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Afa Försäkring finances research within work environment with focus on improving working conditions. The research is expected to prevent workplace injuries, provide practical benefits at workplaces and contribute to better work environment and fewer work injuries. Research may examine risk and health factors in work both short and long term. The research can focus on organizational and social work environment (sustainable working life, work organization, leadership, employee engagement, harassment, communication), physical work environment (ergonomics, vibrations, noise, lighting, safety and accidents), chemical work environment (exposure, threshold values, risks and opportunities), digital work environment (effects of digitalization, AI, hybrid work methods, cognitive ergonomics), implementation of systematic work environment management, and work adaptations. The grant targets researchers at Swedish universities, colleges, research institutes and university hospitals. Assessment criteria include relevance for Afa Försäkring's target groups, project feasibility, practical benefits, scientific quality including methodology, project originality, cost-effectiveness and competence of the project group.

Young Women in Mind programme

The Young Women in Mind programme was established to help improve the mental health of women aged 16-25 in the UK. The Pilgrim Trust has committed £5 million in funding over five years (2021-2026). Grants support organisations that increase young women's access to high quality, age and gender specific mental health services in North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber. The programme addresses the sharp rise in mental ill health among young women, with over 25% experiencing mental health problems. Social factors and structural inequalities exacerbate these problems and make it difficult for them to access resources and services. The 16 to 25 age group experiences many life challenges, with most mental health problems revealing themselves before age 24. Grants range from £60,000 to £100,000 spread over three years and cover project costs, staff costs and fees, advocacy, learning and evaluation costs. Eligible organisations must directly engage with young women aged 16-25, offer age, gender and trauma informed mental health services, provide safe women-only services and spaces, involve those with lived experience in service design, and create fully integrated 'wrap around' programmes of mental health support. The programme requires grantees to form a cohort throughout the 3-year grant period to explore best practice and advocate for wider change, creating impact that reaches beyond immediate beneficiaries.

Develop Your Facilities

The Develop Your Facilities programme is a tennis facility development funding opportunity distributed by the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). The programme aims to invest in the right tennis projects supported by the right people to improve and expand tennis facilities across the UK. The fund provides both loan and grant funding to support various tennis facility improvement projects. The programme focuses on two main areas: improving facilities to meet increased customer expectations and deliver quality tennis experiences, and boosting capacity by bringing poor quality courts back into use, particularly in parks and local authority sites. This initiative is designed to enhance the tennis playing infrastructure and ensure more people have access to quality tennis facilities. Applications are assessed according to their contribution to British Tennis. The programme targets a range of projects including facilities, buildings, and places development, community sport initiatives, projects designed to engage people in sport, outdoor sport facilities, and projects specifically targeted at students. Eligible applicants include not-for-profit clubs and community groups (with or without governing documents) as well as individuals.

Awards for All

National Lottery Awards for All Scotland provides quick and straightforward access to small amounts of lottery funding for community projects. The programme is administered by the Big Lottery Fund and run in partnership with sportscotland. It gives groups a chance to apply for grants between £300 and £10,000 to support what matters to people and communities. The programme supports a wide variety of one-off costs for not-for-profit/voluntary or community groups, social enterprises, community councils, schools, and statutory bodies. The fund particularly encourages applications from smaller organizations and considers organizational income when making decisions. Community involvement in the design, development, and delivery of planned activities is a key priority. For sports projects specifically, sportscotland prioritizes projects that engage young people from the most deprived areas, engage girls and young women, and engage disabled young people. Applicants must demonstrate how their project or activity will bring people together and build strong relationships in and across communities, and improve the places and spaces that matter to communities.

Heritage & Place Programme

The Heritage & Place Programme (H&PP) is an area-based funding programme that aims to contribute to the development of vibrant and sustainable places in Scotland, through community-led regeneration of the historic environment. It supports the development and delivery of heritage focused schemes within conservation areas, or alternatively distinctive heritage areas with local authority recognition. The programme consists of a two-stage application process with an initial Historic Environment Scotland (HES) match funded Development Phase followed by a Delivery Phase. The Development Phase supports costs of appointing staff and consultants to carry out development activities including undertaking local skills and materials audits, community engagement activities, and historic asset condition surveys. The Delivery Phase supports a range of projects and activities including repair and resilience capital projects involving the reuse of historic environment assets, traditional skills training and materials activities targeting local needs, community heritage activities, and a management and maintenance strategy to help build capacity within communities to value and look after the historic environment for the longer term. Successful Heritage & Place schemes are based upon the formation of Area Partnerships of local, regional, and national interests with a shared vision for the place, and community participation is integral to the design and delivery of the scheme.