Accounting & Commercial Consultants
8 Silksworth Lane
Sunderland
SR3 1LL
Tel: 0191 522 9800
Fax: 0191 522 9835
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Accounting & Commercial Consultants |
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Office-1, 1st Floor 8 Silksworth Lane Sunderland SR3 1LL Tel: 0191 522 9800 Fax: 0191 522 9835 |
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UK Government Grant Directory What kind of grant are you interested in? |
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Countryside Access Recovery Fund |
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To assist voluntary groups and charities promote access to the countryside....more info |
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Countryside Stewardship Programme |
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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 |
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Energy Crop Scheme |
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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....more info |
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Processing and Marketing Grants |
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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 |
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Rural Enterprise Scheme |
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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 |
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Vocational Training Scheme |
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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 |
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Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme |
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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 |
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Farm Woodland Premium Scheme |
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DEFRA's Farm Woodland Premium scheme (FWPS) aims to enhance the environment through the planting of farm woodlands, thereby improving the landscape, providing new habitats and increasing biodiversity. It supports the creation of farm woodland by encouraging farmers to convert productive agricultural land to woodlands through annual payments to compensate for agricultural income forgone....more info |
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Woodland Grant Scheme |
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The Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) provides grants to create new woodlands and to encourage the good management and regeneration of existing woodlands....more info |
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Woodland Improvement Grants |
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The Challenge Scheme provides grants to encourage: (a) The opening up of existing woodlands for informal recreational use. (b) For work which will help bring woodlands which are under-managed or of low commercial value back into management. (c) For work to assist woodland owners to manage their woods in ways which will implement the forestry aspects of Biodiversity, The UK Action Plan. .....more info |
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Hill Farm Allowance |
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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 |
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Organic Farming Scheme |
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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 |
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Government Initiatives to strengthen the Post Office network |
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Range of initiatives introduced by the Government to underpin the post office network and to encourage new entrants....more info |
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Community Renewables Initiative |
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The Community Renewables Initiative is designed to help local people and organisations devise and implement renewable energy developments which are environmentally sensitive....more info |
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Rural Transport Partnerships |
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This scheme supports local transport partnerships and projects to provide additional transport services or facilities in rural communities, including towns and villages...more info |
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Parish Transport Fund |
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This scheme supports small-scale transport projects which have been identified by parishes to meet local transport needs....more info |
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Rural Bus Challenge |
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Rural Bus Challenge funding can be used by Local Authorities to provide innovative transport projects within rural areas....more info |
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Rural Priority Areas |
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Rural Development Areas (RDA's) cover parts of 29 counties of England and 109 districts, including about 35% of the land area of England and some 6% of the population. The Rural Development Commission provided two main types of assistance in the RDA's: support for integrated rural development programmes and assistance to individual enterprises....more info |
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Community Services Fund |
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The Community Services Fund will help those living in rural communities to meet their needs for local service provision. The fund will apply to parish areas, but applications can come from individuals, community groups, churches, independent retailers and parish councils....more info |
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Door Step Greens Initiative |
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As a result of a successful bid to the New Opportunities Fund, the Countryside Agency has been running a scheme (since Spring 2001) to assist 200 disadvantaged communities to design and create their own local green space or renew existing run-down spaces....more info |
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Walking the Way to Health Initiative |
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This initiative promotes the need to increase health and fitness through regular walking. The aim is to get more people walking in their local community which will benefit both their health and the local environment....more info |
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Local Heritage Initiative |
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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....more info |
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Market Towns Initiative |
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The Countryside Agency, in partnership with other organisations such as the regional development agencies, offers financial support for selected towns to carry out a market town healthcheck and implement an action plan....more info |
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Parish Plans Grant Scheme |
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Parish Plans are part of the Vital Villages Initiative and provides villages with grants to support planning and consultation activities in order to decide what your village needs most....more info |
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Business Development Credits |
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This scheme is administered by Trade Partners UK and provides export vouchers that can be used if a company is looking to develop their exporting potential by doing such things as producing international literature, translations, shipping goods to exhibitions, stand space etc. Companies can be given up to £1,000, as long as the company can contribute at least and equal amount of the costs....more info |
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Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) |
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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 |
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Coalfields Enterprise Fund |
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English Partnerships is working with the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) to establish a Coalfields Enterprise Fund. It will provide equity investments to small and medium-sized enterprises in the coalfields to diversify the economic base of the coalfields areas....more info |
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Community Development Venture Fund (CDVF) |
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It aims at increasing private investment in enterprises in disadvantaged communities by providing access to equity in disadvantaged areas....more info |
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Community Investment Tax Credit |
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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 |
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English Cities Fund |
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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 |
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Enterprise Grants |
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An Enterprise Grant is a once and for all form of financial assistance for SMEs investing in projects in the Enterprise Grant Areas of the English Regions, that would not otherwise go ahead. Enterprise Grants complement the availability of commercial funds in helping firms to finance their growth….more info |
