Agricultural and Rural Grants

Countryside Stewardship Programme (England)

Countryside Stewardship is the makes payments to farmers and other land managers to enhance and conserve English landscapes, their wildlife and history and to help people to enjoy them Countryside Stewardship is the makes payments to farmers and other land managers to enhance and conserve English landscapes, their wildlife and history and to help people to enjoy them....more info

Energy Crop Scheme (England)

The Energy Crops Scheme is a DEFRA scheme run in partnership with the Forestry Commission. The scheme encourages and promotes the cultivation of energy crops.Applicants need to demonstrate that they have or will have an energy end-use for the crops....more info

Processing and Marketing Grants (England)

Processing and marketing grants enable capital investment in processing and marketing of English primary agricultural products. They also encourage farmers to become more competitive, respond to consumer demand, be more innovative and add value to their produce....more info

Rural Enterprise Scheme (England)

The Rural Enterprise Scheme (RES) is part of the England Rural Development Programme (ERDP). It provides assistance for projects that help to develop more sustainable, diversified and enterprising rural economies and communities....more info

Vocational Training Scheme (England)

The new Vocational Training Scheme provides funding for training that contributes to an improvement in the occupational skill and competence of farmers and others involved in farming and forestry activities and their diversification....more info

Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme (England)

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme was introduced in 1987 to offer incentives to encourage farmers to adopt agricultural practices which would safeguard and enhance parts of the country of particularly high landscape, wildlife or historic value....more info

Hill Farm Allowance (England)

The Hill Farm Allowance (HFA) scheme is designed to ensure that agriculture continues to make its irreplaceable contribution to rural society and the managed environment of the English uplands by compensating hill farmers for the difficulties of farming in less favoured areas....more info

Organic Farming Scheme (England)

The aim of the OFS is to encourage the expansion of organic production. Under the scheme, farmers moving from conventional to organic farming methods receive financial help during the conversion process. The scheme is being continued and expanded under the Programme....more info

UK Leader+ Programme (UK)

Leader+ is a European Programme that operates within England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Its aim is to encourage original, high-quality strategies for integrated rural development that have been designed and implemented by active partnerships operating locally....more info

Local Heritage Initiative (England)

Local Heritage Initiative is a national grant scheme that helps local groups to investigate, explain and care for their local landscape, landmarks, traditions and culture. Local Heritage Iniative (LHI) is about appreciating the past, by informing the present and encouraging thought and action for the future....more info

Film Council - Development Fund (UK)

The Development Fund aims to broaden the quality, range and ambition of British film projects and talent being developed. More specifically, the aim is to raise the quality of screenplays produced in or from the UK through targeted development initiatives....more info

Film Council - New Cinema Fund (UK)

The New Cinema Fund encourages unique ideas, innovative approaches and new voices. The fund intends to finance films with passion and verve that connect with a broad range of audiences....more info

Film Council - Premiere Fund (UK)

The fund aims to combine the flexibility, vision, dynamism and entrepreneurial spirit that is traditionally associated with the private sector of the industry by investing in popular commercially viable feature films....more info

Film Council - Training (UK)

The UK FILM COUNCIL's has now delegated £6.5million of its Lottery grant to Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for broadcast, film, video, interactive media and photo imaging. This means that the UK Film Council no longer administers a Training Fund....more info

Film Council - Print & Advertising Fund (UK)

This is a one million pounds per annum fund towards the support for distributors for extra prints and advertising for specialised films which otherwise would have very limited releases across the UK....more info

Film Council - UK Film Distribution Programme (UK)

This is a one million pounds per annum fund towards the support for distributors in releasing British films at a lower financial risk across the UK....more info

Film Council - Digital Screen Network (UK)

The largest proportion of the above sum is being used to create a network of screens dedicated to the exhibition of specialised films in locations across the whole UK where there is no such provision currently....more info

Film Council - Audience Development Fund (UK)

This is a fund of one million pounds to capitalise and expand upon current educational provision aimed at broadening the audience's understanding and appreciation of film. ....more info

Cinema Access Programme (UK)

A one million pound fund dedicated to improving access to cinema for people with disabilities, specifically the deaf and the blind....more info

Film Council- Small Capital Fund for Cinemas (UK)

This £800,000 Fund assists cinema operators to undertake and/or complete capital projects, particularly where the works are considered essential to the cinema’s continued existence or of benefit to audiences that may currently be excluded (for example, by improving access for disabled cinemagoers).....more info

Film Council Short Films Schemes - Regional Investment Fund (UK)

The FILM COUNCIL invests £6 million a year into regional film activities through the Regional Investment Fund for England (RIFE). RIFE was the principal recommendation to emerge from an intensive review of film infrastructure and activity across England undertaken by the FILM COUNCIL last year....more info

Creative Partnerships (England)

Creative partnerships are a £40 million pilot initiative which will enable children living in deprived areas to have access to an enhanced programme of artistic and creative opportunities through sustained partnerships with creative organisations. Creative partnerships are a joint development of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Arts Council of England and the Department for Education and Skills.....more info

Community Radio Fund (UK)

The Community Radio Fund aims to encourage best practice within the Community Radio sector and to encourage new and diverse ways of serving communities. The fund is open to licensed Community Radio stations....more info

English Heritage Grants (England)

English Heritage offer a range of grants to conserve historic places in England. the grants range from Grants for Historic Buildings, Monuments and Designed Landscapes to Grants for War Memorials....more info

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme (UK)

The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme (LPWGS) provides relief for repairs and maintenance which are not covered under the approved alteration provisions. The scheme will refund in grant aid the difference between five percent and the VAT paid on eligible repairs and maintenance to listed places of worship....more info

Local Heritage Initiative (England)

Local Heritage Initiative is a national grant scheme that helps local groups to investigate, explain and care for their local landscape, landmarks, traditions and culture. The scheme was launched in February 2000 and is planned to run for 10 years. The initiative currently covers people in England, and will soon be available to projects in Scotland and Wales....more info

Pilgrim Trust Conservation Awards (UK)

