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Armed Forces Covenant Trust - Afghanistan Veterans' Fund

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for UK charities for projects that improve wellbeing, resilience and promote good mental health for veterans who have served in Afghanistan and other recent conflicts and the wider veterans community.

Who can apply? 

To apply under Strands 1-3, applicants must be a registered charity that specifically supports Armed Forces communities, that has been registered for at least three years.

To apply under Strand 4, applications are accepted from:

Dying Matters Community Grants Programme

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for community arts and culture groups with community-led arts and culture projects, with a focus on equality and inclusion, and which approach the subject of dying in an innovative or creative way.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from community arts and culture groups. Applicants must be a registered charity, a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) or a community interest company (CIC).

Grant amount: Two types of grants are available:

Wallace and Gromit Children's Charity

Aims/priorities: this fund aims to enrich and improve the quality of life of sick children in hospitals and hospices in any area of the UK. Funding is intended to help provide a wide range of support to patients, families, and staff, including the provision of medical and sensory equipment, free family accommodation, arts and play activities, music therapy sessions, and respite care.

Who can apply? Registered charities, hospitals and hospices can apply.

Tameside Arts' Gaming Club a great success with support from Community Wellbeing Microgrant

Published date: 
Thursday, 9th December 2021

Tameside Arts' Gaming Club has been a great success, proving to be their most successful after-school club with over twenty youth members.

Action Together supported the club with a Community Wellbeing Microgrant. The fund provides grants of up to £1,000 to support projects or activities delivered by Tameside and Glossop based Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise groups that:

Weston Charity Awards

Aims/priorities: The Awards aim to celebrate and support charities working in the fields of youth, welfare and community, and to enable charities to develop, raise their profiles, become more sustainable and face the future with greater confidence.

Who can apply? Registered charities in Wales and the North and Midlands of England that are ambitious and working to alleviate disadvantage in one or more of the following fields can apply:

Suicide Prevention Fund 2021 to 2022

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support suicide prevention VCSE organisations and groups to meet the increased need or demand for services, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and enhance service provision, with a particular focus on high-risk groups.

High-risk groups are defined in the latest progress report of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy as those who were already at a higher risk of suicide, as well as those for whom there is particular concern in the context of the pandemic.

These include:

Asylum Refugee and Migration Service (ARMS)

Published date: 
Thursday, 2nd December 2021

At least 27 refugees and asylum seekers have died trying to cross the English Channel after their dinghy deflated and sank in the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the sea

If anyone calls you saying they can’t contact their family member(s) and they think they were on that boat, please check that they’ve attempted to make contact with them today (by phone, social media etc).

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