Funding Update – December 2023
Check out the latest funding opportunities available to community groups and parish and town councils, with a particular focus on community buildings, community spaces and energy projects.
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Cheshire Community Actions Launches New Rural Housing Enabler Service
Cheshire Community Action (CCA) is excited to announce that it has secured Defra funding for a full time Rural Housing Enabler (RHE) post up to March 2025 as part of its Unleashing Rural Opportunity strategy.
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Cheshire Community Action launches new Cheshire West Welcoming Spaces Fund for 2023-24
Cheshire Community Action is excited to announce the launch of the Welcoming Spaces Grant Fund for the year 2023-24, aimed at creating warm, inclusive spaces for residents facing cost-of-living challenges.
UPDATE FEBRUARY 2024: NOW CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS.
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Free training for volunteers running community buildings and spaces in Cheshire West
Cheshire Community Action is funded by the Cheshire West & Chester Shared Prosperity Fund to provide free online training to volunteers running community buildings and spaces. Click on the links below to book your place:
Fundraising – What Trustees need to know
This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge and tools to support and enable their organisation to fundraise effectively, legally and sustainably, and take an active role in supporting their organisation to do so.
Who is it for: Charity Trustees
Length: 1.5 hours
Writing Successful Funding Bids
Your time is precious and good funding opportunities few, so make sure every application is as strong as possible with this course aimed at everyone – from the complete beginner, to someone wanting a bit of a refresher.
Who is it for: Anyone involved in writing funding applications or bids
Length: 1.5 hours
Community Growing and Gardening Engagement Events
Are you involved in a community growing or gardening project? Have you got ideas for a community growing or gardening project in your area? Do you know of any land that could be used for a community growing or gardening project?
We’re holding a number of events across the Borough for anyone with an interest in community growing or gardening. These events will be looking at how a wider and more diverse range of growing spaces can be created in Cheshire West and Chester to enable more people to get involved in community growing and gardening and to get easier access to locally grown food. The findings from these events will be taken forward into a growing together action plan for the Borough.
Click on the links below to book on any of the following engagements events:
13th November 1.00 – 4.00 – The Parade Enterprise Centre, Blacon, Chester
16th November 10.00 – 1.00 – Ellesmere Port Civic Hall
21st November 10.00 – 1.00 – Wharton Library, Winsford
For more information contact growingtogether@cheshireaction.org.uk
Cheshire Community Action leads community growing and gardening feasibility study
Cheshire Community Action (CCA) has launched a feasibility study for Cheshire West and Chester Council to look at current community growing and gardening provision. The study will look at how a greater range of community growing and gardening projects could be developed within the borough to enable more people to get involved and to improve access to locally grown food.
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Cheshire Community Action launches grant fund for community buildings in Cheshire West
Cheshire Community Action is inviting community buildings, community groups and parish councils across Cheshire West to apply for funding to develop their buildings and spaces with projects that align with The Government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund priorities.
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Cheshire West community organisations encouraged to bid for funding through new Council and NHS grants programme
A new Community Health and Wellbeing Grants programme has been launched providing funding for community organisations to deliver home support, carer breaks and support with physical wellbeing.
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Community Building Network Event
Members of CCA are invited to join our community building network event in October where you can meet other trustees and volunteers running community buildings and find out about:
• Utility Aid – advice on how to save energy in your community building
We will be joined by Utility Aid, which supports the not-for-profit sector to reduce energy costs and will be offering advice and support to community buildings including: information on energy contract brokerage to help you get the best deal, remote (affordable) energy audits for your building, and energy awareness training for volunteers.
• Insurance advice
We have invited a specialist insurance broker to give advice on insuring your community building (speaker to be confirmed).
• Funding for your Community Building
We will be sharing information on the capital grants available for community buildings in Cheshire West (administered by CCA) and in Cheshire East (administered by Cheshire East Council) – both grants schemes and funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Venue: Cuddington and Sandiway Village Hall, 93 Norley Rd, Cuddington, Northwich CW8 2LA
Please note: The venue is walking distance from Cuddington Train Station.
Agenda
10.00am – Arrival
10.30am – Start
Presentations:
- Utility Aid
- Insurance advice
- Funding for your Community Building
12.30pm – Lunch and Networking
1.30pm – Finish
To book your place click here
Warm, welcoming spaces update
Last winter we were proud to work with CWaC and CWVA to administer, promote and distribute the Warm Welcoming Spaces Fund to community organisations across the borough and our evaluation report shows highlights some of the Fund major achievements. We are currently working with CWaC to set up a new Warm Spaces Fund in Cheshire West this winter so watch this space for further announcements…
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