Deadline: 17-Mar-25
The Two Ridings Community Foundation is pleased to announce the Bettys and Taylors Group Community Fund Programme.
Bettys and Taylors Group have developed this fund as a part of their community support activity. So, they wish to support activity that centres on employability and skills development.
The Bettys and Taylors Group Community Fund has been developed as part of the Bettys & Taylors Group force for good framework of community support activity and is a follow up to the Bettys and Taylors Group Coronavirus Community Fund and the Bettys and Taylors Group Cost of Living Fund.
Your project should support:
- Skills development (life skills such as cookery, literacy, communication, IT) that supports people onto the pathway to employability,
- Enhancing employability through formal skills, training, and education.
Funding Information
- Grants can be between £5,000 – £10,000 for small voluntary and community groups, small charities and other types of not-for-profit organisations.
- £100,000 per annum will be distributed between two rounds.
Eligible Projects
- Your project should support:
- Skills development (life skills such as cookery, literacy, communication, IT) that supports people onto the pathway to employability,
- Enhancing employability through formal skills, training, and education.
Eligibility Criteria
- The focus is to support small, grassroots organisations. As a general rule they will only consider an application from an organisation with a total annual income of under £500k per annum (this includes all income regardless of the source or purpose).
- Your organisation or group does not have to be a charity registered with the Charity Commission but all groups applying to Two Ridings CF for funding do need to:
- Work primarily for the benefit of people in North and East Yorkshire
- Be ‘not for profit’
- Have a governing document (also known as a constitution, rules, memorandum, or articles of association) outlining charitable objectives and with a charitable dissolution clause
- Have a bank account in your group/ organisation’s name with at least two signatories, who are not related to one another
- Be locally led and run (including locally constituted and managed branches of national charities)
- Have at least three unrelated trustees, directors or management committee members.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Under normal circumstances (except where a particular scheme allows and there is sufficient wider public benefit), they cannot support:
- Private Businesses
- General appeals or sponsorship
- National organisations (note this does not include locally constituted and managed branches of national or large charities)
- Statutory agencies, including parish councils and schools, in the discharge of their statutory obligations (they may however be able to provide funding for extracurricular activities or work which is outside the usual remit of the school/parish council if a particular scheme allows for this)
For more information, visit Two Ridings Community Foundation.