MYAN E-Bulletin: Issue 15: Mar - Apr 2008

3. Funding & Other Opportunities

FUNDING

Awards for Young Musicians

Awards for Young Musicians supports the UK's most talented young musicians (aged 5-18) who, because of financial need, may be prevented from fulfilling their creative potential.

Developing a young person's musical ability requires considerable investment: hours dedicated to practice, travel to be taught by the best available teachers, specialised courses to expand musical horizons and build on skills, and the purchase or loan of high quality instruments. All these cost a great deal of money.

In families where income is limited, it is often impossible to find the funds to support these expenses. This is where AYM aims to help. By fundraising from a wide range of sources, we run an annual awards process, whereby £50,000 is distributed to the most talented young musicians in the greatest financial need. We also offer a year-round advice and information service for young musicians and their families.

Each year we make awards of between £200 & £2000, based on evidence of musical talent and financial need.

We make awards to help with:

• the purchase or hire of musical instruments and accessories
• music lessons
• weekend music schools
• music courses
• orchestra fees
• travel

Applicants are required to:

• have achieved distinction in their last music exam, or, if they haven't taken exams, show evidence of this level of ability
• be recommended by their music teacher
• have their families show evidence of financial need

Applications require separate letters of recommendation from music teachers.

Also available is the £1000 Edith Hemingway Memorial Award given to our top young musician resident in the North West of England. This award was established in memory of Edith Hemingway (1923-2006), a talented and enthusiastic amateur singer from Burnley.

For further information please see our guidelines and applications page at www.a-y-m.org.uk/guide.html.

An adjudication process takes place every spring and awards are made in June. The application form is available to download from the website and completed applications (including teachers' references) must be received by 4 April.

Mentor UK CHAMP Awards

Mentor UK, the drug and alcohol misuse prevention charity for children and young people, is calling on the public, professionals and young people to nominate projects for the Mentor UK CHAMP Awards. This is a biennial awards scheme aimed at recognising projects in England, Scotland and Wales that help prevent children and young people aged 14 or under from misusing alcohol - both now and in their future lives.

In 2008, Mentor UK is seeking projects that promote healthy attitudes and behaviours and which help children and young people avoid the dangers of alcohol misuse. You can nominate your own or someone else's project with awards being made in the following categories:

• work in schools
• work in the community
• projects led by young people

Projects might, for example, be as diverse as young people putting together their own websites, classroom-based work, sports schemes or mentoring projects in the community. The winners in each category will receive £10,000 cash and a further £10,000 worth of consultancy support to help them improve, expand and share their activities. The final selection of winners will be made by panels of young people aged 14 and under. To find out more go to www.mentorfoundation.org/about_mentor.php?nav=3-27-34-150 The closing date to email or post your entry is 20 April.

Clore Performing Arts Awards

The Clore Performing Arts Awards (previously the Small Grants Programme) funds performing arts education initiatives aimed at children and young people (aged 0-18) across the UK. The Awards will be worth a total of £1 million to the sector over a five-year period from 2005 to 2010.

The Clore Duffield Foundation has launched these Awards with the chief aim of providing children and young people with opportunities to experience performing arts education at its best.

The Awards make grants for creative projects with under 18s. The Awards will fund education programmes that cover every aspect of the performing arts including opera, dance, music, musical theatre, the spoken word and theatre. Organisations must be either a registered charity or a limited company to apply. Early years settings, primary, middle and secondary schools, sixth-form colleges, SEN schools and voluntary youth organisations are eligible to apply. Both professional and amateur arts organisations are eligible to apply. Applicants must be able to demonstrate both artistic excellence and fully participatory experience for young people.

The Awards will fund project costs ranging from £1,000 to £10,000. The Clore Duffield Foundation prefers to be the major funding body. The total project budget should not exceed £30,000. See website for exclusions and further information.

Application forms can be downloaded from the website (see below). The deadline for Round 7 is 12 March.

The Clore Duffield Foundation, Studio 3, Chelsea Manor Studios, Flood Street, London SW3 5SR Tel: 0207 351 6061 Fax: 0207 351 5308 Email: info@cloreduffield.org.uk Website: www.cloreduffield.org.uk/small_intro.htm

LankellyChase Foundation Children’s Summer Playshemes Small Grants 2008

Each year the Trustees of the LankellyChase Foundation set aside funds for summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5 & 13.

Preference is given to small local playschemes lasting 4-6 weeks, and groups planning special activities for youngsters who are disadvantaged.  This includes summer activities for children in refuges and young carers.