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Support for Exhibitions and Seminars abroad |
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Exhibitions and Seminars abroad provides financial support for new exporters who wish to participate in exhibitions and seminars abroad. This initiative is administered through Trade Partners UK….more info |
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Export Promoter Initiative |
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The Export Promoter Initiative helps UK small and medium-sized enterprises and larger companies to win business overseas. It is a programme of secondments from private industry in Whitehall, and provides SMEs and larger companies with a unique resource - market or sector experts with hands-on experience to advise about promoting their business and put them in touch with overseas buyers....more info |
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Exports - Outward Mission Scheme |
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Outward Missions provide an extensive framework of both practical and financial help for UK businesses travelling abroad as part of a group to markets outside Western Europe to promote UK goods and services….more info |
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Inner City 100 Project |
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Identify and promote the 100 fastest-growing businesses in deprived urban areas. Generate significant positive publicity around these businesses in order to spread awareness of opportunities for enterprise in disadvantaged communities. Selected businesses receive Free public relations, including articles in the Financial Times. Introductions to venture capitalists for leading businesses....more info |
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Network Space |
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This programme develops and manages workspace premises to meet the needs of small and expanding businesses in the English coalfield areas....more info |
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New Entrepreneur Scholarships. |
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This programme helps people from deprived areas develop the skills to set up and run their own business....more info |
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One hundred per cent Capital Allowances for flats over shops for letting. |
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This programme encourages recycling of vacant and underused space above shops and similar commercial premises into flats for letting....more info |
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Partnership at Work Fund |
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The Fund is a grant award scheme designed to improve employer-employee relationships, workplace productivity and job satisfaction. Projects for support under the Fund are invited on a competitive basis during fixed rounds. Organisations could be looking at partnerships for the first time or building on existing efforts. The grant scheme offers up to 50% funding of eligible projects that are looking to adopt partnership approaches. The applicants must meet the remainder of the costs and the maximum grant available is £50,000....more info |
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Prince's Trust |
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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 |
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Regional Innovation Fund |
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The funding will enable the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) to promote regional competitiveness, innovation and enterprise, and to support clusters and networks of businesses in their areas....more info |
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Regional Selective Assistance |
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Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) is a discretionary grant which provides assistance towards projects with fixed capital expenditure over £500,000 and which will create or safeguard employment in the Assisted Areas. Most businesses investing in manufacturing are eligible to apply for a grant, as are businesses in service industries that supply a national rather than local market where displacement of other similar employment is likely to occur, e.g. retailing, legal and accounting practices. Applicants can be companies, partnerships or sole traders. Grants are not available simply to transfer jobs from one part of the country to another....more info |
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Regional Venture Capital Fund |
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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 |
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Business Incubation Fund |
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The main aim of this loan fund is to help improve the chances of survival and growth of start-up and early stage SMEs through increasing the availability and access to business incubation, by funding the development of more business incubation projects. It is also aimed at widening the access of business incubation to all those who wish to start-up in their local communities, and who would benefit from it.....more info |
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Science Enterprise Challenge |
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This programme establishes university centres of enterprise. These encourage the commercialisation of science and technology research, and teach business skills to science students....more info |
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Small Business Service Phoenix Fund |
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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 |
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Small Firms Training Loan |
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An SFTL is a commercial bank loan offered in partnership between the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and eight high street banks. Its aim is to enable small firms to access funds in order to train their staff….more info |
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Development Fund for Rural Renewal (DFRR |
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The Development Fund for Rural Renewal (DFRR) is an element of the Phoenix Fund which is one of the major strands of the new National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal announced in January of last year, following the work of Policy Action Teams set up by the Social Exclusion Unit to examine a wide range of problems linked to social exclusion. The outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) has focused attention on the difficulties and fragility of the rural economy. It is for this reason that a separate fund has been established to address problems specific to the FMD outbreak....more info |
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Small Business Service Loan Guarantee Scheme |
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This programme helps small businesses with viable business proposals to obtain finance they would not otherwise get because they lack assets as security against a conventional loan or overdraft....more info |
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Small Business Service - Small Firms Research Initiative |
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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....more info |
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Small Business Service - SMART Scheme |
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Smart is the SBS initiative that provides grants to help individuals and small and medium-sized businesses to make better use of technology and to develop technologically innovative products and processes....more info |
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Stamp duty exemption in certain disadvantaged communities |
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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 |
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UK High Technology Fund |
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This programme encourages more institutional investors to invest in early stage high technology growth companies in the UK....more info |
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Work Live Balance Challenge Fund |
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The Fund pays consultants to work with businesses developing work-life balance strategies. They help employers to:
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Active Community Experience Corps |
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The Experience Corps is an independent, non-profit-making company, funded by a grant from the Home Office, set up to encourage people, aged 50 and over, to offer their skills and experience to benefit others in their local communities....more info |
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Adult and Community Learning Fund |
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The Fund has supports community-based organisations to develop and sustain innovative adult learning projects. As a result of the Fund, around 400 large and small projects have received funds ranging from a few hundred pounds to over £100,000...¦.more info |
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Better Government for Older People Programme |
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Better Government for Older People Programme was launched in 1998 to improve public services for older people. It is a unique partnership between central government, local government, the voluntary sector, the academic world and older....more info |
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Business in the Community - Local Investment Fund |
