Community Grants

This programme is now closed for applications. For further information, please contact: communitygrants.westyorkshire@groundwork.org.uk

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Groundwork worked with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority to deliver Community Grants – a programme designed to support people with more complex barriers to accessing work move towards employment and digital inclusion.

The £2.55m programme offered funding pots of typically £20,000 to voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE) organisations across West Yorkshire.

Community Grants provided grants to organisations in the VCSE sector in West Yorkshire to help unemployed, economically inactive and socially excluded people towards employment, education and training.

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About Community Grants

The Community Grants project is being delivered by Groundwork UK and is funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). In West Yorkshire the West Yorkshire Combined Authority leads the implementation of the Fund as part of the Mayor’s ambition to make West Yorkshire the best place to work, learn and live.

About the UK Shared Prosperity Fund

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus

https://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/growing-the-economy/uk-shared-prosperity-fund/

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