They welcome applications from black voluntary sector and minority ethnic groups.

A limited number of grants are disbursed in small amounts, between £200 & £500, to organisations in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.  In total approximately 150 grants are made each year.

If you wish to be considered please read the following guidelines and then complete the application form and return it as soon as possible, but not later than Friday 2nd May.

They support: Summer Playschemes for children aged 5-13 years; small local schemes lasting for 2-6 weeks; schemes catering for youngsters who are disadvantaged; schemes with strong volunteer support; schemes held in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Preference will be given to applications from organisations with an annual income of less than £300,000 per annum.

They will not support:

• Playschemes with a budget of over £12,000
• Day Care
• Schemes promoting religious beliefs or customs
• Summer camps
• Club or family holidays
• Replacing equipment

Full guidelines and application form can be downloaded from their website. LankellyChase Foundation, 1 The Court, High Street, Harwell, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0EY. Tel & Fax: 01235 820044 Website: www.lankellychase.org.uk

Yapp Charitable Trust

The Yapp Charitable Trust makes small grants, for running costs and salaries, to small charities in England and Wales to help sustain their existing work. The Trustees decided to concentrate on sustaining existing work after we asked our applicants what type of funding they found it most difficult to raise.

We make grants to small charities to sustain their existing work with:

• elderly people
• children and young people aged 5-25
• people with disabilities or mental health problems
• people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin - such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending

We also make grants to sustain small charities' existing work in the fields of:

• education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children)

We are not able to fund work which does not come into one of the above categories

Size and type of grant
We give grants for running costs and salaries for up to three years. Grants are for a maximum of £3,000 per year.

Most of our grants are for more than one year because we give priority to ongoing needs.

Like most other funders, we have many more applications than we can fund. In the past year we have only been able to make a grant to 1 in 4 of the applications we have considered.

We do not accept applications from:

• charities whose total annual expenditure is more than £60,000
• charities that are not registered with the Charity Commission in England & Wales. You must have your own charity number or be excepted from registration. Industrial & Provident Societies and Community Interest Companies are not eligible to apply
• new organisations - you must have been operating as a fully constituted charity for at least 3 years, even though you may have registered as a charity more recently

We do not make grants for:

• new work - we provide continuation funding to sustain existing work that has been happening for at least a year. We do not offer grants to launch new or additional activities nor to put on special events
• We do not offer funding to create new paid posts even if the work is now being done by volunteers
• capital-type expenditure - equipment, buildings, renovations, furnishings, minibuses.
• work with under-5s
• childcare
• holidays and holiday centres
• core funding of general community organisations such as community associations, community centres and general advice services, because some of their work is outside our charitable objects
• bereavement support
• debt advice
• ommunity safety initiatives
• fundraising groups raising money to benefit another organisation such as a hospital or a school
• individuals - including charities raising funds to purchase equipment for or make grants to individuals

To send a query or request an application pack email info@yappcharitabletrust.org.uk, phone 01484 683403 or write to Margaret Thompson, Yapp Charitable Trust, 47A Paris Road, Scholes, Holmfirth HD9 1SY.

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Wanted: Youth Music Trustees

Youth Music is aiming to recruit two new trustees to take up post by 31 July 2008. As well as having a keen interest in its aims and objectives, a passion for music and being able to contribute strategically across a wide range of issues, interested candidates should possess expertise in the following specialisms:

Finance
For this post you should bring suitable senior experience of charity finance, audit, corporate governance, strategy and planning in order to play a key role in overseeing the financial health and statutory compliance of the organisation.

Youth Matters
For this post the postholder would be expected to have good knowledge and experience of the Youth sector and be able to contribute towards the strategic development of Youth Music's work as it impacts on the children and young people, who it aims to serve.

Appointments are initially for up to three years and may be extended for further periods of up to three years, normally up to a maximum of nine years continuous tenure. The Board meets four times per year and meetings are generally at Youth Music's main offices near London Bridge. The finance and audit committee, a sub-committee of the Board, meets twice a year. The annual trustee retreat (with overnight stay), normally held outside London, provides an opportunity for the Board, Chief Executive and Senior Management Team to consider strategic issues in greater depth. Although trustee posts are unpaid, travel and other expenses will be reimbursed. Youth Music is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Please visit the website at www.youthmusic.org.uk for more information about Youth Music. If you are interested in becoming a trustee and have the skills, time and enthusiasm to do so then please forward your CV and covering letter by 31 March to Claire Carter, Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive at claire.carter@youthmusic.org.uk

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