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COMMUNITY CASH DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 12 MARCH 2010

The Plymouth Herald and Sport Relief are launching Community Cash - small grants for community groups in Plymouth! For more information please see The Plymouth Herald or click here for a link to their website.

Support and advice will be on hand for applicants from Devon Community Foundation and two workshops and surgeries will be held in Plymouth on Wednesday 3rd February from 1:00pm - 3:00pm and 3:00pm - 5:00pm. To book a place please email grants@devoncf.com.

To download an application form please click here. If you need help or advice please contact Len Richards on 01752 896816 or email him at lenrichards@devon2.plus.com.

Comic Relief Money Available! Apply Now!

Comic Relief funding is available again for a short period only, and it is likely this will be the last round so if your group or project is eligible start applying now!

Comic Relief Grants are to support a range of activities; particularly sport based, and should make a lasting change to the local community. It is important that you apply as soon as possible as there is only a very small fund available of about £35,000. Grants range between £1,000 and £10,000 and will be awarded in April 2010.

Applications must be completed before 31st March 2010. Please see our Apply for a Grant Section by clicking here for more details.

The search is on to find the UK’s

favourite Lottery-funded

projects

TV favourite, Sally Lindsay, is calling on the people of Devon to nominate their favourite Lottery-funded project in The National Lottery Awards 2010. In the last year alone, over £10 million of Lottery funding has gone to projects in Devon. Now The National Lottery is encouraging these projects, and the thousands like them across the UK that have received funding over the past 15 years, to enter the Awards and gain recognition for their work.

National Lottery Awards ambassador and former Coronation Street actress, Sally, says: “These Awards are an annual search to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects and recognise the dedication of the people behind them who are making a difference in their communities.”

SOLICITORS JOIN GRASSROOTS CHALLENGE WITH MOOR WALK

Eight members of Devon and Somerset Law Society will undertake a gruelling hike across Exmoor and Dartmoor on 25th/26th October to raise money for our Grassroots Challenge.

To sponsor them visit www.justgiving.com/DASLS-Dev.

Please click here to read more

Raise money through web searching with everyclick.com

Please help Devon Community Foundation make a difference to your local community with the click of a button.

Everyclick.com works just like any other search engine, but allows the users to choose the charity they would like to benefit from their searching. The revenue generated for charities comes from companies that advertise on the Everyclick site. There is no sign up fee or hidden charge to the user or the charity, it’s free giving.

Happy Feet For Older People In North Devon

Have you ever imagined what it’s like not to be able to reach your own feet or even cut your own toenails?

That’s the problem hundreds of pensioners face on a regular basis. However, now help is at hand, thanks to a recent Grassroots Grant of £500 from local charity Devon Community Foundation to the North Devon Footcare Project.

Set up by Nancy and Alan Green, the Footcare Project provides a bi-monthly drop-in service for elderly people in the Ilfracombe area of North Devon. The project has eight trained volunteers, with two more currently being trained. Thanks to the grant, which will cover travel expenses and new equipment, The Footcare Project will now be able to expand its service to Barnstaple, Combe Martin, Bideford, Torrington and Braunton.

Crealy Supports Grassroots Challenge

Crealy Great Adventure Parks are helping the Western Morning News to raise money for its 150th Anniversary Grassroots Challenge, to support older people in need. Children visiting Crealy over Grandparents’ Weekend on 19th and 20th September have the chance to enter a drawing competition to win annual membership to Crealy.

Grandparents visiting Devon’s Crealy and Cornwall’s Crealy can enjoy a free home-baked cake and coffee. Grandchildren can enter the special drawing competition, entitled ‘My Day at Crealy’. The competition will be open to the under 8s and under 12s with a chance to win Crealy annual memberships.

The competition costs just £1 to enter, which will matched by Devon and Cornwall Community Foundation to make a £2 donation for the WMN 150th Anniversary Challenge Fund.

Grassroots Grants Apply Online Now!

Anyone wanting to apply for a Grassroots Grant whether Fast Track, Express or Standard will now be able to do so online. Staff at Devon Community Foundation have been working hard to set up an Online Grants Application system to be used via the website. We can now offer online applications as well as downloadable applications, emailed applications or of course they can be posted.

This new application process is very simple to use, with help and guidance available at the click of a button. Applications can be saved and returned to at a later date, should you need to, and will be sent directly to us, here at Devon Community Foundation. Some information will still need to be posted to us; however we hope that this time saving tool will come in useful to many of you.

For further information on applying for a Grassroots Grants online please take a look at the Apply for a Grant section of the website by clicking here.

LAW SOCIETY CHOOSE TO SUPPORT LOCAL VOLUNTEERS

Mr James Cross, who took office as President of Devon and Somerset Law Society (DASLS) in April, has chosen local charities, Devon Community Foundation and Somerset Community Foundation as his charities of the year.

