Deciding Together Local Fund for York

Deadline: 20-Sep-21

The Two Ridings Community Foundation is seeking applications for Deciding Together Local Fund for York to help the city better respond to people facing multiple issues including homelessness, addiction & recovery, mental health & well being, poverty and offending.

Aims

The aims of the fund are;

To connect and help create space so that people can explore, understand, question and change systems that perpetuate disadvantage in York.
To involve people who live, work and/or access services in York– both how the fund operates and what it supports (funds).
To learn and share with others how funds like this can help change the ways things are done.

Funding Information

There are two levels of funding;

small grants up to £1000, and;
larger grants for which they have not set an upper limit as they do not wish to limit ideas.

What could the Deciding Together Local Fund for York support?

Anything the fund supports should have long term impact in mind rather than meeting direct and immediate need.
The fund may allow people to take a step back, think strategically, explore who they could work with and how they learn from different approaches. They may experiment, create a prototype and get things wrong.
People do not have to have a detailed plan in place and stick to it for the duration of their funding. This fund gives people the space for the approach to fully form. An idea could change and evolve over time as people discover/understand more.
So it could support:
- Ideas that are preventative (not crisis management),
- Ideas that help people come together to make solutions for themselves,
- Ideas that bring people around an issue to address it from multiple angles,
- Breathing space that give people the time to explore systems and perpetuation of multiple disadvantage.

Eligibility Criteria

They will accept applications for either a small or large grant from the following:
- Constituted voluntary and community groups.
- Registered charities
- Community Interest Companies.
- Other organisations with charitable aims, including statutory agencies.
- Partnerships and/or collaboratives (formal or informal) that are led by organisations with charitable aims.
They will also consider applications for small grants from the following:
- Individuals
- Un-constituted groups i.e. groups that do not have a formal structure but that work together to improve lives of others.