<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(66,17,95);font-size:1.8em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Connected Communities Innovation Fund</span><br></div><div><div class="gmail-schemeRight" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;float:right;text-align:right;width:199.609px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><a class="gmail-addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300&pubid=ra-4ffab02114a4996c" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,86,137)"></a></div><div class="gmail-clearBoth" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"></div><div class="gmail-schemeLeft" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;float:left;width:411.703px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><dl class="extended" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em"><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;float:left;clear:left">Status:</dt><dd style="margin:0px 0px 0px 11em;padding:0px">Open to applications</dd><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;float:left;clear:left">Application Deadline:</dt><dd style="margin:0px 0px 0px 11em;padding:0px">30 October 2017</dd></dl></div><div class="gmail-schemeRight" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;float:right;text-align:right;width:199.609px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><img src="https://www.fundingcentral.org.uk/images/icon-mid-GRANT.gif" alt="Grant" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"></div><div class="gmail-clearBoth" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"></div><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Description</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">Grants are available for charities, social enterprises, and public services for projects in England that support volunteering in public services and new ways for people aged 50+ to engage in digital social action.</p><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Details</h3><dl class="extended" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;float:left;clear:left">Fund Value:</dt><dd style="margin:0px 0px 0px 11em;padding:0px">£ 4,750,000</dd><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;float:left;clear:left">Maximum Value:</dt><dd style="margin:0px 0px 0px 11em;padding:0px">£ 250,000</dd><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;float:left;clear:left">Minimum Value:</dt><dd style="margin:0px 0px 0px 11em;padding:0px">£ 50,000</dd></dl><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Value Notes</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">The Fund provides £4 million in grants from DCMS and £750,000 in non-financial support from Nesta.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">Depending on the maturity of the idea, the following awards are available for innovations in all four priority areas:</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Early Stage Ideas track - grants of between £50,000 and £75,000, along with non-financial support over 12-18 months to test concepts.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Growing Great Ideas track - grants of between £100,000 and £250,000, along with two years of non-financial support, are available for innovations already in place and ready to scale.</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">It is expected that a total of around 20 innovations (through both tracks) will be funded.</p><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Extended Description</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">The new Connected Communities Innovation Fund has been set up by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) which is providing £4 million in grants and Nesta, which is providing £750,000 in non-financial support.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">The fund is designed to encourage more people to volunteer alongside public services, and inspire new ways of giving for those who have not previously volunteered. The fund has a specific focus on helping people aged 50 and over, those who want to give time infrequently rather than routinely, and those who want to give their time and skills from the comfort of their own home to good causes.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">The fund will support innovations that address one of four different social issues:</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Bringing communities closer to create shared resources and support one another.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Supporting community resilience in emergencies.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Improving the environment.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Creating new forms of digital social action.</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">The funding is offered through two separate tracks: Early Stage Ideas and Growing Great Ideas.</p><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Latest Information</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">The deadline for expressions of interest is 30 October 2017 (midday).</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">Webinars will be held on 4 October, 10 October, 12 October, and 17 October 2017.</p><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Key Criteria</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">Public services, charities, social enterprises or partnerships led by these organisations can apply as long as their projects advance Nesta’s charitable objects for public benefit. Incorporated entities and unincorporated associations with formal membership structures can apply.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">For-profit organisations may apply if there is a strong argument for public benefit and demonstrate they require public funds to develop or scale their work, or if they do so as a partnership with a not-for-profit organisation as the lead applicant.</p><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Eligible Expenditure</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">The funding is for not-for-profit activities that mobilise the time and talents of people through social action to create outcomes in any of the following themes (priorities):</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Community connections and thriving places: innovations that mobilise the time and talents of people within local communities to share resources, create reciprocal models of support and enable people to help each other in key priorities within communities.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Community resilience in emergencies: innovations that mobilise the time and talents of people to enable communities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Digital Social Action: innovations that harness the opportunities of digital technologies to help mobilise the time and talents of people in new ways that suit 21st century lifestyles and needs.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Improving the environment: innovations that mobilise the time and talents of people to create better responses to reducing waste and pollution.</li></ul><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Restrictions</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">The following are not eligible for funding:</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Individuals.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Traditional befriending projects.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">One-off events or community celebrations.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">General community platforms.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Projects taking place outside of England.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Innovations which are party political.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">Innovations which support or promote religious activity.</li></ul><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Application Procedure</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">Webinars will be held on:</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">4 October 2017 (10 - 11am)</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">10 October 2017 (4 - 5pm)</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">12 October 2017 (9.30 - 10.30am)</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em">17 October 2017 (11am - 12pm)</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">Advanced registration is required, and this can be done through Nesta's website.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">Online Expressions of Interest forms can be found on Nesta's website.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">Contact Nesta for further information.</p><hr style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom:0px none;height:1px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(166,0,107);line-height:1.4em;font-size:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif"">Addresses and contacts</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px">Application forms may be available to download from the <a href="http://www.nesta.org.uk/project/connected-communities-innovation-fund">funding body’s own website</a>.</p><dl class="gmail-contacts" style="margin:0px 0px 0.9em;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,"sans serif";font-size:12.16px"><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;float:left">Contact details:</dt><dd style="margin:0px 0px 0px 8.5em;padding:0px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Connected Communities Team</strong><div class="gmail-clearBoth" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both"></div>Nesta <br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">58 Victoria Embankment <br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">London <br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">ECAY 0DS</dd><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;float:left">Telephone:</dt><dd style="margin:0px 0px 0px 8.5em;padding:0px">020 7438 2500</dd><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.5em;float:left">Email:</dt><dd style="margin:0px 0px 0px 8.5em;padding:0px"><a href="mailto:connectedcommunities@nesta.org.uk" title="This link may open a new window" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,86,137)">connectedcommunities@nesta.org.uk</a></dd></dl></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Community Media Association<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></div></div></div></div>
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