Funding - Luton BC

Funding Information and Advice for Community and Voluntary Organisations

What Funding is Available?

If you want funding for a project or your organisation and don't know where to look for information about what is available, you need to read "Funding Opportunities". This is a monthly publication, researched and produced by the Regeneration Service and shown at the link below. "Funding Opportunities" is sent by email to several hundred voluntary and community organisations in Luton.

"Funding Opportunities" contains pages of information on the latest and most current funding opportunities. It also contains interesting news articles relating to funding, information on local training events and procurement and tender opportunities. In between the monthly publications, email alerts are sent where deadlines for application are imminent.

We also publish information on the Luton Learning Grid about the latest funding opportunities available for education, schools and youth projects.

Funding newsletter -17th August 2010

Funding Newsletter-2nd August 2010

New funding for Young Fundz now available, application and guidance notes can be downloaded from:

www.youth.luton.gov.uk/youngfundz

Which Funder Is The Best To Approach?

Funding can come from many different places including Europe, the UK Government, Local Government, the National Lottery and Grant Making Trusts. A range of different types of funding is available to apply for at different times and for different things; this can include grants, which may mean producing outputs or outcomes for the funder, increasingly there are more opportunities available for the voluntary or third sector organisations to apply for service level agreements or contracts in return for services provided.

If after reading "Funding Opportunities" you can not decide which funder you should apply to, we may be able to help you by carrying out some tailored research on your behalf. We will need some information from you, about your organisation and the project you want a grant for, how much funding you need and other details.

We may want to meet with you to find out more about you and your organisation before we can carry out the research and then we will meet with you again to discuss the results and help you decide how to proceed.

If you would like us to carry out a search for your organisation or project, you can download the search enquiry form, when completed please,return it to RegenFunding@luton.gov.uk

Funding Search Enquiry Form

How Do I Make An Application for Funding?

When you have decided which funder you should approach, you may want some help in completing the application form, developing your project or putting together a business case for a grant or producing a business plan for your organisation.

We can provide advice and assistance on developing the project that you want funded, developing your organisation and help with completing application forms for funding.

If you would like to receive "Funding Opportunities" or want advice and assistance in searching for funds, developing your project or completing funding applications please contact us on 01582 54 62 71 or email us at RegenFunding@luton.gov.uk. Below are details of some local and national funds that you might find useful.

Local Funding

Grassroot Grants

Grassroot Grants are available to assist and help build the capacity of small community and voluntary sector organisations that have been running for a year or more and have an annual turnover of less than £30,000.

For more information and advice, please contact:

Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation
The Smithy
The Village
Old Warden
Beds
SG18 9HQ
Tel 01767 62 64 59
Fax 0700 6 00 68 00
Email administrator@blcf.org.uk
Web www.blcf.org.uk/grants

London Luton Airport Community Fund

The London Luton Airport Community Fund is a grant making programme funded by London Luton Airport as part of its Community Engagement Strategy. Three Action Areas have been identified, A Better Environment, A Vibrant Neighbourhood, A Growing Economy.

For more information and advice please contact:

Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation
The Smithy
The Village
Old Warden
Beds
SG18 9HQ
Tel 01767 62 64 59
Fax 0700 6 00 68 00
Email administrator@blcf.org.uk
Web www.blcf.org.uk/grants

New Deal for Communities

Regeneration funding has been committed for projects that bring added value to existing provision in the Marsh Farm area of Luton, addressing the following themes:

Educational Under Achievement
Unemployment
Crime
Housing
The Environment and Health

For more information and advice, please contact:

   Marsh Farm Community Development Trust
   Community Enterprise and Resource Centre
   The Moakes
   Luton
   LU3 3QB
   Tel 01582 51 25 55
   Email info@mfcdt.co.uk
   Web www.mfcdt.co.uk

Luton Borough Council (Accountable Body)
Regeneration Service
Luton Borough Council
Town Hall
Luton
LU1 2BQ
Tel 01582 54 64 39
Email regeneration@luton.gov.uk

National Lottery Funding

National Lottery funding is available to support projects that are for the public good and community benefit in the spheres of the Arts, Health, Education, the Environment, Sports, the Heritage and Charitable work.

