Leeds Community Foundation launches Healthy Holidays Grant Programme – UK

Deadline: 6-Jan-25

The Leeds Community Foundation has launched the Healthy Holidays Grant Programme to support community organisations to provide engaging and fun activities and healthy food for children eligible for free school meals and other targeted children from low-income families in the school holidays.

Healthy holidays is a partnership between leeds community foundation and leeds city council, expected to be funded by the department for education.

Funding Information

• Grant size: up to £22,000

Eligible Activities

• Sport & physical activity, dance, drama, outdoor activities, games, arts and crafts, environmental activities
• Providing new experiences e.g. trips to the coast, countryside or attractions (day trips only)
• Activities that include cookery and information that:
  • improves the skills and confidence of families to make affordable, healthy meals
  • helps children to understand nutrition and how to achieve it in daily life

Eligibility Criteria

• Not-for-profit incorporated Community Organisations from the third sector such as CIO, CIC limited by guarantee, or a charitable company. You will be registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or Mutual Public Register (FCA).
• Charities that are registered with the Charity Commission but are not an incorporated structure. These organisations cannot use grant funds towards PAYE staff costs, but funds can be used towards freelance staff costs.
• For-profit organisations, statutory organisations or activity (e.g. schools and hospitals) and overseas organisations cannot be funded.
• All organisations, regardless of size and structure, must have:
  • At least three Trustees/Directors/Committee Members (whichever is applicable, depending on your organisation’s legal structure) who are independent and unrelated. For registered charitable companies (limited companies by guarantee without share capital, CICs and similar) they  require a minimum of three unrelated directors, and none should be registered as Persons with Significant Control
  • A governing document e.g. constitution or memorandum and articles of association that shows how your group is managed and includes a dissolution clause/asset lock
  • A bank or building society account in the name of your organisation with a minimum of two unrelated authorised signatories on the mandate and transactions requiring authorisation by at least two of those authorised signatories
  • Accounts or a record of income and expenditure for your organisation (if you are a new organisation, you will need to provide a bank statement and a project budget)
• Healthy Holidays can support:
  • school age children (reception to year 11) on benefit related free school meals (85% of attendees) whose eligibility has been confirmed by Leeds City Council.
  • SEND young people to the age of 16
  • other school age children who you deem as otherwise vulnerable (up to 15% of attendees)

Ineligibility Criteria

• Activity and costs that have already taken place
• Activity which might be regarded as discriminatory and/or excludes some people without good justification
• Activity that promotes a particular political or religious point of view
• Activity primarily for the benefit of animals
• Capital appeals for building projects
• Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals, or applications from individuals
• Statutory organisations or activity

For more information, visit Leeds Community Foundation.