Funding alert - June 2008: News

Programme updates

• The Scottish Veteran's Fund

The fund will target projects and organisations working directly with veterans and their families.

 

The fund is designed to run as a complementary programme to the Veteran's Challenge Fund which is administered by the Ministry of Defence. Totalling £127,000, over the next three years, the fund is also designed to recognise the contribution that veterans have made and continue to make to Scottish society.

 

It will be targeted at projects and organisations working directly with veterans and their families.

 

Further details will be published when they become available.

 

Link: Scottish Government 

• INCREASE III Deadline extended

The deadline for three strands of the INCREASE III Programme (INCREASE Enterprise, INCREASE Prevention and INCREASE Small) has been extended.

 

Under this scheme, grants of between £5,000 and £300,000 are available to community waste sector organisations in Scotland to develop local solutions to increase tonnage diversion and waste prevention strategies and projects that will increase the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste in line with the Scottish Government's vision for a Zero Waste Scotland.

 

The programme has four distinct funding strands depending on what type of investment is sought:

• INCREASE Enterprise: This strand offers between £5,000 and £300,000 for project proposals such as initiatives which aim to recycle, reuse or compost household, commercial and industrial waste, be innovative and/or commercially viable after start-up.
• INCREASE Prevention: This strand offers between £5,000 and £300,000 for project proposals that relate to the prevention of waste in the first place and relate to the key objectives set out in the Waste Prevention Action Plan.
• INCREASE Small: This strand offers up to £5,000 for project proposals that relate to the purchase of plant and machinery, Health & Safety equipment, provision of licenses and permits and training. This funding strand is limited to organisations which have a turnover of less than £100,000.
• INCREASE Capacity: This strand offers funding for projects that relate to the employment of key staff to enhance management capacity, e.g. backfill of key operational positions freeing up time for organisational or activity development.

Applications for INCREASE Capacity are not yet open. However the extended deadline for INCREASE Enterprise, INCREASE Prevention and INCREASE Small (Full Proposal Plans) is now 4 July 2008.

 

Link: INCREASE III

Business

• Start-up Support Pack launched

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has announced a package of services designed to support up and coming companies.

 

The Business Start-up Pack, launched in association with the Accredited Chamber Network, offers a range of products and services developed by the organisation in conjunction with a number of commercial partners.

 

The range of services offered through the pack includes:

• Three years free business banking with the RBS Group.
• Instant tender alerts.
• Exclusive telecommunications and mobility offers.
• Free trials of new software.
• Product discounts.
• Free legal advice.
• Half price membership of the BCC.

There are no published deadlines for this package of support.

 

Link: Business Start-up Pack 

Information

• Sport Relief

The Sport Relief campaign this year has raised a massive £26,459,531 so far!

 

Whilst they're over the moon with this incredible total, they'd love to go that bit further to help vulnerable people here in the UK and across the world. As such Sports Relief has teamed up with Bike Week, one of the UK's biggest cycling events, to give everyone another chance to get active and raise money.

 

If you'd like to get on your bike to help change lives - it's dead simple.

 

All you need to do is visit the link below and get sponsored for participating in one of hundreds of biking activities (many of which are free) taking place across the UK from 14th - 22nd June.

 

Link: Sport Relief