Meet the Funder: Mayor’s Safer Communities Fund zoom event, 10am-11am on Thursday 26 May.

The Mayor’s Safer Communities Fund provides grants of up to £6,000 to voluntary, community groups, charities and partners to provide support for innovative community safety projects which address at least one of the cross-cutting themes within the draft Police and Crime Plan 2021-24.

Paige Cowling and Sharon Waugh, from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority Engagement Team, will outline the funds’ criteria, application process and support for groups to apply for grants up to £6,000 for Leeds community safety projects.

This free zoom event for community groups in Leeds, will help you to find out and ask questions about the Mayor’s Safer Communities Fund.

The themes are:

• Women and girls;
• Diversity, equality, and inclusion;
• Early intervention and prevention.

During the session facilitated by Voluntary Action Leeds, Paige and Sharon, will outline the criteria and application process, give tips on making a good application, examples of previously funded projects and answer your questions.

Deadline for applications to the Fund is: 12pm noon, Friday 10 June and funds will be awarded in October 2022. For further details about the fund go to: http://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/…/mayor-s-safer…/. Further rounds will be announced next year.

The event will be very informal, and you will have the opportunity to ask Paige and Sharon questions.

To book go to: https://doinggoodleeds.org.uk/…/meet-the-funder-mayors…/

The session will be on Zoom, 10am – 11am on Thursday 26 May.

Voluntary Action Leeds