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The People's Fund

The People’s Fund has £500,000 available for people who are delivering projects tackling serious violence in West Yorkshire.

Find out who can apply and how to get funding.

What is The People's Fund?

The People’s Fund to tackle serious violence offers £500,000 to people across West Yorkshire who are delivering projects working to tackle serious violence.

Each district could receive up to £100,000. Local groups and organisations were able to apply for up to £10,000 each, with local residents deciding on the winning projects.

Applications from across the region have now closed. However, delivery of the successful projects is ongoing.

This initiative is part of Mayor Tracy Brabin’s effort to create a co-produced serious violence strategy for the region.

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