• Getting the most from our regional update?
• Latest regional grants
• Regional Awards for All grants
• Community Assets grants

£100m for the environment

Groups in our region can now apply for their share of £100 million, available through grants from Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) and Groundwork UK, both award partners in our Changing Spaces environmental scheme.

The Local Food programme run by RWST opened for applications on 17 March 2008.  It will fund projects that make locally grown food more accessible and affordable to communities. For more information visit www.localfoodgrants.org

Groups can also apply to the Community Spaces programme being run by Groundwork UK.    This programme opened on 19 March 2008 and will fund community groups who want to improve their neighbourhoods by making them cleaner and greener.  It will help local people create and improve public spaces including play areas, community gardens, parks, wildlife areas, ponds, courts and village greens.  For more information visit www.community-spaces.org.uk

Apply to People's Millions

Year four of our People’s Millions programme launched last month.

Organisations can apply for up to £50,000 for projects that transform the local environment or provide opportunities or facilities to allow people to take part and enjoy their local area. The maximum project size should be no greater than £100,000 plus VAT.

Five projects in Yorkshire and the Humber will be awarded funding with a further 85 projects across the UK also set to receive grants. Films and case studies of previous years winners can be found on our website.

The closing date for applications is Thursday 15 May and shortlisted projects will go head to head for the public vote on ITV’s Calendar news programmes in November.

For details of how to apply or an application pack, visit our website or call 0845 0 10 11 12.

£190m myplace funding

Myplace is a new funding programme and is set to be delivered by us on behalf of Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

It will provide £190 million of Government capital investment over the next three years through grants of between £1 million and £5 million. It will provide funding for projects that will provide youth facilities and have a significant local impact.

A regional launch event will be held on 13 May, if you are interested in attending email stacey.powell@biglotteryfund.org.uk please be advised that we expect the event to be very popular and only have a limited number of places available.

To read more about myplace visit our website

Getting the most from our regional update?

Our regional update is produced on a monthly basis to inform you about grants, new programmes and events taking place in our region.

We hope that you find the update interesting and informative and are looking at ways to improve it.

We would welcome any suggestions you might have. What would you like to see more/less of? Do you receive it frequently enough? If you would to feedback on the content email stacey.powell@biglotteryfund.org.uk

Just a reminder that if you do not want to receive the update anymore you can unsubscribe from the mailing list by using the link on the update you receive. If you have colleagues who would like to receive the updates they can subscribe by accessing our regional web pages

Latest regional grants

Four groups from Yorkshire and the Humber are benefiting this month after receiving over £920,000 from our Reaching Communities programme.

Leeds Action To Create Homes Limited (LATCH) will use its grant of £485,809 to refurbish a derelict building in Chapeltown into a fully equipped training centre.  The Hands ON project will use local volunteers to assist with the building work, enabling them to learn about sustainable construction.  Once completed, the building will be used to run courses in construction, decorating and maintenance skills.

The village of Lothersdale, near Skipton, will benefit from new landscaped grounds at the village clubhouse thanks to a grant of £18,612.  This will enable the local community to use it for community activities and events, including sports and out of school clubs.

Swinton Lock Activity Centre has been awarded £188,362 to continue its Learning at the Lock project for a further three years.  This project offers a range of activities in boat handling, park maintenance and fishing and is aimed at isolated and unemployed adults and young people who face barriers to learning.

The Leeds based organisation Multiple Choice will use its three year grant of £227,893 for its new Volunteer Development Project.  The project will increase volunteering opportunities for people who have experienced social exclusion through long term unemployment, drug misuse or insecure housing.

For further details about these grants please go to our press release

Two groups in West Yorkshire shared £457,307 of funding from our Community Buildings programme. The Cottingley Cornerstone Centre and The Horbury Heritage Trust will use their grants to update their facilities and provide hubs for their local communities.   For further details go to our press release

Regional Awards for All grants

Groups across the region are celebrating after receiving grants from the Awards for All programme. Over 98 groups from our region have shared a total of £695,475 this month.

Projects benefiting from this round of funding include a project in Wakefield to prevent abuse and bullying in schools and a new electronic scoreboard for a cricket club in Easingwold.  

To read more about the latest awards go to the Awards for All website.

Community Assets grants

Four groups from our region have received funding totaling nearly £4 million from the Community Assets programme, funded by Office of the Third Sector.  Barton Youth Centre in East Yorkshire, Central Hall in Keighley, Rockingham Miners Welfare Centre in Barnsley  and St Clement’s Hall in York have all received grants to update and refurbish their facilities. The improvements will mean that the facilities better suit the needs of their communities and provide hubs for services and activities.

For more details about the grants awarded under this funding programme read our press release.