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Hi, I work for an eating disorder charity called First Steps ED. We are looking for funding for a research project in ARFID next year - anyone got any suggestions of a good place to look?
Emma Greenough
Hi, we are looking for grants that will help the charity be more sustainable ie solar. Grants for dug outs and improvements to kitchen, toilets, dressing rooms etc. If you have any suggestions please...
Naomi Pearce
Can anyone suggest ways how to do local fundraising as well as looking at the large donor groups such as National Lottery? How easy is it to do crowd funding starting from scratch ?  Or will local bu...
Peter Webb
Hi, is there funding or grants available for an employee to further there own learning at university from a charitable organisation that can not fund it themselves which would be hugely beneficial to...
Stacey McWilliam
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I've been approached for advice around how too access funding to build a detox/rehab centre in Zimbabwe. Although the...
Ocean King
Hi everyone, SMAG has been running for about 1 yr now, and we just got our CIO status. We have been successful to partner with a large international charity - creating a corridor to take people from...
INSOF LIBON
We are a small charity run by volunteers with limited spare time. Does anyone know of any grant making organisations that would offer grants directly to a charity to increase capacity ( perhaps buyin...
William Nolan
Hello We are a very small charity on the Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire border which was gifted a substantial arts and crafts style village hall 100 years ago.We need to carry out a full building surve...
Anne Oxley
Hi all, I'm looking into securing the free Google Ads grant for my charity but would want a third party to manage this as I simply don't have the expertise or time to do so myself (it's just me on th...
Natasha Mills
Hello everyone, Firstly thank you to anyone who reads my first post 😊 I have just created a CIC which will enable to Neuro-diverse community access personal training and Nutritional advice. I have o...
James Dewar-Haggart
Hi, I am looking for assistance in a couple of areas. The first being knowledge on availability of grants specifically for the hospitality sector/community. Many thanks in advance
Roisin Reddington
Hello everyone, I am in the process of setting up a charitable foundation in my brothers name. Initially we are setting up as a micro trust through the charity Giving Works. My question is, are there...
Tanya Slater
I wonder if anyone can give us suggestions how we can fund the purchase of premises to expand our ever growing IT recycling charity in Stoke on Trent. We have premises in mind that have a value of £6...
Bill Harvey
I have the opportunity for multi nation funding for five projects. Do you know anyone who has written such a proposal? I could do it per nation in Africa or could do it per project.   Any suggestions...
Ann Hubbard
Hi all. We recently received a grant and are expected to complete an evaluation report regarding the project we undertook (therapeutic group work). I've personally never done one before - does anyone...
Adam Dennett
Bit of a curve ball question. Our charity has a copy of the DSC Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2020/21. Is it worth getting the latest edition? Probably won't be a great number of new entries in th...
Good afternoon, My name is Lewis Ashdown and I am one of the directors for Great Yarmouth Arts Festival CIC. Something we are interested in looking into is the possibility of seeing if there is any g...
Lewis Ashdown
Hello, A charity I work with received an email from Non Profit Growth to send 15 applications on their behalf for £3,000 – on a sliding – no win/no fee basis. So – no funding = full refund reducing p...
Lucy Lord
Hi All Please can we have some assistance We are  new registered CIC. We had been delivering support for free under our limited Company which is a restaurant in South London. We have been running for...
Maxine Thompson-Reede
We are embarking on a much-needed replacement of our CRM system for the running of our charity. This is a pricey project but an investment for growth, and we are already in the process of research an...
Emma Cortes
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Hi  I just opened my CIC company and am looking for grants to purchase property for it. Can you help me with this? Best regards,
Tomasz Mielnik
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small counselling support charity and have a client that requires a BSL interpreter. This is the first time...
Ocean King
We are an umbrella organisation which is a UK registered charity. Our network of homeshare providers cover 17 countries. Most homeshare programs are very small volunteer groups serving the needs of t...
Anyone ideas or names of funding orgs in the SW london and Surey area... small registered charity of 8 years est . Thanks
Peter Webb
Hi everyone, My Name is Adama Fofana. I am so new here. I am happy to be led in the right direction and corrected if I go outside of the rules unknowingly. 4 years ago, I set up a small charity and o...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: How do I get funding for a new charity with no annual returns?
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hi all, we are a relatively new charity that enable donations to those who need it the most, 100% of donations we rec...
Ocean King
I would love to know about any funders that my small charity ( a job club of 8 years est ) can apply to. I have previously framed my applications as projects very successful at jobs gained for client...
Peter Webb
Finding it hard to get a straight answer on this one! We were granted funding from the National Lottery's Reaching Communities fund a few years ago (before my time at my organisation), and now when a...
Charlotte Phillips
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