SYFAB Funding News Issue 110 | October 2007 Funding information for voluntary and community groups in South Yorkshire. Produced by SYFAB www.syfab.org.uk Connecting Communities The Government has launched the third and final round of Connecting Communities Plus Community Grants. It supports practical action to increase race equality and improve community cohesion. The emphasis is on supporting locally managed organisations to do work at very local level. There is just under £1 million available in this round. Your project should address one of the four themes that have been common to all funding rounds; • Improving access and outcomes for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in education, employment, health, housing and the Criminal Justice System • Increasing BME communities’ confidence in public services • Tackling racism and extremism • Bringing together communities from different races and faiths, and promoting a shared sense of belonging (community cohesion). The grants are for locally run and managed organisations with an income of less than £50,000 per year, run by volunteers or with one full-time or two part-time paid staff. Grants of up to £12,000 will fund start-up costs, staff costs, running costs and training costs. Most grants will be for between £6,000 and £12,000. Capital costs can only be funded if they are linked directly to project activities and total less than 50% of the grant you are requesting. For this round there are also some specific criteria: • Priority will be given to two specific themes: Increasing BME Communities’ Confidence In Public Services and Tackling Racism And Extremism. These two themes have been relatively poorly funded in the previous two rounds. • Applications must be made under only one of the four themes listed above. If a single application highlights more than one it may well be rejected. • You cannot apply if your organisation is currently in receipt of funding from the Race Equality Unit or Cohesion and Faiths Unit of the Department for Communities and Local Government. • Organisations that received grants in round one or two cannot apply to this round. But if you made an unsuccessful application you can apply again. • Organisations will only be allowed to make one application for a single project. • Grants cannot be used for the provision of services to asylum seekers when those services are inconsistent with immigration laws or Home Office policy. This includes: the promotion of work based training; the provision of employment (unless there is express permission for them to seek it); the provision of services or activities to asylum seekers that are intended to assist with the integration of refugees. • Refurbishment costs of premises will not be supported. The fund is administered by the Community Development Foundation. There is a briefing event in Bradford on 19 November for groups thinking of applying. The venue is yet to be confirmed. Contact the Foundation for more details and to book a place. You can receive comments on your draft of application form if you send it before 11 December 2007. The Foundation can also offer help with understanding and completing the application form if English is not your first language. Deadline: 8 January 2008 Contact: Connecting Communities Plus Community Grants, Community Development Foundation Telephone: 01223 400 343 Email: ccplus@cdf.org.uk Website: http://www.cdf.org.uk news News from the Big Lottery Fund (Big) The next round of Advice Plus has been delayed. The round had been due to open in summer 2007 with an October deadline. An announcement is expected by the end of this year. Funding News will keep you posted. You can also sign up to receive email news alerts from the Big Lottery Fund using the email address below. Email: newprogrammes@biglotteryfund.org.uk Website: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/ prog_advice_plus Big has launched a consultation on their proposed aims and arrangements for funding in Round Two of the BASIS programme, which is due to open in early Spring 2008. At the moment it seems Big will invite Infrastructure Development Partnerships to develop applications at regional level, and sub regional consortiums, through lead organisations. In Yorkshire and the Humber, up to £6.1 million will be available. Big expects to fund between 12 and 16 projects. The consultation document is available on the website. Website: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_basis News from South Yorkshire Community Foundation (SYCF) Local Network Fund As we have covered in past issues of Funding News, the Local Network Fund (LNF) ends in March 2008, so applications need to be submitted as soon as possible. The LNF gives grants between £250 and £7,000 for small developing groups working with children and young people aged 0-19 years who are facing disadvantage and/or discrimination. The Community Foundation can help groups with the application form. Contact SYCF for an appointment. Deadline: The last panel will meet in December 2007 Contact: For application forms call the LNF national centre on 0845 1130 161 Return your application to South Yorkshire Community Foundation. Community Champions Fund As we have covered in past issues of Funding News, the Community Champions Fund ends in March 2008, with a final deadline for applications in November 2007. This