Deadline: 5-Sep-21
The Bristol and Bath Parks Foundation is pleased to announce Love Your Park Community Fund that aims to support smaller groups in Bristol and Bath with a small grant towards a community project in their local park.
Funding Information
- You can apply for a grant of £500 to £1,000.
- Grants can be used to fully or partially fund activities.
- Only one application per organisation will be awarded in any 12-month period.
- If you are successful in receiving a grant you can reapply for funding 12 months after satisfactory submission of a monitoring report.
What projects can they consider?
Projects must focus on supporting community action in parks following the pandemic. Applications must also demonstrate how the project will meet at least one of the following outcomes:
- Supporting community recovery from the pandemic by providing opportunities for local people to come together around shared activities.
- Encouraging the use of parks & green spaces by people or groups who don’t regularly use green spaces and benefit from them
- Improving parks for nature by enhancing habitats
- Supporting community health and wellbeing by providing opportunities for people to access nature and be active close to home.
Note All projects must be inclusive and benefit all sections of the community.
Eligibility Criteria
They will consider all applications but will prioritise applications from groups and organisations benefitting disadvantaged people (particularly older people, young people, Black, Asian and minority ethnic people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, disabled people and people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds).
- Your group must:
- Have an annual income of less than £30,000 per annum (priority will be given to those with an annual income of less than £10,000per annum)
- Deliver projects within Bristol City Council and Bath and North East Somerset Council areas.
- Your proposed activity must take place within a particular park or green space.
- Have landowner approval for your proposed activity.
- Commit to providing an outcomes and evaluation report twelvemonths after funding is awarded to demonstrate impact and accountability
- They will prioritise applications from groups and organisations which find it difficult to access funding including small charities, CICs, social enterprises, ‘not for profits’, unincorporated voluntary groups with a constitution and informal voluntary groups with no constitution or bank account.
For more information, visit https://www.yourpark.org.uk/lypcf/