BREAKTHROUGH UK, a leading disabled peoples’ organisation in the North West, in collaboration with the University of Salford, is conducting a research project to get the views of young disabled people about careers in the construction industry.

You do not need to have any prior knowledge of or background in the construction industry.

We invite you to take part in one of our small, informal focus groups lasting between 1 and 2 hours.  The sessions will take place at Breakthrough UK in Liverpool, throughout May 2007. However, individual one-to-one interviews can be arranged at times and locations to fit in around your schedule, if preferred.

So, if you are aged between 16 and 25 (inclusive) and would like to take part please contact:

James Wilson
Training and Consultancy Coordinator
Phone:   0161 273 5412
Textphone:  0161 273 5727
E-Mail:   j.wilson@breakthrough-uk.co.uk

All participants will receive £15 in vouchers and all travel expenses will be refunded.

The Action Plan sets out the Government's renewed drive to improve the life chances and opportunities of the most disadvantaged and hard–to–reach in society. It's about reducing and preventing the harm and cost caused by social exclusion to individuals, their families and our communities.

This Plan is guided by five principles: early intervention, systematically identifying what works, better co–ordination of the many separate agencies, personal rights and responsibilities and intolerance of poor performance. It proposes a range of systemic reforms aimed at fundamentally changing the way we deliver help and support to the socially excluded.

To download “Reaching Out” the Action Plan on Social Exclusion click here               

The Community Champions Fund (CCF) was set up by Department for Education & Skills (DfES) in collaboration with the Home Office to help provide support for people with small-scale ideas for projects to help improve their communities.

The CCF is especially keen to support people who have missed out on the chances offered through ‘mainstream’ funding activity and in particular people who have little or no experience of post school education, training or employment. 

For more information please refer to:

• Guidelines
• Application Form    

The Gulbenkian Foundation

The Gulbenkian Foundation supports projects in the arts,  education, social welfare and Anglo-Portuguese relations

Kwik Drinx Charity

This new charity, registered Oct 2005, is dedicated to relief of  sickness and the preservation of good health among people residing permanently  or temporarily in Bolton and the North West of England.

The Big Boost (England)

The Big Boost wants to hear from young people who are keen to  get involved in their communities. The awards help young people set up and run  projects that we hope will make a lasting difference to them as well as to the  areas they live in.

Community Fund for Healthy Eating

The closing date for applications for the Healthy Eating fund is  coming up this week! However some late applications may be considered, depending  on the volume of applications.

Arts & Culture Fund

Application from Sefton. The Community Foundation for Merseyside would like to receive more applications for its Arts and Culture award from the Sefton area.

The Green Machine

The Community Foundation for Merseyside  would like more applications from sefton for its ˜Green Machine grants. Grants  of up to £2000 are available to community and voluntary groups on Merseyside to  deliver projects that are innovative and will enhance and conserve the local  environment.

Local Network Fund for Children and Young People

The Community Foundation for Merseyside has reported that there is around £70,000 that needs to be spent before April  2006. The next meeting is in March, so ideally applications should be received  by mid-February through the Local Network Fund for Children and Young People!

Four Acre Trust

The Four Acre Trust supports charities that give individuals  (mainly children and young people) help in making the most of their lives. 

Help the Hospices, Volunteer Project Grants (UK)

Help the Hospices remains committed to supporting  hospice volunteers and volunteering. With this in mind Volunteer Project grants  are available for groups/individual volunteers in the hospice community.  (more)
 
Big Lottery Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund Launch First Joint  Programme (England)

The Big Lottery Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund have launched  their first joint programme. Known as “Parks for People", the scheme will  provide funding of £90 million over the next three years for the regeneration of  parks and public gardens (including squares, walks and promenades). (more)

The Lloyds TSB Foundation Regional Grant Making Priorities (North  West)

The Lloyds Foundation for England and Wales has announced its  regional priorities for 2006. The aim of the Foundation is to give grants to  charities that help people, especially those who are disadvantaged or disabled  to play a fuller role in their communities. (more)

The Britten-Pears Foundation (UK)

The Britten-Pears Foundation provides grants towards the  furtherance of music by living composers, awarding grants to performing groups  and/or concert promoters for live performances, commissions and recordings.  (more)

Local Heritage Initiative (England)

The Countryside Agency has announced that the closing date for  the last applications to the Local Heritage Initiative (LHI) will be on the 30th  June 2006 and that the scheme will finally close on the 30th September 2006.  Grants are available to community groups in England wishing to develop heritage  projects. (more)

Grants for Planting Trees (UK)

The Tree Council, a national charity that promotes the planting  and conservation of trees in town and countryside has two grant schemes  available for 2006. (more)

Clore Duffield Foundation (UK)

Grants are available to fund performing arts including opera,  dance, music, musical theatre, the spoken word and theatre. (more)

Biffaward

Biffaward provides grants to many worthwhile environmental  projects. Large and small grants are awarded. (more)

The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Foundation

The trust supports charitable causes connected with the arts,  medical welfare and the environment.

Lloyds TSB Foundation Launches Grant Making Guidelines for 2006,  including new Thematic Programme (England & Wales)

During 2006, the Lloyds TSB Foundation will make grants through  two programmes - the Community Programme and a new Thematic Programme.

The Clothworkers Foundation and Other Trusts

The Clothworkers Foundation and the trusts that it administers  provide grants to a wide range of projects, from children and youth to heritage  and the environment.