grant is aimed at individuals who may already support a community group or initiative, or who wish to establish a new project. The funding can support training or buying resources in order to pass on skills and expertise to other members of a new or existing community group. The overall aim of the fund is to capacity build an individual or to enable them to do the same for a group of volunteers. Grants of between £50 and £2,000 are available. Any applicants who have not completed their monitoring for a previous grant awarded by SYCF will not be funded. Deadline: 16 November 2007 Flood Disaster Relief Fund At the time of writing, the flood fund stands at over £750,000 and continues to grow. The Community Foundation is still encouraging people to give donations and to take part in fundraising events. If you have a good idea and would like to raise funds for people affected by the flood please contact the Foundation for a fundraising pack. The next phase of the flood relief fund is due to begin shortly. Everyone who applied in the first phase for an emergency grant will be sent an application for phase 2. Those who did not apply will be able to get forms from the website or by contacting the Foundation directly. The criteria are based around hardship and need. People who are insured or who are working can also apply. There is now a small fund available for community groups who have been directly affected by the flood, or groups that are supporting people who have been affected. More information and application forms are available from the Foundation. Contact for all schemes: South Yorkshire Community Foundation Telephone: 0114 242 4294 Email: admin@sycf.org.uk Website: http://www.sycf.org.uk The government have produced the final report of their third sector review. ‘The Future Role of the Third Sector in Social and Economic Regeneration’ is available online. The report sets measures to build partnerships between the government and the voluntary sector, some of which will make funding available to voluntary organisations. These include: • £117 million of new resources for youth volunteering, building on the work of V • £85 million for third sector infrastructure development to be delivered through Capacitybuilders • A £50 million match fund to help local community foundations develop endowments to secure their grant- making • An extra £10 million to support the transfer of community buildings in addition to the £30 million Community Assets Fund. The report also called for better mechanisms in funding for the third sector including the expectation of three-year contracts between government departments and third sector organisations becoming the norm, starting from 2008. Website: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ third_sector/third_sector_review Case Studies This month we spoke to Donna Jones, Senior Youth Work Practitioner at Sheffield Connexions Service, who supports the Manor & Castle Young People’s Health and Training Project with organisational development. We asked Donna about how the organisation engages young people when planning projects and how this impacts on funding. When was the organisation set up, and what does it do? Manor & Castle Young People’s Health and Training Project set up in 1995 and grew out of a larger organisation, the Manor & Castle Community Safety Project. We undertook needs assessments for the young people aged 13-21 on the Manor/Woodthorpe estate around health issues affecting their lives. It became clear they were not accessing citywide services or often, even local services. As a result of this we set up the Manor Young People’s Health Project and it was the first locally based health provision in the city run by youth workers, rather than health workers. Its priority was more than smoking and contraception; it looked at holistic health to try and reduce health inequalities. We initiated a steering group of young people to undertake research and advise the management committee on the most important health issues. Those young people have now gone on to university, become qualified youth workers or have worked for local organisations. It fitted well with the Community Safety Project ethos because this was carrying out community development, safety and engaging with local young people. We have youth buildings from where we run some of our activities. At any one time we have a range of projects, for example at the moment our Young Leaders in the Community Project is training young people to act as 1 to 1 buddies and mentors to younger children who may have a range of difficulties. Also the young people have recently created a sculpture park in the grounds of the Woodthorpe Centre. How do you engage young people in your organisation? Our guiding principle is ‘Community development with, and on behalf, of young people.’ You can’t separate the two. We involve young people at every level in our organisation. Young people have voices, but sometimes those voices are anti-social, and this ultimately harms them and the community. So we develop work that allows young people to express that voice in ways that are acceptable to them such as sculpture projects, making videos, drama, creating posters and games. These are tools that even if young people are struggling academically, they feel comfortable with and can engage in. All the young people have portfolios that exhibit their work and are accredited under ASDAN (Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network) or the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. We work to constantly positively raise the profile of young people locally, nationally and internationally. How do you plan for a project like Young Leaders in the Community? We use a number of different planning tools. One is a needs assessment for groups of young people carried out by a youth worker who knows these young people well. This helps to identify the main health issues that need to be addressed. Another is a planning tool we use with young people called the A-Z of holistic health work. We can use this to work through all the different things that impact on the health of young people for example, A for abuse or alcohol and B for bullying, etc. The advantage of this is that young people identify health issues affecting them and we can investigate the funding streams relevant to these issues. Another way of discovering local health needs is to look at things such as geographical hot spots e.g. poor environment, specific groups e.g. young single mums, or issues such as drug abuse. We then sit down with young people, other partners and the community and work out where we want to go in the short, medium and long-term. From this we come up with a list of issues to look at, some demanding higher priority. These priorities could be literacy, mental health, environment and training. Each separate project is developed into a detailed two-page project proposal and at this stage we are in a position to contact SYFAB for a funding search. We then use the project proposal to develop a full application such as to the LankellyChase Foundation for our Young Leaders in the Community Project. Who did you apply to for the project, and what success did you have? We were successful in receiving 50% of the total project costs over three years from the LankellyChase Foundation, which was £12,500 per year,. This was under the theme of anti-social behaviour and youth disengagement. So we had to look for the remaining 50%. We approached John Lewis Sheffield and the Abbey Charitable Trust to make up the rest of the funding. John Lewis Sheffield knew us from a literacy project they funded a few years ago and put us forward to John Lewis centrally to be considered for a donation of £5,000. Unfortunately the bid was unsuccessful for this but the local John Lewis Sheffield Charities Committee were keen to support the project and decided to make a donation from the branch of £2,500. Our best relationships with funders are the ones in Sheffield, especially the J G Graves Trust and the Sheffield Town Trust. We had a bike-recycling project called Recycle Cycle and one Trustee from a local charitable trust came out with his own bike to give to the young people to recycle. As a result of this relationship we were asked to represent the country for the Volvo Environmental Award in Sweden. This is an international award that brought us, our community and the funders who have supported us, a lot of publicity. What challenges have you faced with fundraising? Sustaining the organisation’s core costs is becoming more difficult. In the past we didn’t have to worry, but from March 2008, everything finishes and we have to start looking for core costs again. One way we are trying to secure core costs is working a proportion of them in to project costs e.g. adding a cost for transport or room hire. Also the staff will train up in new areas such as literacy or welding. This means our own staff and senior members can deliver the work instead of us having to buy in specialist help. Fundraising takes a phenomenal amount of time, especially for the youth workers who have to build up their confidence with fundraising. So they start off with writing to the local tenants’ association, then the Manor & Castle Development Trust, then to the Sheffield Trusts. We wouldn’t expect the youth workers initially to apply to the Lottery; that’s for the Senior Managers to do. What advice would you give other groups? · Personalise your relationship with funders; get to know someone - this helped keep up our profile with John Lewis Sheffield · Get to know the people you are working with; undertake needs assessments for the young people (or your client group) and get their views · Promotion; this should be constant; we try and get in the newspaper or on the radio at least once a month · Go to SYFAB for a funding search; you get clues and ideas about what funders are looking for as well as how to write the bids · Give evidence; tell funders what you have done with their money, even if you were only granted £20 · Be determined; don’t just apply as a one-off, even if you get a rejection from your first bid, carry on until the funder gets to know you · Get organised; keep track of the funders you are applying to · Make applications real; get a young person/service user to write a cover letter and include photos of past work · Be creative; design projects where young people/people gain new skills. money Capital Projects Sports Projects The Big Lottery Fund (Big) has launched the Community Assets programme that it is delivering on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector. Grants are available for the refurbishment of local authority buildings, enabling their transfer to