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