Coronavirus Community Fund – North Yorkshire, York, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull

Status: Open to applications

Application Deadline: 17 August 2020

Description

Funding for community organisations to deal with issues in the community as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

Details

Maximum Value:£ 10,000

Value Notes

Grants of up to £10,000 are available for individual group applications.

Extended Description

The Coronavirus Community Fund is provided and administered by Two Ridings Community Foundation to support local community groups through the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis.

Phase one provided immediate response grants to support community groups with a small amount of emergency funding to respond to their immediate needs and those of the communities they work with.

Phase two offered larger grants to allow groups to cope with an increased demand for their services, and to support those struggling to meet their running costs having suffered a loss of income.

Phase 3 (recovery) grants are now available to help groups meet the emerging needs of their local communities as they recover from the immediate crisis and start to deal with the ‘new normal’, and the impact of the resulting public health, social and economic crisis.

Latest Information

Applications for phase 3 grants are now open. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis subject to available funding. Decisions will be made monthly with the following deadlines for each meeting date:

• 17 August 2020 (for decisions during w/c 7 September 2020).
• 14 September 2020 (for decisions during w/c/ 5 October 2020).
• 12 October 2020 (for decisions during w/c 2 November 2020).
• 16 November 2020 (for decisions during w/c 7 December 2020).

Key Criteria

To be eligible, groups must:

• Be based in North Yorkshire, York, East Riding of Yorkshire or Hull
• Have a management committee with at least three unrelated members
• Be a voluntary organisation, community group, small charity or other not for profit organisation
• Have a bank account in the group’s name (with two unrelated signatories)

Applications from organisations with an annual income of under £500,000 will be prioritised.

Eligible Expenditure

As funds are becoming more limited, the fund’s grant making in phase 3 will be much more focussed. Applications must meet one of five themes below, based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Phase 3 also aims to shift to support the development of self sufficient and resilient communities by helping to support a solution rather than the symptoms of problems.

Funds are available for either project or running costs but work supported must be aimed at strengthening communities and/or strengthening the organisations that provide vital support to communities.

The priorities for funding are as follows:

Good jobs & economic growth

• Projects prioritising young people aged 16-25, and areas which have been impacted the most by the crisis (e.g. those which are traditionally heavily reliant on tourism, and areas of significant disadvantage, high unemployment, and low educational attainment).
• Eligible activity could include training courses, employability skills, and young people’s volunteering.

Zero hunger

• Projects prioritising people living in areas of significant disadvantage with low income.
• Eligible activity could inclue sustainable growing projects, food education, cooking projects.

Good health & wellbeing

• Projects prioritising children and young people, disabled children and young people, and people with few support networks.
• Eligible activity could include mental health support, and activity addressing social isolation and loneliness.

No poverty

• Projects prioritising people living in areas of significant disadvantage with low income.
• Eligible activity could include advice services, childcare, foodbanks, and improving educational attainment.

Reduced inequalities

• Projects prioritising BAME communities, people affected by homelessness, older people, LGBTQI communities, and other people with protected characteristics.
• Eligible activity could include infrastructure support, digital inclusion, volunteer training, organisational development, and community transport.

Application Procedure

The guidance notes and online application form can be found on the Two Riding of Yorkshire Community Foundation website.

Contact the Two Riding of Yorkshire Community Foundation for further information.

Addresses and contacts

Application forms may be available to download on this site – please see the downloadable files on the right hand panel at the top of this page – or alternatively please check the funding body’s own website.

Contact details:

Enquiries

Two Ridings Community Foundation
Pavilion 2000
Amy Johnson Way
York
YO30 4XT

Telephone:01904 929 500

Email:grants@tworidingscf.org.uk