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Funding in Regeneration

Regeneration funding streams and grants

Regeneration funding in Wales

AWARDS FOR ALL WALES

  • Funding: The fund has a budget of £2.4 million over its entire life span: it was set up in 2005 and runs until 2009. Awards For All Wales makes grants of between £500 and £5,000. Organisations can receive up to £5,000 from the fund in any 12-month period. Applications for funding from the programme can be made at any time.
  • Funder: Good causes distributors the Big Lottery Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
  • Aim: Awards for All Wales aims to fund projects that involve people in their local community, bringing them together to take part in community activities to do with heritage, charity work, health, education and the environment among others. Some projects that the scheme would consider funding include: a creche facility for a rural community; publicity and promotion of a group that recycles computers for community use; equipment such as bingo machines with giant visual displays and hearing loops for those with hearing impairments; an exhibition and trail walk featuring buildings of local historical interest; and promoting healthy eating and more exercise.
  • Who Can Apply? All not-for-profit groups, parish and town councils, schools and health bodies are eligible to apply for funding. Recipients must spend the grants within a year of receiving the funding. In addition, organisations must have a bank account that requires at least two people to sign each cheque or withdrawal.
  • Deadline: Not fixed; rolling programme.
  • Contact:
    For an application pack: T 0845 600 2040
    For enquiries: W www.awardsforall.org.uk
    T 01686 611 740

COMMUNITIES FIRST PROGRAMME

  • Funding: £39.192 million is available for 2006-07 from the Community Purposes budget. No minimum or maximum grant size.
  • Funder: Communities Directorate, Welsh Assembly Government.
  • Aim: To take a long-term approach to improving the living conditions and prospects for people in the most disadvantaged communities in Wales. Funding is given to support the staffing costs of local Communities First Partnerships and small-scale capacity-building activities.
  • Who Can Apply? Communities First Partnerships across Wales.
  • Deadline: Varies, depending on which part of the Communities First Programme is the subject of the application.
  • Contact:
    David Heath
    T 029 2080 1179
    E david.heath@wales.gsi.gov.uk

COMMUNITIES FIRST TRUST FUND

  • Funding: Grants of up to £5,000 are available to voluntary and communities organisations in Welsh Communities First areas. A total of £1 million has been allocated.
  • Funder: Welsh Assembly Government. The fund is managed by the Communities First Support Network and administered on its behalf by the Wales Council for Voluntary Action.
  • Aim: The fund aims to assist community-led organisations in Communities First areas. It supports any type of activity in which local people work together to benefit their community. Activities must provide social, economic, cultural and environmental benefit for people in a Communities First area.
  • Who Can Apply? Any group in Wales can apply, provided that they are: a small community led organisation; a not-for-profit group; working in or involving people from a Communities First area; and have a constitution or set of rules, dated and signed as "adopted' by the chair or other senior member of the group. The fund's regulations prevent the following groups from applying: the Communities First Partnerships that run local Communities First programmes; political organisations; national organisations (unless the group is a local branch with local management arrangements); and statutory organisations such as town and community councils.
  • Deadline: January 31 2009
  • Contact:
    T 0800 587 8898
    W www.communitiesfirst.info/TrustFunds/index.aspx?id=120

COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES PROGRAMME

  • Funding: The maximum grant is normally £100,000 a year or £300,000 over three years, but most applications are much smaller than this.
  • Funder: Communities Directorate, Welsh Assembly Government.
  • Aim: To help community and voluntary organisations to provide facilities or carry out activities which will promote the regeneration of communities. Grants may be awarded for a single capital project or - from 2007-08 - to support costs for up to three years.
  • Who Can Apply? The programme is for voluntary and community groups. Organisations must be self-governing, must not distribute profits privately and must be running projects for public benefit.
  • Deadline: The next deadlines are 17 October 2008, 9 April 2009 and 16 October 2009.
  • Contact:
    Communities Directorate, Welsh Assembly Government
    T 029 2080 1041
    E cfaphelp@wales.gsi.gov.uk 

