Yorkshire & Humber

(East Riding of Yorkshire, Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire)

This regional information includes regional offices of funding bodies, government and agencies. They all have a role which involves the Voluntary and Community Sector. Some offer direct funding. Some act as a coordinating body for provision of regional and local services. Some merely offer help and advice to those providing services. Not all of these will offer funding at any particular time.

Where possible regional information is given on each of these pages. Where regional information is complex links are given to websites which can provide information and contacts relevant to your area.

Help and advice in your region

Community Foundations Website: www.communityfoundations.org.uk

Community Foundation Network
Arena House
66-68 Pentonville Road
London
N1 9HS
Tel: 020 7713 9326
Fax: 020 7713 9327
Email: network@communityfoundations.org.uk

Government

Local Government

Your Local Authority (Council) will have funds for the Voluntary and Community Sector. This funding is often in small pots within different departments. They may not have a complete picture of what is available and it is best to ask for help within a particular department. Key departments that often have responsibility for funds are Culture & Leisure, Education, Environment, Health & Social Care, Housing, Regeneration.

Similarly there are often small pots of funds for the Voluntary and Community Sector held by Town Councils and Parish Councils.

There is a separate listing of Council funding. Use the link in the Left Hand menu.

Town Councils

You can also find your town council at Website: www.direct.gov.uk/Dl1/Directories/LocalCouncils/fs/en You will find contact address and phone numbers and links to their Website.

Parish Councils

Parish councils are listed by Tagish at Website: www.tagish.co.uk/tagish/links/parish.htm

Some Parish Councils have Websites. They may be listed at: www.parish-council.com/fulllist.asp or search using Google Website: www.google.co.uk

Local Government is buying in more of its services from the Voluntary and Community Sector under contract.

The Local Compact

The Compact is the agreement between government and the voluntary and community sector in England to improve their relationship for mutual advantage.

By building better relationships the Compact can help government and the voluntary and community sector work better together for the communities they serve.

Local Compacts are being drawn up for dealings between local and regional government and the voluntary sector. These can be downloaded from the regional pages of the Compact Website: http://www.thecompact.org.uk/information/100024/regions/

Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber

The Government Office and their many partners aim to make a real difference to business, the environment, communities and to the people who live and work in the Yorkshire and The Humber region.

Contact: Lateral
8 City Walk
Leeds
LS11 9AT
Tel: 0113 341 3000
Fax: 0113 244 4898

Website: www.goyh.gov.uk

Part of their work is to co-ordinate funding from the European Community. See Website: http://www.gos.gov.uk/goyh/eurofund/

Yorkshire Forward - Yorkshire and Humber Regional Development Agency

Yorkshire Forward, the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Development Agency, was created in April 1999 with the mission of revitalising the region's economy and is involved in many aspects of the region's economy - attracting inward investment and jobs into the region, funding community based regeneration schemes to ensure opportunities for Yorkshire and Humber's most deprived areas, increasing the availability of training for the region's workforce and promoting the whole region to the nation.

Leeds (Head Office)
Victoria House
Victoria Place
Leeds LS11 5AE
Tel: 0113 3949600

Learning and Skills

Paul Spencer Tel: 0113 394 9679
E-mail: Paul.spencer@yorkshire-forward.com

Regional Economic Strategy

Paul Munn Tel: 0113 394 9691
E-mail: Paul.munn@yorkshire-forward.com

Website: http://www.yorkshire-forward.com/

Social, Health, Education, Training and Employment

Connexions

Connexions is the government's support service for all young people aged 13 to 19 in England.

Connexions brings together all the services and support young people need during their teenage years offering differentiated and integrated support to young people through Personal Advisers (PAs). For some young people this may be just for careers advice, for others it may involve more in-depth support to help identify barriers to learning and find solutions brokering access to more specialist support, eg drug abuse, sexual health and homelessness. PAs work in a range of settings including schools, colleges, one-stop shops community centres and on an out-reach basis.

Connexions is delivered through a range of local partnership arrangements based either on Local Authority boundaries or Regional boundaries. Funding is through a grant from the Secretary of State for Education and Skills.

You can find details of your local partnership at

Website: http://www.connexions-direct.com/index.cfm?go=localServices

SureStart

Sure Start is a Government programme which aims to achieve better outcomes for children, parents and communities by:

• increasing the availability of childcare for all children
• improving health and emotional development for young children
• supporting parents as parents and in their aspirations towards employment.

They will achieve our aims by:

helping services development in disadvantaged areas alongside financial help for parents to afford childcare

• rolling out the principles driving the Sure Start approach to all services for children and parents.

• Regional and local services are dealt with by regional Government Offices and Local Education Authorities.

Sure Start Unit
Department for Education and Skills and Department for Work and Pensions
Level 2
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9NA
Public Enquiry Unit Tel: 0870 0002288
Email: info.surestart@dfes.gsi.gov.uk
Website: www.surestart.gov.uk/surestartservices/

Children's Fund

The Children's Fund was launched in November 2000 as part of the Government's commitment to tackle disadvantage among children and young people. The programme aims to identify at an early stage children and young people at risk of social exclusion, and make sure they receive the help and support they need to achieve their potential.

The Children's Fund provides a responsive approach to developing services that address the difficulties faced by some children and their families. It encourages voluntary organisations, community and faith groups to work in partnership with local statutory agencies, and children, young people and their families, to deliver high-quality preventative services to meet the needs of communities.

To find out about the Children's Fund partnership in your area contact your regional Government Office or Local Authority.

