Deadline: 31-Oct-2025
The Staffordshire Moorlands District Council is keen to support activities and initiatives by the communities and groups across the district that contribute to the aims and objectives of its Climate Change Action Plan or the Plan for Nature.
Focus Areas
- Projects must be focused on achieving one or more of the following results:
- A more energy efficient building
- Greater awareness of energy efficiency measures and/or how to reduce energy costs
- A contribution to active travel such as a new walking group or footpath improvements
- Practical support for electric vehicles such as a community EV charge point
- A new renewable energy project
- More trees or a community orchard
- Definable nature improvement including new conservation measures and/or enhanced biodiversity and or/nature-based solutions to reduce the impacts of climate change.
- Greater reduction, reuse or recycling of products that would otherwise go to waste.
- A completed feasibility study or business plan for a project that meets one of the above criteria.
- Citizen science or engagement projects for nature and climate change
Funding Information
- Grants will usually be between £400 and £1000.
- This can fund 100% of the costs identified or be used as match funding.
Eligible Costs
- Items that they can fund:
- Capital costs such as building work; buying and installing new equipment; materials including plants and trees.
- Revenue costs for projects rather than ongoing costs e.g., marketing and promotion of a new activity; training; room hire; refreshments; hiring of a marque; minibus hire; feasibility study or business planning.
Ineligible Costs
- Items they cannot fund:
- Recoverable VAT (if you are not VAT registered, then VAT can be included in the eligible costs)
- Retrospective costs (costs incurred or committed to before receiving a Grant Offer Letter)
- Costs for activities that are entirely or mainly set up to promote religious or political beliefs.
- Projects involving activities that are a statutory responsibility.
- Projects that are not benefiting the Staffordshire Moorlands community
- Projects that are deemed not to contribute towards the SMDC Climate Change Action Plan and/or Plan for Nature
- An applicant can only apply once in each round.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply to the scheme if you are:
- An Unincorporated Association (a group set up with a constitution)
- A Registered Charity
- A CIC
- A CIO
- A new group (not yet constituted)
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following cannot apply for a community grant:
- Individuals
- Private Businesses
- Parish or Town Councils
- Any organization that has political activity as one of its stated purposes i.e., as defined by the Charity Commission for England and Wales: any purpose directed at furthering the interests of any political party; or securing, or opposing, any change in the law or in the policy or decisions of central government, local authorities, or other public bodies, whether in this country or abroad.
For more information, visit SMDC.
