News and Links

We hope that you will find the following of interest; none of these links have any association with 21st Century Beads and are provided as an impartial information service which our customers and visitors to our site may find of interest.

Charity Commission £1,000 monthly draw

Since June 2006 the Charity Commission has been holding a random £1,000 monthly prize draw to encourage smaller charities with an income of under £250,000 to use its online services. All smaller charities completing their annual returns, sending in their annual report or accounts or simply updating their details online are eligible to win.

www.charitycommission.gov.uk/common/OnlineservicesInfo.asp

Liverpool City Council community grants

Constituted, not for profit voluntary and community organisations serving Liverpool citizens are invited to bid for funding under the City Council's Community Resources Unit Funding Programme 2008-2011.

More: www.liverpool.gov.uk/Community_and_living/Community_Grants/index.asp
Harrogate Borough Council Community Chest

deadline: Friday 16 November 2007 and Friday 16 May 2008

This is a new grant fund which will run between September 2007 and August 2008 (or sooner if the funds are fully allocated before then). The purpose of the Community Chest is:

To strengthen small voluntary organisations, charities and community groups in the District
To provide support for activities/projects that will benefit local communities within the Harrogate District.

ELIGIBILITY: applications are welcome from voluntary organisations, charities and community groups based in and serving the community of the Harrogate District.

GRANT SIZE: The Community Chest grants range from £500 to £5,000.

Applications forms and guidance notes are available via www.harrogate.gov.uk/voluntary. For grants under £1,000 applications can be submitted at any time.

Top Drawer Spring 08

Top Drawer Spring is your first opportunity of the year to stock up on a wide range of new products across the design-led sector, with over 250 selective jewellery and fashion accessory companies from small designer makers to the leading UK and international brands.

Plus don't miss the exciting new event running alongside Top Drawer Spring - Collections, showcasing precious and non-precious, design-led jewellery.

If you are interested in visiting or exhibiting, visit www.topdrawerspring.com or www.collections-london.com

School of Jewellery - Birmingham

The renowned School of Jewellery has over 50 exciting courses in its 2007 short course programme. These include Pattern and Colour; Stones; Jewellery; Silversmithing; CAD/CAM; Retail; Creative and Experimental Surfaces in Enamel; Diamond Awareness; Keum-Boo - Enriching Silver Surfaces; Hand Made Silver Chains; Polishing for Jewellers and Silversmiths.

For further details, please contact 0121 248 4584 or email dawn.meaden-johnson@uce.ac.uk

Craft Pottery Charitable Trust

Funding for ceramicists only, for training, including travel, conference attendance and preparation of films.

Taplands Farm Cottage
Webbs Green
Soberton
Southampton
SO32 3PY

Craft Central (formerly CGA)

Supports craftspeople based in Camden, Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets, offering opportunities and services to crafts people and designer-makers, and also offers buyers, the public and supporters the chance to access innovative craft and design. Services include exhibiting and showcasing craft and design, providing studios, workshops and exhibitions space, and professional development programmes for designer-makers.

visit www.craftcentral.org.uk for further details

Funding From The Co-operative Foundation
deadline: 7 March 2008

The Co-operative Foundation is an independent charitable trust set up in 2000 and solely funded by The Co-operative Group – United Region. The Society has donated nearly £10 million which has been invested to generate income to support the Foundation’s grant making programme, The Community Support Programme.

Since its launch, the Foundation has received hundreds of applications and has made almost 550 awards ranging from £500 to £30,000.

The Co-operative Foundation is keen to support community and voluntary sector activity through grants to local groups and organisations across its trading area. It is particularly interested in locally led and run groups which can demonstrate evidence of co-operative values and principles: self-help, equality, democracy, concern for the community.

More: www.co-operative.co.uk/en/foundation/

Co-operative Group Community Dividend Fund

The Co-operative Group Community Dividend Fund is now open for applications of between £100 and £5,000 funding community, self-help and voluntary groups which:

•benefit a local community in which at least one Co-op group business trades;
•have a charitable purpose (you do not need to have charitable status);
•fit in with co-operative values and principles.

For further details and to download an application form:

www.co-operative.co.uk/en/communityfund/

Wedding Accessories

try picking up a copy of the following magazines for inspiration :-
...You And Your Wedding (bi-monthly)
...Wedding Ideas (every four weeks)
...50 Beautiful Weddings (monthly)
...Wedding (bi-monthly)
...Inspired Weddings (quarterly)
...Cosmopolitan Bride (bi-monthly)

Community RePaint

Last year Community RePaint collected 240,000 litres of paint across its network of 64 paint reuse projects which is available to all in the community and voluntary sector. This paint is available (often for a small donation or even sometimes free) to as many of these people as possible.

Previous organisations have used paint for:

• Village halls
• Theatre and art groups
• Community 'drop in' centres

There are not Community RePaint schemes in every area but schemes will often donate paint outside their local area.

For a list of projects and where paint can be obtained from visit www.communityrepaint.org.uk