Deadline: 31-May-23
Swansea Council for Voluntary Service is inviting applicants for the Mynydd y Gwair Wind Farm Community Fund to provide grants to organisations providing services, facilities or activities that benefit the communities within the area of benefit for the Mynydd y Gwair Wind Farm Community Fund.
Priority will be given to new applicants, activities for young people and children and climate change related projects.
Types of Grants
- Micro Grants up to £1,000(Round: 10)
- Revenue or capital.
- Small Grants up to £10,000
- Revenue grants including core costs. Small capital items.
- Medium Grants up to £30,000
- Applications for capital projects and revenue bids for one off projects lasting one-year maximum will be considered.
- Partnership Grants up to £30,000
- Revenue or capital grants for partnership bids where 2 or more organisations work together to provide a joined up, collaborative provision in their community.
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted voluntary or community organisations
- Registered charities
- A not for private profit company or Community Interest Company
- Social Enterprises
- Schools
- Town and Community Councils
- Statutory bodies will be eligible to apply in exceptional circumstances if they can demonstrate the project has strong partnership links with the local community and that they are the best-placed organisation to undertake the project.
All applicants must:
- Have an acceptable governing document or set of rules that confirming it is nonprofit distributing.
- Have a bank account in the name of the organisation requiring at least two signatories to authorise withdrawals. Signatories should not be related or living at the same address.
- Have in place the following policies: Safeguarding; Equality and diversity; Sustainability or Environmental; and Welsh language.
- Provide a set of their most recent financial accounts, signed off as being audited or independently inspected (if applicable) or, in the case of recently formed organisations, a forecast of income and expenditure for the next year.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Initially, the scheme will not be open to individuals and businesses. However, the eligibility criteria will be reviewed annually and may change in future years. Therefore, they are keen to hear from individuals and businesses that would be interested in applying to the fund in the future so they can develop a picture of the local funding needs beyond community groups.
- Projects that don’t significantly benefit people living within the area of benefit for the fund
- Retrospective funding i.e. for costs that have already been incurred
- Work which statutory bodies (such as schools or local authorities) have a duty to fund
- Projects that promote religion or that support a party political campaign or cause or may bring the fund or the funder into disrepute.
- Anti-wind farm/renewable energy activities
For more information, visit Swansea Council for Voluntary Service.