Rugby Borough Council's Sport Grant is a funding stream aimed at helping community clubs and organisations to develop and to sustain the services and activities they offer by providing a development grant.

Grants are offered for sports activities that take place within Rugby Borough to help develop the clubs and organisations and to increase participation.

This course will show you how to carry out a basic audit of a community building, focussing specifically on what can be done in old or listed buildings. As well as monitoring consumption, this includes identifying appropriate energy efficiency measures, and the potential savings these can make.

Contents of the day:

•Introduction to Green Communities
•Monitoring consumption
•Energy auditing
•Energy efficiency improvements to old and listed buildings

What you will learn:

A Leicestershire couple who have run Open Gardens in their village for a number of years have developed an innovative solution to finding out the dates of Open Gardens events - a national Open Gardens website specifically aimed at town and village Open Gardens.
 
Frustrated by the difficulty of finding Open Gardens event dates and promoting their own village event, the couple thought it seemed the obvious solution and were surprised that it had not already been done.
 

Nominations for the 2010 Philip Lawrence Awards are now open. We need to hear from you who deserves to be a star of the 2010 awards and be in with the chance of winning £1000 towards their project.

The Links Foundation provides funding to a wide range of community-based organisations across Britain to help provide facilities and services to improve the conditions of life.

Applications are accepted from community organisations involved in projects which:
- improve education;
- tackle significant disadvantages;
- assist those in poverty, need or distress; and
- provide for their leisure activities.

Funding of £200-£2000 is available for a variety of projects that contribute towards getting people more physically active in the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire areas.

There are two application rounds:
- first deadline date is 17th September 2010
- second deadline date is 19th November 2010

To discuss your potential project or for queries please call Rich Collinson, Physical Activity Lead Officer, on 024 765 74889 or email rich@cswsport.org.uk.

This free 4-day course, offered by Coventry & Warwickshire CDA, will be held on:

 - Wednesday 29th & Thursday 30th September, Wednesday 6th  & Thursday 7th October 2010

 - 9.30am to 3.30pm, at their offices in Coventry

The Rural Coalition, under the chairmanship of Lord Matthew Taylor, has launched its report: The Rural Challenge – Achieving sustainable rural communities for the 21st Century.  This report follows on from their last publication, The future is rural too, published in September 2009. 

Arts on our Doorstep is a Central Warwickshire Villages LEADER funded project that will bring arts to the heart of rural communities in Warwick District and Rugby Borough, supporting projects taking place from 2010 to 2013.

The scheme will provide practical advice and support alongside resources up to the value of £5,000 to help local groups and individuals to organise exciting and innovative small arts projects within their community.

The Prince's Countryside Fund - described as the Prince of Wales' brainchild - is designed to give a much-needed boost to the UK's most vulnerable farmers and small rural communities.

The Fund will provide funding towards projects that clearly contribute towards one or more of its charitable objects and fit within the focus areas set out below:
- projects to improve the sustainability of British farming in areas of deprivation
- projects to improve the sustainability of rural communities
- projects to reconnect people with the countryside