The High Sheriff of West Yorkshire Fund September 2020 Guidance and Criteria
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The High Sheriff of West Yorkshire Fund September 2020 Guidance and Criteria Grant size: £500 to £2,500 Location: West Yorkshire Deadline: 09/11/2020 at 12 noon The current High Sheriff of West Yorkshire, Jonathan Thornton Esq, is honoured to open the latest round of The High Sheriff of West Yorkshire Fund. Thanks to support from the Police Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable of West Yorkshire the Fund welcomes applicants from across West Yorkshire to apply for grants of £500-£2,500 to prevent and combat crime to create safer communities. The Office of High Sheriff is an independent non-political Royal appointment for a single year. The origins of the Office date back to Saxon times, when the ‘Shire Reeve’ was responsible to the king for the maintenance of law and order within the shire, or county, and for the collection and return of taxes due to the Crown. Today, there are 55 High Sheriffs serving the counties of England and Wales each year. Who can apply? Community groups, charities, social enterprises or other charitable organisations from the third sector that: Have a constitution or other relevant governance document Have a management committee/board of directors/trustees of at least three unrelated people Have a bank account under the name of the group with at least two unrelated signatories (if your organisation doesn’t have its own bank account, but does meet all of the other criteria, please contact us to discuss how we can work around this) Are based in or supporting people living in the West Yorkshire area You are a volunteer-led group, a registered charity or a not-for-profit organisation with charitable aims You have a governing document (e.g. set of rules, constitution, memorandum and articles of association, trust deed etc.) Your existing project is youth led or adult led but young people aged 5-25 years play a significant role in the management and delivery. You require continuation funding to continue your project or expand and develop your current activities. You can report on impact achieved to date. 1 www.leedscf.org.uk Size of Grant The minimum request is £500. The maximum is £2,500. Whilst the grant can be used to part-fund a wide range of activities, we like to see the impact our support is having. Accordingly, we prefer for our grant to equal at least 50% of the total cost of the activity or project within the criteria specified below. Only one application per organisation can be considered. What can the Fund support? The Fund wants to encourage young people aged 5-25 years to work together to prevent and combat crime to create safer communities. Applications are requested from existing projects or community groups looking for continuation funding, or projects wanting to expand and develop their current activities and remit. The idea for the project should either come from a young person (youth led), or where the project was developed by others (adult led) young people should have a significant role in its management and delivery. We encourage all applications to consider: How they will evidence learning and demonstrate and evaluate outcomes from the project; applicants should consider including costs for external evaluation or additional internal capacity to ensure they can effectively report on this Full Cost Recovery, including a relevant portion of management costs and overheads Staff costs, which should wherever possible include paying staff at least the real Living Wage Costs which enable the project to be fully inclusive and accessible (E.G. transport, food, childcare) How they envisage a successful project could be sustained after this funding ends What can the Fund not support? Grants will not be awarded to or for: For-profit organisations, statutory organisations (e.g. schools and hospitals) or overseas organisations Retrospective funding (activity and costs that have already taken place) Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals 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 Individuals Expeditions or overseas travel Capital appeals for building projects 2 www.leedscf.org.uk When can you apply? The fund opens on the 21st September 2020 and the deadline to apply is 12 noon 9th November 2020. Funding will be awarded in January 2021. How do you apply for a grant? To apply you need to complete an online application form available at the end of this document. You will also need to submit a signed copy of the organisation’s governance document, signed copy of accounts, and list of name and addresses of management committee/board members. Copies of safeguarding policy documents will be requested if applicable. We expect this programme to be highly oversubscribed so we strongly recommend you also seek alternative sources of funding for your project to avoid disappointment. If you’re successful, you’ll also need to sign a funding agreement document and provide a signed copy of your organisation’s most recent bank statement. To start filling in the online form, follow the link at the end of this document. We strongly suggest you submit your application at your earliest opportunity. Incomplete applications will not be considered. What happens after you’ve applied? We will acknowledge the receipt of your application. We will then assess your application and may need to contact you and your referee during this time. If your application is shortlisted, it will then be submitted to an awards panel for further consideration. We’ll tell you their decision as soon as possible after they’ve met. If you are successful, the grant letter/e-mail will include any additional conditions set by the panel and/or the grant payment and a grant funding agreement you will need to sign. The grant must be spent within 12 months of the date of our letter confirming the grant. You must also complete an end of grant report telling us how the grant has been spent and what was achieved. The deadline for doing so will be specified in your offer letter. Please note that failure to provide appropriate monitoring information will exclude your organisation from applying to future grants schemes. If your bid is not successful, we will let you know the reasons for declining it. Please note we have limited funding available and we are not able to fund every application we receive, no matter how deserving the project is. The decisions made by the grants panel are final. 3 www.leedscf.org.uk Publicity If your application is successful, you will be required to credit support from the Insert Funding Partner and Leeds Community Foundation, on all materials related to the funded work. Successful projects will be required to be available for a potential monitoring visit from funders. To Apply Click here for the online application. If you post documents to us please send them to the address below using the correct postage and make sure the documents are received by us before the deadline. If you require more information about this fund please contact Leeds Community Foundation on 0113 242 2426 or email [email protected]. 4 www.leedscf.org.uk .