The Pilgrim Awards celebrate excellence in conservation and restoration projects. They are supported by English Heritage, the National Preservation Office, Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, and the United Kingdom Institute for Conservation....more info

The Science Museum Prism Grant Fund (England)

ts aim is to support scientific and industrial collections (in the broadest sense, and including natural history, medical and other instrument collections) in museums, archives and specialist libraries, through making grants towards acquisitions or conservation. This is an ongoing scheme currently worth £250,000 per year, and applications are considered at any time....more info

Resource/V&A Purchase Grant Fund (England & Wales)

This grant contributes to the purchase of objects relating to the arts, literature and history by museums, galleries, record repositories and specialist libraries in England and Wales. Through the acquisitions it supports the Purchase Grant Fund aims to help and develop the quality and standards of regional collections for the understanding and enjoyment of the public. Objects, collections or archives of any date costing between £500 and £300,000 are eligible for support....more info

National Art Collection Fund (UK)

The Arts Fund is the UK's leading art charity gave over £5.8 million in 2001 to museums and galleries throughout the UK to help purchase items including paintings, sculpture, coins, costumes, decorative arts, furniture, and installations....more info

Business Support Grants

Business Improvement Districts (England)

This programme helps local authorities and businesses work in partnership to improve their local area, using resources raised from that partnership.  Funding will be raised through a supplementary business rate levied on participating businesses in the BID area....more info

National Coalfields Programme (England)

Through its management of the National Coalfields Programme, working with the Regional Development Agencies, the Coalfields Communities Campaign (CCC), Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) and other key local partners, English Partnerships is delivering national regeneration policy on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.....more info

Bridges Fund - Community Development Venture Fund (England)

The Fund aims to stimulate the provision (and benefits) of venture capital to viable SME's, which are capable of substantial growth, and that are located in the 25% most deprived wards in England as classified under the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) ranking....more info

Community Investment Tax Credit (UK)

This programme promotes enterprise in disadvantaged communities by increasing the flow of private capital into the community development sector. The tax credit will provide an incentive for this investment....more info

English Cities Fund (England)

This programme attracts long term private involvement into priority areas for regeneration. These areas will be agreed as part of the Regional Development Agency's strategies and will include such things as Urban Regeneration Company areas....more info

Network Space (England)

Network Space Ltd is a joint venture between English Partnerships and Langtree Group plc, developing new industrial workspace in the English coalfields. The company aims to provide quality accommodation for new and expanding small companies....more info

New Entrepreneur Scholarships (England)

This programme helps people from deprived areas develop the skills to set up and run their own business.Anyone living in one of the selected deprived areas, aged over 18 and not in full time education. Anyone living in one of the selected deprived areas, aged over 18 and not in full time education is eligible to apply....more info

One hundred per cent Capital Allowances for Flats over Shops for Letting (UK)

This programme encourages recycling of vacant and underused space above shops and similar commercial premises into flats for letting. The scheme will focus on properties in traditional shopping areas and be open to all property owners and occupiers, provided they have an interest in the property in which the flats are to be created. It will be targeted as follows....more info

Prince's Trust (UK)

The Trust exists to help young people fulfil their potential. The Trust works with 14 to 30 year olds who face disadvantage - offering them the support, encouragement and basic financial assistance they need to achieve their goals....more info

Regional Venture Capital Fund (England)

This programme addresses a national market weakness in the provision of small-scale risk capital (amounts less than £500,000) to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with growth potential..... more info

Selective Finance for Investment (England)

Selective Finance for Investment in England (SFI) is designed for businesses that are looking at the possibility of investing in an Assisted Area, but need financial help to go ahead. Assistance is also available to SMEs investing in Tier 3 areas. SFI is discretionary and normally takes the form of a grant or occasionally a loan. All projects must meet the scheme criteria and in each case the amount and terms of assistance will be negotiated as the minimum necessary for the proposed project to go ahead. There is a minimum threshold for applications of £10,000 grant....more info

Small Business Service Phoenix Fund (England)

To encourage entrepreneurship as a means of tackling social exclusion. This includes:

*                   A Development Fund to encourage innovative ideas to support enterprises in disadvantaged areas and amongst groups of people who are under-represented in business. This includes communities affected by major change and groups such as people with disabilities, older people and ex-offenders.

*                    A Challenge Fund and Loan Guarantees to help resource Community Finance Initiatives (CFIs) and encourage commercial and charitable lending to that sector....more info

Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme (UK)

The Small Business Service (SBS) SFLG guarantees loans from the banks and other financial institutions for small firms that have viable business proposals but who have tried and failed to get a conventional loan because of lack of security. Loans are available for periods of between two and ten years on sums from £5,000 to £100, 000 (£250,000 if your business has been trading for more than two years)....more info

Small Business Service - Small Business Research Initiative (UK)

This is not a grant scheme. The Small Business Research Initiative is designed to increase the success of smaller firms in obtaining contracts from Government bodies to conduct research and development. The initiative was inspired by the US Small Business Innovation Research Programme, and is co-ordinated by the Small Business Service.nt....more info

Investigating an Innovative Idea (England)

Businesses who have an idea to develop an innovative product, process or service, but are not sure whether they are ready to take it forward successfully, may be able to receive help under a Grant for Investigating an Innovative Idea.....more info

Collaborative Research and Development (UK)

To help companies take advantage of new technological developments the Collaborative Research and Development Programme provides grant for support of between 25% and 75% the R&D costs. (EU State Aid rules will apply)

Projects that may be supported are;

• 'Science to Business' as well as 'Business to Business' consortia
• Exploiting basic research with the manufacturing and/or service sectors
• Perform well against selection criteria; including potential economic, social and environmental benefit to the UK, project risk, consortia organisation quality and the strength of the project management team.

