Midlothian Council: Small Grant Fund in the UK

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3 years ago

Deadline: 14-Oct-22

The Midlothian Council Grants programme is now open for applications for small grants for projects delivered in 2023/24.

Priorities

All applications should demonstrate how they meet the priorities of the Single Midlothian Plan:
- Individuals and communities have improved health outcomes
- Individuals and communities have improved learning outcomes
- No child or household living in poverty
- Significant progress is made towards net zero carbon emissions by 2030
Grant funding can be used for things like:
- Volunteer expenses
- Running costs
- Start-up costs for new projects
- Staff costs
- Buying equipment
- Feasibility studies

Funding Information

Maximum annual award: £3,000.
Grants will be allocated: Annually.

Activities

There are some activities that are not eligible for grant funding:
- Repair of buildings
- Capital projects
- Pay for religious services or religious materials
- Be spent exclusively on consultancy fees
- Pay for material that is designed to support political activity or a political party

Criteria

Individuals and communities have improved learning outcomes
- Projects which support people and communities to:
  - Improve qualification levels and participation in local learning opportunities for all ages e.g.
    - individuals are supported to progress into employment and into better employment
  - individuals are supported to participate in lifelong learning opportunities including arts and cultural activities
  - people are supported into volunteering opportunities
- Support the capacity of groups e.g.
  - to offer lifelong learning opportunities for citizens of all ages
  - to strengthen skills of individuals and groups to develop the work of their organisation/community group, including governance arrangements
Individuals and communities have improved health outcomes
- Projects which support people to:
  - Protect and improve their mental wellbeing e.g.
    - supporting them to build personal resilience
    - supporting access to help
    - reducing stigma
    - increasing social connectedness
- Stay as well as they can, this could be through preventing ill health or preventing a condition from getting worse e.g.
  - increasing movement and exercise
  - increasing healthy eating
  - reducing smoking, drinking and drug taking
  - increasing access to services
- Address barriers to health that are caused by poverty e.g.
  - increasing digital inclusion
  - improving living conditions
  - improving the ways people access help
  - increasing affordable/free opportunities for those living in poverty
No child or household living in poverty
- Projects which support people to:
  - Increase income from employment e.g.
    - access to lifelong learning and volunteering opportunities to increase skills and qualifications
    - access to digital devices, wifi and digital skills
    - access to support to gain employment or develop career paths
- Reduce the cost of living e.g.
  - households are supported to manage debt and fuel costs
  - individuals on low incomes are supported with transport costs to access employment, training, learning
  - individuals and families increase access to leisure, sports and arts experiences through reducing costs and other barriers to participation
  - increasing access to affordable, healthy food
- Increase uptake of social security and benefits in kind e.g.
  - providing support to individuals to maximise their household income
Progress is made towards net zero carbon emissions by 2030
- Projects which support communities to contribute to initiatives to improve carbon reduction e.g.
  - promote local food growing
  - reducing, reusing and recycling waste
  - promote engagement around climate change issues
  - develop managed open spaces in communities including community woodlands
  - promote 20 minute neighbourhoods where people are less reliant on commuting to access work and services
  - promote/facilitate active travel (walk, cycle, bus)
  - develop employment in green technologies
  - conserve green spaces and the natural environment in line with Midlothian Local Development Plan
  - community driven citizen science projects

For more information, visit Small Grant Fund.

For more information, visit https://www.midlothian.gov.uk/funding