Biodiversity Challenge Fund 2006 (England and Wales)

The Biodiversity Challenge Fund 2006 (England and Wales) awards  grants to projects aimed at creating, conserving or enhancing the biodiversity  of England and Wales.

Baring Foundation Grants (UK)

The Baring Foundation aims to give money to charities and  voluntary organisations pursuing charitable purposes. In 37 years over £90  million in grants has been awarded. The Baring Foundation has recently announced  that it will open its funding programme concerned with Voluntary Sector  development in March 2006.

The Bailey Thomas Charitable Fund

Bailey Thomas is the largest trust dedicated to learning  disabilities. The fund was established to provide aid for research into learning  disabilities and for the care and relief to those affected by learning  disabilities by funding voluntary organisations working in the field.

Sefton Cultural Fund

Managed by Sefton Council ‘Leisure Services,  the purpose of this fund is to support cultural and arts based activities in the  Sefton community.

Sefton Council Summer Playscheme Grants

Sefton Leisure Services annual grants scheme offering small  funds for Summer Play schemes, is now open for applications. The deadline is  coming soon. This is complemented by Summer Play Training and a Programme of  Summer Fun Days held each year.

Skelton Bounty

This is a local trust that offers grants through an annual  scheme to areas included in the Lancashire Boundary as it existed in 1934, in  which all of Sefton is included. The 2006 deadline is looming so be sure to take  advantage of this once a year opportunity!

Voice 06: Getting Down to  Business 

Can you and your colleagues afford to miss the social enterprise  event of the year?

Victims Fund: Provision for Victims of Sexual  Offending 

The Home Office has announced that £1.25 million of funding will  be available through the 2006/7 Victims Fund to support the development of  community-based services for victims of sexual offending.

Countdown 2010 Biodiversity Action  Fund

English Nature has launched a funding programme called the  Countdown 2010 Biodiversity Action Fund. The Countdown 2010 Biodiversity Action  Fund is the new name for the Environmental Action Fund (EAF) biodiversity stream  which was previously administered by Defra.

Directplus

The Co-operative Bank Community Directplus customer donation  fund is aimed at giving £500 and £1000 to projects.

Mersey Forest - ICEP Funding

MAKE A BETTER LANDSCAPE YOUR REALITY
Do you know of sites  across Sefton that could use an injection of cash? This winter The Mersey Forest  Team is looking for projects in your area that will create and improve woodlands  and other habitats, such as heathland and reed beds.

CAF (Charities Aid Foundation)

CAF is a charity with a unique purpose: to do all in its power  to ensure that charitable giving to all charities is as robust and effective as  it can possibly be.

Parenting Fund

The Parenting Fund assists charities and  not-for-profit organisations undertaking parenting support work where parents,  families and children face significant challenges.

UIA Charitable Foundation

The UIA Charitable Foundation is a small grant making trust,  established to provide financial support to organisations that help people in  need.

Scottishpower Energy People Trust

This new trust has been set up with an initial £1m  from ScottishPower with the aim of helping combat fuel poverty by funding  projects and schemes focusing on children and young people.

Camelot Foundation Transforming  Lives

Transforming Lives, is the Camelot Foundation's core grants  programme and has supported a wide range of voluntary groups targeting  innovative projects around the UK which seek to reconnect disadvantaged and  marginalised young people aged 11 - 25 to the mainstream.

Daphne II Programme Funding to Combat Violence  Against Children, Young People and Women

The European Commission has announced that it is seeking  applications under the Daphne II programme. 10.5 million is available to  support organisations that develop measures and actions to prevent or to combat  all types of violence against children, young people and women and to protect  the victims and groups at-risk.

Nationwide Foundation Investor  Programme

To promote the well being of young men, women and children whose  lives have been affected by domestic violence. To reduce the prevalence of  domestic violence through increased service provision, education and raising  awareness.

Community Foundation for Merseyside Sefton In  Partnership Fund

This is a new fund formed through contributions from the  Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, South Sefton Partnership and Sefton MBC.

BBC Children in Need Appeal

Next deadline for BBC Children in Need is coming soon! This  funder reports an interest in receiving more applications from Sefton based  organisations.

Radio City Foundation Give a Child a  Chance

The deadline for the next round of this local grant scheme run  through Radio City is coming soon!

Eleanor Rathbone Charitable  Trust

This is a charitable trust offering grants nationally and  internationally, though with a strong interest in the Merseyside area. The  trustees concentrate their support on the following.

Ford Britain Trust

Advancement of education and other charitable purposes  beneficial to the community. Special attention is given to projects concerned  with education, environment, children, the disabled, youth activities and  projects providing clear benefits to local communities.

Help a Local Child

This is the official charity for Rock FM and Magic 999 and  offers grants to individuals and groups that are working with children in need  under the age of 18.

Hemby Trust

The Hemby Trust was established in 1998 specifically to give  cash grants to charitable organisations in Merseyside and Wirral.

Henry Smith Charity

This large charitable trust has recently issued new guidelines  for its grant-making work.

John Moores Foundation

JMF aims to enable people who are marginalised as a result of  social, educational, physical, economic, cultural, geographical or other  disadvantage to improve their social conditions and quality of life.

Ladbrokes In the Community Charitable Trust

This is a young trust set up two years ago as a national charity  offering local solutions. It aims to work with a wide range of charities and  good causes, helping raise funds and tailoring initiatives to meet the demands  of local communities.