Deadline: 30-Jul-2025
The Foundation Scotland is requesting proposals for its Ballantrae Community Fund to support projects located within or directly benefiting Ballantrae, South Ayrshire.
Applications must benefit the community, which is geographically defined by the community council boundaries. Awards can support a wide range of costs and activities including equipment costs, running costs for local groups, staff or sessional worker costs, consultations, maintenance or refurbishment of community facilities etc.
Thematic Areas
- Working and Learning: They will develop a local economy, including developing a visitor economy, underpinned by upskilling the workforce.
- Good Local Infrastructure: They will prioritise protecting and enhancing local facilities and spaces.
- Affordable Housing for All Ages: They will ensure that there is accessible and affordable housing for people at all stages of their lives.
- Getting About Easily: Traffic and road safety will be a focus to create a safer place. They will invest in walks and cycle paths and better transport to enhance connectivity within the community and across the region.
- Care and Wellbeing: They will work towards being a place that looks after its own and has good health and care for older people.
- Things to Do: They will create events and leisure activities to make this a vibrant place to live.
Funding Information
- Small grants: between £1000 and £5,000
- Standard grants: between £5,000 and £15,000
- Large grants: over £15,000 and up to £25,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Management Committee:
- There must be a minimum of three unrelated persons on the management committee or Board. This is to ensure that the group has a range of perspectives and experiences and is not dominated by the interests of a single family or similarly connected individuals.
- For the same reasons, the majority of your management committee or Board members must be unrelated.
- Governing Documents:
- Your organisation has charitable purposes, and these are described in your governing document.
- Your governing document includes suitable restrictions on the disposal of assets under the organisation’s control (a charitable ‘asset lock’) and its management committee or board members’ remuneration. It should feature:
- A charitable dissolution clause (or ‘asset lock’) stating that on winding up the organisation’s net assets must be put towards a similar charitable purpose(s) to that of the organisation (which may include a named charitable organisation with a similar charitable purpose).
- Suitable restraints on the provision of benefit to individuals. Assets should not be distributable to, or otherwise used for, the benefit of members or individuals beyond that which can reasonably be considered charitable.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They cannot fund the following:
- Non constituted groups.
- Applications from individuals.
- General fundraising appeals or activities.
- Trips abroad (unless otherwise stated on the fund page).
- Costs already incurred or activities which will take place before we’ve decided on an application, i.e. retrospective funding.
- The repayment of loans or payment of debts.
For more information, visit Foundation Scotland.