Deadline: 16-Jan-22
The Dacorum Borough Council is inviting applications for Green Community Grants Program to encourage and enable local groups to ‘think global and act local’ whilst tackling environmental challenges.
This scheme is specifically set up to support projects in the community which benefit the environment, as well as Dacorum’s residents.
Themes
In order to apply for funding, proposed Green Community Grant projects must demonstrate that they will actively help towards the mitigation of the climate and ecological emergency locally. Your project will need to fit at least one (ideally more) of the key environmental themes:
- Energy and emissions
- Transport
- Biodiversity
- Waste and consumption
Funding Information
- Applicants can apply for up to £3,000.
- As part of the climate and ecological emergency work, they now provide Green Community Grants. Groups can obtain a maximum grant of £3,000, from a pot of £20,000.
- Priority will be given to groups who can match fund, either from their own resources, or other funding. Match funding does not necessarily have to be financials; it may be in kind funding.
- In exceptional circumstances the grant panel may consider applications for grants higher than this, but you must contact the grants panel prior to the application to discuss the proposal.
What can be Funded?
- Revenue or capital as a ‘one-off’ grant for a specific project, event or programme of events, or equipment.
- Short term revenue costs e.g. day to day running costs (excluding staff salaries) for a specific project.
Project Criteria
- Projects must relate to Dacorum Borough Council’s environmental priorities
- Projects must engage with or benefit the local community
- Projects must have measurable benefits.
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted groups:
- Any voluntary or community group can apply, including those already in receipt of funds.
- These groups must comply with the following conditions:
- hold a bank account in the name of the group, requiring at least two signatories,
- have a Management Committee of at least three people,
- be non-profit making or a social enterprise where profits are reinvested for community or social benefit,
- operate with no undue restrictions on membership.
- Non-constituted groups:
- Informal / grass roots / non-constituted groups can apply. They must provide a letter of endorsement from a constituted charitable organisation, a local Councillor (Borough, Town and Parish Council), Police Community Support Officer or other similar representative on their organisation’s headed paper.
- Applications from a partnership of organisations are welcomed. In such cases, one of the organisations would need to act as ‘lead applicant’ to which any grant monies would be paid.
For more information, visit http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/home/community-living/voluntary-organisations-social-enterprises/grants