ENVIRONMENT WALES PROJECT GRANT

  • Funding: Projects grants can be worth up to £10,000.
  • Funder: The Welsh Assembly Government through the Environment Wales network of voluntary groups.
  • Aim: The grants are intended to support practical projects that make sustainable improvements to the Welsh environment. Project grants aim to support the cost of project materials and consumables, hand tools, protective clothing, publication and printing costs, equipment hire, contractors' costs where justified, volunteer expenses and transport costs, among other things.
  • Who Can Apply? All projects must be registered with Environment Wales. At least 25 per cent of projects must be funded from sources that do not derive from the Welsh Assembly Government. All organisations applying for grant aid must be legally-constituted, charitable or non-profit making. Projects involving work on land must have a suitable agreement with the landowner and there must be reasonable public access to the project site. More precisely, Environment Wales recommends that: if a project is going to take place on land that is not owned by the project group, there must be a letter of support from the landowner; if the project will involve alterations to the land or capital expenditure in any way, projects are required to obtain either a lease on the land or a license agreement with the landowner.
  • Deadline: Rolling programme.
  • Contact:
    T 029 2043 1727
    W www.environment-wales.org.

FINANCE WALES INVESTMENTS LIMITED

  • Funding: 100 million from 2001-08. No grants: loans are available from £1,000 to £150,000, including the community loan fund to assist social and community enterprises. Mezzanine investments, where some equity is used as collateral against part of a loan, and venture capital investments are available from £10,000 to £1.5 million. The fund can invest up to £2.5 million in any one enterprise.
  • Funder: Barclays, HSBC, European Investment Fund and Welsh Assembly Government.
  • Aim: To encourage innovation, growth and entrepreneurship by offering finance on a commercial basis to complement existing funding sources. The fund aims to invest £100 million in Welsh businesses and social enterprises by 2008.
  • Who Can Apply? Small and medium-sized businesses, including social enterprises.
  • Deadline: Not fixed; rolling programme
  • Contact:
    T     0800 587 4140
    E info@financewales.co.uk
    W www.financewales.co.uk

HEALTHY FAMILIES: CHILD'S PLAY WALES

  • Funding: The scheme is worth a total of £13 million. The minimum grant available is £250,000 and the maximum is £1 million. The closing date for the second and final round of funding is 6 March 2009.
  • Funder: Good causes distributor the Big Lottery Fund has contracted Play Wales, an organisation with expertise in the field of children's play, to help applicants ensure their projects meet the programme's priorities.
  • Aim: The Child's Play programme is one of two programmes under the Healthy Families initiative in Wales. Child's Play will fund the development of the infrastructure for children's play and strategically important play projects across Wales, with a particular focus on disadvantaged communities where play facilities are limited or non-existent. It will also fund projects that give children opportunities to play and will support projects that make the link between play, nutrition and activity. The programme is also intended to help create sustainable support networks to promote the development of play opportunities across Wales. It is aimed at children up to 12 years old living in Wales, particularly the eight- to 12-year-old age group.
  • Who Can Apply? The programme will provide grants to local authorities, voluntary and community groups, and charities which work with children. The programme strongly encourages applicants to work in partnership across the public and voluntary sectors.
  • Deadline: Rounds 2-6: March 2009
  • Contact:
    T 029 2067 8200
    E enquiries.wales@biglotteryfund.org.uk
    W http://cms.hbpl.co.uk/misc/index.cfm?fuseaction=hbpl_CMS.misc.editContentItem&contenttypeID=26162

LLOYDS TSB FOUNDATION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES

  • Funding: £24 million, distributed in grants between £500 and £20,000.
  • Funder: Lloyds TSB Foundation.
  • Aim: To support under-funded charitable organisations in England and Wales, particularly those that help disadvantaged or disabled people. Priorities for funding are refugees, asylum-seekers, and projects tackling prejudice against black and minority ethnic groups.
  • Who Can Apply? Registered charities in England and Wales.
  • Deadline: Not fixed: rolling programme.
  • Contact:
    T 0870 411 1223
    W www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk

MINOR GRANTS

  • Funding: Varies, but about £500,000 per year. Maximum grant available is £10,000.
  • Funder: Sports Council for Wales, through its National Lottery Budget.
  • Aim: To purchase equipment and minor capital works, and support projects designed to boost sports participation in agreed priority areas with below-average levels of participation and high levels of socio-economic disadvantage.
  • Who Can Apply? Projects costing up to £12,500 being undertaken by any properly-constituted organisation, including sports clubs and associations, sports governing bodies, local authorities, youth clubs, community groups and voluntary associations.
  • Deadline: Rolling programme; panels meet on a monthly basis.
  • Contact:
    Sports Council for Wales Office
    T 029 2030 0500.

