Like the Community First Facebook page to receive notices about funding rounds as they come up in your region.

'Don’t forget the deadline for submission of funding recommendations for Year 3 of Community First funding is Monday 31 March 2014. Please ensure that you submit your recommendations online by that date.’

BBC Children in Need, for those of you that got your applications in for the 1 Feb deadline, fingers crossed! We've already received some reference requests and if we've visited your project and/or you have a QF Award we're always happy to act as referee.

For those that didn't, the next deadline is 1 April, so download a small grants (up to £10,000) application form now. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008dk4b/features/cin-grants-small-shouldiapply

BBC – BBC Children in Need – Small Grants: Should I apply?
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Supporting over 2,600 projects, working 365 days a year, all over the United Kingdom.

New funding programme supported by the Department for Communities and Local Government. Its objectives are:
– to celebrate the practical contribution that faith communities make to society through social action
– to support faith groups in undertaking new multi-faith volunteering projects at local level.

£160,000 is available for small grants of £2,000. Match funding of half the amount is needed, which can include volunteer time.
www.togetherinservice.net/funding/

UK faith-based charities can now receive donated Microsoft products via CTXchange, following a change to Microsoft's eligibility criteria for its global donations programme.

They can request donations from a range of more than 250 Microsoft products, discounted by around 95% off the retail price.

Products available include graphic design software, server and the latest Office suites. Charities can request up to 50 licences for up to 10 Microsoft products and up to 5 server products over a two-year period.

CTXchange enables charities and charitable housing associations to receive hardware and software products, donated by leading brands, including Microsoft, Norton, Cisco, Symantec and Adobe.

NRCSE has benefited from tt-exchange for all our office IT

http://www.ctxchange.org/

tt-exchange – donated software for charities
www.ctxchange.org
Eligible organisations now have more flexibility in when they can request donations and in the products available. Plus, easily track requests and see what's available in the new Microsoft Donation Center. Learn more…