Deadline: 4-May-22
The St Helens Chamber has launched the ‘Skills Innovation Grant’ as part of the Together to Zero initiative.
The programme will support local businesses and young people to receive funding and skills training to become greener as part of Liverpool City Region’s commitment to become Net Zero carbon by 2040.
The ‘Skills Innovation Grant’ will provide revenue and capital grants to St Helens and Liverpool City Region located businesses, education, training, and other community-based delivery partners to build capacity and help address current and future employer skills needs in their efforts to achieve Net Zero carbon by 2040 primarily within the clean growth and advanced manufacturing sectors.
Priority Areas
The Skills Innovation Grants are available for projects that support the following priority areas:
Priority Area: Investment in Skills
- Help equip people with the skills they need to seize new opportunities and ensure their local communities are prosperous and productive. This includes equipping people with the skills they need to capitalise on the opportunities and needs of their local area and meet the needs of an increasingly green economy.
- Innovative projects that address current and emerging local skills needs and are complementary to broader place-based investment.
- Work-based training for example addressing specific local need from local employers for on-thejob training to support local growth, such as taking on trainee builders for a new infrastructure project.
- Retraining, upskilling or reskilling members of the workforce for example helping organisations to identify and understand skills gaps or provide access to financial support for relevant training where the local workforce may require new skills to meet the needs of a local employer or sector and support local economic transitions.
- Contribute to net zero objectives or wider environmental considerations, particularly within the sectors of clean growth or advanced manufacturing.
Funding Information
- The ‘Skills Innovation Grant’ will award up to £135,000 of small grants, with £90,000 awarded to revenue-based activities and £45,000 to capital-based applications.
- Bids are invited for revenue grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 for a 6-to-10-week programme of activity. It is expected that between 6 to 10 grants will be issued.
- Bids are invited for capital grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 for a 6-to-10-week programme of activity. It is expected that between 3 to 6 grants will be issued.
- Applications for projects requiring both revenue and capital grants will be accepted.
- Project delivery, financial defrayment, outcomes, and outputs are required to be completed by 30 June 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- This grant is aimed at the education, training, and voluntary, community, charitable and social enterprise sectors in St Helens, and the Liverpool City Region.
- Only one application may be submitted per organisation.
- To be eligible your organisation must:
- Be an organisation with a track record of successful service delivery
- Be registered in St Helens or the Liverpool City Region, and operating for the benefit of businesses or residents
- Be able to meet one or more priorities as detailed
- Have a constitution or governing documentation that contains clear objectives
- For Community Interest Companies, have at least three directors
- Have a bank account in the name of the organisation with two or more signatories
- Be able to provide annual accounts or an income and expenditure breakdown for the past 12 months (or management accounts if your organisation has not existed for 12 months)
- Provide an up-to-date safeguarding policy for the organisation
- The following are not eligible for funding via this programme:
- Individuals, or organisations applying on behalf of individuals
- Statutory bodies
- Organisations registered outside of the Liverpool City Region
- Organisations set up to support animals
- The promotion of religion or political views
- Large capital costs including large scale renovations and the purchase of vehicles
- The promotion of philanthropy and endowment appeals
- Retrospective funding or costs that have already been incurred
- Start-ups or organisations with no track record of successful service delivery
For more information, visit https://www.sthelenschamber.com/business/together-to-zero/skills-innovation-grant/