Links Directory
Useful links for volunteers and organisations
Funding
- Allen Lane Foundation The Foundation provides grants for voluntary not-for-profit organisations in the UK.
- Arts Council of Wales
- Association Of Charitable Foundations
- Awards for all Wales
- Baring Foundation
- Big Lottery Fund Big Lottery Fund has wide ranging grants programmes that aim to make real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.
- BT Community Connections
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation The current priorities of the Foundation fall into four main categories: arts; education; social welfare and Anglo-Portuguese cultural relations.
- Carnegie UK Trust
- Charities Aid Foundation
- Children in Need BBC Children in Need Appeal aims to make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged children in the UK.
- CLA Charitable Trust To provide facilities for the disabled and disadvantaged. To enable them to take part in country sports and recreation and training in agriculture and horticulture.
- Coalfields Regeneration
- Comic Relief Comic Relief was set up in 1984 to help disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa.
- Conservation Foundation
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Directory of Social Change
- Environment Wales
- Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
- Finance Wales
- Fit4Funding
- Government Grants
- Grants For Individuals
- Gulbenkain Foundation
- Hamlyn Foundation
- Henry Smith Charity
- Heritage Lottery Fund Through its range of grant programmes, the HLF aims to support heritage projects, large and small, submitted by a diverse range of organisations and groups.
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Kellogg's
- Lankelly Chase Foundation The foundation supports the work of registered charities throughout Great Britain, with the exception of the Greater London area.
- Laura Ashley Foundation The Foundation aims to fund projects in rural Mid Wales to enhance the lives of families.
- Lloyds TSB Foundation for England & Wales Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales is one of the largest independent funders of the voluntary sector in Wales
- Morgan Foundation
- National Lottery Good Causes
- Prince's Trust
- Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust By primary remit this is a medical research charity awarding grants to universities and hospitals in the UK
- Sports Council for Wales SPORTLOT – A National Lottery funded grant scheme aimed at developing sport at grass roots level, particularly for young people, women and girls and disadvantaged groups.
- The Garfield Weston Foundation Recent rounds of funding have helped projects in the following categories: arts, community, education, welfare, medical, social, religion, youth and environment.
- Trust Funding
- Tudor Trust The Trust meets a range of both capital and revenue needs, notably including related building costs, for voluntary and community groups.
- UK Fundraising (book-on-line)
- WCVA grant schemes
- WEFO WEFO is committed to ensuring that European funds go to those projects that will provide the greatest benefit to Wales, creating jobs and sustainable growth.
- Welsh Government Grants
- WREN Waste Recycling Environmental – Support for environmental and community-based projects in areas of England, Scotland and Wales close to Waste Recycling Group landfill sites.
- YAPP The Trust makes grants to small charities throughout the UK for a variety of work.
Information Services
- Charity Commission Established by law as the regulator and registrar of charities in England and Wales. Our aim is to provide the best possible regulation of these charities in order to increase charities’ efficiency and effectiveness.
- Companies House Our main functions are to incorporate and dissolve limited companies; examine and store company information delivered under the Companies Act and related legislation and make this information available to the public.
- Young Conwy The Young Conwy Website project is funded by a Cymorth grant received to the Children and Young Peoples Partnership from the Welsh Assembly and is supported by Conwy Library and Information service.
Partnerships
- Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Conwy County Borough Council (CCBC) Conwy County Borough Council provides the local authority services to those people who live in, work in, or visit the County Borough.
- Welsh Government (WG) The Welsh Government is the devolved Government for Wales.
- Welsh Language Board The Welsh Language Board is a statutory organisation, sposored by the Welsh Assembly Government. It was established in December 1993 under the terms of the Welsh Language Act. Its main function is to promote and facilitate the use of the Welsh language.
- Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) The Welsh Local Government Association represents the interests of local authorities in Wales. The three fire and rescue authorities, four police authorities and three national park authorities are associate members.
Volunteering
- Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham AVOW The County Voluntary Council (CVC) for Wrexham County Borough. There are a network of 19 similar organsiations covering the whole of Wales.
- Business in the Community Business in the Community mobilises business for good. Its members commit to improve the way in which they manage their resources
- Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council (DVSC) We promote voluntary action. Provision of low cost training courses for volunteers and employees in a fully accessible training suite Funding advice and information Payroll facilities Recruiting and placement of volunteers
- Flintshire Local Voluntary Council (FLVC) Our aim is to promote support and develop voluntary activity and voluntary and community groups in Flintshire.
- Mantell Gwynedd A registered charity and company limited by guarantee. We aim to strengthen and promote voluntary and community groups and develop voluntary action in Gwynedd.
- Medrwn Môn Aims to promote and support volunteering, voluntary and community organisations by working with individuals, groups and communities on Anglesey.
- Volunteering Wales Provides information and advice about getting involved in volunteering. Provides information about the many different types of volunteering opportunities in your local area.
- Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) WCVA is the national umbrella organisation of the voluntary sector in Wales.
