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Youth Sector Development Fund (YSDF) and Tackling Knife Crime: Imminent Deadline
The third round of the Youth Sector Development Fund (YSDF) focuses on smaller third sector organisations with a turnover of under £1 million, with a proven track record in successfully delivering innovative positive activities and support for young people (13 -19) in England, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights.

Approximately 25 organisations, will be supported through the Fund. Between £400,000
and £600,000 is available per organisation from April 2009 to March 2011.
In addition, the YSDF is administering a £0.5 million fund on behalf of the Home Office, which offers additional support for the areas and communities most affected by knife crime.

The Home Office is offering four opportunities for third sector organisations in the Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) Police Force areas to receive approximately £100,000 in funding, plus business support. Funding will be specifically to support organisations working with young people (particularly teenage boys 13-19), who are significantly at risk of being involved in knife and gang crime. The TKAP areas are: Essex, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Metropolitan (London), Nottinghamshire, South Wales, Thames Valley, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Northumbria and South Yorkshire.

The deadline for Expressions of Interest for YSDF funding is 23 January 2009.
Applicants in the TKAP areas must submit their bids by 5 March 2009.


The Britannia Building Society Foundation Funds for Charities
The Foundation offers grants and donations between £1,000 and £25,000 to registered charities and schools working within education, particularly numeracy and/or financial literacy.
The Foundation welcomes applications from:
Registered Charities and Schools: Any registered charity or school working within their key priorities and operating in an area where the Building Society has a high density of members.
National Charities: Any national charity working within our key priorities that can ring fence their activities to a local community where the Building Society has a high density of members.
Note: The Foundation will consider capital expenditure and salary costs.
More information is available from www.britannia.co.uk/membership/community/britannia_foundation


Beatrice Laing Trust

The Trust Gives around £1 million per year to registered charities, mainly in small grants of up to £5,000, for the relief of poverty in its broadest sense, and the advancement of the evangelical Christian faith. The majority of grants are between £1,000 and £5,000 and are either small annual grants towards the core costs of national organisations working with the Trust's priority groups, or small capital grants to local organisations working to relieve poverty in their local communities.

Larger grants are generally up to about £30,000 given mainly to larger national organisations.

Apply by letter to the Trust correspondent. Apply at any time. The Trustees meet twice a year to consider applications for grants over £5,000. Decisions on grants of £5,000 and below are made on a monthly basis.

Contact Beatrice Laing Trust, c/o Laing Family Trusts 33 Bunns Lane Mill Hill London NW7 2DX Telephone: 020 8238 8890