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Stamp Duty Exemption in Certain Disadvantaged Communities (UK)

This programme encourages businesses to relocate to, or expand in, disadvantaged communities and to enhance the development and occupation of new and second-hand housing in those communities. Awaiting date of application from Treasury....more info

UK High Technology Fund (UK)

This programme encourages more institutional investors to invest in early stage high technology growth companies in the UK. This is a Fund of Funds that will consider investing on commercial terms in other venture capital funds that target early stage high technology growth companies in the UK....more info

Trade Partners UK – Solo Show Support Scheme (UK)

The Solo Show Support scheme is a pilot initiative aimed at helping experienced exporters develop new markets, which are key to their export strategies. It offers grants of up to £1,500 towards space/stand construction costs to businesses exhibiting independently at overseas trade fairs taking place before 1 April 2006, where there is no UK Trade & Investment (or other support) available, but participation is key to achieving business objectives....more info

Community Development Grants

Adventure Capital Fund (England)

Provides development funding and bursaries for Community Enterprises to accelerate enterprise growth and create sustainable institutions for long-term community renewal....more info

Local Investment Fund (England)

Business in the Community makes loans to economically viable, not-for-profit community enterprises who have been unable to secure funds from traditional sources.  It aims to enable community organisations to move from grant dependency and towards self-sufficiency....more info

Childrens Fund (England)

The Children's Fund will fund services to prevent children and their families suffering from the consequences of poverty. Other funding will be available through the Children's Fund Local Networks. The fund will primarily target 5-13 year olds at risk of social exclusion....more info

Childrens Fund -Local Network Fund for Children and Young People (England)

The aim of the Local Network Fund is to help children in poverty achieve their potential by investing directly in the activities of local community and voluntary groups working for and with children and young people aged 0-19.  The Local Network Fund will be available throughout England by April 2003....more info

Children, Young People and Families Grant Programme (England)

This national grant programme will fund voluntary organisations to do work of national significance that supports the outcomes of the Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme.

Two types of funding are available:

• Strategic grants will support activities of a national significance.
• Project grants will support innovative approaches to service delivery that have national significance because they can be replicated or scaled up for delivery in a greater number of locations and because the learning from them will be disseminated.

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Coalfields Enterprise Fund (England)

The Coalfields Enterprise Fund is a venture capital fund, launched by the Deputy Prime Minister in early 2004, that has been specifically established to finance growth-orientated companies and encourage entrepreneurship in England?s former coalfield areas....more info

Coalfields Regeneration Trust (UK)

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust gives grants to groups, organisations and agencies in England, Scotland and Wales who can show that their project or activity benefits a coalfield community....more info

Community Champions (England)

Community Champions aims to provide support for individuals who are already active in their communities by developing their skills and to encourage greater community involvement in regeneration activity. The fund aims to support communities where there is little community activity or direct involvement in developing plans for regeneration, and where this is seen as a barrier to helping them access support from other funding sources to improve their quality of life....more info

Community Development Venture Fund (England)

The Fund aims to stimulate the provision (and benefits) of venture capital to viable SME's, which are capable of substantial growth, and that are located in the 25% most deprived wards in England as classified under the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) ranking....more info

Community Investment Tax Credit (UK)

The Community Investment Tax Credit provides tax relief to those providing finance to Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) for on-lending to enterprises in disadvantaged communities that are excluded from mainstream sources of finance....more info

Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG) programme (England)

This programme helps raise the standards of school-based achievement of ethnic minority pupils, and those whose first language is not English and are most at risk of under-achieving....more info

Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) for Community Transport (England)

The Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) for Community Transport, formerly known as Fuel Duty Rebate for Community Transport provides grants to help non-profit organisations running community transport organisations to expand and develop their services by saving on fuel duty. ....more info

Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund (England & Wales)

A total of £4.5 million will be available in grants to strengthen the organisational capacity of faith based groups so that they can play a fuller part in civil society and engage more effectively with public authorities. The fund will also support activities that bring people of different faiths together to promote mutual understanding, respect and co-operation. Organisations are invited to apply for small grants (up to £5,000) or large grants (over £5,000 and up to £30,000) which are available between April 2007 and March 2008....more info

Getting Results (UK)

Funding is available through the Commission for Racial Equality "Getting Results" programme to fund racial equality work at the local level....more info

Industrial Common Ownership Fund (UK)

The Industrial Common Ownership Fund provides loan finance to co-operatives, employee owned businesses and social enterprises. The Industrial Common Ownership Fund offers:

- Business loans with terms up to 10 years
- Bridging loans against delayed grants
- Loans on property or business purchase - Loans for capital equipment and working capital
- Loans to replace inappropriate existing finance

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Liveability Fund (England)

The Liveability Fund will be used to pilot a new grant scheme over the next 3 years. It aims to test new approaches for tackling public space and local liveability (quality of life) issues that focus on and link service improvement, investment in innovative new parks and public spaces, and action learning and sharing of good practice throughout the process.....more info

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (England)

This fund helps to improve services in the most deprived areas, including contributing to the Government targets to narrow the gap between deprived areas and the rest of the country. The Neighbourhood Renewal Fund operates in the 88 most deprived authorities in England....more info

Neighbourhood Support Fund (England)

This programme re-engages young people back into full-time education training or employment by establishing community based projects that offer activities ranging from:  sport; information and communications technology; multi-media;  formal qualifications;  arts; and outdoor pursuits. The NSF is delivered in 40 of the most deprived local authority areas...more info

Opportunities for Volunteering Scheme (England)

Under the Opportunities for Volunteering scheme, the Department of Health makes funds available for grants to voluntary organisations in order to increase opportunities for people to volunteer in England in the fields of health and social care....more info

Refugee Community Development Fund (UK)

The Refugee Community Development Fund offers support to organisations with new ideas for helping refugees play a full part in the economic, cultural and social life of the United Kingdom....more info

Refugee Challenge Fund (UK)

The overall purpose of the Refugee Integration Challenge Fund is to support the strategy for the integration of refugees in the UK, and to help everyone involved to learn how this could best be achieved. Funding of up to 100% is available to promote projects that address specific social needs amongst refugee communities....more info

Purposeful Activities for Asylum Seeker Fund (UK)

The Purposeful Activities Fund supports projects that enable asylum seekers to interact with, and make a positive contribution to, the communities in which they reside. Priority is given to applications that build basic skills which will be useful to asylum seekers in the longer term, whether they stay in the UK or return to their country of origin....more info

Improving Reach Programme (England)

Through the Improving Reach programme grants of between £50,000 and £100,000 are available to improve access to capacity building and support for a range of frontline groups / organisations that may not have been reached in previous ChangeUp programmes.

