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How to Find Funders 

 

Please find listed below various websites offering information on available funding, funding search facilities and other resources to support your funding needs.

 

Funding Central is a free smart website for the whole voluntary and community sector, including social enterprise, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs. Visit http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk/Default.aspx

Charities Information Bureau South & West has an excellent free search facility on it’s website including “ready to go” funding packs according to subject area. http://www.cibsouthandwest.org.uk/ 


Green Grants Machine - is a free, comprehensive source of information on grants, loans and awards available to help your business go green and save on energy bills: purchase hybrid fleet vehicles; install solar panels; introduce a recycling scheme in the workplace; or to invest in green packaging to name just a few. Website: http://www.greengrantsmachine.co.uk 

Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK. The site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK. http://www.lotteryfunding.org.uk/

 

Open4Community Funding Portal allows you to search 1000's of funders including government, lottery, EU, non government and charitable trust funding opportunities. It also has useful information on locally available funders and how to make good bids. To access the site go to: www.open4community.info/bathnes.

 

Open 4 Social Enterprise Funding Portal: explore government, Lottery or trust funding which may be relevant to social enterprise: http://www.open4socialenterprise.info/bathnes/default.aspx

 
GrantNet - Wiltshire & Swindon External Funding Network - Access to the free Grantnet funding search can be obtained through to the Wiltshire & Swindon Intelligence Network site. Click on "Click to search for funds", the window will open up and enable you, once registered, to undertake a search in relation to your project. http://www.intelligencenetwork.org.uk/funding.aspx?panel=Funding

 

The Social Investment Business - for loans, finance and other forms of social investment support. The Social Investment Business is the largest social investor in the UK. It manages the Futurebuilders Fund, the Communitybuilders Fund, the Modernisation Fund and the Social Enterprise Investment Fund. It offers knowledge and expertise, as well as finance, to help third sector organisations thrive – improving infrastructure, increasing capacity, helping them bid for, and win, public service contracts. http://www.socialinvestmentbusiness.org/our-funds/


Bath & North East Somerset Arts Development. The Council's Arts Development Team can offer help and advice to arts organisations in accessing funding, managing projects and developing programmes that appeal to and involve local communities. Visit the Bath & NES council website.   

 

 

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