Great Places Housing Group is committed to supporting their customers and communities and have established a new fund to help rebuild neighbourhoods and create more resilience in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Purpose of fund and key Great Places principles
The fund is intended to provide financial support for community groups, charities and social enterprises to implement their Covid-19 recovery strategies and to become more resilient to future economic set-backs.
The guiding principles are to support the priority neighbourhoods and customers to access help in alignment with key Local Authority action plans and strategies whilst helping meet key Service Delivery Framework principles.
Themes
- Poverty reduction (fuel, furniture, food) – to include Holiday Hunger initiatives
- Employment, training and volunteering opportunities
- Financial and digital Inclusion
- Organisational resilience
Applicants must demonstrate which of these themes their proposal, project or overall services supports and how Great Places customers and the wider community will benefit.
Geographical locations
Great Places is a traditional social landlord with homes across the North West and Yorkshire. Great Places direct their resources to the neighbourhoods where they have most impact. These are defined below, primarily within council ward profiles.
The aim is to support the community groups, charities and social enterprises that work within these neighbourhoods. Applications must come from groups providing services in or reasonably local to the following locations or wards:
Greater Manchester
- Longsight and Levenshulme Ward
- Langworthy and Seedley Ward
- Knutsford (Overward Ward)
- Bolton, Wigan and Leigh, Rochdale, Salford, Oldham and Bury
Yorkshire
- Sheffield (Manor Castle Ward – supporting Wybourn residents)
- Sheffield (Richmond Ward – supporting Richmond Park residents)
Lancashire
- Blackpool (Ansdell Ward)
- Blackpool (Claremont Ward)
- Morecambe (Poulton Ward)
- Burnley (Daneshouse with Stoneyholme Ward)
Equity Region
- Stockport
- High Peak – mini grants only
There will be two amounts available and organisations can apply once only:
- Mini – Up to £500
- Medium – up to £3,000
The Mini grant is intended for small projects or interventions which meet the criteria of this fund.
The Medium grant is intended for core costs as regards contributing to your organisations resilience however may be also be applied for towards project specific costs.
The following can apply:
- Constituted Voluntary and Community groups with their own bank account
- Community Interest Companies
- Registered and Exempt Charities
- Not for profit companies and or Social Enterprise with a different recognised legal entity
For more information contact Daniel Mountford, Fundraising Specialist, Great Places Housing Group, on 0791 761 7327 or email: [email protected]
Deadline: 13 January 2021, 12pm
Decisions will be made by Great Places staff by Tuesday 19 January 2021 and they aim to communicate decisions to applicants the same day.
