Funding News Issue 118 | July 2008 Funding information for voluntary and community groups in South Yorkshire. Produced by SYFAB www.syfab.org.uk Case Study: The challenges groups face in attracting funding whilst staying in touch with their original aims... News: Sport England reopens its sponsorship fund for grassroots projects... Big Lottery Young Peoples Fund 2 Young People’s Fund 2: Local Grants As reported in the last edition of Funding News, the Big Lottery Young People’s Fund 2: Local Grants is now open. Up to £38 million is available through grants of between £10,000 and £500,000 for youth-led projects and services focused on changing the lives of young people aged 10 – 18. The programme will also support projects working with young people up to the age of 25 if they are finding the change to independent living difficult. The programme has two aims: • To support organisations that provide services to young people, ensuring young people lead and develop activities and services they would like in their local area. In addition young people should be involved in the review of policies and procedures • To help achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes, which are: – To be healthy – Stay safe – Have improved economic well-being – Make a positive contribution – Enjoy and achieve in life. Projects must be led by young people from start to finish. The fund would like to support projects that increase understanding of young people’s needs and create further opportunities for involvement in things that affect young people’s lives. The programme is open to voluntary and community sector organisations to support activities and services lasting between 1 and 5 years. Organisations can apply for up to £50,000 to develop land or buildings; however the land and building developments should cost no more than £200,000 in total. Only one application from each organisation, or an independent branch of a larger organisation, is permitted under this programme. The organisation Participation Works has developed a range of resources to give advice to organisations on how to improve young people’s involvement. Voluntary and community organisations can access these resources for free, visit www.participationworks.org.uk or call 0845 603 6725 for more information. Deadline: 16 October 2008 Contact: Big Lottery Fund Telephone: 0845 410 2030 Website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk NEWS Sportsmatch from Sport England has re-opened. The scheme is designed to encourage new or additional sponsorship investment, by matching pound for pound commercial sponsorship or funding from trusts/private donors, for sporting projects that aim to increase participation and/or improve performance at grassroots level. Funding is available between £1,000 and £50,000. Priority will be given to schemes that benefit: • Young people • Disability groups • Black and minority ethnic groups • Women and girls. The fund particularly supports revenue schemes, e.g. coaching schemes, tournaments and festivals, setting up a new team/league, facility hire. Capital projects may be supported if the total cost is £10,000 or under. Both the organisation and sponsor must make joint applications. Deadline: Apply at any time Contact: Sportsmatch Telephone: 08458 508 508 Email: info@sportsmatch.co.uk Website: www.sportsmatch.co.uk Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales has simplified its guidelines and application process. Grant giving will now all be under one programme: the Community Programme. The Foundation supports small to medium-sized registered charities that help disadvantaged people engage in their community. Core costs are supported, including running costs and salaries, and grants are available for up to three years. Grant levels are determined by the size of your charity and the priority that the work commands. Deadline: Apply at any time Contact: Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales Telephone: 0870 411 1223 Email: enquiries@lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk Website: www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk The Tesco Charity Trust gives grants to children, people with special needs and older people. Applications are accepted for amounts from £1,000 to a maximum of £4,000. Funding is for providing practical benefits, such as equipment and resources for projects that directly benefit children, the elderly, adults and children with disabilities, who live in the local communities around their stores. There are two grants categories: • Grants to support children’s welfare and children’s education (including special needs schools) for children aged 0 - 19 years old Deadlines: next submission dates in 2009 • Grants to support elderly people and/or people with disabilities. Deadlines: applications accepted between 1 August and 30 September 2008 Contact: Tesco Charity Trust Telephone: 01992 646 768 Email: tescocommunityawards@ccworks.co.uk Website: www.tescocorporate.com/charitiesandfundraising.htm Biffaward operate a small grants scheme, which offers grants between £250 and £5,000 for site-based improvement work. To be