Funding Guide

The communities and businesses of the Northumberland Uplands already benefit from a significant amount of external funding Download the Funding Guide (PDF - 2MB)each year. By implementing a successful approach to funding local people can be empowered to run trial projects, deliver services in targeted areas, address new agendas, and engage in partnership activities which would otherwise be restricted by a lack of core funds.

Northumberland National Park's Funding Guide is aimed at anyone who is:

• Involved in bidding for funding
• Involved in managing funded projects or activities
• Involved in managing budgets secured from external sources

The main purpose of the Funding Guide is to improve the overall approach of anyone seeking and utilising funding in and around Northumberland National Park. This can be achieved by ensuring that everyone involved in funding has access to examples of good practice and is aware of available sources of help, support and advice.

The Funding Guide provides straight-forward advice on how to develop projects and funding bids, helping you to get the most out of funding opportunities and avoid some of the commonly experienced pitfalls.

Funding Guide (PDF - 2MB)

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Northumberland National Park Authority also compile a quarterly e-mail Funding Bulletin which includes the latest match funding news and opportunities, calls for projects, and local funding awards.

To be added to the mailing list of the Funding Bulletin, please contact funding@nnpa.org.uk stating your name, organisation, and location. Unfortunately, due to the competitive nature of the business, inclusion on the mailing list for the Funding Bulletin is only available to communities and businesses operating in and around the Northumberland Uplands.

If you've already got your idea, and you're ready to make a start, then Contact Us to find out more.

NOTE for ease of access, and to save power and paper, the Funding Guide has been primarily designed as an online tool, so that printing is not necessary. However, if do you require a hard copy please email funding@nnpa.org.uk.

If you do decide to print this document, you should set your printer preferences to shrink the content to fit the page, since different manufacturers' printers have different default settings for the size of page content.