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Apply for a Stay Well this Winter grant to help people to stay warm and well during the winter months ❄️
💵 Grants: up to £3,000
📍 Location: Leeds
🕑️ Duration: Oct 26-Feb 27
📆 Deadline: 28/07/2026 at 12 noon
🗨️ Decisions: October 2026
💻 Apply: leedscf.org.uk/stay-well-thi…
ALT Open grants. Stay Well this Winter. Grant size: up to £3,000 Location: Leeds Duration: Winter 2026/27 (Oct 26-Feb 27) Deadline: 28/07/2026 at 12 noon Decisions: October 2026
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Does your Leeds community organisation want to help people gain digital skills? You might want to apply for a grant from the Leeds Digital Inclusion Fund.
Join us for an online briefing event 👇
When? 6 July, 2pm
Where? Zoom
Register here 👉 buytickets.at/leedscommunity…
ALT Join our Leeds Digital Inclusion Fund briefing event. Monday 6 July, 2-3pm. Zoom.
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You'll learn all about the programme criteria and application process, as well as the support that our partners 100% Digital Leeds can offer.
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The latest round of Lunch Clubs supports 87 groups across Leeds 🙌 They'll support older people in their communities - providing hot midday meals and wellbeing and social activities.
Learn more about the grant awards 👉 leedscf.org.uk/lunch-clubs-2…
ALT Latest round of Lunch Clubs supports 87 groups across Leeds.
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"We support people in their wellbeing, making them smile, making them feel happy, finding out where their trauma might come from and how to find a solution."
Meet Brian and Sanchez from Black Health Initiative 👉 leedscf.org.uk/our-stories-m…
ALT Meet Brian & Sanchez.
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Now open 📣 Stay Well this Winter
Helping people to stay warm and well during the winter months ❄️
💵 Grants: up to £3,000
📍 Location: Leeds
🕑️ Duration: Oct 26-Feb 27
📆 Deadline: 28/07/2026 at 12 noon
🗨️ Decisions: October 2026
💻 Apply: leedscf.org.uk/stay-well-thi…
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There's still time to apply for Pears Youth Fund. We'll support organisations to deliver youth work and promote youth voice, youth empowerment and youth activities.
Grants are £10k a year for 2 years.
Applications close at 12 noon on 8 June.
Learn more: leedscf.org.uk/pears-youth-f…
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This #VolunteersWeek we want to say thank you to our trustees! They help guide our work, so we can invest in local communities and build a fairer Leeds for everyone.
ALT Thank you!
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2 of our open grants programmes are closing soon:
⭐️ Community Action Microgrants closes on 4 June
⭐️ Pears Youth Fund closes on 8 June
Apply on our website: leedscf.org.uk/open-grants/
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We've got 2 grants programmes open for applications:
⭐️ Community Action Microgrants
⭐️ Pears Youth Fund
Learn more about each one, and how to apply, on our website: leedscf.org.uk/open-grants/
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Want to catch up on our latest news? Read our May newsletter here 👉 mailchi.mp/leedscf.org.uk/ou…
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Could you be our new Philanthropy Officer?
As a Philanthropy Officer, you’ll support the delivery of high-quality stewardship of donors, including administrative and communications support across the donor lifecycle.
Learn more on our website 👉 leedscf.org.uk/philanthropy-…
ALT Join our team!
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Key details:
- Salary: £27,000 – £30,000 p.a. pro rata, dependent on experience
- Hours of work: 3 days per week (0.6 full time equivalent) including Mondays, usually worked between 9am and 5pm
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- Location: Leeds (city centre offices) with some work in Bradford, and hybrid working options
- Contract term: Permanent contract subject to a three-month probationary period
- Closing date: Thursday 2 July 2026
- Interview date: Wednesday 15 July 2026
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There's just a couple of days 'til our next newsletter lands and you don't want to miss it!
Sign up to hear all about the good stuff happening in Leeds ✨️
leedscf.org.uk/sign-up-to-ou…
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Take a look at our open grants 👇
Community Action Microgrants: promoting equality, inclusion, and community cohesion
Pears Youth Fund: promoting youth voice, youth empowerment and youth activities
Learn more about both programmes: leedscf.org.uk/open-grants/
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We’re investing in pre-natal, post-natal and early years development with The Flint Family Fund.
We've funded 16 Leeds community organisations through the latest round, and they'll support parents' and children's wellbeing.
Read more 👉 leedscf.org.uk/flint-family-…
ALT We’re investing in pre-natal, post-natal and early years development with The Flint Family Fund.
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Often it’s the ordinary, everyday stuff that makes a difference. Somewhere to go for a cup of tea and a chat. Having someone you can ask when you don’t know how to do something on your phone. Meeting a group of friends for arts and crafts every week.
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Community organisations across Leeds are there for people like this every day. They provide safe spaces and a listening ear, and they meet people on their own terms. And because of that, they learn what support people need and how best to help them get it.
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They change people’s lives.
We’re proud to invest in local community organisations, and we’re grateful for everything they do to help make Leeds a fairer place.
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