In particular the programme is aimed at :

- Black and minority ethnic groups
- Refugee and migrant groups
- Faith groups
- Isolated rural groups

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Special Grants Programme (England)

The Special Grants Programme (SGP) provides grants to voluntary organisations for national projects relevant to DTLR's housing and regeneration objectives. Work is only eligible if it does not qualify for help under other grant programmes.....more info

Stamp duty Exemption in certain Disadvantaged Communities (UK)

This programme encourages businesses to relocate to, or expand in, disadvantaged communities and to enhance the development and occupation of new and second-hand housing in those communities. Awaiting date of application from Treasury....more info

Strengthening Families Grants Programme (England)

The Strengthening Families Grants programme provides funding for activities that focus on marriage and relationship support and on parenting support....more info

Sure Start (UK)

Sure Start works with parents-to-be, parents and children to promote the physical, intellectual, and social development of babies and young children (under four years) in specified disadvantaged areas....more info

Crime and Community Safety Grants

Basic Command Unit Fund (England & Wales)

This annual fund is designed to help police meet the individual crime reduction needs of their local area and tackle the priorities set out in the national policing plan - which includes combating gun crime. The fund can be spent on crime prevention work such as targeted police operations, youth diversionary schemes, or security advice campaigns for the public....more info

Building Safer Communities Fund (England & Wales)

Funding is available to Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) working in partnership with Drug Action Teams (DATs) to take a more holistic and structured approach to use of their funds in reducing crime and tackling drugs-related problems. From 1 April 2003, the Building Safer Communities Fund combined the former Safer Communities Initiative Fund (SCI), the Communities Against Drugs programme (CAD), and the former Partnership Development Fund (PDF) into a single funding stream (the "single pot")....more info

Connected Fund (England)

The Connected Fund provides grants to community projects working to tackle gun crime and gun culture in their areas and is accepting a second round of applications. The aims of the Connected Fund

- To support small community groups tackling gun crime and gun culture in their local areas

- To kick-start new initiatives and boost on-going projects in those areas most affected by gun crime

- To help with capacity building for community based grassroots organisations

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Safer and Stronger Communities Fund (England)

From 1 April 2006, new ODPM funding for community empowerment, neighbourhood management and neighbourhood wardens – previously programmes subject to their own ring-fenced funding – will be merged into a single funding stream and allocated to areas which include the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. These areas have been identified using Index of Multiple Deprivation data (IMD) to pinpoint pockets of severe deprivation. This funding will be known as the ‘Neighbourhood Element’ of the Safer and Stronger Communities Fund.

Funding will be available to:

• Improve liveability - encompassing crime, fear of crime, anti-social behaviour, physical environmental quality, housing management and basic leisure provision for young people
• Tackle poor public services to reduce educational underachievement, worklessness, poor health, teenage conceptions and offending
• Transform neighbourhoods through reconnecting them with housing and job markets where this is possible
• Empower local people, which is important in enabling local people to get involved and have a say in local decisions, and foster community cohesion
  

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Recovered Assets Incentivisation Fund (UK)

This is a Home Office grant which uses the recovered assets of criminals to fund proactive projects linked to the key objectives of the drugs White Paper "Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain" or those of complementary strategies in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland; provide seed funding for innovative law-enforcement initiatives; provide seed funding for community regeneration projects and local crime reduction partnerships....more info

Victims Fund: Provision for Sexual Assault Referral Centres (England & Wales)

Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) are one-stop locations where victims of sexual assault can receive medical care and counselling, and have the opportunity to assist the police investigation into alleged offences. Funding for 2005-06 is available to partnerships of police and primary care trusts (or local health boards in Wales) who plan to develop a SARC in their area, and from existing SARCs wishing to further develop the service they provide....more info

Victims Fund: Provision for Victims of Sexual Offending (England & Wales)

The Home Office is placing £4 million over two years, recovered from the proceeds of crime, into the new Victims Fund to support the development of community-based services for victims of sexual offending. Established voluntary and community organisations working to help the victims of sexual violence and abuse in England and Wales are eligible for funding....more info

Education and Training Grants

Adult Learning Grants (England)

The Adult Learning Grant is a means tested allowance of up to £30 per week to adults resident in England studying full time for a first full level 2 or first full level 3 qualification. There are restrictions. You need to be aged 19-31 to do a level 3 qualification but level 2 is open to everyone aged 19 or over....more info

Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK)

The AHRC funds research and postgraduate study within the UK's higher education institutions. In addition, on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, it provides funding for museums, galleries and collections that are based in, or attached to, higher education institutions in England....more info

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK)

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the UK’s principal funder of basic and strategic biological research. To deliver its mission, BBSRC supports research and research training in universities and research centres throughout the UK, including BBSRC -sponsored institutes; and promotes knowledge transfer from research to applications in business, industry and policy, and public engagement in the biosciences....more info

British Council Global Curriculum Project Grants (UK)

Global Curriculum Project grants are available for established partnerships involving UK schools and Southern schools in one of the eligible countries.

This grant is aimed at schools that are developing or working on joint activities that embed a global dimension within their respective curricula. It supports the exploration of innovative practice, which takes forward global dimension agendas through school partnerships.

A total of £4,800 is available for pre-schools and primary schools, and £6,450 is available for secondary schools and sixth form colleges.

