funding and development

The Crafts Council has announced that it is seeking applications for funding through its Development Award scheme.

The Wellcome Trust is inviting organisations and individuals to apply for funding through its Arts Awards.

The Commonwealth Foundation has announced that the Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards 2007 are now open for application.

The Greenheart Partnership is working with all the Hertfordshire local authorities, supported in partnership with the Arts Council England, East, to develop exciting new ways of working on community projects which call for the intervention of artists at an early stage.

An agency for artists wishing to tutor workshops in schools, marketing its database of innovative visual artists directly to schools across the East Anglia region and London.

Mentoring, apply to work with a more experienced artist in a one-to-one mentoring relationship Escalator Visual Arts, selected artists benefit from financial investment, career development support & opportunites to show to new audiences.

Essential Artists Training - EAT, developed by Commissions East and delivered with the support of Business Link for Cambridgeshire, EAT (Essential Artist Training) is tailored for visual artists.

Grants for the arts is the national funding scheme for individuals, arts organisations and other people who use the arts in their work.

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The national organisation for all those raising money for the Arts. The AAF now has its own Website at http://www.artsfundraisers.org/

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has announced that it is now accepting application under the second round of its "Sea Change" Open Application Grants Programme.

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has announced the launch of its 'Solutions for Business" reform of support measures available to businesses. This will reduce the number of advice, loan and grant initiatives to a simplified portfolio of less than 100 products and services.

Following the Arts Debate, the largest programme of consultation and research ever carried out by the Arts Council, the Arts Council England has announced its ambitious vision for the arts over the next three years. Between 2008 and 2011, the delivery of Arts Council England's central mission of 'great art for everyone' will drive all the work that it does.

Registered charities operating in the health and medical sectors are able to apply for funding through the James Tudor Foundation. Established in 2004, the James Tudor Foundation provides, grants, gifts and loans across six programme areas.

The Big Lottery Fund, which has as its stated aim "to bring real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need" and is responsible for distributing over half the good causes monies raised by the National Lottery has announced that it will be consulting on its future

The British Council's Darwin Now awards offers small grants to allow individuals working in the sciences, humanities, arts and media, the opportunity to pursue a stand-alone piece of fieldwork/research outside the UK.

In response to the current difficult economic conditions, the Government has announced that it will be making available £350 million available for small businesses to help them train their staff. The funding which forms part of the Government's Train to Gain scheme - that supports and subsidies staff training will focus on providing skills to businesses that will increase the productivity of individuals and firms.

The Office of the Third Sector and Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) are inviting expressions of interest from organisations wishing to become the national partner to deliver the £70m Community builders programme

The European Commission has announced a second call for proposals under its 'Action grants- criminal records' programme.

Nominations are currently being invited for the CHANGEit awards. The CHANGEit awards are collaboration between Common Purpose, an organisation dedicated to improving the quality of leadership in the UK, Common Purpose International and Deutsche Bank.

Waste Recycling Environmental Limited (WREN) is one of the UK's largest Environmental Bodies and distributes funding to benefit community, heritage and environmental projects in the vicinity of WREN landfill sites.

The Government has announced that more than £50 million in funding will be made available over the next five years to encourage researchers to work together, producing faster diagnostic test to detect and identify infections in humans and animals more quickly.

The Knight Foundation, which seeks to support opportunities that can transform both communities and journalism, and help them reach their highest potential has announced that it is offering $5million of funding through the Knight News Challenge.

Funded by the European Refugee Fund Phase III and with the support of the UK Boarder Agency, UnLtd - the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs has re-launched RISE: Refugee Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs, under the name RISE Accelerator. Rise Accelerator aims to unleash and encourage the potential of refugees as social entrepreneurs.

Organisations such as environmental bodies, voluntary groups, charities, not-for-project organisations, community groups, Local Authorities and Governmental bodies can now apply for funding through WREN's new £10m Biodiversity Action Fund.

The Wellcome Trust is inviting organisations and individuals to apply for funding through its Arts Awards. The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts including dance, drama, performance arts, visual arts, music, film, craft, photography, creative writing or digital media.