Deadline: 6-Jul-25
The Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions is seeking applications for its Stop Smoking Initiative to develop innovative strategies to engage and support cigarette smokers to quit and promote and enhance the Smokefree Lancashire single referral pathway.
Aims
- The North Lancashire Stop Smoking project aims to:
- increase the number of smokers accessing the Smokefree Lancashire service,
- increase the number of people setting a quit date,
- increase the number of people quitting,
- increase the number of smokefree homes in the district,
- reduce the smoking prevalence in the district, and
- reduce the number of people starting smoking.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £25,000 are available for community organisations.
Eligible Activities
- Set up Stop Smoking Hubs and host Smokefree Champions, and deliver related activities and campaigns for a period of twelve months, or
- Create partnership projects where organisations deliver activities and campaigns alongside other organisations that want to become Hubs with Champions or are already hosting Smokefree Lancashire provision.
- They can fund a wide range of activities within a Smokefree Hub, including:
- Putting on events or taking part in other peoples events
- Undertaking outreach in local schools, groups and businesses
- Publishing content like websites, videos, podcasts or books
- Providing training or education
- Buying equipment or resources
Ineligible Activities
- There are some things they cant fund, which are:
- Activities which have already taken place, or you have already spent money on
- Alcohol or tobacco
- Contingency costs, loans, endowments or interest
- Paying someone else to write your application
- Profit-making or fundraising activity
- VAT that your organisation can reclaim
Eligibility Criteria
- Voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations are all eligible to apply. They must be at least one of the below:
- Unregistered voluntary or community organisation
- Constituted group or sports club
- Registered charity
- Charitable incorporated organisation
- Not-for-profit company
- Community Interest Company
- Faith-based group.
- Your organisation must also:
- Have at least two unconnected people on the board or committee. This means not related by blood, marriage, civil partnership, long-term relationship, or living together at the same address.
- Have a UK bank or building society account, in the legal name of your organisation, with at least two unrelated people able to manage it.
- Produce annual accounts by a method and in format relevant to its size and structure, or plan to do so if your organisation is less than 15 months old.
Application Requirements
- Theyll need to see:
- A bank statement, showing:
- Your organisations legal name
- The address the statements are sent to
- The bank name and/or logo
- Account number
- Sort code
- Date (must be within last 3 months)
- Your most recent accounts
- Your organisations memorandum and articles of association, certificate of incorporation, constitution, or rules.
- If your project works with children, young people or adults at risk of harm, a copy of your safeguarding policy which explains how they’ll be safe.
- If your project includes activities which require public liability insurance and you already have this, a copy of the certificate of insurance.
- A bank statement, showing:
For more information, visit LDCVS.