Deadline: 21-Apr-25
The Aberdeenshire Council is pleased to announce the Garioch Area Initiative Fund Programme.
Theme
- Improving the appearance and maintenance of towns
- Improve the attractiveness of Garioch as a place to live, invest, work and visit.
- Improve residents’ aspirations, confidence, decision-making capacity and involvement in community life.
- Improve the physical environment and infrastructure of Garioch including energy efficiency measures.
- Stronger and Empowered Communities
- Support and empower the people of Garioch to develop and deliver a vision for their local area, by delivering Place Based Community Plans, to ensure their communities are well informed, involved in decision-making and take a responsibility in delivery of local actions and priorities, to help form stronger and resilient communities through the contribution of volunteers and to enable communities feel empowered and enabled.
- Healthier Communities
- Support and empower the people of Garioch to reduce in inequalities in health outcomes between communities, to protect and support public health, community mental health and physical wellbeing and build community resilience, to ensure greater community partnership working, increasing the ability of individuals and groups to influence matters affecting them and their communities and to increase participation in quality wellbeing activity.
- Connected Communities
- Support and empower the people of Garioch to reduce loneliness and social isolation, to provide active travel routes that are easy and safe to access, to improve transport provision to healthcare and wellbeing activities, to challenge inequality, social exclusion, rural isolation, and vulnerability and provide greater opportunity to connect digitally to reduce commuting, access services and encourage commercial and social enterprise.
Funding Information
- The Garioch Area Initiative Fund for 2025/26 has been set at £26,600
- Maximum grant of £4,000 available
Eligible Projects
- This fund has been set aside for projects which:
- Promote the development of community-based initiatives including energy efficiency
- Help local groups to meet the needs of their communities
- Tap into the talent and resources that exist throughout the area
Eligibility Criteria
- This fund is available to support Community Facilities in Garioch to reduce energy overheads and increase the use of energy efficient measures.
- An energy assessment must be carried out by a recognised body and funding will only be available for energy saving measures identified in this assessment.
- Any Constituted Group with a responsibility for Community Facilities in Garioch may apply. (The Fund is not available to individuals or private organisations operating as a profit-making business)
- Applicants can source 50% of the total cost from this fund to a maximum of £4,000.
- It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that any permissions e.g. planning consent, landlord/building owner approval is sought before any work takes place.
For more information, visit Aberdeenshire Council.