Homes For Ukraine Community Grant Scheme
The application process
The scheme will fund events and activities that meet the aims and conditions of the scheme.
You can apply for the Homes For Ukraine Community Grant Scheme if you are a:
- Voluntary and community organisation
- Registered charity
- Constituted group or club
- Social enterprise
- Group of organisations, if led by a voluntary/community organisation or social enterprise
- Community Interest Company (with two or more directors)
- Statutory Organisation
The scheme will not accept applications from individuals or limited companies (that are not registered charities or social enterprises).
Timescale for applications and grant amounts
The scheme will operate a particular assessment timeline, with bids being assessed on a first come, first serve basis.
The Assessment Panel days are as follows:
Fylde Coast - Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre (Round 3)
In Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre the scheme will award grants up to a maximum value of £10,000. Match funding is welcome.
It will fund events taking place between 1 March 2023 and 1 August 2024. The total amount of funding currently available for this scheme is a maximum of £25,620 but this may be reviewed.
- Applications submitted by: 5pm on 14 April 2023
- Assessment Panel meets: 18 April 2023
- Decision communicated by:20 April 2023
Ribble Valley
In Ribble Valley the scheme will award grants up to the value of £3,000. Match funding is welcome.
It will fund events taking place between 1 October 2022 and 1 October 2024. The total amount of funding available for this Scheme is a maximum of £12,000.
- Applications submitted by: 5pm on 11 November 2022
- Assessment Panel meets: 15 November 2022
- Decision communicated by:18 November 2022
Preston
In Preston the scheme will award grants up to a maximum value of £10,000. Match funding is welcome.
It will fund events taking place between 12 December 2022 and 12 December 2024. The total amount of funding currently available for this scheme is a maximum of £96,000 but this may be reviewed.
- Applications submitted by: 5pm on 29 November 2022
- Assessment Panel meets: 2 December 2022
- Decision communicated by: 6 December 2022
Submitting an application
Once the maximum fund is allocated, no further bids will be assessed. Bidders must submit the application form and any required supporting documents by the specified time. Bidders must also specify the start date and end date of the planned project event or activity.
Applications forms will be assessed according to the aims, conditions and criteria specified here. The proposals will be assessed by the Homes For Ukraine Community Grant Scheme Panel (the Assessment Panel).
Application forms must be submitted by email to HomesForUkraine@lancashire.gov.uk
Please note the following:
- Decisions will be made at the absolute discretion of the panel. The panel makes no guarantee as to the number of awards it will make.
- The panel reserve the right, at their discretion, to call bidders for a face-to-face, telephone or video informal interview as part of the assessment process, to seek clarifications or to request any further information.
- Panel decisions will be communicated to all relevant bidders within the time specified above.
- Where a proposal is unsuccessful, but the panel believes that it has potential, the panel may decide to:
- Include the proposal, without any changes, in the next round of applications; or
- Request changes to the proposal and that it is submitted in a new form (this by no means guarantees the success of a revised proposal).
- The panel's decisions are final and there will be no appeals process. The panel will endeavour to explain constructively why a proposal was unsuccessful, but there is no obligation for it to do so.
- There is no minimum or maximum spend for each round of assessments, and the scheme carries no obligation to spend the full (maximum) amount assigned to it by the Lancashire Refugee Resettlement Programme.
For informal discussions about the scheme, please contact:
Elana Romahi, Refugee Resettlement Project and Policy Officer
Elana.romahi@lancashire.gov.uk
07311 707517