More information is on Website: www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/strategy/childrensfund/

Health and Safety Commission

The Health and Safety Commission is responsible for health and safety regulation in Great Britain.

Regional Offices can be found at website: www.hse.gov.uk/contact/maps/index.htm

HSE Infoline Tel: 0845 345 0055

Website: www.hse.gov.uk

Skills Funding Agency

The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) is one of two successor organisations that will emerge from the closure of the Learning and Skills Council (England's largest Non-departmental public body or quango).

The Skills Funding Agency, established in law by the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 will work alongside the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) and Regional Development Agencies (RDAs). The YPLA will be created as a nondepartmental public body, with a non-executive Board, sponsored by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.The Skills Funding Agency will be an agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

The Learning and Skills Council hands over its responsibilities from 1 April 2010.

The SFA(LSC) ESF co-financed funding portal for Yorkshire & Humber appears on the fit4funding website. All Tender opportunity deadlines appear in the fit4funding Commissioning Diary.

Website: http://www.skillsfundingagency.bis.gov.uk

Primary Care Trusts (PCTs)

The main function of a PCT is to provide health services locally by integrating primary, secondary and community health services and social services.

PCTs commission general and acute services, invest in primary and community care and work to improve the health of the local population in partnership with local borough councils and others.

Trusts hold contracts with Personal Medial Services, (PMS), providers to provide a wide range of primary and community services to the general public.

To find your local PCT look at website: http://pctdirectory.com/ and for more information use the National Health Service website: http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/Pages/PrimaryCareTrustListing.aspx

Local Education Authorities (LEAs)

Local Education Authorities oversee education services in Local Authority areas. There is a trend for for services to schools and colleges to become their own responsibility. Funding for these is more often being directed through schools and colleges themselves. If you wish to provide a service related to education you may have to negotiate that with each school or college.

Schools and colleges will be listed on your local authority Website (see above).

You can find details of your LEA at Website: http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/_contacts/

Environment and Heritage

English Heritage and other environment and heritage agencies can be found in the national Government and Statutory pages.

Arts

Arts Council of England

Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery

Yorkshire Arts
21 Bond Street
Dewsbury
West Yorkshire
WF13 1AX
Tel: 01924 455555
Fax: 01924 466522
Textphone 01924 438585
Email: info@yarts.co.uk
Website: http://www.arts.org.uk/

Sport

Sport England in Yorkshire

Providing a strategic lead for sport in Yorkshire

4th Floor
Minerva House
East Parade
LEEDS
LS1 5PS
Tel: 0113 243 6443
Fax: 0113 242 189
Website: www.sportengland.org/yorkshire_index.htm

Lottery

Sport England and Arts Council England details are above.

Other Regional Lottery contacts

Big Lottery Fund

The Big Lottery Fund was launched on 1 June 2004 , when the New Opportunities Fund and the Community Fund were combined to create a single new lottery distributor - the Big Lottery Fund. They receive 50 percent of the proceeds for good causes, which is anticipated to be will be between £600 and £700 million a year until the end of the current Camelot licence in early 2009.

2nd floor
Carlton Tower
34 St Pauls Street
Leeds
LS1 2AT
Tel: 0113 224 5301
Minicom: 0113 245 4104
Fax: 0113 244 0363
Email: enquiries.yh@biglotteryfund.org.uk
Website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

Awards For All (changed arrangements from April 2009)

The BIG Lottery Fund launched its own new version of the highly popular Awards for All small grants scheme in England and Wales from 1st April 2009. BIG's Awards for All programme is the Fund's biggest-ever commitment to a small grant scheme supporting community projects, offering a more easily accessible programme with even quicker decision times

A total of 45 million is available in England offering Big Lottery Fund grants of between 300 to 10,000 to grassroots groups in the community and voluntary sector, health bodies, schools and parish or town councils. In Wales grants of between 500 and 5,000 are available with a total of 2.4 million available.

The programme aims to make a difference to communities and the lives of those most in need and will focus on social and environmental projects that benefit local communities.

The new easy-to-use application form, can be downloaded, filled in and emailed direct to the Big Lottery Fund as well as being available in hard copy.

The Big Lottery Fund's Awards for All programme will build on the features that made the previous scheme so popular. A simpler application process and a maximum turnaround time of six weeks for a decision are among the changes to the programme which will make it much easier for applicants to successfully apply for small pots of funding that can have such a big impact on local communities and lives.

The other Lottery awarding bodies will now operate their own small grants schemes for England and Wales.

Application forms are available from Website: www.awardsforall.org.uk   Tel: 0845 4 10 20 30.

Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) enables communities to celebrate, look after and learn more about our diverse heritage. From museums and historic buildings to parks and nature reserves to celebrating traditions, customs and history

Carlton Tower
34 St Paul 's Street
Leeds
LS1 2QB
Tel: 0113 3888030
Fax: 0113 3888031
E-mail: y&hdevelopment@hlf.org.uk

Contact them to find out more about our advice surgeries & funding fairs in your region

Website: www.hlf.org.uk/english/InYourArea/YorkshireAndTheHumber/

Lottery Funding

Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK. This site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK. The funding search will help you to find the funding programmes that best match your project. It will search programmes offered by Lottery funders that are currently open to applications. The funding search will take you through a series of four questions about: the location of your project; about you as an applicant; about the project itself; and about the amount of money you are applying for.

Tel: 0845 275 0000
Website: www.lotteryfunding.org.uk

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