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British Council Anglo-French Partnership Grants (England)

The British Council provides financial support to promote partnerships between schools in France and England. This is the first step in implementing the Anglo-French Education Agreement signed by the then Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Charles Clarke and his counterpart, Luc Ferry, at the Le Touquet summit on 4 February 2003. The specific aims of the programme are to:

• establish sustainable relations that will impact on the development of the schools and collages involved
• contribute to the professional development of their staff
• enrich the curriculum and support the National Languages Strategy through linguistic development and improved cultural awareness for students and teachers

The type of activities supported include:

• Anglo-French Curriculum Projects (for schools across England with an established partner school in France)
• Teacher Fellowships (for schools across England with an established partner school in France)
• Student Fellowships (for schools across England)
• Vocational Partnerships (for schools across England with an established partner school in France)

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British Council Anglo-German Partnership Grants (England)

The British Council provides financial support to promote partnerships between schools in Germany and England. The type of activities that can be supported include:

• Anglo-German School Curriculum projects.
• Anglo-German Teacher Fellowships for teachers in England who are interested in spending two weeks working in a German school.
• Anglo-German Student Fellowships for students interested in spending two weeks studying in a German school taking part in lessons and working on an individual research project.
• Anglo-German Teacher Study Visits to spend three days in a German school and take part in joint workshops to explore and discuss best practice in England and Germany in relation to modern language learning and vocational subjects.
  

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British Council Anglo-Spanish Partnership Grants (England)

The British Council provides financial support to promote partnerships between schools in Spain and England. The type of activities that can be supported include:

• Anglo-Spanish School Curriculum projects.
• Anglo-Spanish Teacher Shadowing for teachers in England interested in spending one week working in your Spanish partner school and undertaking professional action research projects or developing curriculum materials.
• Anglo-Spanish Student Fellowships for students interested in spending two weeks studying in a Spanish school taking part in lessons and working on an individual research project.

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• to establish sustainable links that will impact on the development of the schools and colleges involved
• to provide professional development opportunities for staff
• to enrich the curriculum and support language awareness and learning

• School Partnerships
• Language immersion - for teachers and students
• Joint Curriculum Projects
• Gap year in China
• Chinese Language Assistants Programme

• to promote school partnerships and opportunities for transnational cooperation and mobility
• to focus on young people and their teachers
• to contribute to the professional development of teachers
• to bring added value to the learning experience
• to target the school in the widest sense

• seminars for partner finding
• grants for preparatory visits enabling teachers to meet to plan and develop projects within the partnership
• funding for joint curriculum projects to include project-related field trips for pupils
• Job shadowing opportunities for teachers from schools involved in a current East-West Joint Curriculum Project

• establish sustainable links that will impact on the development of those schools and collages
• contribute to the professional development of their staff
• enrich the curriculum and support language awareness and learning

• Language immersion for teachers and students
• School Based Projects
• Language Assistants

British Council Global Schools Partnership Fund (UK)

The aim of the programme is to raise young people’s awareness of global development issues and equip them with the skills and knowledge to become active global citizens. Through the Global Schools Partnership Fund, the Department for International Development promotes partnerships between schools in the UK and schools in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The programme provides advice and guidance, professional development opportunities and grants to schools that are using school partnerships as a means for developing a global dimension within their curriculum.

The types of activities that can be funded include:

• Grants of up to £1,650 for reciprocal visits that lays the foundations for long term, collaborative work that aims to embed a global dimension within the schools’ respective curricula.
• Grants of £6,450 are available through the Global Curriculum Project grants. These are available for established partnerships involving UK schools and Southern schools in one of the eligible countries.

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British Council ARION Study Visits (UK)

Education specialist are able to apply for funding of up to €1,188 to study best education practice in another country and meet with other European decision-makers. Visits usually last 5 days and typical themes include Quality in Education, Preventing School Failure, Language

and SEN. Different visits are available each year and advertised on the Arion catalogue each Spring. Applicants must be nominated by their local authority or employer by the May deadline.

The funding is open to:

• advisers
• inspectors
• heads of schools and other education institutions
• deputy and assistant heads of education institutions
• education officers
• teacher trainers

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Development Awareness Fund - Mini Grants Scheme (UK)

Grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 are available for projects that raise awareness and understanding within the UK of international development issues; of global interdependence; of the need for international development; and of the progress that has been made and that is possible. The funding is available for projects of between one and three years. The types of projects funded in the past include working with refugees to raise development issues, incorporating development issues into the school curriculum; and using the arts to promote awareness and understanding global issues, etc.

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British Council Fulbright Teachers Exchange Programme (UK)

The Fulbright Teachers Exchange Programme offers teachers the opportunity to trade places with an American teacher either for an autumn term or a whole academic year. Exchanges involve elementary and secondary schools, including kindergarten and community colleges throughout the United States.

The costs of transport for your exchange are covered by the programme and you will continue to be paid by your employer while on the exchange.

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British Council International Placement for Headteachers (England)

International Placements for Headteachers is an initiative developed in partnership between the British Council and the National College for School Leadership. The programme is funded by the National College for School Leadership. Applicants must be serving headteachers with a minimum of three years' experience as a headteacher before they can be offered a placement.

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British Council Teachers' International Professional Development Programme (England)

The Teachers' International Professional Development programme offers a variety of short-term visits overseas that enable teachers to experience good practice around the world. The programme is open to Teachers with a minimum of two years teaching experience. The aims of the programme are to:

• enables teachers to experience good educational practice in different countries around the world through short term visits
• offers a focused and challenging learning experience in which teachers are immersed in the education system of another country, investigating a particular curriculum theme
• generates new networks of teachers, nationally and internationally, united in their commitment to provide high quality education
• supports LEA and School Development Plans in relation to the curriculum, professional development and the international dimension
• enhances professional capabilities by introducing new ideas and systems of classroom management and providing new curriculum materials.

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British Council Teacher Exchange Europe Programmme (UK)

The Teacher Exchange Europe programmme offers secondary school teachers in Modern Languages with a minimum of two years teaching experience the opportunity to teach in a German, Spanish or French School. The duration of the exchange can be between six weeks to a full academic year. The British Council will provide you with funding that covers your return travel and your employer will continue to pay your current UK salary during the exchange.

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Career Development Loans (UK)

Career Development Loans (CDLs) provide financial help to people to undertake learning that will advance their careers. CDL is a deferred repayment bank loan to help you pay for vocational learning or education. ....more info

DfES Innovations Fund (England)

The Innovations Fund has been set up by the DfES to support projects, which focus on ways to boost equal opportunities for students and staff within higher education and improve links between higher education and employers....more info

Economic and Social Research Council (UK)

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. The Council aims to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government. The issues considered include economic competitiveness, the effectiveness of public services and policy, and our quality of life....more info

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK)

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the UK Government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences....more info

Excellence in Cities and Excellence Challenge Programme (England)

This programme raises aspiration and increases attainment among young people aged 13 to 19 from lower socio-economic groups. It will help to give them the qualifications, information and motivation to enter higher education. It will also build new partnerships between schools, further and higher education institutions....more info

Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG) programme (England)

This programme helps raise the standards of school-based achievement of ethnic minority pupils, and those whose first language is not English and are most at risk of under-achieving....more info

Financial help for adults in Further Education and Training (UK)

A range of financial assistance available to adults who wish to enter further education or undertake training.... more info

Higher Education Funding Council - Research Grants (England)

Provides grants to Universities and Colleges to undertake research....more info

Higher Education Innovation Fund (England)

The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) supports higher education institutions (HEIs) in knowledge exchange and productive interactions with business, public sector organisations and the wider community, for the benefit of the economy and society....more info

Higher Education Reach Out to Business and the Community Fund (England)

The fund is intended to develop the capability of HEIs to respond to the needs of business, and to contribute to economic growth and competitiveness....more info

Medical Research Council (UK)

The Medical Research Council funds research into all areas of medical and related science with the aims of improving the health and quality of life of the UK public and contributing to the wealth of the nation....more info

Natural Environment Research Council (UK)

The Natural Environment Research Council funds independent research, survey, training and knowledge transfer in the environmental sciences, to advance knowledge of planet Earth as a complex, interacting system.....more info

Particle Physics and Astronomical Research Council (UK)

The Particle Physics and Astronomical Research Council is the UK leading science investment agency. It funds research, education and training in particle physics and astronomy....more info

Specialist Schools Programme (England)

Specialist schools receive a capital grant from the Government of £100,000, plus annual grants of £126 per student over four years. Specialist schools are maintained secondary schools that teach the full National Curriculum but place a particular emphasis on teaching and learning in their chosen specialism within the Specialist Schools Programme. Specialist schools must raise £50,000 in private sector sponsorship....more info

Union Learning Fund (England)

The Union Learning Fund provides funding for activities that promote activity by trade unions in support of the Government's objective of creating a learning society and promotes learning in the widest sense....more info

Employment Grants

Access to Work (UK)

As well as giving advice and information to disabled people and employers, Jobcentre Plus pays a grant, through Access to Work , towards any extra employment costs that result from a person’s disability. For people who are starting a job with you, the grant is up to 100% of the approved costs. For those who already work for you, the grant is up to 80% of the approved costs over the first £300....more info

Employment Zones (UK)

The programme operates in 15 areas of the country with high long-term unemployment, Employment Zones are a new way of helping the long-term unemployed get and keep work.  Long-term unemployed people get the support of a dedicated personal advisor, a fully costed action plan and support during the first 13 weeks in employment....more info

Job Grant (UK)

To help overcome barriers to taking up work, providing a cash payment to help meet immediate one-off costs associated with starting work. (Eg: travel to work or special clothing costs, childcare costs) ....more info

New Deal 18 - 24 (UK)

New Deal provides options which will help them into work and give them the skills employers need. For 18-24 year-olds, the options are Work with the Voluntary Sector, work with the Environment Task Force or full-time education and training....more info

New Deal 25+ (UK)

New Deal is open to people aged 25 plus who have been claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for 18 months out of the last 21....more info

New Deal for Disabled People (UK)

Provides assistance to people on health related benefits who want to work, find work.  The scheme is voluntary....more info

New Deal for Lone Parents (UK)

New Deal for Lone Parents is a voluntary programme designed specifically to help lone parents who want to work. It is available to all lone parents who are not in work or who are working less than 16 hours a week and is operated through Jobcentre Plus offices and Jobcentres....more info

New Deal for Musicians (UK)

New Deal for Musicians is available under the New Deal for Young People. It helps young musicians progress into careers in all types of music to earn a living in the music business....more info

New Deal for Partners (UK)

New Deal for Partners offers help to partners of people claiming certain benefits....more info

New Deal Programme for the 50+ (UK)

The NewDeal50plus package consists of payment of a tax free Employment Credit, a Training Grant and a wide range of practical support from a Personal Adviser at their local Jobcentre. Eligible people can take up the offer of some, or all of these elements....more info

Environment and Energy Grants

Action Energy (UK)

Action Energy, a government-funded programme, helps businesses and public sector organisations save money through energy saving. From simple tips to in-depth advice and on-site support, Action Energy can show you how to make a big difference to both your bottom line and the environment.....more info

Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund Grant Scheme (England)

English Nature, together with English Heritage and the Countryside Agency provide grant funding to local projects which encourage community involvement in areas which are, or have been, affected by aggregates extraction....more info

Biotechnology Mentoring and Incubator Challenge (UK)

The overall aim of the BMI is to stimulate the creation and growth of high quality biotechnology companies in the UK. The Challenge is supported by a fund of up to £5 million and currently supports 8 projects around Britain....more info

Carbon Trust Research, Development and Demonstration Grants (UK)

Financial assistance is available for innovative projects that demonstrate a potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....more info

English Nature - Land purchase grants (England)

This grant scheme is available to Voluntary Conservation Organisations to assist with the purchase of land of nature conservation importance. ....more info

English Nature - Wildspace (England)

Local authorities and others are encouraged to apply for grants which provide for those who cannot readily use Local Nature Reserves, for example, due to poverty, lack of transport, access difficulties or educational needs and to work with communities who want to take an active interest in the improvement of their environment and its wildlife....more info

Environmental Action Fund (England)

The Environmental Action Fund (EAF) helps promote sustainable living, supporting work that does not qualify for grants under other programmes....more info

Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme (England)

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme was introduced in 1987 to offer incentives to encourage farmers to adopt agricultural practices which would safeguard and enhance parts of the country of particularly high landscape, wildlife or historic value. There are now 22 ESAs in England, covering some 10% of agricultural land....more info