PEOPLE AND PLACES

  • Funding: £66 million is available from 2006-09. Grants of between £5,001 and £1 million will be distributed.
  • Funder: Big Lottery Fund Wales.
  • Aim: To bring people together to make their communities stronger and to improve their rural and urban environments on a local, regional and national scale.
  • Who Can Apply? This programme is open to the community, voluntary and public sectors.  Money will be available for capital and revenue projects.
  • Deadline: Not fixed; rolling programme.
  • Contact:  
    For an application pack T 01686 611 700
    For enquiries W www.biglotteryfund.org.uk  

PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT GRANT

  • Funding: No set budget. The fund provides the minimum amount of grant necessary to enable new-build projects to go ahead. 2006-07 spending levels yet to be announced.
  • Funder: Department of Enterprise, Innovation and Networks, Welsh Assembly Government.
  • Aim: To provide "gap funding" on industrial and business premises development schemes, in order to enable organisations to take projects forward. The amount of funding depends on the project's ability to stimulate the Welsh economy and create jobs, particularly in assisted areas.
  • Who Can Apply? Non-public sector organisations, particularly those operating in assisted areas.
  • Deadline: Not fixed; rolling programme
  • Contact:
    T 01443 845500
    W www.wales.gov.uk

REGENERATION INVESTMENT GRANT

  • Funding: No set budget. The fund provides the minimum amount of grant necessary to enable projects to go ahead. 2006-07 spending levels yet to be announced.
  • Funder: Department of Enterprise, Innovation and Networks, Welsh Assembly Government.
  • Aim: To provide "gap funding", plugging the gap between the total projected cost and the anticipated returns on town centre development schemes in order to enable organisations to take projects forward. The amount of funding depends on the project's ability to stimulate the Welsh economy and create jobs, particularly in assisted areas.
  • Who Can Apply? Non-public sector organisations, particularly those operating in assisted areas.
  • Deadline: Not fixed; rolling programme.
  • Contact:
    T     01443 845500
    W www.wales.gov.uk

REGIONAL SELECTIVE ASSISTANCE (RSA)

  • Funding: Pulled from a £62.225 million pot shared with the Assembly Investment Grant (see above). No ceiling on grants. Most grants are greater than £50,000, though lower levels of support are available for smaller projects.
  • Funder: Welsh Assembly Government.
  • Aim: To increase competitiveness and productivity in assisted areas (as designated by the EU) and to reduce disparities in employment opportunities between assisted and non-assisted areas, by helping businesses to undertake capital investment projects that create new jobs or safeguard existing ones.
  • Who Can Apply? Businesses that: provide manufactured goods or services to a large market; want to make capital investments; need grant aid to proceed; have a viable and sustainable proposal; can demonstrate that the project will make a positive, long-term contribution to the local and national economy.
  • Deadline: Not fixed; rolling programme.
  • Contact:
    In East Wales: T 029 2082 3375
    E rsa.sewales@wales.gsi.gov.uk;
    In West Wales T 01792 229394
    E rsa.swwales@wales.gsi.gov.uk;
    In North Wales T 01492 542511
    E rsa.nwales@wales.gsi.gov.uk 

SPORTLOT CAPITAL FUND

  • Funding: Varies, but around £9.6 million a year. Maximum grant available is £250,000.
  • Funder: Sports Council for Wales, through its National Lottery Budget.
  • Aim: To support the upgrading or building of facilities designed to boost sports participation and levels of physical activity in agreed priority areas with below-average levels of participation and high socio-economic disadvantage, such as Communities First programme areas (see above) and areas of poor recreational provision.
  • Who Can Apply? Any properly-constituted organisation, including sports clubs and associations, sports governing bodies, local authorities, youth clubs, community groups and voluntary associations.
  • Deadline: Rolling programme; panels meet four times a year.
  • Contact:
    Sports Council for Wales
    T 029 2030 0500.

SPORTLOT COMMUNITY CHEST

  • Funding: Varies, but around £1 million a year. Maximum grant available is £1,000 in any 12-month period.
  • Funder: Sports Council for Wales, through its National Lottery Budget.
  • Aim: To boost locally-driven projects and to encourage people to exercise five times a week by supporting revenue projects such as coaching and physical education provision, and to fund the purchase of small items of equipment.
  • Who Can Apply? Any properly-constituted organisation, including sports clubs and associations, sports governing bodies, local authorities, youth clubs, community groups and voluntary associations.
  • Deadline: Rolling programme; panels meet on a bi-monthly basis.
  • Contact:
    Your local authority's sports development department via Sports Council Wales:

    T 0845 045 0904
    E scw@scw.org.uk
    W http://www.sports-council-wales.org.uk