The Leeds Digital Inclusion Fund

Leeds Community Foundation are pleased to collaborate with Leeds City Council’s 100% Digital Leeds and Leeds Digital Ball to fund the development and delivery of sustainable digital inclusion interventions in Leeds. Grants are aimed at ensuring that individuals and communities in Leeds have everything they need to be active online, now and in the future.

Grant size: up to £10,000
Deadline: 11 September 2025 at 12 noon

About the fund

We actively welcome more applications from, or benefitting, people under-represented in our grant making, for example LGBTQIA+, racially minoritised, d/Deaf or disabled people.

A mixture of grant sizes will be awarded, split between:

• Up to £5k for conducting test and learn activity.
• Up to £10k for expansion of existing activity

The fund supports proposals that build organisational capacity and sustainably integrate digital inclusion into regular work. Activity should add value to the everyday outcomes you achieve.

Examples of activities that can be funded

• Test and learn activity by Community Organisations at the start of their digital inclusion journey.
• Development activity by Community Organisations seeking to build on existing work in the area.
• Outcomes for people and communities could include:
  – improved physical or mental health and wellbeing
  – increased financial resilience
  – reduced isolation
  – and development of skills to use online tools and services such as housing, employment, health, council or government websites.
• These could be achieved through a combination of:
  – promoting the benefits of being online
  – upskilling in essential digital skills
  – enabling online access
  – testing different interventions
  – implementing initiatives such as Digital Health Hubs & establishing self-sustaining digital inclusion support sessions

When making decisions, the panel will consider how your application aligns with these criteria, evidence of community need, the strength of partnerships outlined, the feasibility of the project, and how clear plans and budgets are.

Please note we have limited funding available and cannot fund every application we receive. We expect to fund 8-16 applications. Incomplete applications will not be
considered. The decision made by the grants panel is final.

Further information

Before you start your application, please read our full grant-making process at: leedscf.org.uk/grants-process-explained

To start your application, visit: leedscf.org.uk/open-grants