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Grants to Help Reduce the Impacts of Poverty (Leicester)

Organisations working to address poverty in Leicester, such as charities, community groups, schools and businesses, are invited to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to provide support for underrepresented and disadvantaged communities.

Funding will be awarded to projects that align with one or more of the council's anti-poverty objectives:

  • To prevent Leicester’s residents falling into poverty.
  • To support and meet the needs of Leicester’s residents accessing crisis information and services.
  • To support people experiencing poverty in the short and medium term, increasing choice and independence.
  • To improve systems and the infrastructure of support in the longer term.
  • To campaign and lobby for change at a national level to alleviate poverty in the long term.

Projects should deliver specific benefit to people living in Leicester. Leicester City Council particularly encourage proposals for projects that support:

  • families with children
  • sustainability and reuse of items such as school uniform and white goods
  • mental health and debt
  • people who are digitally excluded
  • and that target in-work poverty.

The funding is being made available by Leicester City Council through their Anti-Poverty Community Grants scheme, which closes to applications at 5pm on the 7th December 2022.

22nd November 2022