Deadline: 24-Nov-21
The South Lanarkshire Council has announced the Community Grants Program to provide financial support to a wide range of community groups through the Council’s Community Grant Scheme.
Grant funding is also available for groups who want to coordinate local Gala Days or Fun Day events.
Aims
The main aims of the Community Grants Scheme are to:
- fund activities and projects which bring community benefit
- involve people in the community by bringing them together to enjoy educational, recreational, leisure and other community activities or improve local environment.
Funding Information
Only one award is made to any group in each financial year. The maximum award available for any one application is normally limited to £1,000 although, to ensure that funding is spread across as many groups as possible, standard awards tend to be lower than £1,000.
Activities
- Support can be provided for a range of activities:
- Administration and publicity costs (stationery, printing of programmes, syllabus, tickets, press adverts, invitations)
- Environmental project
- Equipment (purchased)
- Materials
- Annual outing/entrance fees (Transport excludes personal cars and permits only 1 outing per financial year)
- Specialist transport (vehicles with adaptations to aid disabled access, including taxis)
- Start-up costs
- The following activities are not supported:
- Any sort of personal expenses (fuel, telephone bills)
- Cost of food and drinks as part of events
- Foreign trips (bus travel to or from airports/ferry ports can be considered)
- Hire of equipment or accommodation
- Insurance/licence fees
- Payments to organisers
- Personal clothing (uniforms/team strips)
- Prizes given out to individuals
- Retrospective events/purchases
- Tutorial/speaker costs
- Labour costs
- Capital expenditure
- Repair and maintenance costs
Eligibility Criteria
You can apply if your group:
- is based in South Lanarkshire and is non-profit making
- has adopted a constitution or a set of rules
- has a bank or building society account in the name of the organisation and you keep audited accounts or income and expenditure accounts
Deadlines
- Cambuslang and Rutherglen and East Kilbride and area committees deadlines for completed application forms: 24 November 2021
- Clydesdale and Hamilton area committees deadlines for completed application forms: 26 January 2022
For more information, visit https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200168/getting_involved_in_your_community/596/community_grants