to business-led projects. Internships last from one to three months and could involve the student looking at areas such as:

• Marketing strategy
• Research and analysis
• Business Planning or evaluation
• Website design
• Database development.

The ESRC will fund around £8,000 per intern, with a contribution of up to £1,000 a month being required, up to a maximum of £3,000.

The deadline for host organisations to apply by is 30 October 2010. The deadline for students is 30 September 2010.

For more information see the ESRC website here.