Deadline: 28-Feb-25
The Cornwall Community Foundation is inviting applications for the Goonhilly Wind Farm Community Fund to support local causes in the TR12 postcode with a clear sustainability plan.
Wind turbines have been generating renewable electricity at Goonhilly Downs on the Lizard since 1993 and in 2010 the 14 original machines were replaced with 6 modern turbines, more than trebling the clean energy output. All involved with Goonhilly Wind Farm strongly believe that local communities should benefit from hosting a wind farm and the Goonhilly Wind Farm Community Fund has been made available to support good causes local to the site, for every year of the wind farm’s working life.
Funding Information
- Grant value: £1,000 – £5,000
What it will support?
- Core costs such as room rental and salaries may be considered if towards a specific project but not for ongoing costs of an organisation.
- The panel would like to see a clear sustainability plan in your application.
What it won’t support?
- They would not normally expect to support projects for more than 2 years.
- This fund will not support 100% project costs and would expect to see a contribution made by the group applying.
- Projects or activities outside the TR12 postcode
- Commercial profit making organisations
- Organisations with significant free reserves
- Statutory/public sector organisations such as health authorities, schools, hospitals, parish and town councils
- Contributions to an endowment, payment of deficit funding or repayment of loans
- Grant making organisations or bodies who fundraise or distribute grants on behalf of other organisations
- Activities or projects which have already happened
- Regional offices of national bodies that do not benefit local people
- Organisations whose beneficiaries are not people
- Organisations or projects intended to influence people’s religious choices or to promote a particular belief system
- The promotion of political causes.
Who can apply?
- Charities, CICs and community and voluntary groups working in the TR12 postcode.
- To be eligible to apply your organisation must be based in and solely for the benefit of people in the TR12 postcode.
For more information, visit Cornwall Community Foundation.