Forest Education Initiative (FEI) Partnership Fund (England, Scotland & Wales)

The FEI Partnership Fund is specifically to support the work of FEI clusters. It can provide match funding for specific activities such as , helping to develop among young people a greater understanding of trees, woodlands, forest management, forest products and wood as a sustainable resource. The maximum amount that can be applied for in a single application is £5,000 and the minimum amount is £500.....more info

Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (England)

This programme provides grants in England on behalf of householders most at risk from ill health due to a cold home - the old, those with children and the disabled or chronically sick....more info

Landfill Tax Credit Scheme (UK)

The LTCS was designed to help mitigate the effects of landfill upon local communities and support moves to more sustainable waste management practices. It encourages partnerships between landfill operators, their local communities and the voluntary and public sectors....more info

Reserves Enhancement Scheme (England)

This grant scheme is aimed at Voluntary Conservation Organisations who manage Sites of Special Scientific Interest as nature reserves. These five-year grants contribute to the day to day management of such sites....more info

Section 35 National Nature Reserve Capital Grants Scheme (England)

Grants are available to Approved Bodies under Section 35(1)(c) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, where these Approved Bodies are not eligible for the Reserves Enhancement Scheme. These grants contribute to capital projects for the improvement of reserve management, access and interpretation....more info

Health Grants

Section 64 Grants (England)

Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 gives the Secretary of State for Health power to make grants to voluntary organisations in England, whose activities support the Department of Health's policy objectives relating to health and personal social services....more info

Housing and Homelessness Grants

Approved Development Programme (England)

Social Landlords can apply for funding to provide 4,000 homes for rent of low cost sale in the South East of England....more info

Disabled Facilities Grants (England & Wales)

If you or someone living in your property is disabled you may qualify for a disabled facilities grant towards the cost of providing adaptations and facilities to enable the disabled person to continue to live there. Such grants are given by local councils under Part I of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996....more info

Extra Care Housing Fund (England)

Extra care housing supports independent living and increases choice by providing older people with their own homes together with care and support that meets their individual needs. Extra care housing schemes can provide 24-hour support, meals, domestic help, leisure and recreation facilities and a secure environment. The fund is open to Local Authorities working in partnership with other care agencies....more info

Homebuy Schemes (England)

This programme helps people on lower incomes to buy their own home, where they can sustain the long-term commitment. It frees up social rented housing in areas of shortage and contributes to the development of mixed communities.....more info

Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (England)

The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme in England, now marketed as the Warm Front Team, is the Government's main grant-funded programme for tackling fuel poverty....more info

Housing Corporation Innovation & Good Practice Programme (England)

The strategy behind the Housing Corporation's Innovation and Good Practice (IGP) programme is to test new ideas and gather good practice for the benefit of Housing Associations and their tenants. The projects are carried out by a wide range of organisations, but are all about practical implementation and service delivery rather than academic or simply policy studies with the aim of improving the standards of social housing through the sharing of ideas and good practice....more info

Housing Renewal Areas (England)

Local housing authorities declare renewal areas as part of their private sector renewal strategy to regenerate a particular rundown area. The authority can do this by clearance, or by giving renovation grants to individuals or groups of residents. The authority can also pay grants to residents to help them to purchase a property in a nearby area....more info

Key Worker Living Scheme (England)

Key worker living is helping key workers in London, the South East and East of England to buy a home, upgrade to a family home or rent a home at an affordable price....more info

One hundred per cent Capital Allowances for flats over shops for letting (UK)

This programme encourages recycling of vacant and underused space above shops and similar commercial premises into flats for letting....more info

Supporting People Programme (England)

The Supporting People programme will give local authorities the responsibility to fund and strategically plan housing support services, helping vulnerable people live independently.....more info

Tenant Empowerment Grant (England)

Tenant Empowerment Grants are grants that provide tenants with independent advice and information about tenant involvement matters. The Tenant Empowerment Programme will help tenants to develop skills and knowledge to help improve the quality of their involvement, to set up a tenant management organisation or to carry out local community projects that will make a real difference to their neighbourhood. The Programme also provides information and advice on a range of related issues together with good practice examples of new or innovative ways of involving tenants....more info

Innovation and Technology Grants

Collaborative Research & Development (UK)

Part of the DTI's Technology Progremme, the objective of Collaborative Research & Development is to assist the industry and research communities to work together on Research & Development projects in strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology, from which successful new products, processes and services can emerge. It also primes the flow of the latest knowledge and thinking from the UK’s science, engineering and technology base to business. Collaborative Research & Development projects must involve two or more collaborators, at least one of which is from industry....more info

EUREKA (UK)

EUREKA is a pan-European network for encouraging market-oriented, collaborative research and development (R&D) projects, which lead to the development of innovative products, processes or services. EUREKA is not in itself a funding mechanism and there is no central EU budget for supporting EUREKA projects. In common with most other member countries the UK may in certain circumstances provide funding support to project-participants up to a maximum of 50 per cent of the total project cost. However, many projects go ahead unfunded....more info

Grant for Research and Development (England)

Grant for Research and Development provides grants to help individuals and small and medium-sized businesses research and develop technologically innovative products and processes. Grant for Research and Development is available through the nine English Regional Development Agencies (RDAs). RDAs are responsible for appraising applications and deciding which projects to support in their region....more info

Fraday Partnerships (UK)

A Faraday Partnership brings together a network of organisations that share a common sector or technology interest and is aimed at promoting improved interactions between the UK science and engineering base and industry....more info

Grant fot Investigating an Innovative Idea

Businesses who have an idea to develop an innovative product, process or service, but are not sure whether they are ready to take it forward successfully, may be able to receive help under a Grant for Investigating an Innovative Idea.The grant will reimburse some of the costs of consultants chosen to provide expert advice on identified 'barriers' to the successful implementation of the business’ innovative idea. The project outcome is an action plan....more info

Invest to Save Budget (England)

The Invest to Save Budget (ISB) is a cross Government scheme jointly administered by HM Treasury and Cabinet Office. It provides financial support to projects that bring together two or more public service bodies in an innovative way to improve services to local people or to reduce costs....more info

