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New fund launched for community relations projects
The Barrow Cadbury Trust fund will typically provide voluntary and community projects with grants worth £30,000 over a two-year period. Funding will be offered to projects that promote solidarity between people of different ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds.

They have consolidated their funding into three programme areas:
• Young Adults and Criminal Justice: Helping young adults who are in, or at risk of being in the criminal justice system, to make a successful transition to adulthood and improve their life chances.
• Inclusive Communities: Alleviating poverty and exclusion among marginalised groups.
• Global Exchange: Exchanging good practice across boundaries and using it to reinvigorate debates taking place in the UK.

Capacity Builders Launches Capital Funding Stream for Resource Centres
As part of their drive to increase the access that voluntary and community organisations have to high quality, relevant and affordable shared facilities and services, Capacity Builders have launched a programme of funding aimed at increasing the quality and availability of local resource centres across England.
Full details of the Capacity Builders Capital Funding programme which will run from January 2009 to March 2011 can be found at
http://capacitybuilders.org.uk/content/WhoWeFund/Funding200811/Capitalprogramme1.aspx

Volant Charitable Trust
This trust was set up by children's author J K Rowling to support charitable organisations to alleviate poverty and social deprivation with particular emphasis on children's and women's issues. It distributes about £5 million per year, mainly in large grants of more than £100,000 to large national charities but some smaller grants are given to local and regional charities. There is no stated minimum or maximum grant size

Deadline: Friday, 27 February 2009

Contact: The Trust Administrator, The Volant Charitable Trust, Box 8 196 Rose Street, Edinburgh EH2 4AT or visit www.volanttrust.com for more info.

Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
The Fund distributed over £4 million last year with grants ranging from £500 to £150,000. Meetings of the Trustees are usually held in June and early December each year and applications should be submitted no later than 1 May or 1 October for consideration at the next meeting.

The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund’s area of interest is learning disability. By the term ‘learning disability’, the Fund means the conditions generally referred to as severe learning difficulties, together with autism. In this area, they consider projects concerning children or adults. They do not give grants for research into, or care of, those with mental illness or dyslexia.
For more information please contact The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
c/o TMF Management UK Limited, 400 Capability Green, Luton, Beds, LU1 3AE, Telephone: 01582 439 225 or Email: info@ bailythomas. org.uk

John Laing Charitable Trust
Gives money to charities that support homeless people, disadvantaged young people, the regeneration of local communities, education and environmental organisations.

Grant size available: Donations range from £250 to £25,000 with up to 12 charities receiving more than £10,000. Usually, charities receive one-off donations, but a small number are supported for an agreed period, often up to three years.

Donations towards revenue and capital costs can be made. There is no deadline for receipt of applications. The Trustees meet formally several times throughout the year
How to apply: Applications should be made in writing to the Trust Secretary. Initial telephone enquiries are welcome to discuss likely eligibility. The Trust does not have an application form and applicants are asked to keep the initial request as brief as possible. A copy of the charity's latest accounts should be included.
Please contact: Trust Secretary, John Laing Charitable Trust 33 Bunns Lane London NW7
2DX Telephone: 020 8959 9013

Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme
The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme provides one-off donations of between £1,000 and £4,000. The funding they give goes towards providing practical benefits, such as equipment and resources for projects that directly benefit children, the elderly and adults and children with disabilities, living in the local communities around their stores in the UK.

Applications can be made via their Website: www.tescocharitytrustcommunityawards-applications.co.uk

Please note charities can only make one application each year.
Decisions are made by the Tesco Charity Trustees in conjunction with the regional Community Co-ordinators who are based across the UK.

Contact Details: Tesco Charity Trust, New Tesco House, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Herts, EN8 9SL Tel: 01992 646768 Website: http://www.tescocorporate.com/charitiesandfundraising.htm