eligible the site must: • Be situated within 10 miles of a Biffa operation • Also within 10 miles of a landfill site (owned by any company) • Eligible to be registered with Entrust under category D • Be open for a minimum of 104 days of full public access to the project per year. Equipment and running costs are not covered and your project must not cost more than £10,000 in total. Deadline: Apply at any time Contact: Biffaward, Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts Telephone: 01636 670 000 Email: biffaward@rswt.org Website: www.biffaward.org The Hilton in the Community Foundation supports registered charities working on education and health projects with young people. There is no limit on the amount of money that a charity can request, and funding can be up to 3 years, although in practice, the Foundation will generally not make awards of over £50,000 per year. The Foundation also operates monthly draws of accommodation vouchers, which can be used by charities for raffle or auction prizes or fundraising events. The Sponsored Grants programme by Hilton Hotels also identifies and nominates local groups working with children or young people; you do not need to be a registered charity. There is a Hilton Hotel in Sheffield. It is recommended groups contact the PA to the general manager at the hotel to introduce the organisation before making an application. Deadline: Young People, Education and Health: 4 August 2008 and 28 October 2008 Sponsored Grants: Apply at any time Contact: Hilton in the Community Foundation Telephone: 020 7605 7733 Email: info@hilton-foundation.org.uk Website: www.hilton-foundation.org.uk Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has updated and expanded the exclusions for their Main Grants programme. Contact: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Telephone: 020 7297 4700 Email: info@esmeefairbairn.org.uk Website: www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk South Yorkshire Open Forum has launched the Amazing People website. The site provides access to publicity resources and offers a free directory entry and microsite if you don’t already have a website. Contact: South Yorkshire Open Forum Telephone: 0845 388 0096 Email: enquiries@syopenforum.org.uk Website: www.amazingpeople.org.uk The Barrow Cadbury Trust has launched a new funding strand aimed at encouraging people to work together from different ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds to tackle mutual problems. A small number of grants up to £30,000 are available. The trust is particularly interested in grassroots, user-led projects based in urban areas that bring about positive change for the community as a whole rather than particular sections of it. Deadline: Apply at any time Contact: Barrow Cadbury Trust Telephone: 020 7632 9060 Email: general@barrowcadbury.org.uk Website: www.bctrust.org.uk Rosa, the first UK-wide fund devoted exclusively to championing and investing in charities working with women and girls, has been launched. Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 will be available from 2009. Deadline: Not open until 2009 Contact: Rosa Telephone: 020 7324 3044 Email: info@rosauk.org Website: www.rosauk.org The deadline for expressing interest in the Innovation Exchange Next Practice Programme is approaching. The programme includes access to the NESTA Innovation Exchange Fund and will support innovative activities for independent living and excluded young people. A combination of in-kind support and funding of between £10,000 and £40,000 will be available. Deadline: 31 July 2008 Contact: Innovation Exchange Telephone: 0207 259 1368 Email: interact@innovation-exchange.org Website: innovation-exchange.org SYFAB Staff News There are a few staff changes here at SYFAB to tell you about. Our Development Team is finally back to full strength. We have recruited Lesley Wilkinson as our Doncaster Development Worker, and Jim McLaughlin as Rotherham Development Worker. Ian Paisley, who had been the Rotherham Worker, will be taking on the Barnsley Development Worker role. The new staff will all be in post from July, so will be available to meet groups and answer your queries. Our new full-time Information Worker, Bianca King, has been in post since April. As part of the Information Service, Bianca helps research and produce our funding information, carries out funding searches, and will shortly take over editorial responsibility for Funding News. Contact: SYFAB Telephone: 0114 249 4343 Email: enquiries@syfab.org.uk Website: www.syfab.org.uk CASE STUDY This month we talk to Charlotte Williams from Station House Community Association in Thurnscoe, about the challenges established groups face in attracting funding whilst staying in touch with their original aims. Why was Station House Community Association set up, and what does it do? Station House Community Association was set up in 1996 in response to the withdrawal of the family support service delivered by the Children’s Society. In the last twelve years the services havec hanged to meet the shifting needs of this community. Our current services are play group sessions, after