Community Development Foundation (CDF) is administering Round 3 of a grants scheme for local communities, on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG), to increase race equality and community cohesion within their own communities.
This fund is aimed at a local level and CDF believes local communities are in an excellent position to work with others to improve their own situations.
The grants scheme, Connecting Communities Plus, Community Grants, welcomes applications from small, locally run and managed voluntary and community organisations, often run by volunteers, who want to improve opportunities for people locally and to improve relations between people of different ethnic and/or faith backgrounds.
The Fund has four key priorities derived from 'Improving Opportunity, Strengthening Society', the Government strategy to increase race equality and community cohesion:
A. Improving the experience of people from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds in relation to access to and outcomes from public services – education, employment, health, housing and the Criminal Justice System
B. Increasing the confidence of people from BME backgrounds that public services are delivered in a fair and equitable way
C. Tackling racism and extremism
D. Bringing together communities from different races and faiths, and promoting a shared sense of belonging (community cohesion)
Priorities B and C were undersubscribed in the first and second rounds and CDF are particularly interested to fund projects that contribute to these priorities in the third round.
The Legacy of the Slave Trade
2007 saw the 200th anniversary of the passage of the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The Race Equality Unit supported projects in round two which focused on commemorating the bicentenary.
In this round, CDF are looking for projects that will focus on the legacy of the slave trade and how it affects us today. The Government wants to ensure that as well as commemorating the past we learn from the legacy and look forward by focusing on what still needs to happen in order to tackle inequality, poverty and slavery as it exists today.
Further information on the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade can be found on the websites:
www.communities.gov.uk
www.directgov.uk/slavery
www.setallfree.net
The fund is available for groups/organisations in England.
Guidance notes and application forms are available to download at www.cdf.org.uk
If you would like to talk to CDF about this fund please ring 01223 400343 or email ccplus@cdf.org.uk.
CDF are happy to provide feedback on draft applications which are received before 11 December 2007.
Closing date for applications is 8th January 2008.
Please note: organisations who have been successful in round one or two cannot apply again in round three. Organisations can only receive one Connecting Communities Plus, Community Grant. However, organisations that applied but were unsuccessful in rounds one or two can apply in round three.
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