voluntary sector ownership for community use. This funding will support community assets that are planned to reflect the needs of the local community and a range of community groups, especially those working with disadvantaged communities. There is a total of £30 million available for capital projects only. Priority will be given to projects that demonstrate good partnership working between third sector organisations and local authorities. Due to the short deadline, it’s likely that only projects that already have a working partnership in place will be ready to apply. Local authorities can only support two third sector organisations within their authority area with applications to this fund. The lead applicant should be the current freehold or leasehold owner, which in most cases will be the local authority. Once the asset is transferred, it may be used for its original purpose, or for other purposes. Capital grants of between £150,000 and £1 million will be made specifically for the refurbishment of buildings, for projects lasting no more than two years. Where the project involves the transfer of two or more assets to the same partner, up to £2 million may be available. If you require funding of less than £150,000 or more than £1 million, you must email the Big Lottery Fund before 15 October with details of your proposed project. Funding can be provided either prior to transfer to third sector ownership (where the local authority is the grant recipient), or once the asset has been transferred (where the third sector organisation is the grant recipient). In either case, the grant recipient must also make the application. Deadline: 15 October for amounts less than £150,000 or more than £1 million, 2pm 15 November for full applications Contact: Big Lottery Fund Telephone: For detailed policy queries relating to specific regions please call 0113 224 5301 For all general enquiries about applications please call the Big Advice Line 0845 410 2030 Email: cap@biglotteryfund.org.uk (only for amounts under £150,000 or above £1 million before 15 October) Website: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk Sports Projects UnLtd Sport Relief Awards are available for entrepreneurial young people and groups of young people to develop sports projects. The programme is for 11-21 year olds, who use their passion for sport to bring respect and understanding to their communities by setting up their own projects. Funding of between £250- £5,000 is available. Deadline: Apply at any time Contact: UnLtd Sport Relief Awards Telephone: 0845 3670 770 Email: sportreliefawards@unltd.org.uk Website: http://www.unltd.org.uk The Football Foundation has updated its guidance for the Goalpost Safety Scheme. It will fund new and replacement goals so that they meet the full safety standards. Grants can cover the cost of new or replacement goals of full, youth or mini-soccer size. An individual grant cannot exceed 50% of the cost of a pair of goals up to a maximum of £3,000. Applications are welcome from FA affiliated clubs, local authorities, schools, local community groups and clubs in the National League System Step 7 and below. Deadline: Apply at any time Contact: The Football Foundation Telephone: 0845 345 4555 ext 4214 Website: http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk/ seeking-funding/goalpost-safety-scheme Local Environment Projects Recent changes at WREN mean that groups across South Yorkshire can access greater funding for a wide variety of community, environmental and heritage projects. Funding of between £2,000 and £50,000 for projects that aim to develop and improve community facilities and the natural environment will be available from January 2008. Contact: Stuart Bunney, WREN Telephone: 0113 262 0720 Website: http://www.wren.org.uk Social Enterprise The Adventure Capital Fund is supporting the Footsey 100 event for social enterprise this year with a £15,000 prize for a community enterprise. The prize, together with mentoring support, will go to the best ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pitch on the day. The event is at York Racecourse on 18 October 2007. Website: http://www.footsey.org.uk/overview/index The Department of Health is inviting applications to the first round proper of the Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF) for health and social care in England. SEIF’s aims are to stimulate a vibrant social enterprise sector in the delivery of health and social care services in England, and provide start- up funding and longer-term investment to emerging and existing social enterprises. The Fund will operate for the next four years and will be worth £73 million. In this first year, 2007-08, £1.2 million will be available for revenue and £8.9 million for capital bids. Investment can be in the form of loans, grants and equity capital or a mixture of them. Applications will be open to the social enterprise pathfinder projects that were funded in 2006/07 and to new applicants. Applicants can be multi-agency partnerships, particularly voluntary and community groups, which wish to expand their activities and develop social enterprises across health and social care. Existing social enterprises can also apply. Deadline: The first application round closes on 31 October 2007. A further round will follow later in 2007, with subsequent rounds after that. Contact: Social