<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Power to Change have announced that their Community Business Fund will be open again from <b>26th April to 1st June</b>. Grants between £50,000- £300,000 will be available to support and develop community businesses in England. There will be a further two funding rounds in July and October 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>Full criteria will be published on 5th April, and a helpline opened. There will be a free Q&A webinar about the programme on 19th April. Details on how to register will be sent out nearer the time.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year just 5 per cent of the applications were funded. Over two-thirds of applications were rejected because they didn’t meet their definition of a community business:</div><div><ul><li>locally rooted<br></li><li>accountable to the local community<br></li><li>broad community impact<br></li><li>trading for the benefit of the local community<br></li></ul></div><div>You can register to be sent details when they are announced here:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thepowertochange.org.uk/grant-funding/">http://www.thepowertochange.org.uk/grant-funding/</a><br></div></div><div><br></div>\\\<div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Community Media Association</div><div>-- <br><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br><br>Canstream Internet Radio & Video<br><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/canstream</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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