Deadline: 28-Apr-23
Together for Peace is launching Climate Action Leeds Community Microgrants in partnership with Leeds Community Foundation.
Climate Action Leeds is a five-year £2.5 million scheme funded by the national lottery, and delivered by a partnership of voluntary action Leeds, our future Leeds, together for peace, Leeds tidal, and cag consultants. The project aims to shape a ‘Zero Carbon, more nature friendly, more socially just Leeds by the 2030s’ through community-led climate action and networks of interest.
Over the next two years they will award a total of £150,000, in grants of up to £5,000, to support neighbourhood-based climate action projects. Projects will vary in size and scope, all using local knowledge to enable groups across the city to realise their own ideas about ways to reduce carbon, promote nature-friendly activity or increase social justice.
Funding Information
Two opportunities are being offered for funding – Microgrants of up to £1,000 for small grassroots groups, and small grants of up to £5,000 for organisations with annual income under £150,000.
Examples of Activity
- Projects that help kick-start local initiatives to reduce carbon, such as a community composting scheme, or clothing swaps.
- A volunteer-led cycling scheme aimed at reducing car use.
- Seed-funding to help a local ‘green’ group become more established.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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. However, grants cannot be used to pay staff that are directly employed 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 above this threshold for current financial year All organisations, regardless of size and structure, must have:
- At least 3 Trustees, Directors or Management Committee members who are independent and unrelated
- No one with Significant Control.
- A governing document (E.G. constitution or memorandum and articles of association) that show how your organisation is managed.
- A bank or building society account in the name of your organisation with a minimum of two unrelated cheque signatories.
- Accounts or a record of income and expenditure for your organisation (if you are a new organisation, you will need to provide a bank statement and a project budget).
- A relevant safeguarding policy, if your organisation works with children or vulnerable adults (You can find information and advice on writing a safeguarding children policy here, and a safeguarding adults policy here).
For more information, visit Leeds Community Foundation.