Bettys and Taylors Group Community Fund

Bettys & Taylors Group logoBettys and Taylors Group have developed this fund as a part of their community support activity. So they wish to support activity that centres on employability, skills development, and work readiness for people affected by multiple disadvantage.

Your project should support:

  • Enabling employability and social mobility.
  • Upskilling young people to enter the workforce
  • Upskilling adults returning to work
  • Groups working to help people affected by multiple disadvantage to get ready for work.

We will give priority to groups who:

  • Demonstrate a clear understanding of the needs they are addressing,
  • Are based in an area of deprivation or work with a community disadvantaged for another reason.

What area does the fund cover?

Your organisation must also be based within a radius of approximately 10 miles of Bettys Café Tea Rooms and the Bettys and Taylors head office. These are located in York, Harrogate, Northallerton and Ilkley.

Size of grants

Activity Grants

You can apply for up to £3,000.

You can apply for project costs, and full cost recovery to support that project. If you need support with full cost recovery, please have at look at our guide: full cost recovery

You must be able to show how your project supports employability skills development.

However, please do not apply for overhead costs alone, or capital costs alone (except where small equipment costs are part of a larger request). For example, you could apply for a laptop or computer to assist with administration, or kitchen equipment with staff time, or learning resources alongside training costs.

Organisational Development

You can apply for up to £50,000 spent over three years.

Would you to do things differently, explore new ways of working and ideas  – the stuff that isn’t front line delivery? This is your opportunity to spend time developing your organisation. We are keen to support community-led work over three years that moves your organisation towards sustainability through improving capability and or capacity. We want to help foster long-term resilience.

You could use the funds for (and this list is not exhaustive):

  • Business planning and development
  • Developing governance and leadership (e.g. charity registration or registration as a form of social enterprise)
  • Developing monitoring and learning
  • Staff, key volunteer and trustee training
  • Testing new ways of working.

Please note, we cannot fund commission-based work, activity costs, or capital costs for more than 20% of your budget via organisational development.

Who can apply?

You can apply if your organisation is a:

  • constituted voluntary and community group
  • registered charity
  • co-operative
  • social enterprise
  • community interest company (CIC’s will be subject to additional scrutiny as outlined in our grant making policy)
  • Community Benefit Society (CBS’s will be subject to additional scrutiny as outlined in our grant making policy).

And

  • has a turnover of under £500,000,
  • is based within approximately 10 miles of a Bettys Café Tea Rooms or Bettys and Taylors head office.

Also, please read the Bettys & Taylors Group Community Fund Guidance – 2026 in full for all the priorities for the fund.

How to apply?

Before you apply, please read our ‘How to Apply’  page for information on general eligibility. Furthermore, particularly if you are a CIC or a CBS, please read our FAQs.

Next, please read the Bettys & Taylors Group Community Fund Guidance – 2026. They tell you more about what we are looking for. We have updated them, so please read them even if you have applied before.

Activity Grants

Now follow the link below to complete the online form. At the end of the activity grant application form we are asking you to accept the terms and conditions of holding a grant. This is because if you are successful, we can make payment more quickly.

Organisational Development

If you would like to apply for an organisational development grant, it is a two-stage process. First, please use the link below to complete an Expression of Interest. We will then let you know if we wish to invite you to full application. If you are shortlisted, we will send you a link to the form. You can see here what we’ll be asking at full application stage: Bettys and Taylors Organisational Development full application questions

Supporting Documents – All Applications

Lastly, we only consider your application complete when we have received all your supporting documents. You can add them to the application form, or you can email your documents to grants@tworidingscf.org.uk

Please note: If you are sending your supporting documents in the post, please can we ask that they are NOT stapled. Thank you so much!

 

When to apply?

Activity Grants

We will open on the 17th March 2026. The next deadline is noon on Thursday the 4th of June . We will then let you know a decision by the 7th of August 2026.

Organisational Development

We will open on the 17th of March 2026. After that, the deadline for Expressions of Interest is noon on Monday the 27th of April 2026. Following your EOI submission, we will let you know a decision by the end of the day  on the 18th of May. If we request a full application from you, the deadline is noon on the 4th of June 2026. Lastly, we will let you know a decision by the 7th of August 2026.

 

 

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