Wired Up is a regular e-newsletter which provides information and inspiration for community development and is a joint initiative from CUFX, the Shaftesbury Society and Tearfund. It contain funding, training and resources news.
SEPTEMBER 2007
FUNDING NEWS
 The Abbey Charitable Trust has committed to giving £375,000 to local charities via 150 branch nominations. These will also be made to charities working on projects aligned with the priority areas of helping disadvantaged people through education and training, financial advice and community regeneration. To find out how to apply for a grant visit this webpage. For more information email or phone 0870 608 0104.The Percy Bilton Charity makes grants to registered charities working with disadvantaged young people, people with disabilities and older people. They have two programmes: large one-off grants for capital expenditure of £2,000 and over, and small grants of up to £500 towards furnishings and equipment for small projects. The next application deadline is 5 November. Click here for guidance notes or phone 020 8579 2829.
The Co-operative Foundation is an independent charitable trust set up to support community groups in finding co- operative solutions to community challenges primarily in north Wales and northern England. Grants of between £500 and £30,000 are made to grass-roots level projects located in disadvantaged areas. Download the guidelines and application packs, or phone 01706 202032 or email.
The Foyle Foundation makes grants to UK charities whose work includes helping those with learning difficulties, arts educational projects and healthcare. Most grants are between £10k and £50k and there are no application deadlines. For more information download the guidelines and application form, phone 020 7430 9119 or email.
The Children's Fund - the government is putting just under £400m into the Children's Fund over the next three years, to continue the work being done to support projects that specialise in early intervention and prevention and have an impact on school attendance. The money will be distributed through local authorities and projects should approach their local authority to discuss what opportunities may be open to them. Each of the Children's Fund partnerships is overseen by one of nine regional teams located within government offices. Contact details are on the national Government Office Network website.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation operates an Education and Learning Open Grants Scheme for innovative projects providing supplementary schooling or tackling school exclusion and truancy. There are no minimum or maximum grants, and applications are assessed on an ongoing basis. Click here to download the guidelines. Alternatively, email or phone 020 7227 3500.
TRAINING NEWS AND EVENTS
Are you really managing? is a training event being hosted by Grooms-Shaftesbury in Battersea, London on Thursday 27 September. The day is from 9:45-4pm, and costs £10. The day is for anyone who manages people within the church and is about how we can learn and apply simple techniques which help communication and build strong working relationships. To book email Jill Clark or phone 020 7452 2018.
The Social Responsibility Network is running a national conference - Sharing Good News in Derby on 3 October. The cost is £35 for this chance to explore, with other Christian practitioners, the values, practice and theology that motivates your work. Download a booking form, or for more information phone 01332 388684 or email.
Home, Homelessness and Community is a one-day workshop on 29 September at Turvey Abbey, near Bedford. The workshop aims to explore the meaning of home and community through in-depth consideration of the experience and the meaning of homelessness and 'unhoused' states of mind. Cost is £40 including lunch (bursaries available for unwaged). For further information email Christopher Scanlon or phone the Abbey on 01234 881432.
Church Action on Poverty is holding 24 Action Week training events around the country during October and November. These two-hour events aim to help you prepare for the 2008 Poverty and Homelessness Action Week (27 January to 3 February) as well as the new Lent Study Programme Just Church. The full list can be found on the CAP website. For more information email Liam Purcell or phone 0161 236 9321.
RESOURCES NEWS
 Opensourcecommunity is a website set up by Hull Community Church with EU funding. It aims to pool and share funding applications and business plans to reduce the need to reinvent the wheel. Once signed in you can freely upload and download.Celebrating Community: God's Gift for Today's World (Darton, Longman and Todd; £10.95; ISBN 978 0 232 52659 2) is a book birthed out of the experience of intentional Christian community at Lee Abbey in Devon. It costs £10.95 and aims to help people "to understand how community living might truly be God's gift to today's world".
Research commissioned by the Office of the Third Sector into the ability of third sector organisations to access finance has found that the majority are focusing continually on organisational survival, which can lead to mission drift. The full report can be freely downloaded.
Through the CTX Programme, UK-based charities can request a wide range of Microsoft, Symantec and Cisco product donations. Registration on the site is free and, once eligibility status has been confirmed, you can order products for a very modest administrative fee. For example Microsoft's Office Professional Plus 2007 for £11 +VAT, or Norton Antivirus 2007 £8 +VAT. For more information email or phone 020 7785 6415.
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