Deadline: Monday 13 July, 9.30am
York & North Yorkshire Combined Authority via North Yorkshire Council, is investing in a Community Grants fund to support economically inactive adults to build confidence and interpersonal skills to increase their employability.
Through the scheme, Better Connect is awarding larger and smaller grants for organisations to design and deliver projects to improve people’s employability. Grants will provide hyper-local support for local people as a first steps opportunity to move closer to the labour market.
Better Connect welcomes applications that are exciting, try new approaches for engagement, and exclusively offer enhanced support to key cohorts of economically people.
Trailblazer Community Grants exclusively offers enhanced support to economically inactive people, with a specific focus on engaging with the following:
- 16 – 24-year-olds
- 50 – 64-year-olds
- Carers
- Communities experiencing high deprivation or inequality
- Individuals from rural inactive communities
- Individuals from coastal inactive communities
- Migrants and refugees
- Neurodivergent individuals
- People with disabilities or long-term health conditions
- Veterans
What size grants are available?
There is a total of £900k available through this Community Grants programme. Applicants can bid for smaller grant opportunities between £10,000 – £25,000, or larger grants between £25,001 – £100,000.