Leicester City Anti-Poverty Community Grants

Smaller grants will be available in the next round of applications, planned for winter 2023. We will run multiple rounds of applications.

Funding will be awarded to projects that align with one or more of the Leicester City Council's anti-poverty objectives:

• To prevent Leicester's residents falling into poverty.
• To support and meet the needs of Leicester's residents accessing crisis information and services.
• To support people experiencing poverty in the short and medium term, increasing choice and independence.
• To improve systems and the infrastructure of support in the longer term.
• To campaign and lobby for change at a national level to alleviate poverty in the long term.

Projects should deliver specific benefit to people living in Leicester. We particularly encourage proposals for projects that support:

• families with children
• sustainability and reuse of items such as school uniform and white goods
• mental health and debt
• people who are digitally excluded
• and that target in-work poverty.

We encourage applications that support under-represented groups and communities that are hit hardest by the impact of poverty in Leicester. We particularly welcome applications from organisations supporting communities in the North and East of Leicester.