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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 |
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Capital Mentoring Fund |
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The Active Community Unit (ACU) plans to run a mentoring capital grant round in 2003-4. The total funds available are £600,000. Bids will be considered for capital purchases to support projects in the delivery of their voluntary mentoring services outside schools. All mentoring organisations fitting the grant criteria, to be outlined, will be invited to apply to this competitive grant round....more info |
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Childrens Fund |
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The Children's Fund will amount to £380 million over three years (2001-4) to 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 |
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Childrens Fund -Local Network Fund for Children and Young People |
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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 |
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Coalfields Regeneration Trust |
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The Trust supports the social and economic regeneration of the former coalfields of England, Scotland and Wales....more info |
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Community Champions |
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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 |
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Community Chest Programme |
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This programme supports the activities of formal and informal community groups in the 88 most deprived areas. This is a first step towards their more formal involvement in neighbourhood renewal....more info |
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Community Development Venture Fund |
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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 |
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Community Empowerment Fund |
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The Community Empowerment Fund helps residents develop and drive through their ideas to help them participate in Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs). This is intended to add value to resources currently being invested locally either in direct- funding for community involvement in service specific partnerships or indirect funding for the infrastructure that supports community involvement....more info |
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Community Investment Tax Credit |
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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 |
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Community Legal Service Partnerships |
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Community Legal Service Partnerships (CLSPs) are responsible for establishing local networks of quality providers of legal services, supported by co-ordinated funding and delivering services to local communities based on identified priority need. The local networks are fully inclusive and cover a full range of different levels and types of help; they therefore include solicitors in private practice, but also Citizens Advice Bureaux, Law Centres, and other groups in the Not-For-Profit sector, as well as Trading Standards Officers and local authority services....more info |
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Early Year Development and Childcare Partnerships |
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Provides funding to 150 Early Year Development and Childcare Partnerships to help implement the Governments Child Care Strategy....more info |
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Education Action Zones |
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This programme allows deprived areas to set up partnerships to target areas of need and to develop innovative and radical solutions for raising educational standards....more info |
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Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG) programme |
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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 |
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Home Office Family Support Grant |
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The Grant, set up in 1998, is key to the Government's plans for supporting parents. Grants are provided to a range of organisations to undertake work to support people in their role as fathers, parents of teenagers and parenting in challenging circumstances....more info |
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Fuel Duty Rebate for Community Transport |
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This programme helps provide community transport services as a part of meeting local transport needs and reducing social exclusion....more info |
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Inner City 100 Project |
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Identify and promote the 100 fastest-growing businesses in deprived urban areas. Generate significant positive publicity around these businesses in order to spread awareness of opportunities for enterprise in disadvantaged communities. Selected businesses receive Free public relations, including articles in the Financial Times. Introductions to venture capitalists for leading businesses....more info |
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Home Zones |
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New Challenge to fund home zones to improve the quality of life in residential areas.... more info |
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Neighbourhood Renewal Fund |
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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....more info |
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Neighbourhood Support Fund |
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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...more info |
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Neighbourhood Wardens |
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This programme provides a uniformed neighbourhood warden presence to help reduce crime and the fear of crime, improve the quality of life, deter anti-social behaviour, care for the physical appearance and management of the neighbourhood and foster social inclusion....more info |
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New Deal for Communities (NDC) |
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NDC helps some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the country by giving grants to community-based partnerships for neighbourhood renewal....more info |
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Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme |
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Initially 20 communities have been selected as pathfinders to take forward Neighbourhood Management in their community as part of the national Neighbourhood Management programme....more info |
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Opportunities for Volunteering Scheme |
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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 |
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Pilot Clear Zones |
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This programme helps create livable, accessible and lively urban centres where traffic congestion, pollution, noise, stress and the other negative effects of mobility are eliminated or reduced. It does this through a package of transport-related measures using innovative technologies. Nine Clear Zone trailblazers, or pilots, have been selected from local transport plan submissions to show what can be achieved within existing traffic and urban design management practices....more info |
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Playing Fields and Community Green Spaces |
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The Playing Fields and Green Spaces Programme will provide a legacy of protection, provision and improvement of playing fields and green spaces for the benefit of local communities especially those in deprived communities. It will also deliver a programme of improvements to school Playgrounds and at least 10 demonstration projects for children's play in the community....more info |
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Post Office Fund |
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The proposed scheme will seek to contribute to the regeneration and renewal of urban deprived areas through sustaining and improving sub-post offices. Where sub-post offices face risk of closure, it is expected to support: * Improvements
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Race Equality Grant |
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This grant funds projects to promote race equality, and to tackle racism, discrimination, harassment and violence....more info |
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Refugee Community Development Fund |
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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 |
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Refugee Community Development Fund |
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The Refugee Community Development Fund offers support to those organisations working closely with refugees and refugee communities at grass roots level....more info |
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Special Grants Programme |
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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 |
