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Now open | The Leeds Fund Strategic Grants
27/05/2025
Grants of £50,000 available for Leeds community organisations.
Leeds Community Foundation is delighted to launch The Leeds Fund Strategic Grants 2025. This unique fund is designed to support local community organisations in achieving longer-term sustainability whilst delivering vital work in communities today.
Key information
- We actively welcome more applications from, or benefitting, people underrepresented in our grant making, including LGBTQIA+, racially minoritised, and d/Deaf or disabled people. We are also prioritising initiatives that focus on nature and the environment, mental health, and children and young people living in the five highest IMD areas.
- Organisations must be based/registered in Leeds and delivering most of your work in Leeds
- Organisations must be able to have at least one person as a key contact for this work such as a board member, member of staff or a volunteer
- Organisations must have an income between £100,000 and £1,000,000 in the most recent financial year
- Organisations need to have been operating for at least 2 full years (from when you apply)
- Only one application per organisation can be considered
- Please read the FAQs before applying
Examples of activity that can be funded
Activities need to focus on both delivery of projects and services in local communities and on organisational development
- Delivery: This expenditure could include expanding or evaluating current services, adapting delivery models, pilot and/or feasibility studies and setting long-term priorities to ensure the continued impact of vital work with communities
- Organisational development: Strengthening internal capacity, embedding learning and innovation, and planning for sustainability, transition, or responsible closure
This grant is fully flexible, supporting both ongoing service delivery and organisational development in the ratio that is right for your organisation.
Grant Size: Fixed at £50,000 (multi-year to be spent over at least 2 years)
Location: Leeds
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: 30/06/2025 at 12 noon
Decisions: October 2025