Deadline: 8-Mar-23
Applications are now open for Mick George Community Fund to support projects located in close proximity to the landfill sites and other waste treatment facilities, situated throughout the East Midlands and Anglia regions.
Project Purpose
- Grants are available for community projects.
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Grants will be available for capital improvement works to public amenity projects. Examples may include:
- Village halls
- Village greens
- Public playgrounds
- Sports fields and facilities
- Nature reserves
- Community centres
- Cycle paths
- Country parks
- Projects at schools may be eligible if the general public can benefit from the project. Please contact GrantScape before considering applying.
Funding Information
- £750,000 (approximately) per year
Location: Parts of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Rutland and Suffolk.
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects must be available and open to the general public – as a minimum, for 4 evenings a week, or 2 days a week, or 104 days a year.
Exclusions
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Grants will not be available for:
- Community Shops
- Membership-based sports clubs and facilities (e.g. bowls and golf clubs), unless membership is open to the general public without undue restriction
- Individuals and commercial organisations
- Projects that are considered statutory requirements
- Projects that are solely aimed to meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act
- Revenue funding and core cost funding
- Retrospective funding (i.e. funding can only be requested for works that will begin / expenditure that will be incurred AFTER their funding decision has been made and a formal grant Contract issued)
- Bus services, minibus services, or vehicles
- Projects at hospices or day care centres
- Any works to public highways
- Staff posts and costs where they are not based, or specifically undertaking works, at the actual project site
- Projects to deliver visual enhancements (i.e. ‘a view’), as this does not improve, maintain or provide a general public amenity
- Village or town centre enhancements, such as walkways, street works or signage
- CD’s, web-sites or remote interpretation about a site
- Public car parks, unless they are specific to the general public amenity
- Public conveniences
- Allotments, or fruit growing projects
- Charity buildings, offices of charities, Citizens’ Advice Bureau and advice centres
- Large scale perimeter / security fencing programmes that do not directly enhance the public amenity
- Solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, and wind and water turbines unless: (i) these will be used solely to provide power and/or heat for the community amenity where they will be installed; and (ii) no income will be received from Government Feed-In Tariffs (FITs) or from any similar tariffs introduced in the future
Judging Criteria
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The main criteria used when assessing applications received will be:
- The level of community support for and involvement in the project
- The local community benefit and enjoyment which will result from the project
- Other factors will also be considered which must be demonstrated in the application:
- The ability of the applicant to deliver the project
- How the work will be continued after the project has been completed, i.e. its sustainability and legacy
- Value for money.
For more information, visit Mick George Community Fund.