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Stamp duty exemption in certain disadvantaged communities |
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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 |
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Sure Start |
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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 |
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Wired up Communities |
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The Wired up Communities initiative is investing £10 million of government funding to assess how individual access to the Internet can transform opportunities for people living in the most disadvantaged communities....more info |
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Communities against Drugs |
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The Communities Against Drugs strategy aims to give power back to local communities to help them fight against illegal drug use....more info |
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Crime and Disorder Partnerships |
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The targeted policing initiative aims to reduce crime levels through intelligence-led policing at a local level, in partnership with other agencies, the voluntary sector and the private sector....more info |
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Crime Reduction Programme |
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The Crime Reduction Programme (CRP) is a multi-million pound evidence-based programme launched in April 1999 to reduce crime in England and Wales....more info |
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Neighbourhood Wardens |
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This programme provides a uniformed neighbourhood warden presence to help reduce crime and the fear of crime, improve the quality of life, deter anti-social behaviour, care for the physical appearance and management of the neighbourhood and foster social inclusion....more info |
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Reducing Burglary Initiative |
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The Reducing Burglary Initiative aims to reduce burglary nationally by targeting areas or communities with the worst domestic burglary problems and monitoring the cost effectiveness of different approaches to find out what works best where. The Locks for Pensioners initiative provides better locks and home security improvements for pensioners living in low income households in neighbourhoods suffering high domestic burglary rates...more info |
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Safer Communities Initiative |
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The Safer Communities Initiative has been launched by the Home Office. £20million has been provided for Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships to tackle crime and disorder in their area to meet national crime reduction targets and other local priorities....more info |
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Safer Communities Housing Fund |
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The Safer Communities Supported Housing Fund is the result of two crosscutting reviews - Young People at Risk and Crime Reduction. The overall aim is to prevent crime by funding supported housing for the groups most at risk, including ex-offenders, young people at risk, people with drug and alcohol problems and people fleeing domestic violence....more info |
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Targeted Policing Initiative |
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The Targeted Policing Initiative is not aimed at any particular type of crime, but at helping the police to develop and implement a problem oriented approach. It is investing around £30 million over three years in over 50 projects aimed either at developing innovative approaches or at implementing proven interventions or problem-oriented methodologies....more info |
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Youth Justice Board Grants |
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Provides funding to help rebuild communities, and promotes decent opportunities for all by preventing offending by children and young people....more info |
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Adult and Community Learning Fund |
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The Adult and Community Learning Fund provides resources to widen participation in learning and improve standards of basic skills. The Fund makes the important connection between learning and social regeneration....more info |
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Career Development Loans |
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Career Development Loans (CDLs) provide financial help to people to undertake learning that will advance their careers....more info |
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City Acadamies |
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This programme raises educational attainment by establishing a new kind of secondary school in disadvantaged urban areas. These will be publicly funded independent schools, with sponsors from the voluntary sector, business or faith groups....more info |
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Creative Partnerships |
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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 |
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DfES Innovations Fund |
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The Innovations Fund has been set up by the DfES to support projects, which focus on ways to boost equal opportunities for students and staff within higher education and improve links between higher education and employers....more info |
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Education Action Zones |
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This programme allows deprived areas to set up partnerships to target areas of need and to develop innovative and radical solutions for raising educational standards....more info |
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Excellence Challenge |
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The Excellence Challenge is a 3-year programme running from September 2001 that is committing over £190m to increase the number of young people from poorer backgrounds who apply for and enter higher education. A key purpose is to improve links between universities, colleges and schools....more info |
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Excellence in Cities and Excellence Challenge Programme |
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This programme raises aspiration and increases attainment among young people aged 13 to 19 from lower socio-economic groups. It will help to give them the qualifications, information and motivation to enter higher education. It will also build new partnerships between schools, further and higher education institutions....more info |
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Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG) programme |
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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 |
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Financial help for adults in Further Education and Training |
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A range of financial assistance available to adults who wish to enter further education or undertake training.... more info |
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Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning |
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The Fund was established in 1995 to support projects aimed at stimulating developments in teaching and learning in higher education and to encourage the dissemination of good teaching and learning practice across the higher education sector....more info |
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Higher Education Funding Council - Research Grants |
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Provides grants to Universities and Colleges to undertake research....more info |
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Higher Education Innovation Fund |
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The Higher Education Innovation Fund provides funding to Higher Education institutions to support activities that will increase their capability to respond to the needs of business (including companies of all sizes and sectors and a range of bodies within the wider community....more info |
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Higher Education Reach Out to Business and the Community Fund |
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The fund is intended to develop the capability of HEIs to respond to the needs of business, and to contribute to economic growth and competitiveness....more info |
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ICT Learning Centres |
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To promote internet access and access to email for everyone, regardless where they live.... more info |
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Individual Learning Accounts |
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Provides financial support to individuals participating in training and learning....more info |
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Pilot Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) |
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A pilot scheme in 56 local education authorities to test whether paying a weekly allowance to young people from less well-off families increases participation, retention and achievement figures in full time further education....more info |
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National Childcare Strategy |