Enterprise Investment Fund, Department of Health Email: social.enterprise@dh.gsi.gov.uk Website: http://www.dh.gov.uk/socialenterprise Environmental Projects The Volvo Adventure is an awards scheme for environmental activities carried out by young people aged 13-16. The programme is delivered in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme. The best local environmental projects are selected to win a trip to Sweden with prizes of up to $10,000 (US). Deadline: 31 January 2008 Website: http://www.volvoecoadventure.org Media Projects The European Union MEDIA 2007 programme, which supports the European audio-visual sector, has announced four new calls for proposals. As with most European funding, grants will only cover up to 50% of costs, and your work should have a European dimension which will often mean working across more than one member country. The calls for proposals are: Measures to support promotion and market access — Audiovisual festivals. Deadline: 15 October 2007, 30 April 2008 Support for the development of production projects — Fiction, Creative Documentaries and Animation Deadline: 15 November 2007, 15 April 2008 Support for the development of interactive works on all platforms, both online and offline Deadline: 15 November 2007, 15 April 2008 Support for international sales agents of European cinema films Deadline: 15 November 2007. Contact: Media 2007 Website: http://ec.europa.eu/media Children and Young People Application forms for the next round of BBC Children In Need are now available. Grants are for constituted organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people who must be 18 years and under. Your project should demonstrate how children and young people’s lives would be changed for the better. You can fill in and save an application form online or download a copy. Deadline: 30 November and 30 March annually Contact: BBC Children In Need Telephone: 020 8576 7788 Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey FUNDING DIARY October 2007 6 October IT4Communities 2007 IT Volunteer Awards deadline 18 October Dragons Den style prize at Footsey 100 event in York 31 October Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF) support for health services deadline 31 October Department for International Development mini grants deadline Later in 2007 Look out for Advice Plus Round Two announcement 9 November Friends Provident Inclusion Fund Round Three deadline 15 November Community Asset programme deadline 30 November BBC Children In Need deadline 30 November Making Music Yorkshire for projects deadline 31 December Big Lottery Fund Playful Ideas programme deadline Further ahead in 2008 8 January Connecting Communities Plus Community Grants deadline 31 January Volvo Environmental Award entry deadline Most grant schemes in the Funding Diary have been included in Funding News at some point in the past, or will be covered in future issues. You can use the searchable archive on the SYFAB website to find the scheme you are looking for. Website: http://www.syfab.org.uk district news BARNSLEY Advice surgery sessions for Barnsley groups to discuss specific funding issues and get advice and help with your funding applications. Until we have recruited a new Barnsley Development Worker, groups will be able to receive funding advice and support through these sessions. Venue: Voluntary Action Barnsley, 35 Queen’s Road, Barnsley, S71 1AN 1.00 – 4.00 Wednesday 10 October 10.00 – 4.00 Wednesday 24 October You need to book an appointment. Contact: SYFAB Telephone: 01226 320 520 Email: enquiries@syfab.org.uk DONCASTER DOSH is a networking forum that meets every six weeks at Doncaster CVS. The forum is an opportunity to share information, good policies and practices around funding issues. It works together to make sure voluntary and community groups are able to access information about funding and to encourage them to explore appropriate types of funding for their communities and projects. People attending DOSH meetings include representatives from funders such as South Yorkshire Key Fund, South Yorkshire Community Foundation (SYCF), Coalfields Regeneration Trust, Yorkshire Rural Community Council (YRCC), Social Enterprise, plus development workers from across Doncaster Borough. The forum is open to anybody who is involved in funding issues or neighbourhood renewal as an advisor or development worker in the Doncaster Borough. If you would like to attend these meetings or would like more information, please contact Lynne Molloy at Doncaster CVS. Contact: Lynne Molloy, Funding Development Worker, Doncaster CVS Telephone: 01302 343 300 ext 253 Email: lmolloy@doncastercvs.org.uk Due to funds now being fully allocated, the Doncaster CEN NRF Grants Scheme is no longer accepting applications. Support in developing project ideas and advice about alternative funds is available from Lynne Molloy at Doncaster CVS, or by contacting SYFAB for a funding search. Contact: Lynne Molloy, as above ROTHERHAM Rotherham’s Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chest is administered through Key Fund South Yorkshire’s Global Grants Programme. Applications will be accepted up until January 2008 from voluntary and community groups working in the following areas: Aston, Brinsworth, Central, Dinnington, Flanderwell, Kimberworth Park, Maltby, Masbrough, Rawmarsh, Swinton North, Wath, Wath