Small Change is Derby City Partnership's small grant fund aimed at helping community, voluntary and resident groups to make changes in their local communities. Small Change is now offering grants of up to £5,000 to support new community activity in the 12 neighbourhood renewal areas of Derby City these are:

• Alvaston and Boulton
• Abbey Street and Stockbrook Street
• Crewton and Harvey Road
• Breadsall Hilltop and North Chaddesden
• Woodlands Lane Estate
• Normanton Road and Pear Tree
• Austin Estate
• Mackworth Estate
• Morley Estate and Slack Lane
• New Sinfin and Old Sinfin
• Osmaston and Allenton
• Asterdale Estate

Derby City Partnership Cities and Small Change Aims

The aims of Small Change are linked to Derby City Partnership Cities. Each City group has its own strategy that contributes to Derby City Partnership's 2020 vision and to the outcomes of Derby's Local Area Agreement.

To get a grant, you need to show how your project meets the aims of one or more of the Derby City Partnership Cities:

• City for Children and Young people aims to help children and young people aged up to 19 years to be healthy, be safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and achieve economic wellbeing.
• City for Safer and Stronger Communities aims to improve community safety, improve the local environment, increase community cohesion.
• Healthy City aims to promote health and wellbeing, prevent ill-health and provide support for vulnerable people.
• City Growth aims to increase economic development including increasing the skills and employability of local people.
• Cultural City aims to encourage a lively and energetic cultural life. Culture is about a wide range of creative, learning and leisure activities.

Priorities for Small Change

Each City has identified types of activities that they most want to fund. Projects meeting these priorities are most likely to get funding from Small Change

City for Children and Young People

• Projects to set up new homework clubs to target young people from communities with traditionally low educational attainment levels.
• Projects to set up new out of school sports and physical activities for school aged children, especially those aged 14 to 19.

Healthy City

• Projects promoting healthy lifestyles through healthy eating.
• Projects promoting independence for older people.

Cultural City

• Partnership projects between two or more different cultural groups that aim to improve community cohesion through cultural activity.
• Projects to involve more volunteers in sports and physical activity.

City Growth

• Training projects to increase the employability of local people through development of new skills.
• Projects to provide information and advice to target people aged over 45 support their employability in the labour market.
• Projects that support organisations to develop into social enterprises.

City for Safer and Stronger Communities

• Projects to support drug treatment user groups.
  
• Projects to support community champions involvement in neighbourhood forums.
  
• Projects to increase participation and access to local green spaces by encouraging local people to become actively involved in them.

( If you would like to discuss a project idea or receive an application form please contact 01332 255627 or email funding@derbycitypartnership.co.uk

Deadlines or applications are approximately every two months.

Application forms and guidance notes can be downloaded from:

Guidance notes
http://www.derbycitypartnership.co.uk/documents/SmallChangeGuide2007-08.doc

Application form
http://www.derbycitypartnership.co.uk/documents/SmallChangeappform2007-08.doc