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This programme ensures that affordable, accessible and quality childcare is available everywhere. It particularly emphasises increasing provision in disadvantaged areas and for disadvantaged groups....more info |
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Science Enterprise Challenge |
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This programme establishes university centres of enterprise. These encourage the commercialisation of science and technology research, and teach business skills to science students....more info |
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Space for Sport and the Arts scheme |
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This programme creates multi-purpose sport and arts facilities for primary schools in the most deprived local education authorities in England....more info |
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Union Learning Fund |
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The Union Learning Fund provides funding for activities that promote activity by trade unions in support of the Government's objective of creating a learning society and promotes learning in the widest sense....more info |
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University Challenge |
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Establishment of seed funds to finance the early stage development of new ideas with commercial potential.... more info |
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DCMS/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge Fund |
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The DCMS/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge Fund was established in July 1997 to enhance the services and facilities provided by public libraries in England. The Fund has run annually since 1997-98 providing to date over £11 million funding for 117 public library based projects....more info |
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AIM EdWeb |
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A small grant to encourage Independent Museums to develop educational content for the National Grid for Learning and will test the effectiveness of the EdWeb Guide to Producing Online Education Materials and the Resource-funded Museums Online project....more info |
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Base Grants to AMCs and Single Regional Agencies |
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These are grants to Area Museum Councils and in the future will provide annual grants to the new, cross domain Single Regional Agencies. These are allocated through Annual Funding Agreements; the budget for this is not competitive and applications are not received against it....more info |
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gift |
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation places a major focus on helping to improve people's lives through health and learning. There is a budget of $4 million (c.£2.6m) on behalf of The Foundation to help provide ICT facilities in UK public libraries that are situated in areas of social deprivation. ....more info |
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Pilgrim Trust Conservation Awards |
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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 inf o |
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Cross Domain Challenge Fund |
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Funding is provided to the English Regions to encourage strategic development, web-based activities, learning and social inclusion in a Cross Domain context (i.e. across Museums, Archives and Libraries) in line with Resource's strategic development priorities. Awards under this scheme total £490,000.... more info |
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The Science Museum Prism Grant Fund |
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Its 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 |
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Resource/V&A Purchase Grant Fund |
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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. The Fund's vote for 2001-02 is £1 million. Objects, collections or archives of any date costing between £500 and £300,000 are eligible for support....more info |
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National Art Collection Fund |
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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 |
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British National Bibliography Research Fund |
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The British National Bibliography Research Fund (BNBRF) supported small-scale projects in the book and information worlds, particularly in areas where the interests of different sectors (publishing, bookselling, libraries) interact.....more info |
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Cultural Diversity Network |
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Resource allocated this £10k funding package across each Area Museum Council to encourage the development of innovative methods of reaching Ethnic Minority Groups....more info |
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Designation Challenge Fund |
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The Designation Challenge Fund (DCF) was created by DCMS in 1999. The core aims of the Fund are To promote excellence and raise standards of museum provision and to enable those with Designated collections to provide high quality services, which deliver the fullest possible access to their collections....more info |
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Finding our Past: The Portable Antiquities Scheme |
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This Scheme was set up to complement the Treasure Act 1997. It is a voluntary scheme to encourage members of the public, particularly metal detector users, to report archaeological objects for recording. The Scheme also offers guidance on why it is important to record finds and how to get involved in the heritage activities of museums and the archaeological sector....more info |
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Employment Zones |
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The programme operates in 15 areas of the country with high long-term unemployment, Employment Zones are a new way of helping the long-term unemployed get and keep work. Long-term unemployed people get the support of a dedicated personal advisor, a fully costed action plan and support during the first 13 weeks in employment.... more info |
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Environment Task Force option of the New Deal for Young People |
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This programme improves the employability of young people, by providing work experience, training and job search skills as well as improving the environment. Participants are either paid a wage by the provider or an allowance by the Employment Service. This is equivalent to the participant's weekly Job seeker's Allowance plus a grant of £400.00....more info |
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Job Grant |
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To help overcome barriers to taking up work, providing a cash payment to help meet immediate one-off costs associated with starting work. (Eg: travel to work or special clothing costs, childcare costs) ....more info |
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New Deal 18 - 24 |
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New Deal provides options which will help them into work and give them the skills employers need. For 18-24 year-olds, the options are Work with the Voluntary Sector, work with the Environment Task Force or full-time education and training....more info |
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New Deal 25+ |
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New Deal is open to people aged 25 plus who have been claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for 18 months out of the last 21....more info |
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New Deal for Disabled People |
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Provides assistance to people on health related benefits who want to work, find work. The scheme is voluntary....more info |
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New Deal for Employers |
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New Deal provides an opportunity to work with the government to invest in the future of their business at the same time as tackling skills shortages. New Deal offers employers the opportunity to make their businesses more successful and more profitable by drawing on a rich new source of potential recruits....more info |
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New Deal Innovation Fund |
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The Innovation Fund provides the capital to test out new ideas and activities which can measurably increase New Deal performance outcomes and extend our knowledge of what works in helping people move from welfare to the workplace – effective new ideas which may then be used elsewhere across England, Scotland and Wales as appropriate, to help other jobseekers to overcome the barriers they face in the labour market....more info |
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New Deal for Lone Parents |
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New Deal for Lone Parents is a voluntary programme designed specifically to help lone parents who want to work. It is available to all lone parents who are not in work or who are working less than 16 hours a week and is operated through Jobcentre Plus offices and Jobcentres....more info |
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New Deal for Musicians |
