Deadline: 27-Oct-21
The South Lanarkshire Council is seeking applications for Community Grants Program to provide financial support to a wide range of community groups through the Council’s Community Grant Scheme.
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
- 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.
- Applications are assessed on their individual merits.
- Each of the 4 areas within South Lanarkshire – Cambuslang/Rutherglen, Clydesdale, East Kilbride and Hamilton, has a budget to cover community and play scheme grant allocations.
- Only one award is made to any group in each financial year.
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
Eligibility Criteria
They are able to consider applications from groups who:
- are based in South Lanarkshire and are non-profit making
- have an adopted constitution or set of rules
- have a bank or building society account in the name of the organisation and keep audited accounts (or income and expenditure accounts)
Ineligible for Funding
- Individuals
- Organisations who promote or support political aims and objectives
- Profit making groups, e.g. owners of private nurseries, instructors in a wide range of activities
- Groups which only exist to benefit members financially
- Churches, Sunday schools and religious groups to promote religious activities. However, applications can be considered for working in the community as long as the funding is used for the community side of the group’s work and not for religious activities. A good example of this are church guilds who are generally eligible for funding
For more information, visit https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200168/getting_involved_in_your_community/596/community_grants