Deadline: 06-Jan-2025

The Two Ridings Community Foundation is accepting submissions for the Bettys and Taylors Family Fund Programme.

They aim to support groups and organisations working to inspire, support and enable vulnerable young people (up to age 25) who face challenging circumstances, through gaining relevant skills and experience to prepare for entry into the food, catering and hospitality sector.

Funding Information

• Grants are available of up £30,000. You can use the grant for a project of up to three years, and the maximum you can apply for is £30,000. So, you might apply for £15,000 for a twelve-month project. Or apply for £10,000 per year, for three years, where the total is £30,000.

What funding will cover?

• Project costs to support and enable vulnerable young people facing challenging circumstances through food, catering, and hospitality skills and experiences,
• Have food and employability at the heart of their project,
• Projects that demonstrate through a successfully delivered smaller project that there is a need and desire among the young people you serve for a larger project focused on food, catering and hospitality skills and employment,
• Projects operating within twenty miles of a Bettys Tea Room or the Bettys & Taylors head office,
• Full cost recovery,
• Small capital purchases towards the project.

Eligibility Criteria

• Your organisation or group does not have to be a charity registered with the Charity Commission but all groups applying to Two Ridings CF for funding do need to:
  • Work primarily for the benefit of people in North and East Yorkshire
  • Be ‘not for profit’
  • Have a governing document (also known as a constitution, rules, memorandum, or articles of association) outlining charitable objectives and with a charitable dissolution clause
  • Have a bank account in your group/ organisation’s name with at least two signatories, who are not related to one another
  • Be locally led and run (including locally constituted and managed branches of national charities)
  • Have at least three unrelated trustees, directors or management committee members.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Under normal circumstances (except where a particular scheme allows and there is sufficient wider public benefit), they cannot support:
  • Private Businesses
  • General appeals or sponsorship
  • National organisations (note this does not include locally constituted and managed branches of national or large charities)
  • Statutory agencies, including parish councils and schools, in the discharge of their statutory obligations (they may however be able to provide funding for extracurricular activities or work which is outside the usual remit of the school/parish council if a particular scheme allows for this)
  • Organisations that have substantial unrestricted funds

For more information, visit Two Ridings Community Foundation.