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Welcome to Wigan and Leigh CVS Online Funding Directory!

The Directory has been recently updated for the 2006 – 2007 financial year and now includes even more funding information and sources of funding!

We will try to keep this information as up to date as possible, so do let us know if you have any problems with our list or if you have a suggestion of a funder to add. We would also like to hear your funding stories, successful or otherwise, so as to make this directory relevant to all groups in our area.

If you can’t find what you are looking for on this page, or need any other funding help or advice, please don’t hesitate to call our Groups Development Worker, Louise Brown, who will be able to identify even more funders for you to apply to, book you a session on Funder Finder or give your group funding advice specific to your needs! An extended version of this list is also available by contacting Louise.

Please Note: Some of the funding entries are marked with a *. These funders are part of the Wigan Grant Aid scheme, meaning that these funders operate using the same form which has three parts. Once a group has filled in parts one and two for any funder, only a part three needs to be completed to apply to any of the other scheme members in that financial year. For the full list of grants available from this scheme, please contact Anne Roberts, Corporate Grant Aid Co-Ordinator on 01942 776165 or email a.roberts@wiganmbc.gov.uk.

Community Foundation for Greater Manchester - Small Grants Programme........

Community Foundation for Greater Manchester - Local Network Fund................

Community Foundation for Merseyside - Alliance & Leicester Fund...................

* Wigan MBC - Planning and Regeneration Dept - Community Chest..................

* Douglas Valley Community - Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chest.........

* Access Grants – Planning & Regeneration ...................................................

* Social Services Grant Aid..........................................................................

* Carers Grant............................................................................. ............

Awards For All...........................................................................................

Abbey Charitable Trust .............................................................................
Lloyds TSB Foundation ............................................................................
Age Concern ...........................................................................................
Coalfields Regeneration Trust ....................................................................

Big Lottery Fund - Reaching Communities Fund .............................................

Tudor Trust .............................................................................................
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation ....................................................................
Lankelly Chase .......................................................................................
Allen Lane Foundation .............................................................................
Community Involvement Fund................................................................................ ...........

Community Foundation for Greater Manchester - Abram Fairshare Trust ...........