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Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Annual and Easter Programme 2025 Now Open

Overview HAF Annual 2025 Grant: 

The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme supports children and young people (5-16 years) who are in receipt of benefits related free school meals (FSM) to enjoy a range of fun and creative opportunities for free in the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays. 

If you are applying for the HAF Annual grant, your organisation will need to deliver activities in all 3 seasons.

For information about HAF, please visit Holiday activities and food programme 2024 - GOV.UK.  We are awaiting the 2025 guidance from the Department for education (DfE).

A PDF copy of the Annual guidance notes can also be downloaded here.

Overview HAF Easter Holidays 2025 Grant:

Up to £5,000 is available to fund places or programmes for children and young people aged 5-16 years who are in receipt of benefits related free school meals (FSM) and who go to school in the East Riding to enjoy a range of fun and creative opportunities in the Easter holidays. Applications are welcomed from constituted groups, charities, schools, town and parish councils, faith groups, Council services and businesses to provide 4-hour sessions, a healthy meal and embed information and games about healthy lifestyles and nutrition into the programme.  Each child can attend 4 sessions for free on any HAF programme in the Easter holidays.

Before applying, please ensure that you have read the attached Easter guidance notes.

All HAF delivery partners need to complete an onboarding form for the year.  This can be completed either before or after finishing this application form.  Please email haf.programme@eastriding.gov.uk to request the onboarding information.

How to apply: Applications for either fund are to be made via the East Riding of Yorkshire council's Flexi-Grant system: Application portal homepage - East Riding of Yorkshire Council (flexigrant.com) 

Annual and Easter programme: applications close 12pm, 12 February 2025.

For an informal discussion or more information about the HAF programme, please contact Vicky Jude at haf.programme@eastriding.gov.uk

Do It for East Yorkshire Community Grant 2025 (January 2025 - Round 3)

East Riding of Yorkshire Council recognises that the cost-of-living crisis is putting unforeseen pressures on residents and community groups across the county. Between June 2021 - end of March 2024 over £800,000 has been awarded to 263 projects across East Riding, offering benefit to over 90,000 residents. We are committed to supporting activity that will provide community activities to improve health and wellbeing, improve access to local resources & services and reduce social isolation.

The Do It for East Yorkshire Community Grant is for voluntary and community groups as well as town and parish councils in the East Riding. We are relaunching the fund to support community projects and activities delivered to the end of August 2025. Awards can be made between £1,500 and £5,000.

**Please note** that any groups that have already been awarded grants from April 2024 are not eligible to apply. If your organisation applied for welcoming place activity in November 2024 and were not awarded a grant from April 2024 you are still eligible to apply. Please also be aware all groups need to have delivered and submitted all monitoring.

The fund opened on 13 January 2025 and will close once all the funds have been awarded.

Please read the guidance notes to help you with your application.

An expression of interest will need to be submitted to check for eligibility.

How to apply:  Applications must be completed online via the East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Grant Application Portal. To access the application please go to https://www.doitforeastyorkshire.co.uk/ where you will also find other resources to help you with your application. The grant application portal can also be accessed directly at East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Online Grant Application Portal.

For queries or any support please email: localgrowth@eastriding.gov.uk

Royal Countryside Fund’s New UK-Wide Grant Programme

The new Supporting Rural Communities grant programme is now open for expressions of interest.

The Royal Countryside Fund has announced that this ‘new differentiated funding will support transformative, community-led initiatives across the UK, unlocking the huge potential for positive change in rural communities’. The aim is to support innovative solutions that will ‘power up, not prop up’ communities, inspiring change and encouraging economic vibrancy.

Not-for-profit community organisations with an income of less than £500,000 a year can apply for grants of up to £25,000 over a period of 24 months to deliver activities along the themes of:

  • Keeping young people in the countryside
  • Powering up rural communities
  • Increasing environmental sustainability
  • Building emergency resilience in rural areas.

Support will be focused on isolated rural areas where the activity is required due to a lack of alternative services. Projects must be community led and show that they actively listen to, understand and respond to the needs of their local community. 

Expressions of interest for the grant will be accepted from 10 January 2025 to 21 February 2025.

