🎉 FUNDS OPEN

Calling all Isle of Wight not for profit community groups 📣

Two funds open ⬇️

1️⃣ 'Young Island Lives' for young people 11-25 yrs
2️⃣ 'Isle of Wight Community Fund' for Island residents

Read criteria & apply at Grants for Groups ⬇️
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✴️ FUNDING ✴️

We have two new grants opening soon 🎊

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#IsleOfWight #Funding #CommunityGroups

📆 SAVE THE DATE

▶️ We have two funds open to Portsmouth groups

▶️ Join our Grants Manager for a 1 hour webinar designed to help you make a strong application to our open Portsmouth grants

Monday 29 April
10.30am
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📣 Do you work with young people aged 11-25?

💰 We have 2yr funding opportunities for nonprofit community groups supporting young people to gain valuable life & employability skills in Southampton & Eastleigh.

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📸 Monty's Bike Hub

✴️ RECRUITING ✴️

We are seeking an experienced bookkeeper/finance officer to join a dynamic & aspirational small team

🏡 The role is home based with some travel in/around Hampshire & the Isle of Wight.

⬇️ Download our recruitment pack
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📣 TWO NEW FUNDS OPEN 📣

📍 Calling all Portsmouth groups... two new funds are open 👇🏼
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💰 Both funds £1,000 - £5,000 & both close 14 May 📆

1️⃣ PORTSMOUTH CITY COMMUNITY FUND
2️⃣ MONTAGUE NEVILLE DURNFORD & ST LEO CAWTHAN

#Portsmouth

🔦 Celebrating the unseen work of everyday heroes 👏🏽

🦌 This incredible team of Humane Animal Dispatch volunteers work around the clock, reducing animal suffering & freeing up police time so they can put victims first

Hampshire Police HantsPolRural

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📣 GRANT FUNDING OPENING SOON 📣

Keep your eyes peeled for the opening of two new grant funds opening soon 🎉

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#Portsmouth #HealthandWellbeing #'PovertyandInequality

🔦 Community heroes continued

The Fighting Chance Programme from @Turnstyle_UK creates opportunities for vulnerable young people using combat sports helping them back into mainstream schooling.

📸Peter O'Shea with High Sheriff of Hampshire

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🔦 Inspiring stories: Hampshire High Sheriff Awards

Celebrating a small but mighty community group

Tracey & Iason founded Millbrook Matters in lockdown, supporting a drop in reported crimes on Millbrook estate in Southampton from 48 in 2021 to 3 in 2023
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✨ Celebrating good people doing great things

📸 Hugh Sanderson receives his High Sheriff of Hampshire award for leading a team at HMP Winchester training groups of prisoners as listeners to provide face to face support to other prisoners.

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#Samaritans

🎊 We were delighted to host the High Sheriff of Hampshire Awards in celebration of some very special people going above & beyond to make Hampshire a safer place to live

Read more & stay tuned for awardee stories next week ⬇️

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📸 Joe Low

#Hampshire

HIWCF trustee, Krysia Butwilowska, attended 'The Captain's Log' book launch by @TheLiteracyHubs in Southsea 📖

An ex headteacher herself, Krysia was inspired by CEO Becca Dean & her team of volunteers.

'It was an honour to witness young people flourishing.' ~ Krysia

📣 FUNDING OPEN

FORD - Southampton Community Fund is open for applications. It aims to support young people, 11-25 yrs, gain life & employability skills

💰 £6k/yr for 2yrs (up to £12k over 24 months)
📍 Southampton & Eastleigh
📆 Close 29 April
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International Women's Day

Today we celebrate some of the women leading the incredible groups we work with & who champion inclusion every day

Independent Arts
Safe New Futures
Yellow Door
The Literacy Hubs
HIVEPortsmouth
West Wight Sports & Community Centre
Pan Together

📣 GRANT FUNDING OPENING SOON

Watch this space for a new grant fund, aimed at supporting young people to acquire new life & employability skills 💪🏾

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#Eastleigh #Southampton

📣 Charles Burnett Memorial Fund is open for applications

This is one of our larger funds. Please call our Grants Team to discuss your ideas before applying.

💰 £10k/yr for 2 yrs (up to £20k across 2yrs)
📍 New Forest
📆 Closes 17 April
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📽️ A word from our Chair of Trustees, Rebecca Kennelly MBE, about joining the board.

Discover everything you need for making an application:

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📅 Deadline end of March
💻 Virtual interviews early April

#CharityTrustee #Hampshire #IsleofWight

📣 GRANT FUNDING OPENING SOON 📣

Watch this space for a new grant fund opening soon, aimed at tackling isolation and loneliness within a range of ages and demographics.

#NewForest #Isolation #Loneliness

We have extended the deadline for applications to become a Trustee to the end of March. Take a look at our Trustee pack to see if this is the opportunity for you 👇🏽

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