Deadline: 28-Apr-23
Together for Peace is launching Climate Action Leeds Community Small Grants in partnership with Leeds Community Foundation.
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
- They are pleased to offer two opportunities for funding – Small grants of up to £5,000 for organisations with income under £150,000. Applications are welcomed from projects which respond to the challenge of reducing carbon and/or becoming more nature friendly.
- Duration: Up to 1 Year
Activities
- Local initiatives to reduce carbon and increase access to green spaces, such creating a community garden
- A feasibility study to explore green energy options for a community building
- A repair and recycle hub
What can’t be funded?
- For-profit organisations, statutory organisations/activity (E.G. schools and hospitals) or overseas organisations
- Organisations that have an income over £150,000 in the most recent financial year
- Unincorporated organisations that have an income of more than £10,000, or if securing the grant would take them above this threshold for current financial year
- 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
- Individuals
- Expeditions or overseas travel
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 organization
- A relevant safeguarding policy, if your organisation works with children or vulnerable adults
For more information, visit Leeds Community Foundation.