East, West Melton. Grants of up to £5,000 are available for local groups and can be used for activities including: • Coaching qualifications in a wide variety of sports • Activities which support disabled people and their carers • Activities which support people from black and minority ethnic communities • Activities which provide opportunities for older people. For more information and advice or to request an application pack please contact a member of the Global Grants team. Contact: Global Grants Telephone: 0845 140 1400 for an application pack Email: info@sykeyfund.org.uk Website: http://www.sykeyfund.org.uk SHEFFIELD Sheffield Funding Forum Outcomes, Monitoring and Evaluation Venue: Quaker Meeting House, St James St, Sheffield 10.30 - 1.00, Tuesday 23 October There is no need to book, just turn up on the day. Contact: Jade Bann, Voluntary Sector Liaison Team, Sheffield City Council Telephone: 0114 273 4113 Email: vslt@sheffield.gov.uk Brightside and Shiregreen Funding Advice Project Free Fundraising Short Courses in Brightside and Shiregreen Funders are increasingly asking for more evidence to prove that groups can manage funds effectively. Attending courses like this will strengthen your funding bids. Courses can be delivered in house for groups, or one to one for individuals involved in fundraising for your group. Courses on offer include: beginners guide to funding, funding plans, writing funding application letters and monitoring and evaluation. For further information please contact Christine Ventour. Contact: Christine Ventour, SYFAB Funding Development Worker, Brightside and Shiregreen Funding Advice Project, c/o Brightside and Shiregreen Area Action Office, Firth Park Library, 443 Firth Park Road, Sheffield S5 6QQ Telephone: 0114 203 7583 Email: christine@syfab.org.uk Annual General Meeting 2007 Venue: Unity Centre, St Leonards Road, Rotherham Thursday 22 November 10.00 – 3.00 including lunch This year’s AGM includes a Funding Fair and performance from Swamp Circus You need to book a place. Deadline: 1 November Contact: SYFAB Telephone: 0114 249 4343 Email: enquiries@syfab.org.uk Fundraising Training SYFAB are delivering a set of training courses in partnership with Voluntary Action Sheffield (VAS) and Community Education Resource (CEDR). They are funded by the Academy for Community Leadership (AfCL); Lottery Form Filling Courses Rotherham 2007 9.30 - 12.30, Tuesday 6, 13 and 20 November Sheffield 2008 9.30 - 12.30, Wednesday 9, 16 and 23 January Doncaster 2008 9.30 - 12.30, Tuesday 5, 12 and 19 February An Introduction to Funding and Fundraising Rotherham 2007 10.00 - 4.00, Monday 26 November With lunch included Writing Better Funding Applications Rotherham 2008 10.00 - 4.00, Monday 14 January With lunch included Contact: Diane Harding, Training Co-ordinator, SYFAB Telephone: 0114 249 4343 Email: diane@syfab.org.uk contact details Funding News is written and published by South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau. It is free to local voluntary and community groups in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. We try to make sure that information is correct, but cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions. We always include contact details and it is important that you get full information from funders before making any funding applications. You can read the last 10 issues of Funding News on the SYFAB website, along with our weekly Funding News Extra bulletins: http://www.syfab.org.uk South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau contacts: Information Service Amanda Bennett, Sarah Pilkington and Nila Wills Telephone: 0114 276 5460 email: info@syfab.org.uk Training Co-ordinator Diane Harding Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: diane@syfab.org.uk IT Project Danny Antrobus Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: danny@syfab.org.uk Funding Development Workers Barnsley - Contact Sheffield office Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: enquiries@syfab.org.uk Rotherham - Ian Paisley Telephone: 01709 514 258 email: ian@syfab.org.uk Sheffield - Sara Williams Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: sara@syfab.org.uk Worsbrough - Tracy Charlesworth Telephone: 01226 249 904 email: tracy@syfab.org.uk Brightside/Shiregreen - Christine Ventour Telephone: 0114 203 7583 email: christine@syfab.org.uk SYFAB main contact details: The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: enquiries@syfab.org.uk To join the Funding News mailing list, or change your contact details: Sheffield groups contact: Andrea Allsop, Sheffield Information Services Telephone: 0114 273 5038 email: andrea.allsop@sheffield.gov.uk Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham groups contact: Sheila Bhandal, SYFAB Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: sheila@syfab.org.uk If you have news, views or ideas for Funding News, contact: Danny Antrobus Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: danny@syfab.org.uk Funding News is funded by: Sheffield City Council, Barnsley MB Council, Rotherham MB Council, Doncaster South Yorkshire Investment Plan Charity number: 1061118 Funding News is produced in partnership by: South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau and Sheffield City Council © Copyright SYFAB 2007. 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