Deadline: 2-May-23
Brighton & Hove City Council (the council) is inviting a wide range of organisations to submit project proposals to support, include and integrate Ukrainian refugees in the city.
Aims
- This Grant Scheme aims to fund transformative projects to help the council meet its obligations under the HfU Scheme.
- The overall aim is to empower Ukrainian refugees into active and economically independent residents, able to fulfil their potential and contribution to the communities.
- The council is keen to fund innovative projects which will strengthen the Ukrainian refugees’ resilience, independence and integration.
Priorities and Outcomes
The Grant Scheme’s priorities are the following:
- Priority 1: English for Speakers of Other Languages provision (ESOL)
- Outcomes
- significantly improved their ability to communicate in English, verbally and in writing;
- progressed into further learning or employment;
- have improved health and well-being, and
- are better integrated in the local community through improved social interactions and mixing; participation in everyday activities; confidence in engaging with public services; local and national belonging and trust in others.
- Outcomes
- Priority 2: Employability and business start-up advice
- Outcomes
- progressed into and sustained meaningful employment for example with sufficient income to move-on from sponsorships and access the private rented sector;
- increased confidence to navigate and market their skills and work experience to city and UK employers;
- accessed high quality apprenticeships in the city;
- accessed holistic business start -up advice and business mentoring to set up, grow their own business and create new jobs;
- increased confidence to participate actively in the economic life of the city.
- Outcomes
- Priority 3: Access to information, advice and guidance
- Outcomes
- improved support to help them make informed choices about their lives as residents in Brighton and Hove;
- improved access to information about opportunities open to them about learning, training, work or volunteering;
- better connections to services providing support on various aspects of the lives in the city;
- a better understanding of their rights, entitlements and responsibilities
- Outcomes
- Priority 4: Access to appropriate mental health and wellbeing including counselling and therapeutic services for Ukrainian refugees (adults and children)
- Outcomes
- access to locally based counselling services in a timely manner;
- access to affordable support and treatment through effective and accessible therapy and counselling;
- improved mental and emotional wellbeing;
- improved personal resilience to process the stress and anxieties from experiences of war, loss and displacement;
- less anxiety, improved self-esteem and ability to face life’s challenging circumstances.
- Outcomes
- Priority 5: Community cohesion and integration including awareness raising, social connections and events – adults
- Outcomes
- improved sense of safety and belonging;
- increased everyday opportunities for refugees to mix and meet with other residents;
- improved trust within and between communities, including with law enforcement;
- improved participation in local democratic processes,
- better understanding of their rights as residents;
- access to high quality volunteering opportunities;
- improved confidence to report hate crime;
- improve access to translation and interpreting services in the city.
- Outcomes
- Priority 6: Community cohesion and integration including awareness raising, social connections and events – young people (aged 13-25 year olds)
- Outcomes
- access to fun and supportive activities which help to meet and socialise;
- increased everyday opportunities for social connections with other young refugee and local young people
- improved trust between young Ukrainian refugees, other groups of refugees and local young people;
- better understanding of their rights as residents;
- access to high quality volunteering opportunities;
- opportunities to be signposted or referred to other services;
- improved sense of safety and belonging.
- Outcomes
- Priority 7: Capacity building for Ukrainian and other refugee-led groups
- Outcomes
- As a result of the funding, community organisation stakeholders including Ukrainian and other refugees groups have:
- improved understanding of how to welcome and support newcomers in the city learning from what has worked in the past and from the delivery of Homes for Ukraine in the city;
- improved competencies and skills that make them more effective and sustainable partners in the delivery of services for refugees and migrants.
- improved confidence and skills to represent, advocate on behalf of, and reflect the views, opinions, and perceptions of people in their communities on matters and issues that are important to them;
- legally set up refugee community organisations, working collaboratively for improved representation in the design and delivery of welcome and support services
- As a result of the funding, community organisation stakeholders including Ukrainian and other refugees groups have:
- Outcomes
Funding Information
- Total: £1,150,000
- Priority 1 total: £300,000 maximum: £100,000
- Priority 2 total: £300,000 maximum: £100,000
- Priority 3 total: £150,000 maximum: £50,000
- Priority 4 total: £100,000maximum: £50,000
- Priority 5 total: £100,000maximum: £50,000
- Priority 6 total: £100,000maximum: £50,000
- Priority 7 total: £100,000maximum: £50,000
- Duration:
- The feedback received from the current delivery partners is that a minimum of 15 months is needed to mobilise and deliver funded projects.
- They have therefore set the funding period from 1 June 2023 to 30 September 2024.
What the Grant Scheme will fund?
- They welcome applications which meet the Ukrainian Refugee Programme’s priorities. Below is an overview of the expectations. These will be used to assess your application for funding.
- They are looking for proposals which:
- Clearly describe the activities you plan to deliver that will achieve the priority and outcomes you have selected.
- Provide clear evidence of need for your proposal and describe the issues you will help address.
- Outline how your beneficiaries will be involved in developing and running your proposed activities/project.
- Describe at least three key outcomes you think can be achieved by the end of the grant period and how you will measure them.
- Explain how you will you monitor and evaluate your work.
- Describe how you will deliver value through the activities you are proposing.
- Outline how your proposed project will ensure and enhance equality and diversity.
- Proposals may request funding for project costs and overheads (up to 10% of total costs).
Eligibility Criteria
- The Ukrainian Refugee Programme is already working with a wide range of partners. They believe funding a range of projects will contribute to the success of the programme. They will expect successful partners to learn from each other and build a body of knowledge that could be drawn upon for other city-wide refugee welcome programmes. This will include attending the Programme’s monthly community and integration meeting.
- They welcome applications from smaller and larger organisations. They encourage applications from refugee-led groups or charities. Those who are not constituted or set up formally can apply with a more established organisation which will act as an accountable body (see the list below). If you are successful, you and your accounting body will be asked to submit a written partnership agreement.
- You can apply if you are a:
- Company limited by guarantee, or
- Registered charity, or
- Community interest company (CIC), or
- Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), or
- Community Benefit Society, or
- Constituted group or club, or
- Statutory organisation, or
- A combination or two or more of the above if working in partnership.
- Applicants can make more than one application to this scheme.
For more information, visit Brighton & Hove City Council.