More funding opportunties
Funding opportunities for community safety, tackling poverty, healthy ageing, road safety, working with marginalised and excluded groups, and disadvantaged and disabled children.
Upcoming funding opportunities
Funding opportunities – Scillies only, Music for all, conservation, community support, children’s and medical charities and small, isolated rural communities
Apps and digital things
Apps for children’s online wellbeing, and co-ordinating family carers, plus facebook and text fundraising, a new experiences raffle website, and wellbeing for charity comms staff.
Commemorations and awareness raising in October
Awareness raising for breast cancer, ADHD, dyslexia, baby loss, older people, mental health, black history, hospice care, and the menopause, plus stopping drinking or smoking and walking to school, all this month!
Funding opportunities will long deadlines – or none
Funding opportunities with no dates, or distant dates – the new Comic Relief Community Fund and others with broad remits, and specifically around learning disabilities, and community spaces.
Warning for new students around initiation ceremonies
Universities UK are warning of the dangers around initiation ceremonies, welcoming new students into clubs and teams – including excessive alcohol consumption and bullying.
Funding Opportunities – with dates coming up soon
Funding sources that have application deadlines coming up soon – around improving physical health, heritage preservation, renewable energy and housing.
Safeguarding update
Update around safeguarding children, including new statutory guidance for schools, around teaching RSE, restraint, and about FGM. Also online safety guide for parents, and a report around children reporting abuse.
Sowena opens – young people’s mental health unit
Sowenna, the new mental health unit for teens, is open in Bodmin, meaning that these young people can be treated near to home.
Awareness days, weeks and months in September
Details of days, weeks and months commemorating or raising awareness of various conditions and causes this September.
Cornwall Council consultations
Cornwall Council is consulting on two draft strategies at present, around vulnerable adolescents and homelessness. Make sure your voice is heard.
Useful new data from the Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics has been releasing interesting datasets recently, around topics such as crime, loneliness and cancer. While you may not have the time to indulge in a fascination with random statistics, the data may prove useful to verify funding...Useful tools and materials for health and youth
Tools & info on: suicide, human rights, RSE & drug rehab (for professionals), mental health in young people, anti hate-crime animations, and health costs support.
No-deal Brexit hardship fund
In the event of a No Deal Brexit charities are calling for a hardship fund to alleviate a food crisis that would hit the most deprived families the hardest.
More funding opportunities
Funding opportunities for violence against women, disadvantaged young people, social action and ecological science.
Two surveys – business skills and armed forces families
Surveys on business skills in Cornwall and for families of armed forces personnel experiencing addiction
Duke and Duchess of Sussex supporting 15 small charities
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have chosen 15 small charities to support during August – raising awareness of lesser-known issues.
Children’s Funeral Fund for England opens
The Children’s Funeral Fund for England has opened, providing funding via funeral directors or direct to parents, for the funerals of babies, children and young people up to age 18.
Days and weeks in August
Awareness-raising for breastfeeding, allotments, water poverty, youth, left-handers and humanitarian issues taking place during August.
Summer holidays – useful information
Summer holiday safety and activity information – stay safe online, in the sun, and in the sea, and find out where you can have fun. Also, the Max Card, for families with a disabled child.