Deadline: 23-Oct-23
The Leeds Community Foundation is seeking applications for the Leeds Civic Trust Community Fund to support community organisations and local people to create and deliver activities and projects that respond to the theme ‘celebration of place’.
Funding Information
- Grant size: £10,000 to £20,000
- Duration: 2 Years
Activities that can be Funded
- Engagement activities that celebrate a community of people and their contribution to a local area, resulting in the sharing of oral-histories through a sound-walk, which is also archived and available online
- The celebration of a local building and those who’ve resided in it over the years via workshops, events and an exhibition which is also archived/online
- Celebrating a community centre with the creation of a community garden and commemorative bench
- A community cookbook that captures and shares the stories and recipes of people who migrated to an area in Leeds and made it their home
Location: Leeds
Eligibility Criteria
- Not-for-profit incorporated Community Organisations from the third sector such as CIO, CIC limited by guarantee, or a charitable company. You will be registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or Mutual Public Register (FCA).
- Charities that are registered with the Charity Commission but are not an incorporated structure. These organisations cannot use grant funds towards PAYE staff costs, but funds can be used towards freelance staff costs.
- Grants of £5,000 or less
- Small unincorporated and unregistered Community Organisations can only apply if your annual income is less than £10,000, and if securing the grant would not take you above this threshold for current financial year.
- For-profit organisations, statutory organisations or activity (e.g. schools and hospitals) and overseas organisations cannot be funded.
- All organisations, regardless of size and structure, must have:
- At least three Trustees/Directors/Committee Members (whichever is applicable, depending on your organisation’s legal structure) who are independent and unrelated. For registered charitable companies, limited companies and CICs you should be limited by guarantee without share capital, and there should be no registered Persons with Significant Control
- A governing document e.g. constitution or memorandum and articles of association that shows how your group is managed and includes a dissolution clause/asset lock
- A bank or building society account in the name of your organisation with a minimum of two unrelated authorised signatories on the mandate, and transactions requiring authorisation by at least two of those authorised signatories
- Accounts or a record of income and expenditure for your organisation (if you are a new organisation, you will need to provide a bank statement and a project budget)
- A relevant safeguarding policy, if your organisation works with children or vulnerable adults
Ineligible
- Activity and costs that have already taken place
- Larger projects where any grant awarded would reflect less than 50% of the overall cost
- Activity which might be regarded as discriminatory and/or excludes some people without good justification
- Activity that promotes a particular political or religious point of view
- Activity primarily for the benefit of animals
- Capital appeals for building projects
- Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals, or applications from individuals
- Statutory organisations or activity
- Overseas organisations, expeditions or overseas travel
Key Information
- Grants of between £10,000 and £20,000 available, to be split equally over two-years
- Applicant Organisations and any activity must be based in Leeds
- The theme is ‘Celebration of Place’. The place must still exist, and might be a specific building or street, or might be defined by a community of people
- Local people should be engaged in the funded work, be it through consultation and/or participatory activities
- Proposals and budget allocations should include a long-lasting tangible output, e.g. a mural, garden, etc. They appreciate the detail of this may not be known at the start, and will be decided as your work with local people unfolds. You should also consider long-term plans for maintenance
- Only one application per organisation, but applicants can partner on other projects
- They encourage applications from under-served and/or under-represented communities across all their funding opportunities
For more information, visit Leeds Community Foundation.
