Deadline: 31-Oct-22
The Community Foundation Northern Ireland is accepting applications for Monnaboy Community Benefit Fund.
The Monnaboy Community Benefit Fund is available to local community projects within 7km of the Monnaboy Wind Farm site which is located off the Monnaboy Road, Greysteel.
This local community benefit fund was set up by Gaelectric in 2016 and is now managed by CGN Europe – a wind energy and energy storage company that believes in a sustainable future. GCN is committed to ensuring that their wind farms, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, also provide significant economic benefits to the local community.
Aims
- The fund aims to encourage:
- Stronger more inclusive communities by ensuring that local people have ownership and involvement in the design and delivery of the project.
- Partnership working with community, voluntary and statutory agencies to ensure a coordinated approach.
- Sustainable solutions that address local issues.
Priorities
- Priority will be given to:
- Projects aimed at providing skills development for young adults and/or the unemployed.
- Intergenerational projects.
- Collaborative projects.
- Projects tackling rural isolation.
- Projects based around community arts.
- Projects which improve the utilisation of community space.
Themes
- The fund will support projects addressing issues within the following theme areas:
- Older people.
- Families with young children.
- Young people.
- Environment and living spaces.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £3,500.
What they can’t fund
- Organisations or activities which promote causes that are contrary to their purposes. Causes and activities that are contrary to their purposes include, but may not be limited to, those outlined in their investment policy. They will not therefore fund organisations or activities which they determine are linked to the promotion of armaments, alcohol, human rights abuses, tobacco or pornography.
- Individuals
- Funding for retrospective project costs.
- Projects or activity that promote or advance religion.
- Promotion of religious or political activity, including any flags and emblems that may deem to be associated with such.
- Organisations whose purposes include the advancement of religion.
- The establishment of endowment of any school or institution providing further education within the meaning of the education and libraries (Northern Ireland) order 1972
- The provision of assistance to any Housing Association within the meaning of the housing (Northern Ireland) order 1976 .
- CIC Companies Limited by Shares, or CICs without an asset lock clause. Eligible CICs must have at least three unrelated committee members, and/or the majority of the committee unrelated;
- Organisations which adopt a partisan political stance or activities which are party political. They will not support organisations that advocate the use of violence to campaign or influence public opinion.
- General appeals, individual and group sponsorship, marketing appeals, proposals for bursaries from individuals or proposals from individuals for the funding of study or attainment of qualifications.
- The provision of services that are the primary and legal responsibility of the state.
- Input VAT reclaimable from HMRC.
- Payments reimbursed or to be reimbursed by other public or private sector funding.
- Contributions in kind (i.e. a contribution in goods or services, as opposed to money).
- Depreciation, amortisation or impairment of fixed Assets owned by the group.
- Interest payments (including service charge payments for finance leases).
- Gifts to individuals other than promotional items with a value of no more than £25 a year to any one individual.
- Entertaining (entertaining for this purpose means anything that would be a taxable benefit to the person being entertained, according to current UK tax regulations).
- Statutory fines, criminal fines or penalties.
- Liabilities incurred before the issue of an award .
- Use in respect of costs reimbursed or to be reimbursed by funding from any other source.
- Use of funding to top up reserves of your group.
For more information, visit Monnaboy Community Benefit Fund.
For more information, visit https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/monnaboy-community-benefit-fund/