Deadline: 4-Jul-23
The Leeds Community Foundation are pleased to be collaborating with Leeds City Council’s 100% Digital Leeds team to fund the development and delivery of sustainable digital inclusion interventions in Leeds.
Grants are aimed at ensuring that individuals and communities in Leeds have the skills, support, and equipment to be active online, now and in the future. The Leeds Digital Inclusion Fund is funded through the proceeds from the Leeds Digital Ball; they are truly grateful to the Digital Ball Board and sponsors for their ongoing support.
Funding Information
- Grant Size: Up to £10,000
Activity that can be funded?
- Test and learn activity by small and/or emerging Community Organisations at the start of their digital inclusion journey
- Development activity by established Community Organisations who are proposing to build on existing work
- Funded work could promote the benefits of being online, upskill people in essential digital skills and enable online access by providing equipment, software, or training.
- Types of eligible activity could include: equipment or connectivity investment; staff capacity increases for digital inclusion work; testing new or different interventions; implementation of existing initiatives such as Digital Health Hubs; establishing self-sustaining digital skill support sessions.
Location: Leeds
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 – if grants are not used to pay staff employed directly 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 this threshold for current financial year.
- For-profit organisations, statutory organisations or activity (e.g. schools and hospitals) and overseas organisations cannot be funded. CICs should have an asset lock in place.
- 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 by guarantee without share capital, CICs and similar) they require a minimum of three unrelated directors, and none should be registered as 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
- 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)
What can’t be funded?
- 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
- Applications from individuals
- Expeditions or overseas travel.
For more information, visit The Leeds Digital Inclusion Fund.