Deadline: 29-Sep-22
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Nigel Huddleston MP has launched a new Know Your Neighbourhood (KYN) Fund.
Their primary ambition is to develop our understanding of what works to improve wellbeing and pride in place in these communities through volunteering and community initiatives tackling loneliness. Citizens will be able to participate in local projects which build their skills, wellbeing and social networks.
Objectives
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The objectives of the KYN Fund are, by March 2025:
- To build the evidence to identify scalable and sustainable place-based interventions that work in increasing regular volunteering and reducing chronic loneliness.
- To increase the proportion of people in targeted high-deprivation local authorities who volunteer at least once a month.
- To reduce the proportion of chronically lonely people in targeted high-deprivation local authorities who lack their desired level of social connections.
- To enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities, and the local voluntary and community sector in these places, to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage volunteering and tackling loneliness.
Elements
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There are three core elements to this role:
- Designing and delivering a fair and open process for eligible Onward Grant Recipients (OGRs) to apply for funding from the voluntary and community social enterprise (VCSE) sector in the IGM’s selected 6 to 9 geographical areas, working in partnership with local people to help identify the relevant skills, activities and resources already existing in those areas to help strengthen and improve things locally. This will involve ensuring a balanced spread of funding is distributed to achieve the objectives.
- Administering grants to OGRs to carry out projects in the targeted communities that increase volunteering and support people to connect with others in their local area, reducing loneliness.
- Building the evidence to identify scalable and sustainable place-based interventions that work in increasing regular volunteering and reducing chronic loneliness. The IGM will need to play a significant role in ensuring the quality of the evaluation is high, by ensuring that all funded projects have an impact evaluation.
Funding Information
- Up to £14 million will be made available through the Know Your Neighbourhood (KYN) Fund for activities enabling volunteering and tackling loneliness in targeted high deprivation local authority areas in England.
Eligible Projects
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The IGM should assess the onward grant applicants on their ability to:
- Provide access to volunteering opportunities in targeted high-deprivation neighbourhoods;
- Improve social connections within the community;
- Implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage volunteering and tackling loneliness;
- Build the evidence to identify scalable and sustainable place-based interventions that work in increasing regular volunteering and reducing chronic loneliness; and
- Represent value for money, with interventions expected to achieve a high benefit-cost ratio to be prioritised.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Know Your Neighbourhood (KYN) Fund for activities enabling volunteering and tackling loneliness in targeted high deprivation local authority areas in England.
- Citizens will be able to participate in local projects which build their skills, wellbeing and social networks.
- DCMS is inviting nonprofit grant making organisations, such as charitable foundations, philanthropic institutions and Arms Length Bodies to apply to be the Intermediary Grant Maker for this fund. They also welcome bids from a consortia of charitable organisations, of which a lead organisation should make the application.
For more information, visit KYN.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/know-your-neighbourhood-fund-invitation-for-intermediary-grant-makers