Deadline: 3-Dec-21
The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Amey Community Fund to businesses, local authorities and the general public from their 200 hectare (500 acre) site in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire.
As main waste contractor for Cambridgeshire County Council, Amey provide a landfill and waste processing facility for 200,000 tonnes of the county’s waste each year and in addition operate a state-of-the-art composting system.
By helping to dispose of waste carefully and developing innovative recycling processes, Amey is playing a part in improving the local environment. In addition, the Amey Community Fund offers grants for the provision, maintenance or improvement of a public park or other general public amenity; the conservation of a specific species or a specific habitat where it naturally occurs OR the repair, maintenance or restoration of a Place of Worship or a Place of Architectural Importance.
Objectives
- The provision, maintenance or improvement of a public park or other general public amenity
- The park or amenity must be open and accessible to the general public.
- The park or amenity must not be operated with a view to profit.
- The park or amenity must be in the vicinity of a landfill site.
- The conservation of a specific species or a specific habitat where it naturally occurs: This Object seeks the conservation or promotion of biodiversity through:
- The provision, conservation, restoration or enhancement of a natural habitat, or
- The maintenance or recovery of a species in its natural habitat.
- The proposed conservation site must be in the vicinity of a landfill site.
- The repair, maintenance or restoration of a building or structure which is a place of religious worship or of historical or architectural importance
- The building or structure must be a place of religious worship, or of historic or architectural interest (listed status or equivalent);
- The building or structure must be open to the public; and
- The building or structure must be in the vicinity of a landfill site.
Funding Information
- Grants will be offered in range of £10,000 to £100,000 (with the exception of requests under Object DA where the minimum threshold is £5,000).
Eligibility Criteria
Before considering making an application, please review your organisational capacity. Your organisation must have the resources to competently deal with the application process. Whilst past experience of making a funding request is not necessarily needed, familiarity with budgets, cash flow, VAT, procurement and Policy documentation ( for Equality, Safeguarding etc) is advantageous. Overall, the process is detailed and will require someone’s committed attention.
Having considered organisational capacity, to be eligible to apply, a project must:
- Be ready to start (i.e. have secured the majority of your funding, have planning permission, have identified builders etc) within 3 months of the next expression of interest deadline.
- Be in Cambridgeshire (the Fund does not cover Peterborough);
- Be able to contribute 11% of the value of the grant you are seeking. If you are offered a grant, this 11% sum must be paid to Amey and, upon receipt of the 11%, you will be issued with your full 100% grant;
- Be ready to start (i.e. have secured the majority of your funding, have planning permission, have identified builders etc) within 3 months from when you submit your expression of interest BUT you must not have made any financial commitment – ie signed a contract for work to be delivered – before you apply. Indeed, a financial commitment to a contractor or any other supplier must only be made once the a formal grant offer letter is received, otherwise your project is not eligible to receive a grant.
- Your organization must be not for profit and have a Constitution, Equal Opportunity Policy, Safeguarding Policy, Conflict of Interest Policy, Access Statement, an independent management committee and two independent signatures on bank account. They do fund projects run by Parish Councils but they do not invite applications from District, City or County Councils.
For more information, visit http://www.cambscf.org.uk/amey-community-fund.html