The Parenting Fund is now open and is looking for charities and ‘not for profit’ organisations undertaking parenting support work where parents, families and children face significant challenges. The closing date for applications is 12 December 2008 and funding is for two years starting in April 2009. For more information on the above rounds, please go to www.familyandparenting.org/ParentingFundHome

Parenting Fund provides a grant fund from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (formerly the DfES) of £16 million over two years (£8 million per year). It will be for a 24-month period for projects starting in April 2009. The application period will be 15 October 2008 to 12 December 2008. Recipients will be charities and "not for profit" organisations undertaking parenting support work where parents, families and children face significant challenges.

More information about criteria and the application processes are available on the Family and Parenting Institute website http://www.familyandparenting.org/ParentingFund3

This joint Heritage Lottery Fund/Big Lottery Fund initiative helps with the restoration and regeneration of public parks and gardens, including squares, walks and promenades in England.

Stage one is competitive and has two closing dates each year – 31 March and 30 September. The final deadline for stage one applications is 30 September 2008. No further stage one applications will be accepted after the September 2008 deadline.

http://digbig.com/4wgce orhttp://www.hlf.org.uk

Claim up to £5000 for one-off costs!

These Grants are available to voluntary groups in Leicestershire and Rutland. Guidance notes are available but your scheme must:

Be in support of services that improve the health of residents
Reduce inequalities experienced by vulnerable people
Promote health in the general population
Copies of the Application Form and Guidance Notes are available to download below or contact the Ben Smith, administrator on 0116 295 7596(Leicestershire County & Rutland Primary Care Trust), email ben.smith2@lcrpct.nhs.uk

The Partnership Grants are funded by the Primary Care Trust and Social Services.

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is one of the larger independent grant-making foundations in the UK. It makes grants to organisations which aim to maximise opportunities for individuals to experience a full quality of life, both now and in the future. They are particularly concerned with children and young people, and others who are disadvantaged.

Right Here: Improving mental health and well-being for young people
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Mental Health Foundation are inviting applications from groups of third sector and statutory organisations to work with them in developing new ways of protecting and promoting the mental health and well-being of 16 to 25 year olds. Deadline for applications to become a 'Right Here' pilot site is 18 December. http://www.right-here.org.uk Lottery’s small grants ‘awards for all’ scheme set for change

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has issued new guidelines for its Education and Learning Programme, which has three specific themes: supplementary education, tackling school exclusion and truancy, and developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds.

The Foundation makes grants throughout the UK (especially outside London) and prefers to support work that others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, is too risky or unpopular.

The next round of Big Lottery Fund/ITV People's Millions opens on 13 March. Awards of up to £80,000 will be on offer for projects which help communities to enjoy as well as transform the environment. People across the UK will be able to vote for their favourite projects when the on-air contest hits TV screens in November.

BBC Children in Need and the Hunter Foundation have announced a £2m funding programme which aims to deliver sustainable support to young people to ensure that they achieve a positive future in terms of education, employment or training.

Positive Destinations is a £2m Children in Need grant programme which aims to fund projects achieving positive future outcomes for children and young people. It is looking for projects that can demonstrate improved outcomes for participants and a wider impact on the numbers of children and young people falling out of education, training and employment. Deadline for applications is 30 March 2008.

The Princes Foundation for Children and the Arts is seeking partners to help deliver its Start programme, which provides primary and secondary school students, who might never otherwise have the chance, the opportunity to engage with the arts.
http://www.childrenandarts.org.uk