Deadline: 11-Sep-2025
The Leeds Community Foundation are pleased to collaborate with Leeds City Council’s 100% Digital Leeds and Leeds Digital Ball to fund the development and delivery of sustainable digital inclusion interventions in Leeds.
Grants are aimed at ensuring that individuals and communities in Leeds have everything they need to be active online, now and in the future.
Funding Information
- They actively welcome more applications from, or benefitting, people under-represented in their grant making, for example LGBTQIA+, racially minoritised, d/Deaf or disabled people.
- A mixture of grant sizes will be awarded, split between:
- Up to £5k for conducting test and learn activity.
- Up to £10k for expansion of existing activity.
- They ask that you speak with 100% Digital Leeds to gain advice on shaping your proposal.
- Successful applicants will also be offered support with their projects from 100% Digital Leeds.
- The fund supports proposals that build organisational capacity and sustainably integrate digital inclusion into regular work. Activity should add value to the everyday outcomes you achieve.
- Eligible spending can include: digital equipment; connectivity; increases to staff capacity; and new staff costs.
Eligible Activities
- Test and learn activity by Community Organisations at the start of their digital inclusion journey.
- Development activity by Community Organisations seeking to build on existing work in the area.
- Outcomes for people and communities could include: improved physical or mental health and wellbeing; increased financial resilience; reduced isolation; and development of skills to use online tools and services such as housing, employment, health, council or government websites. These could be achieved through a combination of: promoting the benefits of being online; upskilling in essential digital skills; enabling online access; testing different interventions; implementing initiatives such as Digital Health Hubs; & establishing self-sustaining digital inclusion support sessions
Ineligible Activities
- Short-term, time limited projects, e.g., a course
- Activity and costs that have already taken place
- Activity targeted at a particular group (ethnic, gender, religious etc.) without a good justification for this
- 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
- Applications from individuals
- Expeditions or overseas travel
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants over £5,000:
- Incorporated not-for-profit organizations (e.g. CIO, CIC limited by guarantee, charitable companies) registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or FCA Mutual Public Register.
- Registered charities that aren’t an incorporated structure. These cannot use grants for PAYE staff, only self-employed workers.
- Grants of £5,000 or less:
- Incorporated not-for-profit organizations (e.g. CIO, CIC limited by guarantee, charitable companies) registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or FCA Mutual Public Register.
- Registered charities that aren’t an incorporated structure. These cannot use grants for PAYE staff, only self-employed workers.
- Small unincorporated and unregistered organizations if annual income is less than £10,000 and the grant wouldn’t push income above £10,000 in the current financial year.
- All organisations, regardless of size and structure, must have:
- A minimum of three unrelated trustees/committee members/directors, with none registered as Persons with Significant Control.
- A governing document showing how your group is managed (e.g. constitution, memorandum and articles of association) with a dissolution clause/asset lock that ensures the organisation is fully constituted as not-for-profit.
- A bank account in the organisation’s name with at least two unrelated signatories, and at least two signatories required to authorise all transactions.
- Financial accounts that clearly show the organisation’s gross income (or, if you are a new organisation, an income and expenditure report, including details of any assets and reserves and policies relating to them).
- Relevant safeguarding policies if working with children or vulnerable adults.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Not eligible for these grants:
- For-profit, overseas and statutory (e.g. schools and hospitals) organisations or activities.
For more information, visit Leeds Community Foundation.
