LandAid: Routes Out of Homelessness Grant Programmes - Move-On Grants

Overview

OVERVIEW

Thanks to the funds raised by their supporters in the property industry, they are able to make grants totalling over £2,000,000 per year to charities and not-for-profits who provide support and accommodation to young people experiencing homelessness.

They aim to deliver a range of programmes which

• Deliver the greatest positive impact on the lives of young people facing homelessness.
• Identify emerging needs, together with the most effective solutions and the organisations best placed to implement them.
• Are based on and showcasing best practice, or offer clear opportunities for learning from new approaches.
• Leverage the resources and skills of LandAid’s staff, networks, partners, and supporters to maximise the quality and scale of support for young people.
• Meet the national and regional strategic priorities of LandAid and our partners.

Each of their grant programmes, outlined below, are designed to create additional bedspaces of different types:

• Safe Places programme – short and medium-term hosting bedspaces for young people. This could include Nightstop or Supported Lodging type projects, amongst others.
• Capital Grants programme – a grants programme funding bedspaces which are owned or leased by not-for-profit organisations, including new builds, renovation and other innovative capital projects.
• Move-on Grants programme – funding access to private rented sector bedspaces for young people ready to move into independent accommodation.

These programmes support interventions on 3 points of the Youth Homelessness Positive Pathway Model. Based on this Pathway Model, their programmes create Emergency, Supported and Move-On bedspaces.

Grant applications are processed by their Programmes and Impact team and presented for consideration to LandAid’s Grant and Impact Committee, comprising senior figures from their industry supporters with significant expertise in investment, housing and social impact.

WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING FOR?

They welcome applications from all charitable organisations with a project that meets their criteria, but they’re particularly interested in hearing about projects that will create bedspaces with the following attributes:

• Based in the North-East, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
• For groups of young people who may be disproportionately at risk of homelessness. This would include young people of colour, young refugees and young people identifying as LGBTQ+
• Which would be transformational for the charity and/or local area

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Organisational Information

• You must be a Charity, Community Interest Company (CIC), Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) or other form of not-for-profit organisation.
• You need at least three unrelated members of your Board of Trustees.
• Your charity must work with young people aged 16-25 who are homeless, or who are at risk of, or who have experienced homelessness. This does not have to be the exclusive focus of your organisation’s work. However, LandAid funding can only cover projects (or parts of projects) which specifically support this age-group

Project Information

• Any project we fund must take place in the UK.
• They do not retrospectively fund projects, or fund projects which are the duty of statutory funders, or projects that you could fund yourselves. They do not make unrestricted grants towards running costs
• They are open to partnership applications, with an identified lead partner who will hold the funding and monitoring duties associated with the grant

Financial Information

• You must not have free reserves far in excess of your reserves policy without a valid reason. They define this to include reserves which you allocated to a certain purpose but are free to reallocate as needed. It does not include the value of fixed assets such as buildings.

Additional documentation required

• Latest copy of your annual accounts and impact report
• The following policies: Safeguarding; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Memorandum & Articles of Association

Move-on Grants programme

Through their Move-On programme, they aim to unlock 450 bedspaces in the private rented sector in the UK by 2024 for young people who are ready to move from emergency or supported accommodation into independent living.

To deliver this impact, they will work in partnership with national youth housing networks, enabling them to deliver bedspaces around the UK based on needs identified by those who are best place to do so. They will also work strategically to identify and fund charities working in specific areas of the country or with specific communities of people where the potential to achieve most impact is clearly evidenced.

If you feel your work falls under one of these categories, you are invited to apply to the scheme.

What can they fund?

They want you to tell them! Funding can be used in a variety of ways by charities, including

• Rent Deposit Schemes
• Temporary Rent Subsidy schemes for young people who have recently moved into employment and risk getting caught in the benefits trap prior to moving on into independent living
• Move-in grants for young people, or a give direct model where young people identify how best to spend the grant to ensure they achieve a sustainable move-on

What are the desired outcomes?

This list is not exhaustive. You may wish to take a flexible approach within your project plan, and fund a number of different methods. They’re keen to hear your ideas for how you can best achieve the following outcomes for young people.

• Create sustainable, good quality move-ons for young people. These tenancies should last a minimum of 12 months, provide a good standard of housing and unlikely to have happened without LandAid’s support Young people are able to access and/or sustain employment and education opportunities as part of their move-on
• Young people experience improved wellbeing and improved social connections and relationships

How much funding is available?

They anticipate the average move-on bedspace in the private rented sector will generally cost between £1,000 - £2,000 to unlock.

They welcome applications from charities who have identified a clear need and solution. They will consider applications for more than this cost-per-outcome if you can clearly demonstrate how you will achieve lasting impact for young people through sustained tenancies.

If you can, for example, create 30 move-on bedspaces for young people at an average cost of £1,600 then you can apply for £48,000 in funding from LandAid.

As outlined above in the ‘What can they fund’ section, these grants are revenue funding, to be used in whichever way you identify to be most likely to achieve results. This is not a capital funding scheme.

If you have a capital project you would like us to consider, please apply to their Capital Grants Programme

What is a Move-On bedspace?

They define a Move-On bedspace as:

• A successful sustainable move-on for a young person into the rental sector
• This move-on could not have happened without funding from LandAid
• The tenancy is expected to last a minimum of 12 months

How will they calculate predicted social value?

• Predicted social value will be calculated as a one-off benefit for each young person who is expected to achieve a successful move-on into the private rental sector.
• They will base these estimates on the information provided in your application, and on evaluations of similar schemes where possible.

FREE PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR YOUR PROJECT

Their Pro Bono Programme seeks to match the knowledge and professional services of property industry professionals with not-for-profit organisations across the UK.

The earlier in a project that they can discuss professional support with you, the more value they are able to add in developing the project, and the more likely a corporate partner is to offer the support.

Examples of support their network of partners have provided include (but are not limited to):

• architectural / engineering advice;
• development management;
• property investment / financial advice;
• surveying services; legal advice, and
• tenant representation.

This support is available to all non-profits with an inclusive social mission, whether you are in receipt of grant-funding or not. Please get in contact with them to find out more.