Community Development Grants

Active Community Experience Corps

The Experience Corps is an independent, non-profit-making company, funded by a grant from the Home Office, set up to encourage people, aged 50 and over, to offer their skills and experience to benefit others in their local communities....more info

Adventure Capital Fund

Provides development funding and bursaries for Community Enterprises to accelerate enterprise growth and create sustainable institutions for long-term community renewal....more info

Adult and Community Learning Fund

The Fund has supports community-based organisations to develop and sustain innovative adult learning projects.  As a result of the Fund, around 400 large and small projects have received funds ranging from a few hundred pounds to over £100,000....more info

Business in the Community - Local Investment Fund

Business in the Community makes loans to economically viable, not-for-profit community enterprises who have been unable to secure funds from traditional sources.  It aims to enable community organisations to move from grant dependency and towards self-sufficiency....more info

Capital Mentoring Fund

The Active Community Unit (ACU) plans to run a mentoring capital grant round in 2003-4. The total funds available are £600,000. Bids will be considered for capital purchases to support projects in the delivery of their voluntary mentoring services outside schools. All mentoring organisations fitting the grant criteria, to be outlined, will be invited to apply to this competitive grant round....more info

Childrens Fund

The Children's Fund will amount to £380 million over three years (2001-4) to fund services to prevent children and their families suffering from the consequences of poverty. Other funding will be available through the Children's Fund Local Networks. The fund will primarily target 5-13 year olds at risk of social exclusion....more info

Childrens Fund -Local Network Fund for Children and Young People

The aim of the Local Network Fund is to help children in poverty achieve their potential by investing directly in the activities of local community and voluntary groups working for and with children and young people aged 0-19.  The Local Network Fund will be available throughout England by April 2003....more info

City Growth Strategies

The DTI''s Small Business Service (SBS) is making available £1.5million over 2 years from January 2002 from the Phoenix Fund to promote enterprise in disadvantaged communities within inner cities and large towns. This is currently a pilot within four areas....more info

Coalfields Regeneration Trust

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust gives grants to groups, organisations and agencies in England, Scotland and Wales who can show that their project or activity benefits a coalfield community....more info

Community Champions

Community Champions aims to provide support for individuals who are already active in their communities by developing their skills and to encourage greater community involvement in regeneration activity. The fund aims to support communities where there is little community activity or direct involvement in developing plans for regeneration, and where this is seen as a barrier to helping them access support from other funding sources to improve their quality of life....more info

Community Development Venture Fund

The Fund aims to stimulate the provision (and benefits) of venture capital to viable SME's, which are capable of substantial growth, and that are located in the 25% most deprived wards in England as classified under the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) ranking....more info

Community Investment Tax Credit

The Community Investment Tax Credit provides tax relief to those providing finance to Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) for on-lending to enterprises in disadvantaged communities that are excluded from mainstream sources of finance....more info

Community Legal Service Partnerships

Community Legal Service Partnerships (CLSPs) are responsible for establishing local networks of quality providers of legal services, supported by co-ordinated funding and delivering services to local communities based on identified priority need. The local networks are fully inclusive and cover a full range of different levels and types of help; they therefore include solicitors in private practice, but also Citizens Advice Bureaux, Law Centres, and other groups in the Not-For-Profit sector, as well as Trading Standards Officers and local authority services....more info

Education Action Zones / Excellence in Cities Initiative

The aim of Education Action Zones is to raise educational standards through partnerships with leading businesses, parents and the community, developing new skills, experience and funding. Each EAZ gets up to £1 million a year for at least three years, a quarter of this from business partners....more info

Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG) programme

This programme helps raise the standards of school-based achievement of ethnic minority pupils, and those whose first language is not English and are most at risk of under-achieving....more info

Gypsy Site Refurbishment Grant

The scheme applies to any local authority that owns an authorised site for Gypsies and Travellers. The objective of the scheme is to fund projects that will significantly extend the useful life of existing sites; bring unused or under-used sites back into full use; and/or improve the quality of life for the residents by modernising or improving sub-standard facilities and/or providing new facilities....more info

Home Office Family Support Grant

The Grant, set up in 1998, is key to the Government's plans for supporting parents. Grants are provided to a range of organisations to undertake work to support people in their role as fathers, parents of teenagers and parenting in challenging circumstances....more info

Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) for community transport

The Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) for Community Transport, formerly known as Fuel Duty Rebate for Community Transport provides grants to help non-profit organisations running community transport organisations to expand and develop their services by saving on fuel duty. ....more info

Home Zones

Home Zones are an attempt to strike a balance between vehicular traffic and everyone else who uses the street, the pedestrians, cyclists, business people and residents. Home Zones work through the physical alteration of streets and roads in an area. These alterations force motorists to drive with greater care and at lower speeds. .... more info

Neighbourhood Wardens

This programme provides a uniformed neighbourhood warden presence to help reduce crime and the fear of crime, improve the quality of life, deter anti-social behaviour, care for the physical appearance and management of the neighbourhood and foster social inclusion....more info

Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme  

Initially 20 communities have been selected as pathfinders to take forward Neighbourhood Management in their community as part of the national Neighbourhood Management programme....more info

Opportunities for Volunteering Scheme

Under the Opportunities for Volunteering scheme, the Department of Health makes funds available for grants to voluntary organisations in order to increase opportunities for people to volunteer in England in the fields of health and social care....more info

Pilot Clear Zones

This programme helps create livable, accessible and lively urban centres where traffic congestion, pollution, noise, stress and the other negative effects of mobility are eliminated or reduced.....more info

Playing Fields and Community Green Spaces

The Playing Fields and Green Spaces Programme will provide a legacy of protection, provision and improvement of playing fields and green spaces for the benefit of local communities especially those in deprived communities. It will also deliver a programme of improvements to school Playgrounds and at least 10 demonstration projects for children's play in the community....more info

Deprived Urban Post Office Fund

The £15m Deprived Urban Post Office Fund was launched in December 2002. It provides grants of up to £50,000 to sup-postmasters in the most deprived urban areas of England to modernise their branches as part of the Government’s long-term drive to regenerate impoverished urban communities....more info

Refugee Community Development Fund

The Refugee Community Development Fund offers support to organisations with new ideas for helping refugees play a full part in the economic, cultural and social life of the United Kingdom....more info

Single Community Programme

The Single Community Programme brings together three previous funding streams to enable local Community Empowerment Networks to fully participate in Local Strategic Networks. Grants are available to ensure that communities are able to play a full and active role in the regeneration of their communities....more info

Special Grants Programme

The Special Grants Programme (SGP) provides grants to voluntary organisations for national projects relevant to DTLR's housing and regeneration objectives. Work is only eligible if it does not qualify for help under other grant programmes.....more info

Stamp duty exemption in certain disadvantaged communities

This programme encourages businesses to relocate to, or expand in, disadvantaged communities and to enhance the development and occupation of new and second-hand housing in those communities. Awaiting date of application from Treasury....more info

Sure Start

Sure Start works with parents-to-be, parents and children to promote the physical, intellectual, and social development of babies and young children (under four years) in specified disadvantaged areas....more info

Wired up Communities

The Wired up Communities initiative is investing £10 million of government funding to assess how individual access to the Internet can transform opportunities for people living in the most disadvantaged communities....more info