Funding Links - How to find funding help.

This page is intended for any voluntary or community groups who are seeking funding from sources other than just local ones like Halton Borough Council. This is not intended to be comprehensive, but it provides links which will assist people who have to include fund raising or hunting for grants in between everything else they may be doing.

All the links are easy to access online and are intended to compliment other assistance that can be found elsewhere, such as Halton's libraries, for example. For other web links you may find of interest scroll down the index on the left for 'Web Links'.

1. Funding Central.
 
This is a national database that is free to use and register with. It acts as a guide to potential
grants, contracts and loan finance for voluntary sector organisations that exist in the commercial,
charitable or public sector.

You can tailor your interests and experience advice need levels and it allows you to amend and save funding
profiles when searched to review at leisure.
 

  
2. Funder Finder.
 
Is a small charity that provides an online access to funding advice leaflets and sells software to help
grant applications for voluntary and charitable organisations.
 

  
3. Directory of Social Change.
 
This is a charity that provides advice and training to the voluntary sector. It's website includes
details of fundraising sources, techniques and a range of publications.
 
It also includes a subscription based access to a website called governmentfunding.org.uk which brings
together regional, local and national govt funding schemes (like funding central)
 
It also includes independent grant administrators and European sources as well as info on upcoming
funding rounds.
 

  
4. Fit4Funding.
 
A website that provides advice to community and voluntary sector seeking funding.
 
This includes fee based training courses and free online information about making grant applications.
 

  
5. Directgov.
 
The Directgov site is run by central government and includes a searchable database to local authority
funding as well as general advice on how community and voluntary groups can apply for funding.
 
This link includes some other hyper links like to arts, etc.
 
Use the local authority one in the list and you can search by postcode, town or local authority.