September 2020

The British Science Association has announced that applications for British Science Week “Kick Start” grants have reopened for applications.

As part of the British Science Week (BSW), the British Science Association, with funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is providing grants for schools in challenging circumstances to organise their own science and engineering events.

British Science Week (BSW), which is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering, and maths.

There are four types of grant:
• Kick Start Youth grant: a grant of £150 for your school to run an activity during British Science Week organised and delivered by students aged 10-19.
• Kick Start grant: a grant of £300 for your school to run an activity during British Science Week.
• Kick Start More grant: a grant of £700 for your school to host a science event or activity which involves your students and the local community. The community can comprise of families/carers, members of local community groups, local businesses and local press.

• NEW! Kick Start grant + Youth grant: a grant of £450 for your school to run an activity during British Science Week and an additional activity organised and delivered by students aged 10-19.
To be eligible students must be from a school that fulfills one or more of the following criteria.
• Have a high proportion (over 30%) of pupils eligible for the pupil premium or equivalent;
• Have a high proportion (over 30%) of pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds;
• Be a small school based in a remote and rural location.
For any questions, please contact us at bsw@britishscienceassociation.org

The closing date for applications is 5pm on the 9th November 2020.

For further information please view – https://www.britishscienceweek.org/about-us/grants/kick-start-grant-scheme/

Army, Air and Naval units are encouraged to apply for funding for projects that improve the quality of life for serving personnel and their families living on or near an Armed Forces base or station in the UK or overseas.

Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 are available through the NAAFI Fund for projects or activities that help bring people together and reduce boredom or isolation amongst single serving personnel living in Single Living Accommodation, and Armed Forces families.

Funding can be used to refurbish spaces for recreation and leisure, purchase equipment or run projects of up to a year.

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust is administering the Fund on behalf of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI).

The deadline for applications is 12pm on the 23rd November 2020.

Please view for further information – https://covenantfund.org.uk/programme/the-naafi-fund/

Help the Homeless makes grants of up to £5,000 to small and medium sized charitable organisations (with a turnover of less than £1 million) whose aim is to help homeless people return to the community and enabling them to resume a normal life.

Typically, such organisations may operate small or medium-sized residential or training facilities to assist homeless people.

The grants are available for capital costs and examples of previously supported projects include:
• The Booth Centre, an advice and activity centre for homeless people in Manchester, where people undertake education and training courses as well as receiving advice and food, received a grant of £1,500 to transform the centre with new lighting, a new water heater and new decoration.
• A grant of £3,000 to the Amber Foundation to enable the Foundation to buy new bedroom furniture for their residential centre in Devon, where every year over 60 unemployed, homeless young people are able to rebuild their lives and gain the motivation, confidence, self-esteem and skills for independent living.

The closing date for the next round of funding is the 15th December 2020.

For further information, please view – http://www.help-the-homeless.org.uk/applying-for-funding/

The Leaders with Lived Experience 2020 Programme provides National Lottery grants of between £20,000 and £50,000 to support charities, voluntary and community groups run by people with first-hand experience of a social issue to share those experiences and play a key role in shaping how communities move towards recovery and renewal after the impact of COVID-19.

This funding will support lived experience leadership, and make sure lived experience plays a key role in shaping how communities move towards recovery and renewal after the impact of COVID-19.
Funding is available for up to two years and can be used to either focus on the immediate response to the COVID-19 crisis, or help communities recover, renew and become more sustainable after the impact of COVID-19, or both.

The National Lottery Community Fund expects to fund between 30 and 40 projects.
The programme will fund a wide range of items including:
• equipment,
• one-off events,
• staff and training costs,
• transport, utilities/running costs,
• volunteer expenses.

The deadline for applications is 5pm on the 13th October 2020.
The application form is available on the National Lottery Community Fund website – https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/leaders-with-lived-experience-2020