Come and meet Trust for London and the Heritage Lottery Fund during this interactive morning event at CVA!

We will have:

1. Presentations by the two funders, followed by questions and answers from (10.30am to 11.40 am), followed by
2. A Dragons' Den (11.30am-1.40pm), which will see six local groups pitching their project to Trust for London, Heritage Lottery Fund, Croydon Council (Active Communities Fund) and Superhighways to get tips/suggestions/comments! The Dragons' Den will be, this time, open to the public so stay over as much as you like as it is bound to be a great learning experience for all!

If you have a project idea and would like to be selected for the Dragons' den, please fill this simple form in and send back to sara.milocco@cvalive.org.uk by 22nd February at 5pm.

The 6 groups taking part into the Dragons' Den could receive one of the following four prizes:

• A free ticket to one of Superhighways training sessions of your choice
• A free ticket to one of our popular Safeguarding Children courses (Level of your choice)
• A one to one session with Superhighways on a topic of your choice (building a new website, improving your data collection, preparing case studies etc)
• Detailed feedback on your draft application from our capacity building star Claudia Demuth!

Some more information on the two funders:

Trust for London has seven Funding programmes

1. Good Homes and Neighbourhoods (advocacy work and legal advice on housing)
2. Decent Living Standards (representation and social legal action in social welfare law)
3. Pathway to Settlements (immigration legal advice/advocacy work on immigration system)
4. Connected Communities (for small groups with annual income less than £100,000)
5. Better Work (progression routes out of low paid work; employment legal advice and advocacy)
6. Shared Health (advocacy work on understanding/reducing income/wealth inequalities in London)
7. Stronger Voices (funding for second tier and specialist organisations)

Heritage Lottery Fund has seven Grant programmes, of which you might want to look into:

• Sharing Heritage (£3,000-10,000)
• Our Heritage (£10,000-100,000)
• Young Roots (£10,000-50,000)
• First World War (£3,000-10,000)

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