Jan 23 2012

The Social Action Fund is a new grant fund of over £20 million managed by The Social Investment Business on behalf of the Office for Civil Society.

The Fund aims to inspire organisations to create new social action opportunities; encouraging people to give what they have, be it time, money, assets, knowledge or specific skills.

Successful applications will address the following themes:

• Encourage people to come together in their locality to support each other. Projects that scale proven models to regional or national levels, or replicate them in other localities.
  Some priority will be given to models that encourage those who do not traditionally get involved as volunteers
  The fund is also particularly interested in models that offer people the opportunity to give time and / or money to activities that deliver a public benefit and complement the public sector.
• Focus on the different life stages of volunteering. Programmes that target the following will be favoured:
  - Building a culture of participation among school children and university graduates,
  - Encouraging professionals who have retired or are on point of retirement to use their experience and skills for community / public benefit,
  - Inspire and support NCS graduates who want to continue contributing to their communities through social action projects.

For further information and to apply, visit: www.thesocialinvestmentbusiness.org/our-funds/social-action-fund/, or contact 0191 269 2276, or email: info@thesocialinvestmentbusiness.org.
Deadline: Friday 3rd February 2012, 12:00