Covid-19 Homeless Response Fund
Added: 14/07/2020
Voluntary Action Leeds
The Fund is providing emergency financial assistance to local homelessness organisations to support them in mitigating the negative financial impact incurred due to the effects of the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis. Grants are available for either or both of the following purposes:
Emergency funding for frontline homelessness charitable organisations in England directly affected by the coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak. C
Homeless Link will be distributing £4.82 million funding from the National Lottery Community Fund.
The funding is intended to support the homelessness and rough sleeping charitable sector, preventing closure, service cuts or staff redundancies threatened by increased operational costs and a loss of fundraised income due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis.
The funding is intended to support the homelessness and rough sleeping charitable sector, preventing closure, service cuts or staff redundancies threatened by increased operational costs and a loss of fundraised income due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis.
Grant size depends on the organisations turnover:
Turnover of less than £100,000: grants of £10,000.
Turnover of between £100,000 and £ 1 million: minimum grant size is £10,000; maximum grant size is 10% of the organisation’s turnover.
Turnover of between £1 million and £5 million: minimum grant size is £25,000; maximum grant size is £100,000.
Who can apply?
Incorporated charitable organisations can apply including:registered charities, CIO, Community Benefit Society, CIC (with asset lock) who are working directly with people experiencing homelessness, with more than 50% of their beneficiaries being people experiencing homelessness. Organisations must have forecast unrestricted cash reserves of below three months following the impact of COVID-19 this financial year.
Organisations that were successful in Round 1 of the COVID-19 Homelessness Response Fund which distributed funding from MHCLG are not eligible.
- To help alleviate the financial impact of COVID-19 on the organisation. This may be because of a reduction in actual or expected income this year, and/or as a result of higher costs that have been incurred or are expected to be incurred as a result of providing services to beneficiaries as a direct result of the crisis.
- To expand or adapt services in light of COVID-19 to support people experiencing homelessness safely and effectively.
There are no specific priority areas for the Fund but organisations should indicate if they will be providing support for specific groups such as BAME people, LGBTQ+ people or if the organisation is led by people with lived experience of homelessness.
Grants are to be used for revenue funding only and can be used to cover:
Investments in systems.
Investments in people.
Investments in infrastructure.
Dedicated capacity development.
Staff salaries.
Project activities.
Running costs.
Small-scale refurbishment.
Equipment.
Organisational development.
Contributions to fixed costs.
All grants must be spent within six months of receipt or by 19 April 2021 if this is earlier.
There are 2 application deadlines: 3 August 2020 (1pm) for decisions made in early September.
14 September 2020 (1pm) for decisions made in mid-October.
Details and application forms at: https://www.homeless.org.uk/connect/blogs/2020/jul/13/covid-19-homelessness-response-fund-launches-second-round-of-funding