Funding

Catalyst Fund : endowments, arts and heritage, various closing dates

OCS Social Action Fund  : Closes 12 noon, Wednesday 2/11/2011

The Social Action Fund is a new grant fund of over £20 million managed by us on behalf of the Office for Civil Society.  The Fund aims to inspire organisations to create new social action opportunities; encouraging people to give what they have, be it time, money, assets, knowledge or specific skills.

The Fund supports activity in three areas:

  1. Social action in the community
  2. Social action inspired by the Olympics and Paralympics
  3. Social action for all ages

Clore Poetry and Literature Awards : Closes Friday 30/03/2012

The Clore Poetry and Literature Awards fund poetry and literature initiatives for children and young people, under the age of 19, across the UK. The Awards are worth a total of £1m over five years, 2011 to 2015, with individual awards ranging from £1,000 to £10,000. The Clore Duffield Foundation has created these Awards with the aim of providing children and young people with opportunities to experience poetry and literature in exciting and compelling ways, in and out of school.