Knowledge Tranfer Networks

Knowledge Transfer Networks, part of the Technology Programme, aim to put a host of useful information at your fingertips. These networks will be supported by a DTI Grant, and if you wish to apply for a grant....more info

Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit (UK)

Research and development (R&D) tax credits are a company tax relief which can either reduce a company’s tax bill or, for some small or medium sized companies, provide a cash sum. The aim of the tax credits is to encourage greater R&D spending in order to promote investment in innovation.....more info

Sciencewise (UK)

Sciencewise is a grant scheme for projects that bring scientists, government and the public together to explore the impact of science and technology in our lives. Sciencewise projects develop and use best practice methods in public dialogue to bring together individuals and organisations to discuss science and technology issues in an open and fair manner. The outputs of the projects are used to inform the policymaking processes used by government and other key organisations....more info

Shell Technology Enterprise Programme (UK)

STEP is a national programme designed to help SMEs and community organisations develop their potential by making use of the skills of undergraduates, and also to encourage undergraduates to consider a career in smaller firms....more info

Technology Partnership Initiative

TPI is a government initiative which aims to give firms in developing, industrialising and emerging countries better access to environmental technologies and techniques widely adopted in the UK. TPI is administered by the Joint Environmental Markets Unit (JEMU)....more info

Land and Planning Grants

Architectural Heritage Fund (UK)

The Architectural Heritage Fund helps to repair and regenerate historic buildings. The fund does this by helping voluntary and community groups, with grants, low-interest loans, and advice. We have been involved in many hundreds of projects of all kinds throughout the United Kingdom....more info

Coalfields Regeneration Trust (UK)

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust welcomes applications from groups, organisations and agencies throughout Britain, which are committed to the regeneration of coalfield areas and their communities. Applicants will normally be community and voluntary organisations, charities, local authorities and similar bodies....more info

Coalfields Enterprise Fund (England)

The Coalfields Enterprise Fund is a commercial venture capital fund set up to support the growth of businesses and encourage entrepreneurship in England's former coalfields. The Fund will bring over £20m of new investment into these areas and stimulate new-start companies, established businesses seeking to expand and industrial diversification. It is managed by Enterprise Ventures Limited through a network of regionally based Investment Advisors in the coalfield areas....more info

Land Stabilisation Programme (England)

This programme provides funding to stabilise old mine workings....more info

VAT reduced to 5 per cent for Residential Conversions (UK)

This programme encourages redevelopment and better use of buildings, to reduce pressure for greenfield development and improve the urban environment....more info

Leisure and Sport Grants

Creative Partnerships (England)

Creative partnerships are a £40 million pilot initiative which will enable children living in deprived areas to have access to an enhanced programme of artistic and creative opportunities through sustained partnerships with creative organisations. Creative partnerships are a joint development of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Arts Council of England and the Department for Education and Skills....more info

Transport Grants

Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) for Community Transport (England)

This programme helps provide community transport services as a part of meeting local transport needs and reducing social exclusion....more info

Company Neutral Revenue Support (UK)

Company Neutral Revenue Support (CNRS) is a way of supporting the movement of intermodal containers in Great Britain. The grant provides revenue support and aims to secure growth in this sector. The grant applies to deep-sea, short-sea and domestic intermodal rail freight. For further details, a copy of the CNRS guide can be found by clicking on the link shown below....more info

Freight Facilities Grant (UK)

Freight Facilities Grant (FFG) helps offset the capital costs of providing rail freight handling facilities. It is also available to help companies re-invest in existing rail freight facilities....more info

Rail Performance Fund (UK)

The Rail Performance Fund provides assistance co-fund small scale investments aimed at “providing shorter-term and lasting improvements to the performance of rail services....more info

Road Maintanance and Street Lighting (UK)

This programme tackles backlogs in highway maintenance in carriageways, footways, structures and street lighting by 2011....more info

Track Access Grant (UK)

Track Access Grant (TAG) helps goods service operators to meet the charges paid to Railtrack for access to the rail network....more info

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association DFID Programme Development Fund (UK)

Established UK Producers/Production companies may apply with programme/series proposals that will promote better understanding of the developing world. All proposals must be accompanied by a letter of interest from a UK mainstream broadcaster....more info

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association DFID Travel Bursary Fund (UK)

Individual media journalists may apply to spend up to 3 months in a Commonwealth developing country researching and producing items for transmission/printing in the UK network and regional media. Their application should be accompanied by a letter of interest from their head of department or line manager....more info

Conflict and Humanitarian Fund (UK)

The CHF aims to support the following activities :

• Efforts to build the capacity of southern civil society organisations to prepare for and respond to crises, and to represent the views of the poor about these issues at the national and international levels;
• Research and evidence based policy development to further the understanding of key issues and influence the international conflict and humanitarian system;
• Advocacy, drawing on the experiences and opinions of those affected by crises in poor and vulnerable communities;
• Innovation, including the development of new approaches to problems, or research and development of new technologies;
• Lesson learning from project implementation.

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Civil Society Challenge Fund (UK)

The CSCF supports activities that:

• Improve the capacity of Southern civil society to engage in the local decision-making processes.
• Improve the capacity of Southern civil society to engage in national decision making processes
• Improve national linkages through global advocacy
• Provide inovative service delivery
• Provide service delivery in difficult environments

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Commonwealth Local Government Good Practice Scheme ((UK)

Through the scheme, CLGF can fund exchange visits, work shadowing, pilot implementation of new initiatives and related activities between council to council partnerships where one partner is in South Africa, India, Ghana or Jamaica. These to be seen within the overall objective of poverty reduction through more efficient local service provision....more info

Development Awareness Fund (UK)

The DAF is open to any UK-based organisation or network which shares our commitment to raising awareness and understanding of development issues....more info

Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (UK)

This is a Public Private Partnership providing long-term debt finance on commercial terms to finance the construction and development of private infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa....more info

Small Grants Scheme (UK)

The SGS delegates authority to Heads of Mission in certain developing countries, the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe to support small projects of developmental value....more info