Deadline: 9-Dec-22
The London Legal Support Trust is proud to announce the new funding collaboration Propel with aims to tackle root causes, not just systems.
In line with London Recovery Board missions, Propel will focus its funding on three main areas: A New Deal for Young People, Building Stronger Communities and Robust Safety Net. LLST’s focus, together with some London funders, will be on the Robust Safety Net, the advice strand of Propel’s work.
Propel will offer grants to civil society groups in London to help build trust and understanding on issues. While, advice funders under Propel will fund initiatives responding to workforce issues.
Types of Grants Available
There are currently two types of grants available:
- Explore Grants – a grant for up to one year, for organisations to explore the issues they want to tackle, how change might be possible and who needs to be involved in making the change happen.
- Deliver and Develop Grants – a grant for up to three years to expand existing delivery, learn about the impact, and build partnerships to scale approaches that work.
What do the grants cover?
- Robust Safety Net grants will be for training and development initiatives in the social welfare advice sector. By social welfare, they refer to advice on welfare benefits, immigration, employment, housing, debt and community care.
- The Mind the Gap research (May 2022) highlighted a broad range of workforce challenges facing the advice sector, along with a number of recommendations and examples of promising practices. The priorities for this funding are for initiatives that propose solutions to address the following:
- Training and development challenges;
- Attracting new people into the advice sector; and/or
- Developing progression pathways.
Funding Information
- Organisations can be funded between £50k and £750k per year to a maximum of £1.5m.
- So, if you’re applying for a two year mentoring grant, you can ask for up to £750k per year.
- A three-year grant would be a maximum of £500k per year.
- Deliver and Develop grants ranges from £50,000-£1.5m over 2-3 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply for a Propel grant you need to be:
- Delivering work that is of benefit to Londoners
- One of the organisational types
- A registered, exempted, or excepted Charity
- A Charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)
- A Community Interest Company limited by guarantee (CIC)
- A Charitable Community Benefit Society (Industrial and Provident society)
- You will need to have at least three Trustees and be able to provide one year of accounts.
- Grants will only fund work that is of benefit to Londoners. You might be a London-wide organisation, or you might be working in one of London’s boroughs or neighbourhoods.
- If you are a national organisation, or an organisation based outside of London, you will need to make clear how you meet this requirement in your application, and your grant can only be spent on work done within London
- Applications from equity-led organisations will be prioritised. By prioritised, they mean that their applications will be assessed first. By equity-led, they mean organisations led-by-and-for marginalised communities, in particular:
- Communities experiencing racial inequity
- Deaf and Disabled people
- LGBT+ people
- Women and girls
For more information, visit https://londonlegalsupporttrust.org.uk/our-grants/propel-funding/