DASLS will be backing the Foundations in their bid to secure an extra £1 million for voluntary and community groups across the counties by helping to raise a matching £1 million. The matching cash is available from government as part of its Grassroots Challenge initiative.

DASLS will also be helping to raise the profile of the Foundations as cost-effective and personal way for individuals and organisations to invest in local community projects and make a lasting difference to the lives of local people in need.

To find out more about Devon and Somerset Law Society please click here

BISHOP PRESENTS VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARDS

30th June 2009

Over 170 invited guests gathered at the Bishop’s Palace gardens last night in Exeter to celebrate the achievements of volunteers across Devon as part of local charity, Devon Community Foundation’s Volunteer of the Year Awards.

To date, Devon Community Foundation has awarded over £6.5 million in grants to over 1,900 small voluntary and community groups run by Devon’s volunteers. It is these groups which are often in the frontline in helping local people in need and building better, more inclusive local communities.

Awards to the eight finalists were made by The Rt Revd Michael Langrish, Bishop of Exeter and the evening, which was hosted by BBC Radio Devon’s David Fitzgerald, included a charity auction and DVDs of the winners produced by the Twofour group.

	New Torbay Targeted Support Fund Devon Community Foundation is pleased to announce that it has been asked to manage the Targeted Support Fund in Torbay on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector. This Fund is designed to provide short term help to voluntary sector organisations working in Torbay which support people who are affected by the economic downturn. Grants of between £10,000 and £40,000 are available and are accessible to groups with an income between £30,000 and £250,000. The Foundation is working in partnership with Torbay Voluntary Service which will be providing practical support for applicants. Call Rebecca Pearse 01803 212638 or email rebecca@torbayvs.co.uk For more information on Torbay Targeted Support Fund please see our How to Apply for a Grant section and/or please follow this link to the guidance notes.

New Torbay Targeted Support Fund

Devon Community Foundation is pleased to announce that it has been asked to manage the Targeted Support Fund in Torbay on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector. This Fund is designed to provide short term help to voluntary sector organisations working in Torbay which support people who are affected by the economic downturn. Grants of between £10,000 and £40,000 are available and are accessible to groups with an income between £30,000 and £250,000. The Foundation is working in partnership with Torbay Voluntary Service which will be providing practical support for applicants. Call Rebecca Pearse 01803 212638 or email rebecca@torbayvs.co.uk

For more information on Torbay Targeted Support Fund please see our How to Apply for a Grant section and/or please follow this link to the guidance notes.

Devon Community Groups receive £455,000

Grassroots Grants

Devon Community Foundation was celebrating this week after hitting their first Grassroots grant making target, awarding £455,000 in grants to voluntary and community groups and projects across Devon since July 2008.

The money is part of a £1.4 million Grassroots Grants programme being managed by the Foundation on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector. It supports local volunteers and groups with small amounts of cash which will make a big difference to them, their local communities and local people.

Grants have supported a huge range of projects from community allotments to youth groups and from music tuition for those with disabilities to lunch clubs for isolated elderly people.

CELEBRITY CHEF GETS TORBAY GRASSROOTS CHALLENGE OFF TO TASTY START

Celebrity Chef Mitch Tonks joined with local charity Devon Community Foundation on 24th February at the Royal Torbay Yacht Club to officially launch the Torbay Grassroots Challenge.

Almost 100 invited guests attended the launch of the Challenge, which aims to build a £0.25 million Torbay Grassroots Endowment Fund over the next three years to provide a permanent source of grants for local voluntary and community groups who are often in the front line in helping local people in need.

raise over £3,000 for Grassroots Challenge

The 100th anniversary meeting of the Michelmores/Marsh Business Breakfast Club raised over £1,500 for local charity Devon Community Foundation recently, when over 200 local business people met at the Exeter Golf & Country Club to hear guest speaker Lord Digby Jones.

The money, which was raised through the donation by Lord Digby of his speaker's fee and a percentage of ticket sales for the breakfast will now be doubled by the Foundation's Grassroots Challenge to make £3,000 for local causes across Devon.

Grassroots Win

Devon Community Foundation, Devon’s local charity for

local people, was celebrating today after securing £2.5

million to support small voluntary and community groups

across the county and to kick-start greater investment

from individuals and companies in local community projects.

Wales and West Utilities Step up to Grassroots Challenge

Gas distribution company, Wales and West Utilities joined together with local charity Devon Community Foundation today to support Exeter’s Merry Go Round Toy & Leisure Library with a £5,000 Grassroots Grant.

Wales & West Utilities is one of the first companies to step up to Devon Community Foundation’s Grassroots Challenge, which matches donations £1 for £1 to make local giving go further for small community and voluntary groups across the county.

The means the £5,000 from Wales & West Utilities is doubled by the Foundation to create a £10,000 Wales & West Utilities Acorn Fund. The company will continue to build its fund over the years and the income generated will make grants to support voluntary groups like the Toy Library across Devon each year, every year.