REVIEW - Lloyds TSB Foundation Northern Ireland

New Lodge Arts‘We would like to thank Lloyds TSBFoundation NI for their recent grant. Thefunding supports our Youth Arts Worker to deliverprojects including the Young Leaders Programme,Event Management, Volunteer Development andYouth Advisory Group. These projects will benefityoung people from the Greater New Lodge andneighbouring communities, some of whom arenot in full time education or employment,as well as those in education.’Anne DelaneyArts Programme andOperations Manager07.CollaborationGrantsIn 2010 the Foundation received anunexpected additional income fromshares held with Lloyds BankingGroup. The Trustees wanted to usethis additional income to carryout additional work on top of theongoing grant programmes. TheTrustees and Officers consideredareas of work where there wasadditional need for support andFour distinct areas were identified:• social economy• lower capacity older peoples’ groups• youth participation• philanthropySocial EconomyLarne Enterprise Development Company- (Ledcom)works along with Invest NI to support new start upsocial economy projects. Only those social economyprojects which have an export element to their workare entitled to financial support from Invest NI. Thecollaboration grant has allowed those start up socialeconomy businesses that have a Northern Ireland onlyremit to apply for a start up grant of up to £3,000 tosupport their work. Applications are only received by theFoundation once the business plan has been reviewedand approved by Ledcom.During 2012 the second year of the programme,15 organisations from across Northern Ireland benefitedfrom this programme to the value of £45,000.The Foundation was awarded Winner of the SocialEnterprise Supporter of the Year Northern Ireland, ofthe Charity Bank Social Enterprise Awards 2012. Thiswas in recognition of the support given to fledglingsocial enterprises through the Foundation’s SocialEconomy Programme. The Foundation went on torepresent Northern Ireland in the UK finals.First Steps to Funding - Capacity Building for OlderPeoples’ GroupsThe quality of applications for funding received by theFoundation varies greatly. The Foundation staff agreedthat the sector most in need of additional support inunderstanding funding applications, was the moreinformal older peoples’ groups. These groups tend tobe voluntary run by older people, for older people andmany of the members of the Committees will have hadno previous experience with funding applications andeither miss out on funding due to poor applications orfear of funding applications.AgeNI supported by Community Foundation NI werefunded to deliver a 2 year training programme to reachthese lower capacity older peoples’ groups, to give themas the programme title suggests, their ‘First Steps toFunding’. The partnership was funded £72,905 over2 years to locate, recruit and provide training to thoseharder to reach older peoples’ groups across NorthernIreland. The training would be provided in three stages,and groups could come in depending on their level,1) Preparing and Planning for Small Grants2) Making the Approach – Taking the Fear out of Funding3) Understanding the Grant ApplicationCollaboration Grants 19