Community Advice and Support

How do we help the local community?

Nottingham City Council has appointed Castle Cavendish as Lead Organisation to work in partnership with a number of local organisations in the following areas:

We will play a key role in supporting the development of the local voluntary and community sector in these three Areas through:

The Distribution of the Area Based Grant
The Provision of support and advice to voluntary sector groups.

Advice and Support

If you are already established,or considering setting up a project, or local group we can help you in a number of ways, for example we can support you to:

Set up your project/community group
Recruit volunteers
Identify Sources of external funding
Draft funding applications
Develop policies and procedures
register as a charity CIO or CIC

For more details please contact our Support Services Manager, Jane Simpson by calling: 0115 964 8351 or emailing: info@castlecavendish.org.uk

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Grant Funding Opportunities

The following are the current opportunities to recieve grant funding at castle cavendish. Note some are seasonal and change over time

Community Projects Grant

Another‘open-bidding’ grant programme is specifically for community projects that address the following: -Loneliness & Isolation-especially amongst senior citizens

Translation/conversational English support - particularly among the new and emerging communities (i.e. African, Eastern European and Roma)
Community Cohesion-tension between new and existing communities, issues between students & permanent residents plus inter-generational differences;
General health & well-being - including physical, emotional and mental health.
Training & Support - qualifications and re-skilling for unemployed residents
Volunteering & work experience - maximising local opportunities and increasing the quality

Apply Here

The Area Based Grant

The main Area Based Grant Programme supports organisations that provide a broad range of weekly after-school, evening and weekend activities during school term and holidays for local children, young people and their families. This funding is already allocated to established delivery partners.

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Apply Here

School Holiday Activities

We run a small ‘open-bidding’ grant programme for school holiday activities and we encourage any VCS group to apply, particularly those small, grass-roots organisations, who are not main delivery partners.

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Apply Here

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For any information about the grants programme please contact our Area Partnership Manager, Van Henry on: 0115 964 8354
or email: info@castlecavendish.org.uk

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