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New Deal for Musicians is available under the New Deal for Young People. It helps young musicians progress into careers in all types of music to earn a living in the music business....more info |
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New Deal for Partners |
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New Deal for Partners offers help to partners of people claiming certain benefits....more info |
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New Deal Programme for the 50+ |
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The NewDeal50plus package consists of payment of a tax free Employment Credit, a Training Grant and a wide range of practical support from a Personal Adviser at their local Jobcentre. Eligible people can take up the offer of some, or all of these elements....more info |
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Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund Grant Scheme |
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English Nature, together with English Heritage and the Countryside Agency provide grant funding to local projects which encourage community involvement in areas which are, or have been, affected by aggregates extraction....more info |
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Biotechnology Exploitation Platform Challenge |
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BEP Challenge aims to anchor the benefits of publicly funded bioscience research in the UK by encouraging syndicates of universities, academic institutions and intermediaries with complementary bioscience research to work together....more info |
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Biotechnology Mentoring and Incubator Challenge |
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The overall aim of the BMI is to stimulate the creation and growth of high quality biotechnology companies in the UK. The Challenge is supported by a fund of up to £5 million and currently supports 8 projects around Britain....more info |
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BIO-WISE |
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BIO-WISE is a UK Government programme which aims to improve the competitiveness of UK industry through the use of biotechnology. Financial support is available to help fund user-led collaborative projects with the potential to stimulate the more widespread use of biotechnology....more info |
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Community Energy Programme |
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The Community Energy Programmeis a £50 million UK-wide programme promoting community heating through grants to install new schemes and refurbish obsolete infrastructure and equipment....more info |
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DTI Sustainable Energy Programme |
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Provides grants to promote the development of the Renewable Energy Sector....more info |
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Energy and Environment Research Programme |
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The Energy & Environment Research Programme is designed to provide scientific and economic analysis to support and inform energy policy and sustainable development. Where possible, collaborative projects are undertaken with industry and other parties, as well as other Government Departments. The programme is funded by DTI....more info |
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English Environment Fund |
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The English Environment Fund is a joint venture between English Partnerships, Groundwork, Sustrans, the Royal Society for Nature Conservation, the National Urban Forestry Unit, and the Institute of Wastes Management. The Fund helps secure donations from landfill site operators under the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme, to fund environment projects across England through the re-use / reclamation of brownfield land....more info |
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English Nature - Bio Diversity Grant Scheme |
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Funding is available for schemes that diversify the local environment, in particular for BAP species and or habitats….more info |
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English Nature - Wildspace |
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Local authorities and others are encouraged to apply for grants which provide for those who cannot readily use Local Nature Reserves, for example, due to poverty, lack of transport, access difficulties or educational needs and to work with communities who want to take an active interest in the improvement of their environment and its wildlife….more info |
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Environmental Action Fund |
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The Environmental Action Fund (EAF) helps promote sustainable living, supporting work that does not qualify for grants under other programmes....more info |
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Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme |
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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. There are now 22 ESAs in England, covering some 10% of agricultural land....more info |
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Home Energy Efficiency Scheme |
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This programme provides grants in England on behalf of householders most at risk from ill health due to a cold home - the old, those with children and the disabled or chronically sick....more info |
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Millennium Communities |
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This programme demonstrates sustainable development in various locations. Developments have a mix of uses, good local access to a range of services and employment, and use best environmental practice in construction, energy and waste....more info |
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Landfill Tax Credit Scheme |
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The LTCS was designed to help mitigate the effects of landfill upon local communities and support moves to more sustainable waste management practices. It encourages partnerships between landfill operators, their local communities and the voluntary and public sectors….more info |
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Reserves Enhancement Scheme |
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This grant scheme is aimed at Voluntary Conservation Organisations who manage Sites of Special Scientific Interest as nature reserves. These five-year grants contribute to the day to day management of such sites....more info |
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Section 35 National Nature Reserve Capital Grants Scheme |
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Grants are available to Approved Bodies under Section 35(1)(c) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, where these Approved Bodies are not eligible for the Reserves Enhancement Scheme. These grants contribute to capital projects for the improvement of reserve management, access and interpretation....more info |
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Waste Recycling Fund |
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Health Action Zones |
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HAZs bring together organisations within and beyond the NHS to tackle health inequalities and modernise health services in some of England's most deprived areas....more info |
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Health Improvement Programmes |
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HImPs are local health strategies developed by Health and Local Authorities and other key stakeholders, such as Primary Care Groups and NHS Trusts. They include local communities, which set out national health priorities in a local context....more info |
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Section 64 Grants |
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Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 gives the Secretary of State for Health power to make grants to voluntary organisations in England, whose activities support the Department of Health's policy objectives relating to health and personal social services....more info |
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Homebuy and Shared Ownership Scheme |
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This programme helps people on lower incomes to buy their own home, where they can sustain the long-term commitment. It frees up social rented housing in areas of shortage and contributes to the development of mixed communities.....more info |
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Home Energy Efficiency Scheme |
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The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme in England, now marketed as the Warm Front Team, is the Government's main grant-funded programme for tackling fuel poverty....more info |
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Home Zones |
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New Challenge to fund home zones to improve the quality of life in residential areas....more info |
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Housing Corporation Innovation & Good Practice Programme |
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The strategy behind the Housing Corporation's Innovation and Good Practice (IGP) programme is to test new ideas and gather good practice for the benefit of Housing Associations and their tenants. The projects are carried out by a wide range of organisations, but are all about practical implementation and service delivery rather than academic or simply policy studies with the aim of improving the standards of social housing through the sharing of ideas and good practice....more info |
