Deadline: 1-Jan-23
Applications are now open for Grange Wind Farm Community Fund to support volunteer led not-for-profit projects that improve the lives of people living within a ten-mile radius of The Grange Wind Farm at Tydd St Mary, Lincolnshire, where priority is given to projects providing a service for people living within a five-mile radius.
Fundable projects include diversionary and educational activities for young people, workshops, intergenerational projects, support for meeting places (community centres, village halls, playing fields), energy efficiency schemes such as ground source energy schemes, rain harvesting, including top up grants. Projects for older people may include help to tackle isolation, loneliness and dementia, volunteer costs, sitter and companionship.
The Trust will award grants to projects that benefit local people living within a five mile radius of wind farm site.
Funding Information
- Grant Size: up to £5,000;
- They aim to distribute around £30,000 a year;
- Groups can apply upto £5,000 inany one round but can only hold one grant at any one time;
- Grant Location: Sutton Bridge and Tydd St Mary.
Examples of Fundable Projects
- Community Cohesion: Diversionary activities for young, intergenerational projects, arts, culture and heritage projects and facilities that improve wellbeing and help strengthen the community;
- Young People: Provision of activities or facilities and opportunities, workshops, educational outings people (but not overseas travel);
- Community Facilities: Support for meeting places including running costs (community centers, village halls, playing fields);
- Energy efficiency: for community buildings; reduction in car use (bicycling, health walks); ground source energy schemes, rain harvesting, solar panels and cost-effective heating systems (including top up grants);
- Older People: Integration projects; projects tackling isolation, loneliness and dementia, volunteer costs, sitter and companionship.
Eligibility Criteria
- If your group has secured funding in the past 3 years and would like to re-apply then you will not be required to complete a full application form, but instead asked to fill in a shortened version as well as letting them have a copy of your governing document and details of your management committee (if these have changed since you last applied), a copy of your latest Income and Expenditure Accounts and a full costs breakdown with evidence, where appropriate;
- Applicants may be registered charities, community groups or social enterprises. Projects from Schools, Churches and Parish Councils may also be considered. However, The Grange Wind Farm Community Fund is not meant to replace government or other statutory funding; in all cases therefore, the application must be for a project that is not eligible for central or local government funding or other statutory funding. National or Regional organisations are unlikely to receive funding.
For more information, visit Grange Wind Farm Community Fund (UK).