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-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Miller [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of CCplus
Sent: 25 September 2007 14:00
Subject: Connecting Communities Plus, Community Grants - Please
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Dear Colleagues,
 
Round 3 of Connecting Communities Plus, Community Grants is open. Please
find guidance notes and application form attached.
 
We are running a number of free briefing events to give people more
information about the fund. Please see the table attached for dates and
locations. If you would like to book a place at any of these events,
please contact us at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  or
call 01223 400343.
 
The grants scheme, Connecting Communities Plus, Community Grants,
welcomes applications from small, locally run and managed voluntary and
community organisations, often run by volunteers, who want to improve
opportunities for people locally and to improve relations between people
of different ethnic and/or faith backgrounds.

The Fund has four key priorities derived from 'Improving Opportunity,
Strengthening Society', the Government strategy to increase race
equality and community cohesion:

A. Improving the experience of people from Black and Minority Ethnic
(BME) backgrounds in relation to access to and outcomes from public
services - education, employment, health, housing and the Criminal
Justice System 

B. Increasing the confidence of people from BME backgrounds that public
services are delivered in a fair and equitable way

C. Tackling racism and extremism

D. Bringing together communities from different races and faiths, and
promoting a shared sense of belonging (community cohesion)

Priorities B and C were undersubscribed in the first and second rounds
and we are particularly interested to fund projects that contribute to
these priorities in the third round. 

The Legacy of the Slave Trade

2007 saw the 200th anniversary of the passage of the 1807 Abolition of
the Slave Trade Act. The Race Equality Unit supported projects in round
two which focused on commemorating the bicentenary.
 
In this round, we are looking for projects that will focus on the legacy
of the slave trade and how it affects us today. The Government wants to
ensure that as well as commemorating the past we learn from the legacy
and look forward by focusing on what still needs to happen in order to
tackle inequality, poverty and slavery as it exists today.

Further information on the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave
trade can be found on the websites:

www.communities.gov.uk <http://www.communities.gov.uk/> 

www.directgov.uk/slavery <http://www.directgov.uk/slavery> 

www.setallfree.net <http://www.setallfree.net/> 

The fund is available for groups/organisations in England.  

Best wishes,
Laura Miller
Grants Administrator
Connecting Communities Plus, Community Grants
 
Tel: 01223 400343
 
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