Deadline: 22-Apr-24
The Leeds Community Foundation has launched the Prevention Large Grants Programme to fund local third sector community initiatives to support people at risk of suicide.
The fund aims to support social activities determined by local participants and to provide outreach work with targeted communities to reduce social isolation and promote protective factors for wellbeing.
Funding Information
- Grant size: £10,000 to £25,0000
- Duration: 12 months to 24 months
Eligible Funding Activities
- Supporting engagement and empowerment of local people
- Widening access to local services that reduce the risk of suicide
- Capacity building to help emerging groups develop
- Use of new technologies and innovative ways of connecting with socially isolated people
What can’t 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
- Capital appeals for building projects
- Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals, or applications from individuals
- Statutory organisations or activity
- Overseas organisations, expeditions or overseas travel
Who can apply?
- Not-for-profit incorporated Community Organisations from the third sector such as CIO, CIC limited by guarantee, 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. These organisations cannot use grant funds towards PAYE staff costs, but funds can be used towards freelance staff costs.
- 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.
- Grants of £5,000 or less Grants of over £5,000
- For-profit organisations, statutory organisations or activity (e.g. schools and hospitals) and overseas organisations cannot be funded. All organisations, regardless of size and structure, must have:
- At least three Trustees/Directors/Committee Members (whichever is applicable, depending on your organisation’s legal structure) who are independent and unrelated. For registered charitable companies, limited companies and CICs you should be limited by guarantee without share capital, and there should be no registered Persons with Significant Control
- A governing document e.g. constitution or memorandum and articles of association that shows how your group is managed and includes a dissolution clause/asset lock
- A bank or building society account in the name of your organisation with a minimum of two unrelated authorised signatories on the mandate and transactions requiring authorisation by at least two of those authorised 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 and a safeguarding adults policy
For more information, visit Leeds Community Foundation.