Grant News
The Education and Skills Funding Agency and the European Social Fund has launched a new funding round to support local initiatives that will enable economically inactive or unemployed people aged 16 years and over move towards employment, training or education.
Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 are available through the ESF Community Grants programme to voluntary and third sector organisations and small businesses across three Local Enterprise Partnership areas:
- London North and East LEP: Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Enfield, Greenwich, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest
- Dorset LEP: Dorset, Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch
- Thames Valley Berkshire LEP: West Berkshire, Reading, Bracknell, Wokingham, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead
The programme is administered by Groundwork.
The deadline for applications is 9am on the 21st June 2021. Pre-application feedback is possible if submitted by 9am on the 14th June 2021.
Groundwork are offering two application workshops on the 11th and 20th May 2021. Use the link below to sign up to our upcoming workshops.
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