PGR Placement Opportunity - Leeds Community Foundation

Leeds Community Foundation is Yorkshire’s largest independent grant-maker. They provide financial support in the form of grants to community projects that help to improve the quality of life of people living in disadvantaged communities or who are from vulnerable backgrounds. Thanks to the generosity of individuals, businesses and public sector organisations, they have distributed over £42m since we awarded their first grant in 2005.

The Placement Project:

‘Taking the Pulse of Leeds’s Diverse Communities’ project – This project would be instrumental in updating and strengthening Leeds Community Foundation’s expertise around the needs, priorities and aspirations of our diverse communities, with a focus on Third Sector Organisations led by, or primarily supporting, minority/underserved groups including LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities and/or minority ethnic groups.Whilst an extensive search and synthesis of data and reports on the landscape of these diverse minority Leeds communities and their needs would generate valuable data to help us target our grant-making more effectively, we are keen to hear the voice of Third Sector Organisations, grass- root community groups and the people they serve, to identify the priorities, issues and lack of opportunities that they face (including those which may have been exacerbated in these Covid times), as well as the barriers that groups and organisations experience in terms of accessing grant- making, especially Leeds Community Foundation’s grant-making. To achieve this, the postgraduate student would work closely with Leeds Community Foundation staff to: