Deadline: 13-Sep-21
Applications are now open for the Crown Estate Scotland Community Capacity Grants Programme to provide early-stage financial support for local projects.
Objectives
The purpose of the Community Capacity Grants Programme is to provide early-stage financial support for local projects that will help achieve the following objectives:
- Create self-sustaining community enterprises that will promote sustainable development through the provision of local economic, social, and/or environmental benefits.
- Contribute to the regeneration of places through improvements to buildings or community spaces that will support self-sustaining community enterprises delivering sustainable development.
Funding Information
- Awards of between £20,000 to £50,000 for a one-year period will be made through this fund.
What can be funded?
Examples of what the fund is looking to support:
- Salary costs of new posts
- Feasibility studies
- Business plan development
- Legal/consultancy costs
- Training/coaching costs
- Community consultation
- Community plans
- Community engagement activities
Eligibility Criteria
- In addition groups and organisations must be based and working to support communities within 5 miles of the coast or estuarine foreshore, or within 5 miles of one of Crown Estate Scotland’s 4 estates; Glenlivet, Fochabers, Whitehills and Applegirth.
- The fund is open to all communities that are:
- Situated up to 5 miles from coastal and estuarine foreshore in Scotland; or
- Situated up to 5 miles from the Scottish Crown Estate’s four rural estates (Glenlivet, Fochabers, Whitehills and Applegirth).
Ineligible
- The Crown Estate Scotland’s Community capacity Grants Programme cannot support adaptations to buildings or large-scale capital projects or purchase equipment. This fund is designed to provide revenue to support first step investment for local projects.
- Ineligible projects would also include:
- Applications where the area of benefit is more than 5 miles from the coastline or Crown Estate managed land.
- Applications from individuals or private businesses
- Applications to advance a campaign or a religious or political cause .
- The promotion of religious beliefs
- Activities that are understood to be a statutory responsibility and/or seek to replace statutory sources of funding
- Pre-existing costs that your organisation already incurred as a result of its day to day activities.
For more information, visit https://www.foundationscotland.org.uk/apply-for-funding/funding-available/crown-estate-scotland