Deadline: 15-Sep-25
The Foundation Scotland is seeking applications for its Achlachan Wind Farm Community Fund to support community activity and development in the Halkirk & District Community Council area, prioritising projects within a four-kilometre radius of the Achlachan Wind Farm
Purpose
- Applications must meet at least one of the following outcomes:
- Developing services and facilities.
- Sustaining and creating employment.
- Increasing skills and knowledge.
- Preserving and enhancing or giving better access to culture, heritage and the environment.
- Getting around and getting connected.
Funding Information
- Grant size: Up to £10,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Groups and organizations working to benefit people in any community within the Halkirk Community Council area can apply.
- Applications from groups/organizations located out with the fund area will be considered on a case-by-case basis. They must demonstrate a clear benefit for residents within the fund area.
- You can apply for funding for more than one project in each round. You can also apply for and hold more than one grant in any year; however, you may be required to provide monitoring reports for previous grants before any further award is made.
- Applicants should also demonstrate the following:
- Local consultation on the need for your project: Applicants should seek to demonstrate that they have consulted with the intended beneficiaries of their project and other local groups and/or businesses as appropriate and that these are supportive of the proposal.
- Matched funding: Applicants should ensure that other possible funding sources for the project have been explored. Awards from the fund should not displace funding that could be obtained from other sources but should help leverage additional funds if possible. Additionally, a grant’s availability should not reduce community-based groups commitment to organizing local activities contributing to a vibrant community calendar and promoting community spirit. However, applicants are not required to source any specific proportion of matched funds for their project.
- Local procurement: It is desirable that, where appropriate, applicants should seek local providers of the goods and services they are seeking a grant towards. However, this should be shown to offer the best value, balancing considerations of cost, availability and quality as appropriate to the specific goods or service in question.
- Sustainable Development: Applicants should consider whether projects will likely contribute to sustainable development, including minimizing the environmental impact of projects and reducing the carbon footprint of the applicant organization and/or Halkirk community.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Non constituted groups.
- Applications from individuals. However, individuals may be able to apply for funding under any micro-grant scheme associated with a fund, or under some education and training funds.
- General fundraising appeals or activities.
- Trips abroad (unless otherwise stated on the fund page).
- Costs already incurred or activities which will take place before theyve decided on an application, i.e. retrospective funding.
- The repayment of loans or payment of debts.
- The advancement of religion or politics, including requests to support religious or political groups’ core activities. However, religious groups may apply for funding for non-religious activity that will benefit the wider community beyond their own specific congregation and is open to all on a non-denominational basis. For example, a church may apply for funding to upgrade a church hall that is regularly used by other community groups.
- Payments towards areas understood to be the exclusive responsibility of statutory authorities. However, they can provide grants to Parent Teacher Associations/Parent Councils if they are appropriately constituted and occasionally to schools where the activity being delivered is additional to the core curriculum/statutory activity.
- Activities that are likely to bring the fund, Foundation Scotland or the donor into disrepute. For example, they cant fund groups or organizations using hate speech or inciting violence, or those linked to such groups or organizations.
- Activities that conflict with the interests of the funder. For example, where a renewable energy company provides funding, they cant fund any projects or organizations that are anti-windfarm or anti-renewable energy as such activities are likely to be contrary to the interests of the funder or its subsidiaries.
- For place-based funds, they cant support projects which don’t benefit the people who live within the defined fund area. Projects that benefit people in the fund area plus others outside that area can be supported on a proportionate basis. Applicants to these funds dont need to be based in the fund area.
- For themed/cause-related funds they cant support projects which dont relate to the priorities stated for the fund.
- Costs directly related to the sale of alcohol, including but not limited to the refurbishment of a bar area.
- Campaigning activities that are contrary to the interests or reputation of Foundation Scotland or any of its donors, or may bring them into disrepute.
For more information, visit Foundation Scotland.