LFT Charitable Trust: Enriching Lives

Overview

This funding is intended to promote opportunities for sustained engagement between the same participants over a period of time and facilitate the development of relationships rather than one off events.

Initiatives that may be supported include

• educational programmes learning new skills together or sharing skills between the generations
• intergenerational health & wellbeing initiatives
• the co-design and development of local history or cultural projects
• social/recreational programmes such as befriending or the establishment of a community choir

Lots more ideas and useful resources are available from Generations Working Together, Beth Johnson Foundation and Linking Generations NI.

Who?

Applications are welcomed from youth organisations with strong community networks and experience in delivering community service.

Eligibility

• Projects must involve both young people (aged 14-25 years) and older people (65+ years)
• Only applications from registered charities will be considered.
• Only activity taking place in Northern Ireland will be considered.
• Only expenditure incurred for the purposes of the project and that can be directly attributed to the expected outputs/outcomes will be eligible.
• Financial commitments are envisaged from 1st June 2025 with a requirement to commence project delivery within three months of receipt of a letter of offer.
• Project delivery should not exceed 12 months.

Funding Level

Applications for grants of up to £7,000 are invited.

Criteria

As with all funders, it is likely that demand will exceed available funds and so this will be a competitive process. Criteria used to assess applications will include:

• Previous relevant experience. 
• Project Outline
• Number of beneficiaries anticipated
• Approach to evaluation with preference given to applications that propose the use of validated tools such as WEMWBS, Rosenberg Scale etc
• Impact expected (for both younger participants and older people)
• Value for Money