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Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund: Supporting Partners programme
This fund closed to applications on Wednesday 23 July 2025, 12 noonThe Supporting Partners programme aims to improve the provision of support available for service partners. This includes promoting their skills and experiences in the workplace, enhancing wellbeing, improving access to support services, and addressing the challenges that partners can sometimes face.Grants of £10,000 to £70,000 are…
Energy Redress Scheme
This fund closed to applications on Wednesday 11 June 2025, 5pmOfgem’s Energy Redress Scheme offers four funding streams, providing grants ranging from £20,000 to £2 million. Funded by voluntary payments from companies that may have breached Ofgem rules, the scheme has been managed by the Energy Saving Trust for five years. The scheme prioritises support for vulnerable energy consumers, the…
Charity or social enterprise? Choosing the right structure for your purpose
As part of our monthly Focus Week, we're concentrating on our Frequently Asked Friday, a space for us to answer your frequently asked questions. This week, Helen Oparinde, NCVS Sector Growth Coordinator, has been looking into organisational structures.Question:As part of NCVS’s request for support services, we get asked for support on various topics, from volunteer recruitment to reviewing…
CrossCountry Customer and Communities Improvement fund
This fund closed to applications on Friday 6 June 2025, 12 midnightThe CrossCountry Customer & Communities Improvement Fund (CCIF) is specifically designed to support community projects that deliver tangible social and environmental benefits. CCIF allows communities and stakeholders across the CrossCountry network to identify, develop local projects and schemes that can make a real difference…
Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025
This fund closed to applications on Friday 4 July 2025At Big Give, Christmas always comes early. The Christmas Challenge is the UK’s biggest match-funded campaign. For seven days, supporters of participating charities can double their donations and, in doing so, make an extraordinary difference to some of the world’s biggest challenges.Eligible organisations must be a UK-registered charity with a…
NCVS Birthday Bimble
What do you get if you mix a 150th birthday with a county wide walking festival and an organisation involved in Active Travel and nature-based social prescribing projects? The NCVS Birthday Bimble, of course! Kate, NCVS ATSP Community Development Coordinator, gives a summary of our Birthday Bimble. On Wednesday 7 May 2025, a week into National Walking Month, 28 of us met at NCVS…
Rise Fund with Rosa
This fund closed to applications on Monday 23 June 2025, 4pmRosa’s Rise Fund offers two-year organisational development grants of between £10,000 and £40,000 to Black and racially minoritised-led women’s and girls’ organisations that have an income of between £30,000 and £300,000.The funding is for organisational development work relating to areas such as strategy, governance, leadership,…
NIHR Public Health Grassroots Awards
This fund closed to applications on Thursday 19 June 2025The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Specialist Centre for Public Health has launched a £5,000 personal funding opportunity to help individuals working in public health develop research skills. It’s designed for people with little or no prior research experience, especially those in VCSE organisations, non-NHS…
Community Cohesion and Hate Crime small and medium grants
The deadline for applications is Sunday 15 June 2025Part of the Nottingham City Council Community Cohesion and Hate Crime grants, offering a major opportunity for local organisations to help strengthen community ties and tackle hate across Nottingham. This funding, to rebuild social trust and promote cohesion between communities, has been allocated to Nottingham City by the Ministry of…
Relevance of quality standards to effective partnerships with government
A little while back, Nikyla, our Community Engagement and Partnership Coordinator, asked Helen, our Sector Growth Coordinator at NCVS, about tools to support her work in Gedling. In response, Helen has put together a practical rundown of quality standards to help voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations navigate what’s out there.Read on for Helen's expert insights.Back in…