Could ESF Community Grants help your project to support those in your community move closer to the labour market?

We’ve gathered some of the most useful links from the UK’s Third Sector support organisations, to help you find and access European Social Fund (ESF) Community Grants in your local area.

ESF Community Grants is a new programme open to small and voluntary organisations to fund local initiatives and projects which help unemployed and economically inactive people move into or towards employment, training or education.

Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 are available.

The programme is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and are commissioned by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). The programme opened in April 2019 and applications will be open until October 2020.

Here’s a round-up of useful support and information to access grants in your area…

• The Community Foundation, Staffordshire – ESF Community Grants

• VONNE (Voluntary Organisations’ Network North East) – European Funding

• Halton & St Helens Voluntary and Community Action – ESF Community Grants

• Groundwork, UK – ESF Community Grants

• WEA, UK – ESF Community Grants

• Warwickshire CAVA – ESF Community Grants in Coventry & Warwickshire

• Futures Group, East Midlands – Grants Available for East Midlands Community Organisations to Support Unemployed

• VAL, Leicester and Leicestershire – ESF Community Grants Programme

• SNVB, South Northamptonshire – ESF Community Grants – South East Midlands

• Sector Support Calderdale – ESF Community Grants In West Yorkshire

• NOVA – ESF Community Grants

• Community First Yorkshire

• Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde CVS – ESF Community Grants Lancashire

• Cornwall VSF – Funding Sources

• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Growth Programme – European Social Fund

Building Better Opportunities Programme at work

Here are some of the organisations across the UK which are receiving funding from the National Lottery Community Fund and European Social Fund to deliver projects as part of the Building Better Opportunities Programme, helping their local communities move towards and secure meaningful employment...

• PCVS – Building Better Opportunities

• Lincolnshire CVS – Building Better Opportunities – Steps Forward

• Voluntary Action North Lincolnshire –  MOVE and Step Forwards Employability Projects: Moving on, volunteering and employability

• Voluntary Norfolk – Routes to Work

• Dorset Community Action – Inspire Dorset

• Cumbria CVS – Getting Cumbria to Work: Barrow and South Lakeland (BBO GCtW)

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