Community fund for Leeds launched
A NEW charitable fund has launched today to benefit community groups across Leeds.
Leeds Community Foundation, which distributed £4.1m to community groups last year, is launching The Leeds Fund.
The fund has already received support from Leeds-born TV presenter, Gabby Logan, who will be the Fund’s Charity Patron, and John Lewis, which is set to open one of its biggest stores outside London at Victoria Gate later this year.
The Leeds Fund will allow long term investment in the city’s communities, said LCF. Each year it will have a different strategic focus with the first years’ focus on mental health, an issue which affects one in four people across the UK and costs employers £4bn per year.
The Leeds Fund aims to raise and distribute a minimum of £500,000 each year from 2020. This will support the strategic focus with large financial grants, as well as providing smaller community #GiveLoveLeeds Grants of up to £2,500 that will support a wide range of local community activity. In 2016, the fund launches with £300,000 to give away.