For more information or for any queries, please visit Supporting Rural Communities - The Royal Countryside Fund

HEY Smile's Community Development

HEY Smile’s Community Development Team is supported by East Riding of Yorkshire Council to help charities and community groups in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The service is completely free and includes practical help and support including:

  • Anything to do with managing a group or charity, whether it’s a start-up or an existing trust
  • Managing finances, looking for grants and offering guidance with grant applications on their Beecan funding portal
  • Recruiting and supporting volunteers
  • Helping you to find and undertake training
  • Linking and networking to other like-minded organisations.

You can access the free support from the team by emailing  hello@heysmilefoundation.org

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KCOM – Digital Inclusion Grants

Grants are available for charities, voluntary and community groups, and not-for-profit organisations to deliver projects and activities that promote online inclusion, build stronger communities, connect generations, and help to boost digital skills and awareness in communities across Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, and North Lincolnshire.

Grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 are available.

How To Apply: Applications are considered by the KCOM Grant Panel twice a year, in March and September. The deadline for consideration at the March 2025 Panel is 28 February 2025.

Guidance notes and an online application form are available through Beecan – HEY Smile.

For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following: community@heysmilefoundation.org

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Success Stories

Organisation: Hey Smile Foundation

'Though we haven't benefited directly from this site financially, the site is a fantastic FREE resource for VCSE groups we work with across the East Riding to use and access. The personal alerts in particular are a great feature.'

Organisation: East Riding Astronomers

Amount funded: £2500

Funding organisation: National Lottery Fund

'On the 14th July 2021 the National Lottery Fund granted funding of £2,500 to East Riding Astronomers to establish a Home for Astronomer as part of the Local Connections Fund Round 2. The application by ERA had been to purchase and fit out a 20’ shipping container. Once completed the container was established as a hub for Club activities and in part has been responsible for the growth of the club from 10 members to over 30.'

Useful Links and Information

Application portal homepage - East Riding of Yorkshire Council (flexigrant.com):  the council’s corporate grant management system where you can register as a user and apply for grants. 

How to do it for East Yorkshire:  a range of online resources to provide organisations with a ‘one-stop shop’ for advice and guidance. 

Social Value Engine (SVE): an online tool which helps organisations measure their social value and translate it into a monetary figure. If your organisation is based in the East Riding of Yorkshire, please contact  localgrowth@eastriding.gov.uk  for more information. 

East Riding Intelligence Hub: provides you with facts and figures to support your funding application. 

Wind Farms: funds currently open

Burton Pidsea Wind Farm Small Grants (up to £1,000)

Goole Fields Wind Farm Community Fund - Under £10k

Goole Fields Wind Farm Community Fund - Over £10k

Goole Fields Wind Farm Community Fund Small Grants (up to £5000) – this fund replaces both the Quick Fix fund (originally up to £2,500) and the Cost-of-Living fund (originally up to £5,000) 

Lissett Wind Farm Community Fund - Under £10K (closing date 06/05/2025)

Lissett Wind Farm Community Fund - Over £10K (closing date 06/05/2025)

Routh Wind Farm Community Fund - Over £10k (closing date 09/03/2025)

Routh Wind Farm Community Fund - Under £10k (closing date 09/03/2025)

Routh Wind Farm Small Grants (up to £1,000)

Sancton Hill Wind Farm Small Grants (up to £600) 

Tedder Hill Wind Farm Community Fund - Under £10K (closing date 30/03/2025)

Tedder Hill Wind Farm Small Grants (up to £1,000)

Twin Rivers Wind Farm Community Fund - Under £10k (closing date 16/03/2025)

Twin Rivers Wind Farm Community Fund - Over £10k (closing date 16/03/2025)

Twin Rivers Wind Farm Small Grants (up to £2,000)

Applications to all funds can be made online only within the Flexi-Grant system: Application portal homepage - East Riding of Yorkshire Council (flexigrant.com)

  If you have any queries, please contact the fund by email: ruralfunding@eastriding.gov.uk

Community Vision

ERVAS is now part of Community Vision

Promoting, Developing and Supporting Voluntary Activity within the Community.

 


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Community Vision are an infrastructure support organisation and local development agency covering the whole of East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. They support and develop local voluntary sector groups and organisations across the area, with the focus of strengthening their delivery and building resilience within communities. Community Vision is also part of a wider network of infrastructure organisations across the UK through their membership of NAVCA. They strive to empower and support local organisations, and their support is not limited to members, but anyone that needs help.

Community Vision provide a wide range of support so whatever your needs, please feel free to contact them via their website https://communityvision.org.uk/ or by emailing office@communityvision.org.uk.