Welcome to the Get Grants September 2026 Newsletter! 


We’re excited to share our upcoming line-up of Training Courses & Events taking place this month.


There’s now just one month to go to Get Grants FREE Virtual Conference, with over 2,500 people already signed up! Join us on October 6th and 7th for two days of expert advice, networking, peer support and inspiration. The full line-up of speakers and funders can now be found on our website, with the full programme coming very soon!


We also have Telling Your Charity’s Story MASTERCLASS with Andy King on 10th September, 2pm - 3pm - learn how to make people instantly understand your work, and why they should support you! ​

The Centre for Processional Culture will help protect Britain’s rich but increasingly vulnerable processional traditions.

There are few art forms quite like procession.
Part performance, part ritual, part celebration and part public gathering, processions have the unusual ability to bring art and culture out of traditional venues and directly into the places where people live.
They can be ancient or entirely contemporary. They might involve music, theatre, dance, puppetry, costume, sculpture, carnival, ceremony or simply the collective act of moving through a place together.
And yet, despite the extraordinary variety and cultural significance of processional practice, there has been relatively little dedicated infrastructure in the UK focused specifically on understanding, developing and supporting it.
That is beginning to change.

The September 2026 Rossendale Connected Community Bulletin is here!
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Produced by the Rossendale Connected network, the monthly bulletin brings together useful information from health and community partners, helping residents stay informed about support, services and activities taking place across Rossendale.

There’s plenty to catch up on in this month’s edition, including important updates on cyber security and upcoming changes to regulated activity with children.


You’ll also find new opportunities for your organisation, useful resources and ways to get involved with the wider voluntary sector.


Read on to find out more.

RNIB wants to hear from more blind and partially sighted people! 

Are you blind or partially sighted, or do you know someone who is? RNIB is looking for more people to join Network35, its lived experience network, helping shape future services, campaigns and priorities.

My holiday isn’t until September – which seemed like a good idea at the time, avoiding the August rush, although it now feels a little way off! It has, at least, given me a bit more space to reflect, and there’s certainly plenty to reflect on.

We recently published a blog about the future of local infrastructure, setting out the challenges we face as a network, and how we need to shape ourselves to be futureproof. We focus on four things: the footprint at which members work and how we influence the changing pattern of local and strategic authorities; the critical nature of strategic leadership, connecting, and advocacy; the importance of independence from the statutory sector, and what this means in the context of service delivery; and the importance of EEDI across all our work. All of that is informing our membership review, and we’ve had lots of great conversations already. There is still time to book onto the member review happening on Wednesday 19th August - book your place here.
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“Sport has changed my life because it’s given me something to work for and something to be a part of.”
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We’re proud to share our new #UpMyStreet campaign, featuring the voices of young people from our network of community partners across the country. They’ve shared the incredible ways sport and physical activity have helped them: finding safer places to spend time, building stronger relationships, improving their mental and physical wellbeing and discovering new opportunities for education, training and employment. For some, the benefits have transformed their futures.

Welcome to the LFRS Burnley King’s Trust Newsletter.
Team 77 started on Monday 11th May, as a group of strangers, over 12-
weeks they took on new practical challenges, pushed themselves out of 
their comfort zone and created memories to last a lifetime.

​From Show Garden to community garden Over 2,000 plants from the RHS Badminton Flower Show in South Gloucestershire have been rehomed with more than 40 local community groups and schools, helping to create new, greener spaces.

August is often seen as a quieter time for career opportunities, with holidays and the summer season slowing the pace across the arts and culture sector. But there are still plenty of ways to get involved! This month’s opportunities round-up brings together a selection of roles, commissions, open calls and development opportunities across Lancashire with deadlines this month and into September - offering creative practitioners plenty to explore, apply for and share.
Got a Lancashire-based opportunity in the arts to promote? If applications close within the next couple of months, send the details to [email protected] and we'll help spread the word.

Welcome to the Get Grants August 2026 Newsletter! 


With the summer holidays upon us, we're bringing you this month's key funding deadlines, highlighting some fantastic grant opportunities, and sharing the latest Training and FREE Community Events to help you make the most of the weeks ahead.


Whether you're looking to build your fundraising skills this month, we're running some of our most popular training courses, including Bid Writing, Legacy Fundraising, Corporate Fundraising, and Trusts & Foundations.

We're in the midsummer of Climate Lab Pendle.
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It's been our intention to work seasonally, promoting a healthy way of working together that gives space for emergence, and values time for rest and reflection as well as co-learning and delivering. 

Following a Spring and early Summer of establishing the Community Collective; taking part in listening sessions and hosting co-learning events, high summer is our time to make new connections. And so we've been getting out and about and meeting new people over the last few weeks. 

Team members delivered a lively Climate Fresk for local women at Pavillion Cafe, and this weekend we're holding another Fresk with a Quaker group where we will experiment with a circular conversation format in response to this context.
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And we held the public launch of the programme at the Pendle Festival of Culture, where thousands of people were gathering to connect and have fun in Nelson. 

Get Grants Bid-Writing Training Course provides practical support to help improve your grant fundraising success and build your confidence as a grant fundraiser.
Get Grants Bid Writing Training Course is our longest-running course, and most popular training course, helping thousands of fundraisers improve their bid writing skills, insight and confidence.

Welcome to this week's NAVCA member newsletter. 


I know I always say this, but this week is full of information you’ll want to read and refer back to. It does feel like changing times. I won’t repeat here the government’s stance on devolution, pushing decisions closer to where people are, but I do really welcome the message of hope that comes with that.


On theme of being future-focused and, importantly, hopeful, there are a couple of things to point to. At NAVCA, we have been pulling together our thinking about the future face of local infrastructure. The world is changing, not least with local government reorganisation, health reforms, and an increased focus on neighbourhoods, but also increasing competition for infrastructure support and a growing trend towards funder plus rather than investing in infrastructure more widely. The blog below pulls that together to make the case for infrastructure as an essential part of the system (not an optional extra) which needs to be supported, nurtured and funded. Do use what we've written, or adapt it to suit your own circumstances and stakeholders - and let us know whether this has been helpful! ​

Welcome to your Community Bulletin! - Rossendale Council produce a monthly bulletin with our health and community partners to keep you updated on the community support and activities happening across Rossendale.