Deadline: 28-Jan-22
Applications are now open for the Your Homes Newcastle’s (YHN) “Community Fund 2022 – Investment in our local communities”, to supports have a positive impact on the communities where YHN has homes by investing in community projects and partners that are already doing great work in these areas and helping them to achieve more.
They want to help create communities where people are proud to live and make them more cohesive and sustainable.
Project objectives
It is important for YHN to work with successful organisations with a clear and measurable idea of what they aim to achieve through their project
- Objectives are
- Narrow in scope
- Specific steps
- Associated with a schedule and time frame
- Easy to measure
- Short term or medium term
Focus Areas
They are looking for projects that will broadly focus on:
- Building stronger communities
- Reducing social isolation and loneliness
- Improving mental health and well-being
- Tackling digital exclusion and digital poverty
Funding Information
- The fund is open to voluntary and community organisations to bid for a share of £80,000, offered across the year in four rounds – a share of £20,000 is available in each round, with the first round launching in April 2021.
- Grants of up to £4,000 are available to voluntary and community sector organisations in Newcastle in each round.
Eligibility criteria
- Benefit YHN customers
- Demonstrate how the local community has been involved in the project
- Keep a record of how the funding has been spent, including receipts
- Not start until your application has been approved
- Be delivered within Newcastle upon Tyne
- Contribute to one or more of the four aims outlined for the fund:
- Building stronger communities
- Reducing social isolation and loneliness
- Improving mental health and wellbeing
- Tackling digital exclusion and digital poverty
For more information, visit https://www.yhn.org.uk/news/yhn-community-fund-2022-investment-our-local-communities?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Orlo