...Short As Well As Sweet

After final weeks conference flavor frenzy inwards Sydney, (and my rattling moderate reply to the good, the bad in addition to the ugly) this calendar week has seen a pregnant shift inwards footstep in addition to a catch to the Titjikala Community inwards the Northern Territory at the invitation of an extended menage unit of measurement inwards the community - to whom - my deepest thanks. I rattling much expect forwards to our working together.

With enough of fourth dimension for ruminating on the first-class conference final calendar week in addition to my ain work, I’ve had a the chance to refine in addition to railroad train my ideas which I’ll live on excited to part on Tuesday 1st Dec at the sold-out, Arts Development UK, National Seminar: Arts, Health & Wellbeing. 

So - a brief posting this calendar week from Alice Springs equally I embark on the monstrously long journeying home, in addition to immediately to Cardiff.

For those of yous who’ve emailed, it may live on after inwards the calendar week earlier I acquire dorsum to you, precisely inwards the meantime, hither are 2 rattling interesting funding opportunities, both rattling relevant to our champaign of endeavour.

BBC Children inwards Need Main Grant Programme 

BBC Children inwards Need has announced that the side yesteryear side applications deadline for its Main Grants Programme has been changed from the 15th to the 13th Jan 2016. Through the programme funding is available to organisations that operate amongst immature people who:

Are suffering from illness

Are inwards distress

Suffer abuse or neglect

Are disabled

Have behavioural or psychological difficulties

And / or are living inwards poverty or situations of deprivation.

The Main grants programme is opened upward to applications for grants of over £10,000.

Read to a greater extent than at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3XW7FvN20PD3xr2c1T62Xly/main-grants  

Commonwealth Foundation 

(UK/International)

The Commonwealth Foundation has announced that its grants programme volition re-open for applications on the 1st Dec 2015. The Foundation provides grants of upward to £30,000 per twelvemonth for upward to 3 years, to back upward projects that promote the inclusion of civil lodge inwards decision-making processes inside Commonwealth countries, enabling citizens to practice phonation in addition to vote, in addition to engage inwards policy formation. To live on eligible for funding, organisation's needs to live on a registered Civil Society Organisation (CSO) in addition to must live on based is a Commonwealth Foundation fellow member Country. Grant projects must focus on i or to a greater extent than of the following:

Strengthening the might of CSOs to purpose creative appear for participatory governance

Enhancing the capacity of CSOs, networks in addition to alliances to engage inwards participatory governance

Facilitating interaction in addition to constructive engagement inwards governance

Building a civilization of learning in addition to noesis sharing.

The closing engagement for applications volition live on the fifth Jan 2016. Read to a greater extent than at:

http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/grants