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Latest FINE update available: funders supporting capital grants and loans

The latest FINE updae is now available in the resources section. Click here to view.

Maintenance Support in Co Durham

Do you run a community building such as a community centre or village hall, a sports facility or charity offices / premises? Does your community building have a garden or grounds that [...]

Webinar - Capital Development: What You Need to Know

globe and PNE Development held a free webinar in association with Mosedale Gillatt Architects on Thursday 17 November. This ever popular topic was attended by a range of viewers. [...]

B&Q Waste Donation Scheme

B&Q operates this Scheme through all of its stores within the UK. B&Q donates products and waste materials they haven't been able to sell for re-use such as slightly damaged tins [...]

Capital Development Toolkit

In the related links and downloads section below you will find access to the Places for Everyone Capital Development Toolkit . This document has been designed to help guide you [...]

An Introduction to Capital Development - online course

The online course has been designed to give you an overall introduction to capital development. You will gain a better understanding of what is involved in the process [...]

The Ethical Property Foundation: National Launch

The Ethical Property Foundation has been helping charities and community groups resolve their property problems since 2005. We have provided support to over 1,000 organisations to rent, [...]

Sport England Iconic Facilities Fund

There is to be one more Iconic Facilities funding round which will open this autumn with funding between £250,000 and £3 million available to transform the places where people play sport. The [...]

Local Environmental Action Fund: Community Foundation

The Local Environmental Action Fund (LEAF) supports projects that address environmental issues through actions at a local level. It is now looking for applications from projects that are able [...]

Key Changes to the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities Buildings Fund

The Reaching Communities scheme provides funding for projects that improve or replace existing buildings where a wide range of community activities take place and it funds those that are most [...]

Pilgrim Trust Funding Programme

This trust aims to preserve and promote Britain ’s historical and intellectual assets and to provide assistance to vulnerable members of society. It prefers to support projects where [...]

Resources and Funding Update

The Places for Everyone Resources and Funding page is regularly updated - see links for up to date news on funding available and articles.

Communitybuilders reopens to make loans to charities

Sums of between £250,000 and £750,000 available for funding property purchases or investment in equipment such as vehicles. The £27m regeneration loan fund Communitybuilders has [...]

BIG Lottery: Reaching Communities Fund for Buildings

It has been reported that this fund, offering between £100,000 and £500,000 for large capital projects, has had poor take up and those applications that have been received have often failed [...]

Inspired North East

Inspired North East is working with local church congregations to help achieve a sustainable future for church buildings in the North East: as living places of worship, buildings used and [...]

Community Halls Exempted From Latest Music Licensing Charge

Community halls and youth clubs are to be exempt from a new licensing charge for the public performance of recorded music as “specially featured entertainment”. Both groups had [...]

SITA: enhancing communities programme

Under the Enhancing Communities Programme grants of up to £60,000 are available for projects that make physical improvements to community facilities and historic buildings / structures. [...]

Land Aid Grants

Capital Projects Fund - gives grants for the refurbishment, conversion, extension or new build of facilities for young and disadvantaged people. They especially look for projects that have [...]

Updated List of Capital Development Funders - July 2011

July 2011 An updated list of funders supporting capital grants and loans is now available to download through the Resources & Funding section of the website. The document has [...]

The Place Station

The Place Station introduces owners of land and buildings across the UK to social and community entrepreneurs with ideas for transforming their local area - providing a space where people [...]

Biffaward Main Grants - Community and Biodiversity

Biffaward Main Grants – Community Community grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 are given to projects that provide or improve community spaces, cultural facilities and places for [...]

Big Tree Plant

This is a scheme from the Forestry Commission to support community groups to plant trees in neighbourhoods where people live and work. Grants can be used for a range of purposes including [...]

Guidance on Designing and Running Community Buildings

A booklet summarising the learning from Big Lottery Fund's Community Building projects has been published. It documents challenges faced by the projects, and ways they can be [...]

Boost for Buildings at Risk

Architectural Heritage Fund Attracts Philanthropic Investment to Save Historic Buildings Voluntary groups who rescue historic buildings at risk are to get a major boost in the form of a new [...]

Community Groups could Benefit from Relaxed Property Rules

The government has indicated its intention to remove red tape from ‘meanwhile leases’, the use of empty buildings on a temporary basis. Planning Minister Greg Clark (pictured) today said [...]

Free Solar Panels for Charities

Green energy company Freetricity has unveiled a £500m fund to install solar panels on the roofs of buildings, and is offering charities access to the first £100m. The company has [...]

Community Right to Build

The government's Communities Department has started promoting the Community Right to Build , contained in the Localism Bill currently going through parliament. Community organisations would be [...]

£27 million extension for Communitybuilders

12th April 2011 Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark has confirmed that funding for vital community projects through the Communitybuilders scheme will continue into the next financial [...]

The Impact of CVS Asset Development in the North East

January 2011 CLES Consulting was commissioned by Places for Everyone to review the organisational, economic, social and environmental impacts of community and voluntary sector asset [...]

Big Lottery Fund launches £75m grants scheme for buildings

27th October 2010 Grants of between £100,000 and £500,000 available from early December. The Big Lottery Fund is opening a £75m community buildings grants programme for voluntary [...]

My Community Space - your online premises resource

Looking for a space to hire? Want specialist premises-related advice? Need somewhere to advertise premises? Visit www.mycommunityspace.org.uk Find a space using our [...]

Feasibility Fund - Now Closed

December 2010 The Places for Everyone Feasibility Fund is now closed.

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