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Housing Regeneration Companies (HRCs) |
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Housing Regeneration Companies (HRCs) are a new approach to neighbourhood regeneration. They bring together a host of organisations - including housing associations, local authorities, co-operatives, private landlords and other agencies - and deliver innovative approaches to property management and housing which are responsive to local needs....more info |
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Housing Renewal Areas |
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Local housing authorities declare renewal areas as part of their private sector renewal strategy to regenerate a particular rundown area. The authority can do this by clearance, or by giving renovation grants to individuals or groups of residents. The authority can also pay grants to residents to help them to purchase a property in a nearby area....more info |
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Millennium Communities Initiative |
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Provision of environmentally sensitive and sustainable housing within a variety of geographic locations....more info |
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New Strategy for Rough Sleeping |
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The Rough Sleepers Unit's approach is based on three important elements: Helping the most vulnerable rough sleepers out there tonight; Rebuilding the lives of former rough sleepers away from the streets; and Preventing a new generation of rough sleepers....more info |
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One hundred per cent Capital Allowances for flats over shops for letting |
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This programme encourages recycling of vacant and underused space above shops and similar commercial premises into flats for letting....more info |
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Section 16 Grants for Tenant Participation |
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The aim of this grant is to promote and support greater participation by tenants in the management of council housing, including tenant management. The programme can help tenants who want to look at ways in which they can improve their involvement or develop skills and knowledge to carry out local community projects. Grants are available for independent advice and training, and to help tenants’ groups develop their capacity to tackle problems involved in making their neighbourhood a better place....more info |
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Starter Home Initiative for key workers |
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This programme helps key workers to buy homes a reasonable distance from where they work in areas where high housing costs might otherwise price them out....more info |
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Supporting People Programme |
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The Supporting People programme will give local authorities the responsibility to fund and strategically plan housing support services, helping vulnerable people live independently. It launches in 2003....more info |
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Safer Communities Housing Fund |
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The Safer Communities Supported Housing Fund is the result of two crosscutting reviews - Young People at Risk and Crime Reduction. The overall aim is to prevent crime by funding supported housing for the groups most at risk, including ex-offenders, young people at risk, people with drug and alcohol problems and people fleeing domestic violence....more info |
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VAT reduced to 5 per cent for residential conversions |
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This programme encourages redevelopment and better use of buildings, to reduce pressure for greenfield development and improve the urban environment....more info |
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College Business Partnerships |
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CBP is a UK wide pilot DTI scheme that brings together SMEs and Further Education Colleges. It involves people recently qualified at NVQ level 4 or equivalent undertaking a year long project as an Associate in an SME involving technology that is both relevant and appropriate to the business. Each CBP Project is part-supported by a DTI grant to the FE Partner with additional contributions from the company....more info |
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Fraday Partnerships |
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A Faraday Partnership brings together a network of organisations that share a common sector or technology interest and is aimed at promoting improved interactions between the UK science and engineering base and industry....more info |
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Foresight Programme |
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The UK's Government-led Foresight programme brings people, knowledge and ideas together to look ahead and prepare for the future. Business, the science base, Government, the voluntary sector and others work through thirteen Foresight panels to think about what might happen in the future and what we can do about it now to increase prosperity and enhance the quality of life for all....more info |
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Foresight / Link Awards |
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The Awards support collaborative research projects between business and research base organisations. This provides opportunity for new technologies to be explored with a view to enhancing competitive success for business in current and new markets....more info |
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Innovative Manufacturing Initiative |
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IMI is a source of funds for industry-led collaborative research aimed at improving the competitive performance of selected sectors of UK manufacturing industry. IMI supports high quality strategic and applied research and related training, in response to the need for more innovative manufacturing. It thereby accelerates beneficial change by adding to the base of appropriate knowledge and technology....more info |
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Invest to Save Budget |
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The Invest to Save Budget (ISB) is a cross Government scheme jointly administered by HM Treasury and Cabinet Office. It provides financial support to projects that bring together two or more public service bodies in an innovative way to improve services to local people or to reduce costs.... more info |
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Management of Innovation Initiative |
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Is a DTI sponsored programme that aims to benefit the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industries and ultimately their customers. It supports collaborative research into advanced information and communication technologies, products and systems for countering fraud, improving security and safeguarding privacy....more info |
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Public Sector Research Exploitation Fund |
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The purpose of the
Fund is: The next bidding round is likely to be in 2003....more info |
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Regional Innovation Fund |
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The funding will enable the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) to promote regional competitiveness, innovation and enterprise, and to support clusters and networks of businesses in their areas....more info |
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Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit |
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This programme encourages small and medium sized firms in R&D....more info |
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Shell Technology Enterprise Programme (STEP) |
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STEP is a national programme designed to help SMEs and community organisations develop their potential by making use of the skills of undergraduates, and also to encourage undergraduates to consider a career in smaller firms....more info |
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SMART |
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Smart is the SBS initiative that provides grants to help individuals and small and medium-sized businesses to make better use of technology and to develop technologically innovative products and processes....more info |
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TCS - Access to knowledge |
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TCS enables firms to take advantage of the wealth of scientific, engineering, technological and business management skills and knowledge available in universities and other research and technology-based organisations (the 'knowledge base')....more info |
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Technology Partnership Initiative |
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TPI is a government initiative which aims to give firms in developing, industrialising and emerging countries better access to environmental technologies and techniques widely adopted in the UK. TPI is administered by the Joint Environmental Markets Unit (JEMU)....more info |
