COVID-19 AND SOCIAL DISTANCING GRANTS – VERY SHORT DEADLINE

1. Title: COVID-19 AND SOCIAL DISTANCING GRANTS – VERY SHORT DEADLINE2. Awarding Authority: Leeds Community Foundation, Wesleyan Foundation, GB Tel: 01132422426. Email: grants@leedscf.org.uk. Web: 3. Contract type: Service contract4. Description: The Awarding Authority was established in 2017 and grants will be considered from charities, constituted voluntary and community groups that focus on:Education – Charities or projects that enhance learning and develop career opportunities.Health – Promote health and wellbeing.Social – Provide local solutions to meet local needs, promote community cohesion and develop sustainable and supportive communities.In addition, Wesleyan would like to support organisations who are delivering the following during these unprecedented times and focus on the following areas:Mental Health – all age groupsBereavementPSEDomestic Violence (including women’s refuges)Isolation /befriending /listeningThe vulnerable and elderlyDementia / quality of lifeSocial prescribing – alleviating the pressure from the NHSGetting back to work – innovative travel (cycle schemes)/reducing carbon footprintEmployment – reskilling people (not so much those that support with CV writing) but those that actively prepare you for a new job / new career etc interview prep etcOutdoor projects – making changes so that services can be delivered outside5. CPV Code(s): 85311000, 85310000, 85320000, 98000000, 80000000, 850000006. NUTS code(s): UKE, UKE4, UKE427. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Yorkshire And The Humber, West Yorkshire, Leeds.8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.9. Estimated value of requirement: Size of Grant The minimum request is £2,000. The maximum is £10,000. The grant must be spent within a year and only one application per organisation can be considered. 10. deadline to apply is 27.8.2020 (12:00 pm).11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information on the above contract please visit Web: 12. Other information: The delivery of the projects needs to be following Government guidelines in terms of Covid-19 and social distancing. Wesleyan Foundation would like to support organisations and charities that focus on supporting Black/African Caribbean communities following the recent BLM conversations. They are unable to support any projects which focus on campaigning, but can support projects which focus on health, vulnerable groups, employability.Please refer the website above for documentationTKR-2020826-EX-1436897# funding opportunity# COVID-19