Deadline: 9-Jun-25
The Leeds Community Foundation, in partnership with Leeds City Council, are pleased to offer grants to support the vital work of lunch clubs, food provision and ongoing support for older people in Leeds.
Funding Information
- Grants sizes generally start at a few hundred pounds and usually don’t exceed £2,400.
Duration
- 1 year
Eligible Activities
- Examples of activity that can be funded
- Funding is awarded as a contribution towards running costs. This can include:
- Direct running costs – food, staff, volunteer expenses, room hire, transport, insurance, training
- Activity that runs alongside your lunch club to enhance wellbeing and social connection, such as exercise, arts and crafts, etc.
- They encourage face to face delivery of lunch clubs with appropriate safety measures, and can also support remote delivery to lunch club members where required.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding can support Lunch Clubs that serve/deliver a minimum of 10 meals per week
- Clubs should operate at least 40 weeks per year
- Clubs should have adequate insurance
- Clubs should have an up-todate Safeguarding Policy for Adults
- Staff/volunteers must have up to date Food Hygiene Training and have a written food safety management system.
- The following can apply:
- Incorporated not-for-profit organisation (e.g. CIO, CIC limited by guarantee, charitable companies) registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or FCA Mutuals Public Register.
- Registered charities that aren’t an incorporated structure. These cannot use grants for PAYE staff, only self-employed workers.
- Small unincorporated and unregistered organisations – if annual income is less than £10,000 and the grant wouldn’t push income above £10,000 in the current financial year.
- For-profit, overseas and statutory (e.g. schools and hospitals) organisations or activities can not apply.
- All organisations, regardless of size and structure, must have:
- A minimum of three unrelated trustees/committee members/directors, with none registered as Persons with Significant Control.
- A governing document showing how your group is managed (e.g. constitution, memorandum and articles of association) with a dissolution clause/asset lock that ensures the organisation is fully constituted as not-for-profit.
- A bank account in the organisation’s name with at least two unrelated signatories, and at least two signatories required to authorise all transactions.
- Financial accounts that clearly show the organisation’s gross income (or, if you are a new organisation, an income and expenditure report, including details of any assets and reserves and policies relating to them).
- Relevant safeguarding policies if working with children or vulnerable adults.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following cannot be funded:
- Activity and costs that have already taken place
- Activity which might be regarded as discriminatory and/or excludes some people without good justification
- Activity that promotes a particular political or religious point of view
- Activity primarily for the benefit of animals
- Large capital appeals (e.g. cookers, building projects) though the grant can be used towards smaller kitchen items, such as pots and pans
- Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals, or applications from individuals
- Statutory organisations or activity
For more information, visit Leeds Community Foundation.