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UKISHELP |
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The UKISHelp service is run on behalf of the DTI to help UK organisations bid for funds from the EU's Information Society programmes....more info |
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Wired up Communities |
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The Wired up Communities initiative is investing £10 million of government funding to assess how individual access to the Internet can transform opportunities for people living in the most disadvantaged communities. It yet to be announced whether there will be a bidding round in 2003....more info |
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University Challenge |
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The purpose of University Challenge is to enable universities to establish seed funds, which will assist the successful transformation of good research into good business....more info |
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Architectural Heritage Fund |
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The Architectural Heritage Fund helps to repair and regenerate historic buildings. The fund does this by helping voluntary and community groups, with grants, low-interest loans, and advice. We have been involved in many hundreds of projects of all kinds throughout the United Kingdom....more info |
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Alternatives to the Partnership Investment Programme |
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This programme provides five schemes, which will partly replace the Partnership Investment Programme. They will enable Regional Development Agencies and English Partnerships to take forward a range of land and property regeneration projects....more info |
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Conserving Historic Places |
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English Heritage provides grants to look after and conserve places of historic interest....more info |
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Network Space Ltd |
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Network Space Ltd is a £12m joint venture between English Partnerships and Langtree Group plc, which aims to develop new industrial workspace in the English coalfields, providing quality accommodation for new and expanding small companies.....more info |
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English Cities Fund |
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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 |
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Coalfields Enterprise Fund |
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English Partnerships is working with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to establish a Coalfields Enterprise Fund. It will provide equity investments to small and medium-sized enterprises in the coalfields to diversify the economic base of the coalfields areas....more info |
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Coalfields Regeneration Trust |
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The Coalfields Regeneration Trust welcomes applications from groups, organisations and agencies throughout Britain, which are committed to the regeneration of coalfield areas and their communities. Applicants will normally be community and voluntary organisations, charities, local authorities and similar bodies....more info |
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English Environment Fund |
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The English Environment Fund is a joint venture between English Partnerships, Groundwork, Sustrans, the Royal Society for Nature Conservation, the National Urban Forestry Unit, and the Institute of Wastes Management. The Fund helps secure donations from landfill site operators under the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme, to fund environment projects across England through the re-use / reclamation of brownfield land....more info |
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EP and RDA Coalfield Programme |
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This programme restores former colliery sites to positive use. Work is carried out mainly on EP/RDA owned sites....more info |
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Local Tax Reinvestment Programme |
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This allows Local Authorities to retain additional council tax and business rate income resulting from successful regeneration of deprived urban areas, the income being used to maintain the quality of the area....more info |
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One hundred per cent Tax Credit for Contaminated Land Clean-Up |
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This programme encourages the cleaning up and reuse of contaminated land to help with regeneration. Companies can claim a 150 per cent tax credit for their clean-up costs, repayable in certain circumstances....more info |
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Priority Sites Ltd |
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Priority Sites Ltd is a joint venture between English Partnerships and The Royal Bank of Scotland in which the Bank has a controlling interest. Priority Sites develops speculative industrial units in areas where demand exists but where the private sector is unwilling to develop....more info |
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VAT reduced to 5 per cent for residential conversions |
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This programme encourages redevelopment and better use of buildings, to reduce pressure for greenfield development and improve the urban environment....more info |
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Creative Partnerships |
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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 |
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Space for Sport and the Arts scheme |
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This programme creates multi-purpose sport and arts facilities for primary schools in the most deprived local education authorities in England....more info |
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Cycling Project Fund |
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The fund was set up to support the growth of local provision for cycling across England through the provision of grants ranging from £250 up to £50,000. Eligible projects have to demonstrate that they were noticeable, capable of speedy completion, and would lead to an increase in cycling....more info |
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Freight Facilities Grant |
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Freight Facilities Grant (FFG) helps offset the capital costs of providing rail freight handling facilities. It is also available to help companies re-invest in existing rail freight facilities....more info |
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Fuel Duty rebate for some Community Transport |
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This programme helps provide community transport services as a part of meeting local transport needs and reducing social exclusion....more info |
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Rail Passenger Partnership Fund |
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The Rail Passenger Partnership (RPP) Fund is designed to assist in the provision of new or enhanced local and regional rail services or facilities. RPP proposals must contribute to the Government's objectives of promoting transport integration and encouraging a switch from road to rail....more info |
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Rail Performance Fund |
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The Rail Performance Fund provides assistance co-fund small scale investments aimed at “providing shorter-term and lasting improvements to the performance of rail services....more info |
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Road Maintenance and Street Lighting |
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This programme tackles backlogs in highway maintenance in carriageways, footways, structures and street lighting by 2011....more info |
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Road Safety Small Grants Budget |
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The Road Safety Small Grants Budget is provided to bodies, other than local authorities, for projects which promote road safety. This recognises that voluntary and non-government bodies have specific skills, knowledge and access to information which can further our knowledge of road safety and are in an ideal position to implement measures at the grass roots level....more info |
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Rural Bus Challenge Fund |
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Funding for the development of innovative transport schemes in rural areas....more info |
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Track Access Grant |
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Track Access Grant (TAG) helps goods service operators to meet the charges paid to Railtrack for access to the rail network....more info |
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Urban Bus Challenge Fund |
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This programme improves transport provision for urban deprived areas. The project must serve a town of at least 25,000....more info |
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Water Freight Facilities Grant |
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Provides up to 50% of Capital costs associated with switching freight from roads to water or rail....more info |
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