Dunmore Community Benefit Fund in the UK

Deadline: 31-Oct-22

The Community Foundation Northern Ireland is seeking applications for Dunmore Community Benefit Fund.

This local community fund has been set up by Dunmore Wind Farm to ensure that wind farms, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, also provide significant social and economic benefits to the local community.

Focus Areas

• The fund welcomes applications from constituted community and voluntary groups that address the following areas:
  • Community cohesion and engagement;
  • Energy efficiency and sustainability;
  • Social, cultural or sporting benefit for the local community;
  • Training and education;
  • Environmental benefit;
  • Economic benefit.

Funding Information

• Grants of up to £2,500 are available.

Criteria

• You are a locally based not-for-profit, voluntary or community group working in Northern Ireland to improve the quality of life for local people.
• You have an active management committee, with no two related cheque signatories.
• You have a governing document, i.e. Constitution in the name of the applicant organization.
• You have a current bank account in the name of your organization.
• You have up to date annual accounts.
• You have complied with the conditions of previous grants including submission of monitoring returns.

What they can’t fund

• Organisations or activities which promote causes that are contrary to their purposes.  Causes and activities that are contrary to their purposes include, but may not be limited to, those outlined in their investment policy.  They will not therefore fund organisations or activities which they determine are linked to the promotion of armaments, alcohol, human rights abuses, tobacco or pornography.
• Individuals
• Funding for retrospective project costs
• Projects or activity that promote or advance religion
• Promotion of religious or political activity, including any flags and emblems that may deem to be associated with such
• Organisations whose purposes include the advancement of religion.
• CIC Companies Limited by Shares, or CICs without an asset lock clause.  Eligible CICs must have at least three unrelated committee members, and/or the majority of the committee unrelated;
• The establishment of endowment of any school or institution providing further education within the meaning of the education and libraries (Northern Ireland) order 1972.
• The provision of assistance to any Housing Association within the meaning of the housing (Northern Ireland) order 1976.
• Organisations which adopt a partisan political stance or activities which are party political. They will not support organisations that advocate the use of violence to campaign or influence public opinion.
• General appeals, individual and group sponsorship, marketing appeals, proposals for bursaries from individuals or proposals from individuals for the funding of study or attainment of qualifications.
• The provision of services that are the primary and legal responsibility of the state.
• Input VAT reclaimable from HMRC.
• Payments reimbursed or to be reimbursed by other public or private sector funding.
• Contributions in kind (i.e. a contribution in goods or services, as opposed to money).
• Depreciation, amortisation or impairment of fixed Assets owned by the group.
• Interest payments (including service charge payments for finance leases).
• Gifts to individuals other than promotional items with a value of no more than £25 a year to any one individual.
• Entertaining (entertaining for this purpose means anything that would be a taxable benefit to the person being entertained, according to current UK tax regulations).
• Statutory fines, criminal fines or penalties.
• Liabilities incurred before the issue of an award.
• Use in respect of costs reimbursed or to be reimbursed by funding from any other source.
• Use of funding to top up reserves of your group.

For more information, visit https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/dunmore-community-benefit-fund/