For information and general advice on all lottery funding, please contact :

Regeneration Service
Luton Borough Council
Town Hall
Luton
LU1 2BQ
Tel 01582 54 62 71
Email regeneration@luton.gov.uk
Web www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/

For Information and advice on funding for the arts, please contact:

Arts Development Unit
The Hat Factory
65-67 Bute Street
Luton
LU1 2EY
Tel 01582 87 81 30
Email artsdevelopment@luton.gov.uk

For information and advice on lottery funding for the arts, please contact:

Arts Council England, East
Eden House
48-49 Bateman Street
Cambridge
CB2 1LR
Phone: 0845 300 6200
Fax: 0870 242 1271
Textphone: 01223 306893
Email: enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk
Web www.artscouncil.org.uk

For information on lottery funding for films, please contact:

UK Film Council
10 Little Portland Street
London
WIW 7JG
Phone 020 7861 7861
Email: info@ukfilmcouncil.org.uk
Web www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/

For information and advice on funding for sports, please contact:

The Sports Development Team
Active Luton
Wigmore Hall
Eaton Green Road
Luton
LU2 9JB
Tel 01582 40 02 72
Email info@activeluton.co.uk

For information and advice on lottery funding for sports, please contact:

Sport England East
Crescent House
19 The Crescent
Bedford
MK40 2QP
Tel 01234 345222 Fax 01234 359046
Email: info@sportengland.org
Web: www.sportengland.org/

For information on lottery funding for world class, high performance sport, please contact:

UK Sport
40 Bernard Street
London
WC1N 1ST
General enquiries: info@uksport.gov.uk
Web www.uksport.gov.uk

For information and advice on lottery funding for the heritage, please contact:

Jonathan Latchford
Development Officer, East of England
Heritage Lottery Fund
Tel 01223 22 58 83
Email jonathanl@hlf.org
Web www.hlf.org.uk

For information on lottery funding for the voluntary, community and charitable sector, health,education and the environment, please contact:

Big Lottery Fund
Big Advice Line 0845 4 10 20 30
Web www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/

For information on lottery funding for talented individuals and ground breaking ideas in Science, Technology and the Arts, please contact:

NESTA
1 Plough Place, London EC4A 1DE
Phone: +44(0)20 7438 2500
Fax +44(0)2074382501
Web www.nesta.org.uk/

European Funding

Luton is eligible for funding under the Competitiveness and Employment Structural Funds Programme, which runs from 2007 to 2013.

The main types of funding available are:-

European Social Fund

Luton Borough Council has been appointed as a co-financing organisation, which means that Luton can invite tenders to deliver defined skills and training projects. The initial award was for a total ESF value of £1,250,000 during the first funding period of 2008 to 2010. Luton has since been awarded an additional £378,000 of funding. For more information, see www.luton.gov.uk/esf or email esf@luton.gov.uk

European Regional Development Fund

A programme that aims to strengthen the competitiveness and attractiveness of all region in the UK, promote employment and economic growth through promotion of the knowledge economy and investment in human resources. In the East of England, the ERDF programme is administered by EEDA and will fund projects which support low carbon economic growth. See www.eeda.org.uk/erdf

Transnational and Interregional Funding

These programmes offer regions across Europe the opportunity to work together to achieve their aims, encouraging the sharing of best practice, knowledge, and solutions to address common challenges. Luton is eligible for two of these funding streams - North West Europe (see www.nweurope.org ) and Interreg IVc (see www.interregivic.net )

Other EU Funding Streams

There are many other EU funding streams which address more specific topics. These include Framework7 (funding for research & development for businesses) , Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (funding to encourage the competitiveness of European Businesses), Media 2007 ( funding for audiovisual industry projects), Culture 2007 (to enable a wide range of cultural organisations from across the EU to collaborate on cultural and artistic projects), Daphne (for the prevention of violence against women & children). There are also several programmes offering funding for education and life-long learning such as Leonardo, Socrates and Grundvig ( see www.leonardo.org.uk ).