Deadline: 21-Jul-23
The Leeds Community Foundation is now accepting applications for the Bradford Youth Fund to support a wide range of voluntary and community projects working with young people aged 13-25 in Bradford.
Themes
- Funded activity must follow one or more of these themes:
- Youth Voice: Ensuring young people’s ideas, opinions, and concerns are heard by those with resource and influence -offering seats at the table.
- Active Citizenship: activities that allow young people to get involved in local communities through democratic action.
- BD25 City of Culture: access to involvement in creative and cultural activity as part of wider BD25 activity.
Funding Information
- Grant Size: £1,000 to £10,000
Examples of activity that can be funded
- Enabling young people to come together to develop new skills in leadership, creativity, collaboration, communication, and more.
- Enjoyable opportunities that also challenge and develop participants’ skills and confidence
- Activity benefitting the local area through social action, active citizenship, and volunteering
- Broadening young people’s perspectives, horizons, and aspirations.
- Leadership activity that prepares young people for wider future opportunities.
- Projects that can demonstrate progression, learning and ‘distance travelled’ through accreditation.
- Cultural or cultural opportunities funded will provide more than a one-off trip or ticket and may offer a chance to create something or expand horizons.
What can’t be funded?
- 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
Who can Apply?
- Grants of £5,000 or less
- Not-for-profit incorporated Community Organisations from the third sector such as CIO, CIC or a charitable company. You will be registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or Mutual Public Register (FCA).
- Charities that are registered with the Charity Commission but are not an incorporated structure – if grants are not used to pay staff employed directly by the charity.
- Small unincorporated and unregistered Community Organisations can only apply if your annual income is less than £10,000, and if securing the grant would not take you this threshold for current financial year.
- Grants of over £5,000
- Not-for-profit incorporated Community Organisations from the third sector such as CIO, CIC or a charitable company. You will be registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or Mutual Public Register (FCA).
- Charities that are registered with the Charity Commission but are not an incorporated structure – if grants are not used to pay staff employed directly by the charity.
- For-profit organisations, statutory organisations or activity (e.g. schools and hospitals) and overseas organisations cannot be funded.
- All organisations, regardless of size and structure, must have:
- At least three Trustees/Directors/Committee Members (whichever is applicable, depending on your organisation’s legal structure) who are independent and unrelated. For registered charitable companies (limited companies by guarantee without share capital, CICs and similar) they require a minimum of three unrelated directors, and none should be registered as Persons with Significant Control
- A governing document e.g. constitution or memorandum and articles of association that show how your group is managed
- A bank or building society account in the name of your organisation with a minimum of two unrelated authorised signatories on the mandate and transactions requiring authorisation by at least two of those authorised signatories
- Accounts or a record of income and expenditure for your organisation
- A relevant safeguarding policy, if your organisation works with children or vulnerable adults
For more information, visit Leeds Community Foundation.