Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Main Grants

Funding Body: Coalfields Regeneration Trust
Description: Financial assistance is available to encourage social and economic regeneration in coalfield communities.
Status: Closed for Applications
Application Deadline: None specified
Maximum Value: £300,000
Minimum Value: £10,001

The following funding limits apply:

• England - between £10,001 and £300,000
• Scotland - between £10,001 and £100,000
• Wales - between £10,001 and £100,000

Statutory organisations can only apply for grants over £30,000.

Funding can be provided for up to three years.

Extended Description:
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust is an independent grant making body dedicated exclusively to the regeneration of coalfield communities. Since its launch in 1999, the Coalfields Regeneration Trust has become a key agency promoting and achieving social and economic regeneration in the coalfield communities of England, Scotland and Wales.

The Trust is funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government, The Welsh Assembly, and Communities Scotland.

Organisations will be supported under the following themes:

Supporting Communities To play an active part in regeneration with a focus on:

• Providing access to facilities and services and tackling issues of geographical isolation
• Promoting healthier lifestyles and linking communities to wider health provision
• Supporting projects that combat the exclusion of communities from financial services, poverty and debt
• Supporting projects that build on active citizenship and local participation

Learning Communities Ensuring that the best possible learning facilities and resources are provided to coalfield communities through:

• Supporting projects that raise aspirations and encourage people in learning through formal and informal education
• Supporting early years play, pre-school and out of school activity for children, including summer camps
• Encouraging personal development, youth work activity, volunteering and mentoring schemes
• Supporting intergenerational activity, accredited and non-accredited courses

Supporting People into Work By complimenting government employment initiatives, including:

• Supporting projects that improve the employability of all age ranges through wage subsidy, vocational skills and bespoke training schemes
• Promoting initiatives that have a wide range of support for the hard to reach
• Activity focusing on growth industries providing bespoke training and job guarantee schemes
• Focussing on transitional labour market programmes

Enterprising Communities Increasing the range and diversity of the social economy through initiatives to kick-start social enterprise and support organisations in pursuing income generation strategies by:

• Providing start-up costs for emerging enterprises
• Providing asset development where this facilitates sustainability
• Supporting business training, project management and development programmes
• Providing initiatives, which focus on sharing resources, contracting and clustering

Latest Information:
On 29 October 2007 Housing Minister Yvette Cooper announced that due to a strong evaluation, funding for the Trust, which was due to end in March 2008, has been provisionally extended by a further three years.

For further updates visit the Coalfields Regeneration Trust website.

Useful Contacts:

Head Office Coalfields Regeneration Trust
Silkstone House Pioneer Close
Manvers Way
Rotherham
S63 7JZ
PO Box 97
S63 7WX

Tel: 0800 064 8560
Fax: 01709 765 599
E-Mail: info@coalfields-regen.org.uk

East Midlands Regional Office
Coalfields Regeneration Trust
Unit 4
Markham Vale Environment Centre
Markham Lane
Markham Vale
Chesterfield
S44 5HY

Tel: 01246 820970
E-Mail: info@coalfields-regen.org.uk