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Closing date for applications: 19^th February 2010 – 5pm

'see me' SMALL GRANTS SCHEME

AWARDS UP TO £5,000 

'see me's new small grants scheme will grant awards of up to £5,000 to local groups who can come up with fresh and innovative ideas and projects to tackle stigma and discrimination associated with mental health.  The first round of awards will include groups and organisations in the Area Health Board Regions of Lanarkshire, Orkney, Shetland andTayside.

 We will fund projects that aim to:

• Change public understanding, attitudes and behaviour so that the stigma and discrimination associated with mental ill-health is eliminated
• Enhance the ability of people to challenge stigma and discrimination
• Ensure people with mental health problems and those who support them are valued and included
• Improve media reporting of mental ill-health
• Addressing inequalities in mental health and stigma and discrimination  

Applications open on 1^st February and close on 12^th March 2010.   You can download a copy of our guidelines and application form from our website www.seemescotland.org or email info@seemescotland.org or call 'see me' on 0131 554 0218 and we will send a copy out to you.

  Please contact me if you need any further information,

 Thanks,

 Joan Bree

Campaign Development Officer  

Technology Donations From microsoft, Cisco and Symantec

Scottish charities can request product donations from organisations such as Microsoft, Symantec and Cisco through Charity Technology Exchange (CTX). Charities pay a small administration fee to cover the costs of running the programme and whilst the administrative fees vary, charities will still make savings of between 92-96 per cent on typical retail prices.

To find out about how the programme works and to start the registration process, go to www.ctxchange.org/getting _started

The J Paul Getty JR Charitable Trust

Grants awarded by the Trust fall into four main areas: Social Welfare, The Arts, Heritage and Conservation and The Natural Environment.  Arts priorities are those that target the most disadvantaged groups, work to achieve long-term positive outcomes for the people involved, and aim to reach new audiences, especially groups who may not otherwise have access to the arts.

For more information please visit www.jpgettytrust.org.uk

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Fun and Friendship: BBC Children in Need

The Fun and Friendship grant programme is targeted at charities working with disabled young people between 12 and 18 years. The programme will work with projects that take place over three years, and expects to make up to 12 grants of up to £300,000 each across the UK from 2009. Deadline 31st July. Visit the website below for more information.

Website: www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/grants/funandfriendship.shtml 

Core funding for health charities 2010 GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards

GSK’s IMPACT Awards are designed to recognise and reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health.

• Organisations must be at least three years old, working in a health related field in the UK, with a total annual income between £10,000 and £1 million
• Up to 20 awards will be made with ten winners receiving £25,000 and highly commended and runner up organisations receiving £5,000 and £3,000respectively.  
• Organisations that win or are highly commended for an award will also be offered free training valued at £3,500

The 2010 IMPACT Awards guidelines and application form are available: here

Closing date for applications: 5pm on 25th September 2009

Website: www.kingsfund.org.uk/research/projects/gsk_impact_awards/

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Comic Relief Red Nose Day Funding Programme 2009 - 2012

Comic Relief has announced that it is now accepting applications for grants through its Red Nose Day Programmes (2009 -12).

Grants are available through a number of programme areas and it has also announced two new programmes coming soon in the areas of; Young Carers (managed by the Princess Royal Trust for Carers); and Older People. There are no minimum or maximum grants in most of these programmes, but on average grants are of between £25,000 and £40,000 per year.

Comic Relief are keen to make sure that the funding reaches all parts of the UK, especially areas which often miss out, such as rural communities. The next deadline for applications is the 24th July 2009. For more information, please visit the Comic Relief website.

Website: www.comicrelief.com/apply_for_a_grant/uk

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 Gift Aid is changing, be a part of it...

Should Gift Aid be opt-out?

The Insitute of Fundraising believes that the current ‘opt-in' system is the single greatest barrier to maximising Gift Aid claims for UK fundraising organisations. Could an ‘opt-out’ system benefit your charity? This is your opportunity to influence the future of Gift Aid.

Opting-Out of Gift Aid

As the Institute continues its drive to maximise Gift Aid’s potential, we are exploring a possible revolutionary opt-out system.

Working with the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, Charities Aid Foundation, Charity Finance Directors’ Group, Charity Tax Group and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and alongside conversations with Government, we are investigating how an alternative and simpler Gift Aid system could work.

We need your help. Let us know your views on an opt-out system – do you think it would make legitimate Gift Aid claims simpler and more profitable?

To find out more and complete the short survey visit: http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/influence/keypolicyissues/giftaid/giftaidoptout.htm?dm_i=60Z,12FC,NF7HP,2JNR,1

Thank you for your participation.

Contact: The Tax-Effective Giving Team
Phone: 0845 458 4586
Email: taxback@institute-of-fundraising.org.uk
Website: www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk

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Self Management Fund for Scotland

Self Management Fund for Scotland launched

The Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland (LTCAS) is delighted to announce that following final confirmation from the Scottish Government, the Self Management Fund for Scotland is now open for applications.

The Self Management Fund is available to voluntary organisations and community groups throughout Scotland to support work to encourage people living with long term conditions to learn more about the management of their condition, and to be become active partners in their own care.

The fund is set at £2 million per year, over the next two years.

The Self Management Fund will encourage good practice to be shared and innovative approaches to be developed. LTCAS will work with those organisations who will receive funding to capture learning gained through the projects and share this widely across Scotland.

Full details including guidance notes, eligibility and criteria for the fund can be found at the LTCAS website www.ltcas.org.uk where an application pack can also be downloaded.

The Self Management Fund is a key recommendation of 'Gaun Yersel – The Self Management Strategy for Scotland' published in 2008 in partnership between LTCAS and the Scottish Government.

The Self Management Strategy is informed by the lived experiences of people with long term conditions.

The strategy calls for:

• People to have more access to high quality information about their condition and its impact on their life.
• People to have more access to support including peer support.
• Increased provision of emotional and mental health support for people with long term physical conditions.
• A change in culture so that people – those receiving and those delivering services – have the confidence and capacity to work together as partners.
• Better partnership working by NHS, voluntary sector and local authorities.

Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Cabinet Secretary, Health and Wellbeing (Scottish Government) said:

“People who live with long term conditions know their own needs better than anyone. That’s why I’ve been such a strong supporter of the innovative approach of Gaun Yersel’, the self-management strategy we encouraged the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland to develop – rooted in people’s own direct experience of living with their conditions.

The Self Management Fund is the single most important mechanism for turning the principles set out in Gaun Yersel’ into reality, and I’m delighted the Scottish Government is able to provide funding of £2 million a year in each of the next two financial years.

The voluntary sector has a proud tradition of helping people live well with long term conditions, and also of developing new approaches to working in partnership with the health service. I hope the grants made under the Fund will encourage a wide range of innovative and effective initiatives to flourish.”

For further information contact Kevin Geddes, Director of Self Management, details below.

Contact: Kevin Geddes, Venlaw Building, 349 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4AA
Phone: 0141 404 0231
Email: kevin.geddes@ltcas.org.uk
Website: www.ltcas.org.uk