Croydon groups are missing out on funding from the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities programme.

That’s official.

To help redress the balance and encourage more groups from Croydon to apply for funding, senior managers from the Big Lottery Fund (BLF) are coming to this workshop in Croydon to listen to voluntary and community organisations about their project ideas and share top tips on how to be successful with any bids to the Big Lottery Fund. This is a great opportunity to hear directly from officers from the BLF and get feedback on your specific ideas.
This workshop is specifically targeted at BAMER-led (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee) organisations or projects that will benefit BAMER communities. This is because the BLF have recognised that BAMER-led groups from Croydon have been relatively less successful at accessing lottery funding and would like to see if they can proactively improve application and success rates.
The workshop is being co-hosted by CVA and Croydon BME Forum and will follow on from the Croydon Voluntary Sector Alliance(CVSA) meeting that will take place at CVA in the morning of the 3rd February. The CVSA meeting will be a very important meeting also as the agenda includes senior officers from Croydon Council sharing their plans for funding the Voluntary Sector through their Stronger Communities Programme and other exciting initiatives.

You can download an agenda for this workshop and also for the CVSA meeting by clicking on the links below.

BLF Agenda

CVSA Agenda

To attend the CVSA meeting please register here

To attend the BLF workshop you will need to register by returning a pre-workshop questionnaire (click to download) produced by BLF.

Please complete and email the questionnaire to Bhupendra.solanki@cvalive.org.uk by Friday 29 January 2016.

If you have any queries please feel free to contact Bhupendra Solanki, Steve Phaure at CVA (steve.phaure@cvalive.org.uk) or Nadine Windley at Croydon BME Forum (Nadine@bmeforum.org)