Funding For Community Groups - Where To Find It?

7th February 2014

The internet has many resources that wil help groups or individuals to find funding and apart from hiting google you might try http://community-toolkit.org.uk/Funding/find-funders.htm. There you wil find sections in alphabetical order and you maye thinkg its daunting task to trawl through it all.

A few deadlines recently highlighted by the Community Toolkit are -
28 February- Deadline for War Memorials Trust Centenary Memorials Restoration Fund
28 February- Deadline for Heritage Lottery Fund
28 February- Deadline for Parks For People (Heritage Lottery Fund)
07 March- Deadline for Clore Poetry and Literature Awards
17 March- Deadline for SITA Trust
26 March- Deadline for Hedley Foundation
31 March- Deadline for R S Macdonald Charitable Trust

If you are looking for funding for events then there are a number of places you can check out. A listing can be found at http://www.eventscotland.org/assets/2954

funding opportunities are there in huge numbers but it takes time and effort to read about them all and ther is help available. Locally there is help available at Caithness Voluntary Group based at Williamson Street in Wick - web site http://www.cvg.org.uk/

For other areas outside Caithness contact your local office of the Council of Voluntary Service or Scottish Council of voluntary Organisations (SCVO) or check http://www.vascotland.org/