Local Activity Fund (LAF)
VANL Consortia Leads:
Nick Brown (Bellshill, Motherwell and Wishaw & Shotts) nick.brown@vanl.co.uk
Maureen O’Neill Craig (Airdrie, Coatbridge and the North) maureen.oneillcraig@vanl.co.uk
Fund
Local Activity Fund (LAF)
Fund Purpose
The Locality Activity Fund (LAF) is a small grant fund established to support local Community and Voluntary Sector (CVS) organisations in each of the six Community Solutions Locality Consortia to provide local services/activities which help residents improve their health and wellbeing and promote equality and inclusion. This can include services/activities which support health improvement; prevention; early intervention and recovery.
Funding Provider
University Health and Social care North Lanarkshire
Custodian Funding
£282,612.00
Recurrent or Fixed Term
Recurrent
Fund Start Date
Refreshes annually April 1st
Fund End Date
N/A
Award Process
- Once an application is approved by a Locality Consortia, the VANL Consortia Lead submits the following to the Community Solutions team;
- Copy of the original application
- LAF Sign-Off From with 3 authorising signatures
- An award letter is then issued directly to the organisation being funded
- The funded project returns signed acceptance section of the award letter and an invoice for the full award amount, quoting the unique purchase number order. All paperwork is saved in a Sharepoint folder and a link sent to Finance
- Once satisfied all paperwork is present and correct, Finance staff will process each invoice in Xero and SMCS approves it on system, Funds are then released to project in next payment run
Reporting by funded projects
Funded projects submit a report to Community Solutions team upon completion of project
Reporting by VANL to funder
VANL reports on the locality health and care activity fund in the annual Community Solutions Impact and Learning report, with an aim to publish in September.