school and holiday clubs. Based on Lidget Lane, Thurnscoe, we are at the heart of one of the most deprived areas in Barnsley. Transport links are challenging, 16% of adults claim long-term sickness benefits (50% above Barnsley average) and many families are larger than the Barnsley average. Adults who do earn an income generally have poorly paid work, and with low educational attainment it is difficult for them to climb the corporate ladder. Thurnscoe is changing, there is a major 10-year housing development scheme and there has been a large amount of European money pumped into the area. However this community still has a long way to go to catch up with other areas within Barnsley. The housing renewal project is a major commitment, although for the next ten years the community has to live and work in a massive building site! But for the present, a boy born in this area is still likely to live ten years less than if he was born in most other wards of Barnsley. How have the funding needs of the organisation changed over this period? When Station House first opened as a community-led project it inherited a service that offered free or heavily subsidised activities. In the early days, the council and social services continued to fund many of the projects and core staff. Over the years this funding has been dwindling down and in the last five years there has been no statutory funding. This has meant that the service has been reliant on grants and income generation. Families now have to pay for services (at a reduced rate of course) moving away from traditional charity work towards social enterprise. The voluntary committee have always responded to the needs of the community and tried to find funding to meet those needs. Much of the work has been done voluntarily but this is becoming increasingly difficult. The community has a smaller pool of adults able to offer voluntary hours, partly due to the government’s back-to-work agenda, leaving an ageing population to make up for this loss. As many of our current services involve childcare, the recent change in regulations (background checks and an increasing demand for formal qualifications etc) has also had a detrimental affect on our ability to recruit and retain volunteers. This has meant that there has been additional pressure to find funds to cover wages and, combined with the massive increases in insurance, gas, electricity etc, has stretched our finances to the limit. This month we have been informed that the council can no longer offer us a subsided rent and we will have to pay full market price. We have never had peppercorn rent but one more big increase may be one step too far. To enable us to manage the problems we have strict monitoring processes, stringent financial controls and will take any opportunity possible to earn some income. We know exactly what our running costs are, and what our earning potential is, and use these as targets to work towards. In a previous life I worked in sales and everything was target driven. I have taken some of those principles and applied them to this organisation, so staff have clear targets to work to. An example of this is that we did not have a clear spending allocation for the replacement of toys. Now the manager has a small weekly allowance which she manages. By micro managing the budget allocations we ensure that we do not overspend on the whole budget. Do you find any tension between chasing funding andsticking to your aims? Originally this organisation was set up as a charity to relieve poverty. There has been a subtle move away from services free at the point of access, to making contributions towards running costs. These charges have had to rise faster than inflation to cover the shortfall left by the reduction of external funding and it is a challenge to ensure that we are still meeting our charitable aims. By having service users heavily involved in the decision making process we believe that we are very much in touch with the needs of this community. A quarter of the board are current service users, and the rest have been service users at some time. The committee all work or live in this village, therefore their understanding of the challenges that our community face is first hand. We do not work in isolation; our links to the local schools and other child-focused activities are also vital for informing our activities. Our biggest funding headache is core cost funding. Our strategy is to generate some income ourselves so that where there is a shortfall, we can direct the earned income towards that. It’s not easy and we are always mindful of charity law in relation to trading - we can’t afford any mistakes! The problem with project funding is that projects add no real additional capacity for trying out new methods of raising income: projects are self-contained and do what they say on the tin. Core funding allows for some capacity to try different approaches that would address the issues of further funding. It’s this innovation that has the potential to keep this organisation solvent. When we do submit funding applications, as a matter of course we have a standard