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The People's Fund

The People's Fund gave £500,000 to community projects tackling serious violence in West Yorkshire, with local residents choosing which projects to back. Applications are now closed, and the funded projects are being delivered.

What was The People's Fund?

The People's Fund was a £500,000 fund to tackle serious violence in West Yorkshire.

Each of the region's five districts could receive up to £100,000 and community groups could apply for up to £10,000.

Local residents decided which projects to fund. Applications have closed, and the successful projects are being delivered.

Read about the successful applicants

Terms and conditions

1. Terms and conditions

2. Processing the grant

3. Use of the grant

You must use any grant given for the purposes detailed and agreed in your application. The grant must not be used for any other purpose without prior written consent from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority – Policing and Crime team. If any changes to your original application were to take place throughout your project, this must be approved first by the Engagement Manager. Please refer to point 3 for further information.

Grants are allocated for a maximum 12-month term only. The applicant will need to be contactable for the duration of the grant. Grants cannot be passed to other individuals or departments without prior approval.

The applicant named on the application form (Organisation and Contact Name) is solely responsible for the project throughout the grant period, including completing the evaluation forms upon project completion.

You must notify the Mayor’s Safer Communities Fund Team if the person responsible for the project moves on/ leaves the organisation at the time the change takes place. The named applicant will be our point of contact to recover funding should the project not be delivered/ problems occur.

TPF does not allow monies to be passported or subcontracted to other organisations without declaring this in your original application form. Monies from the TP fund cannot be given out as cash prizes. Refreshments are not eligible to be covered by the fund and must not be misrepresented under a different budget head, further information is included in the Information Sheet document.

If you fail to comply with any of the conditions set out in the Terms and Conditions, we may require all or any part of the grant to be repaid. You must repay under this condition within 30 days of receiving the demand for repayment.

We may terminate this agreement immediately by serving a written notice on the recipient if:

the grant or any part of the grant is being used for any purpose other than the purpose set out in this Agreement
you have been involved in any illegal activity or improper act in your administration