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The Community Fund
Community Transport Small Grants
The Community Fund
Community grants: £500 or less for new projects or new initiatives
within an existing project.
Fund Criteria
It is not necessary for a grant application to meet all criteria but preference
will be given to applications that meet most. (e) indicates essential
criteria.
Projects
- Must be a new project or a new initiative within an existing project
(e)
- Must have a clear community, social or environmental benefit
(e)
- Must show community support (e)
- Increase the ability of the community to undertake future community
initiatives or planning (capacity building) (e)
- Applicants must reside in Wiltshire or Swindon (e)
- Project must be undertaken in, and solely for the benefit of residents
of, Wiltshire or Swindon (e)
- There is no population minimum or maximum for the benefiting community
- Individual applicants must be over 18 (e)
- Have, or be prepared to set up, a bank account in the group’s
name, with two signatories (e)
- Small grants may be used to set up a group that can then apply for
a larger grant at a later time
- Demonstrate financial and environmental sustainability
Applicants
- An individual wishing to set up a group to plan or undertake a larger
project (this is an essential activity, although possibly only part
of the whole project)
- A voluntary organisation with a constitution
- A community group without formal rules or constitution (part of any
project would be to introduce them)
- Parish Meetings or Parish and Town Councils
- Applications are particularly welcome for funding for projects that
benefit (and preferably involve), the vulnerable, the disadvantaged,
the isolated and the excluded.
Recent successful applications for the small grants include:
- Village design statements
- Project planning, community consultations or feasibility studies
- Setting up residents associations, new community organisations or
action groups
- Facilities for the elderly, the disabled or those with learning difficulties,
at day centres and lunch clubs
- Facilities at pre-schools or parent & toddler groups
- Holiday, breakfast, after school or homework clubs
- Youth groups
- Community gardens, orchards or allotments
- Community information services, newsletters or web sites
- Disability support services
- Community arts workshops
- Recycling, re-use or composting
- Environmental and habitat conservation
- Heritage trails
- Parish maps
- Community heritage audio and video projects
Ineligible projects
Projects requesting funding for the following will not
be considered:
- On-going running costs
- Items purchased before a grant offer is made
- Projects which increase the value of a private asset or bring a personal
profit
- Projects which seek to establish a market for a later private initiative
- Costs of fundraising events
- Groups which limit entry or participation
- Groups which are managed regionally or nationally
- Routine repair or maintenance to buildings
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