administration/management fee. This supportsour core funding. Without giving too many ideas away for free (I could sell anyone some ideas, therefore generating some more income!!) we have trialled a variety of new ventures. We now offer staffed children’s parties giving families an alternative to the “fun pubs” which earn us a small profit. We have worked in partnership with a Doncaster furniture recycling social enterprise to have second hand furniture sales, and we now offer hot lunches (at a small cost) for the children who attend the holiday clubs. What are your plans for the future? We cannot be complacent about our future; we have to transform to meet both the changing landscape of funding and the changing needs of our community. We are already seeing the effects in Thurnscoe of the reduction in funding. The youth club, which started at Station House, has had to close some of its sessions and is now run on a purely voluntary basis whilst other community centres are close to closure and some groups have already folded. As for Station House, we will be here as long as is viable. The committee, staff and volunteers are all totally committed to continuing to deliver services that this community desperately need. The irony is that we have a waiting list for our childcare services so we know that there is a demand. We are the last remaining playgroup in the Dearne and offer the only holiday and after school provision for this area. We are clear that parents cannot afford to pay the full cost of these services and have to be creative in how we are developing new income generating services to subside the childcare. An example of this is a joint venture with another social enterprise to deliver childcare training locally. Also, like many other groups we are also working towards being contract ready, so that when the council do start to procure services, we are ready to meet that challenge. It’s our mission to help this community help itself. Contact: Charlotte Williams, Station House Community Association Telephone: 01709 880 682 Email: info.shca@btconnect.com DISTRICT NEWS BARNSLEY SYFAB advice surgery sessions for Barnsley groups to discuss specific funding issues and get advice and help with your funding applications. Venue: Voluntary Action Barnsley, 35 Queen’s Road, Barnsley, S71 1AN 10.00 – 4.00, Wednesday 9 July 10.00 – 4.00, Wednesday 23 July You need to book an appointment. Contact: Ian Paisley, SYFAB Telephone: 01709 514 258 Email: ian@syfab.org.uk DONCASTER All of the Doncaster CEN Small Grants Scheme funding has now been allocated so no new applications can be submitted. The Doncaster Community Empowerment Network only has funding secured until the end of September 2008 and may have to close. Doncaster CVS have organised a petition to take to the Doncaster Discover the Spirit Board to campaign for the continuation of the CEN’s work. Copies of the petition are available from the Doncaster CVS website. Deadline: Petition responses by 10 July Contact: Sam O’Neill, Doncaster CEN Telephone: 01302 343 300 Email: soneill@doncastercvs.org.uk Website: www.doncastercen.org.uk Website: www.doncastercvs.org.uk/userfiles/news/Petition%20e-mail.pdf for the petition ROTHERHAM SYFAB’s 8 session course, Funding and Fundraising for Community and Voluntary Groups, will be running at the RAIN Building in Rotherham town centre this autumn. The course will run on Wednesday mornings from 1 October to 26 November. Bookings are now open. This is what you can expect to learn about on the course: Session 1: Introduction to fundraising Session 2: Planning and preparation for fundraising Session 3: Sources of funding Session 4: Applying for funding part 1 Session 5: Applying for funding part 2 Session 6: Financial planning for fundraising Session 7: Evaluation and Monitoring Session 8: Portfolio Building/Evidence gathering. More information on the course and booking forms are available on our website or by contacting SYFAB. Contact: Diane Harding or Sheila Bhandal, SYFAB Telephone: 0114 249 4343 Email: diane@syfab.org.uk or sheila@syfab.org.uk Website: www.syfab.org.uk/training.php Voluntary Action Rotherham Training Courses Venue: All courses at Voluntary Action Rotherham, The Spectrum, Coke Hill, Rotherham S60 2HX • ALITO Workshop. All you need to know to register with and use the Alito e-procurement system. 10.30 – 12.00, Tuesday 29 July - Cost: £10 per place • Negotiation Training – Thinking “Win – Win” This one day course seeks to provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to conduct successful negotiations. 9.30 – 4.30, Wednesday 8 October - Cost: £100 per place • Sustainability. A workshop in partnership with Charity Bank to look at issues around sustainable business. Covering marketing, change, productivity, trading, loan finance, examples and planning. 9.30 – 3.30, Tuesday 2 September - Cost: £15 per place You need to book a place on all these courses. Contact: Philip Gilbert, Voluntary Action Rotherham Telephone: 01709 726 895 Email: philip.gilbert@varotherham.org.uk Website: www.varotherham.org.uk Rotherham MBC Commissioning Opportunity In the near future, Rotherham MBC will be commissioning organisations to deliver projects funded by European Social Fund to work with 14 – 19 year olds who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). Community and voluntary organisations of all sizes are eligible to be commissioned. If you are interested you need to complete a pre-tender questionnaire as soon as possible in order to get on the list of preferred suppliers. Contact the Procurement Team at Voluntary Action Rotherham if you are interested and would like to be kept informed. Contact: Sandra Greatorex or Philip Gilbert, Voluntary Action Rotherham Telephone: 01709 723 099 or 01709 726 895 Email: sandra.greatorex@varotherham.org.uk or philip.gilbert@varotherham.org.uk Website: www.varotherham.org.uk SHEFFIELD Sheffield Funding Forum Keeping it going - making your money work for you. Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW 10.30 – 1.00, Tuesday 8 July Real life hints and tips from groups that have accessed new income streams plus information on raising and managing unrestricted income. Plus, a local charitable trust gives their perspective on sustainability. You don’t need to book a place – just turn up on the day Contact: Voluntary Sector Liaison Team, Sheffield City Council Telephone: 0114 273 4113 Email: vslt@sheffield.gov.uk MONEY The MSE Charity has been launched by MoneySavingExpert.com, to support groups and projects that will help educate people about money, debt and consumer issues. Grants of up to £5,000 are available for a wide range of projects. Deadline: Apply at any time Contact: MSE Charity Email: stuart@msecharity.com Website: www.msecharity.com The Joanies Trust has grants of around £1,000 to support projects working with young people, aged 11-25. Applicants must be registered charities. The Trust wishes to fund projects that offer intensive support and those that promote preventative work. It is particularly interested in projects leading to individual development through integration, work opportunities or accreditation. Deadline: 31 August 2008 Contact: Joanies Trust Telephone: 01531 633 345 Website: www.joaniestrust.org.uk The Community Foundation for Greater Manchester is administering the Kellogg’s Active Living Fund. The fund provides small grants up to £1,000 for projects that directly lead people to be active in sustained physical activity. The fund will support projects engaging young people up to 25 years of age, prioritising projects involving family units and children and adults undertaking physical activity together. Deadline: The panel meet every two months Contact: Louise Daly, Active Living Community Fund Telephone: 0161 2140 940 Email: kelloggs@communityfoundation.co.uk Website: www.kelloggs.co.uk/company/corporateresponsibility/activelivingfund Age Concern has small grants of up to £1,000 for new or expanding services or activities, which directly benefit older people. The grants are aimed at voluntary organisations with an income of less than £250,000 and can be used for capital or revenue costs. Deadline: 17 July 2008 Contact: The Grants Unit, Age Concern England Telephone: 020 8765 7738 Email: via website Website: www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/grants_members.asp The second round of the Department of Health’s User-led Organisations Development Fund is now open. The fund will support the Government’s independent living strategy, through setting up user-led Action and Learning Sites in local authority areas for disabled people. Applicants must be local organisations, run and managed by disabled people. £900,000 is available to cover up to 14 locations. Barnsley is excluded as it received funding in the first wave, but other areas of South Yorkshire are eligible. There are two types of grant available: • Grants of up to £50,000 for organisations looking to improve their capacity to become the user-led organisation in their area • Grants of up to £100,000 for user-led organisations (who have been running for at least five years) who are willing to mentor less-developed organisations to create a user-led organisation in areas where there is none. Deadline: 28 July 2008 Contact: User-led Organisations Project Team, Department of Health Telephone: 020 7972 3058 Email: ULO@dh.gsi.gov.uk Website: www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_085014 www.officefordisability.gov.uk/working/independentlivingstrategy.asp The Department for International Development (DFID) Development Awareness Fund is open for applications. There is a main and mini grants scheme, both of which fund work that increases public awareness and understanding of international development issues, global interdependence and poverty. The Main Grants scheme has around £1.5 million available in grants of £10,000 to £100,000 per year for up to three years. The Mini Grants scheme offers grants from £1,000 to £10,000 per year for up to three years. Two funding seminars for potential applicants are planned for the week of 7-11 July in London and the West Midlands. Main Grant Scheme Deadline: 30 September 2008 for initial concept notes Contact: Triple Line Consulting Limited Telephone: 020 8788 4672 Email: daf@tripleline.com Website: www.dfid.gov.uk/funding/daf.asp Mini Grants Scheme Deadline: 31 October 2008 Contact: Sejal Patel, Development Education Association Telephone: 020 7922 7935 Email: sejal.patel@dea.org.uk Website: www.dfid.gov.uk/funding/daf.asp Natural England has re-launched Countdown 2010, a £5 million Biodiversity Action Fund. Grants of between £25,000 and £250,000 a year for a maximum of three years are available. The grants will support work that contributes to the conservation of species and habitats covered by UK Biodiversity Action Plans, and to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Applications should be from voluntary sector organisations but partnership working with schools, businesses and local/regional biodiversity partnerships will be looked on favourably. Grants can cover up to 50% of project costs and can cover revenue and capital items. Deadline: 18 July 2008 Contact: John Bedford or Trudie Mills, Natural England Telephone: 01733 455 415 or 01733 455 185 Email: countdown2010@naturalengland.org.uk Website: www.naturalengland.org.uk/conservation/grants-funding/countdown.htm www.countdown2010.org The Match Fund programme from V, the youth volunteering charity, is now open. The fund will match funding from private sector donors, grant making trusts or individuals to fund youth volunteering projects for the 16-25 age group. The projects are run under six themes: • Community cohesion • Environment • Health • Children and young people •Poverty • Human rights. The types of volunteering opportunities that will be supported include: •Arts • Sports • Multimedia • Online • Peer mentoring • Campaigning • Educational • International activities. V will prioritise projects where at least 50% of young people have not volunteered within the last 12 months or are new to volunteering, and those that target specific groups of young people. The minimum level of funding which can be matched per year is £10,000 (so total project funding would be £20,000) and the maximum is £250,000 (total project funding of £500,000). The minimum amount from each donor is £10,000. Donations in kind are eligible on top of the cash minimum. Funding is mainly for revenue costs. Deadline: 29 August 2008 and 31 October 2008 Contact: Match Fund, V Telephone: 020 7960 7000 Email: matchfund@wearev.com Website: www.wearev.com Funding Diary 3 July Grassroots Grants local funders due to be announced 4 July Sita’s Enhancing Communities large grants deadline 11 July Changing Lives deadline 15 July Groundswell Small Grant Award Scheme deadline 17 July Age Concern Small Grants deadline 18 July Natural England Countdown 2010 deadline 18 July Friends Provident Inclusion Fund deadline 18 July Vcharity Vcashpoint deadline 18 July Playground Partnerships deadline 28 July Department of Health’s User-led Organisations Development Fund deadline 29 July Myplace fast track deadline for youth facilities 31 July Environment Agency Action Earth final deadline 31 July Social Enterprise Investment Fund second round deadline July/ August Healthy Hearts grants deadline Early August Scottish Power Green Energy Trust deadline 4 August Hilton in the Community Foundation deadline 14 August PRS Foundation Awards for Festivals and Awards to Performance Groups deadline 15 August Community Sustainable Energy Programme deadline 19 August Mediabox Stage 1 application deadline 22 August Sita’s Enhancing Communities small grants deadline 29 August Big Lottery Fund Family Learning Programme deadline 30 September Myplace standard route deadline for youth facilities 30 September Repair Grants for Places of Worship deadline 30 September Tesco Charity Trust (Elderly people and people with disabilities strand) deadline Autumn Pride in Your Community bi-annual deadline 28 October Hilton in the Community Foundation deadline 7 November Community Sustainable Energy Programme deadline Late in 2008 Equality and Human Rights Commission Grants Programme re-opens 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: www.syfab.org.uk 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 Contact Details Information Service Amanda Bennett, Bianca King 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 Manager Danny Antrobus Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: danny@syfab.org.uk Fundind Development Workers Barnsley - Ian Paisley Telephone: tbc email: ian@syfab.org.uk Doncaster - Lesley Wilkinson Telephone: tbc email: lesley@syfab.org.uk Rotherham - Jim McLaughlin Telephone: 01709 514 258 email: jim@syfab.org.uk Sheffield - Sara Williams Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: sara@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 receive Funding News by post, or change your contact details: Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham groups contact: Sheila Bhandal, SYFAB Telephone: 0114 249 4343 email: sheila@syfab.org.uk Sheffield groups contact: Andrea Allsopp, Sheffield Information Services Telephone: 0114 273 5038 email: andrea.allsopp@sheffield.gov.uk To receive Funding News by email: Contact Sheila Bhandal at SYFAB as above. 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