Annual Community Grants – UK

Deadline: 10-Oct-21

The Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has announced the applications for Annual Community Grants to help fund core running costs of the project.

Focus Areas

The projects considered by the Grants Board are often varied and diverse but must show how your application for funding makes a positive contribution to one or more of Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council’s priorities, which are:

Maintain a safe and health community
- Promoting inclusive and safe communities
- Improving public health and well-being
- Supporting local sport and leisure
- Promoting local art and culture
Protect and enhance the environment
- Keeping their streets clean
- Reducing waste and improving recycling
- Enhancing their green spaces
- Managing the borough’s parking
Meet the borough’s housing needs
- Planning for current and future housing need
- Providing more affordable homes
- Being a high quality landlord
- Improving housing quality in the borough
Help build a strong local economy
- Promoting investment and regeneration
- Revitalising their neighbourhoods and town centres
- Supporting sustainable economic growth
- Being business friendly
Engage with their communities and provide value for money
- Achieving value for money
- Putting their customers first
- Promoting equality and fairness
- Being an employer of choice

Funding Information

You can apply for grant funding of up to £20,000. Funding applications over £20,000 will only be granted in exceptional circumstances and for those organisations who have been affected negatively by Covid-19.

Projects They Are Likely To Support

Your application is only likely to be considered if you meet the following criteria:

At least 50 per cent of your organisations’ members/clients/users live or work in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield
Provided project updates and/or final feedback if you were successful with a previous grant application from the council
Your organisation is either a registered charity, incorporated or unincorporated charity or a voluntary/community/not-for-profit group
Your organisation commits to equality and diversity, and can provide a copy of its equality and diversity statement or policy
Your organisation commits to safeguarding vulnerable member of the community, and can provide a copy of its safeguarding statement or policy
Appropriate insurance is in place for all events and services provided
Finances are audited or independently reviewed on an annual basis (only applies to charities with a gross income of more than £25,000)
Your organisation is able to be sustainable and is able to show budgetary information for the next financial year
Able to provide signed constitution or Articles of Memorandum
Able to provide copies of your organisations’ last three months’ worth of bank statements
Able to provide detailed costs relating to application
Organisation has reserves which would total less than two-year running costs.