Deadline: 30-Jun-21
One Community launches Collective Power Fund to support environmental initiatives based on energy conservation, although it will also support other ‘green’ projects and activities.
Focusing on using energy more efficiently and taking care of the environment, for example:
- Replacing old lighting and installing energy efficient LED lighting in community buildings
- Insulation costs in community buildings
- Developing new green spaces, (such as tree planting on a former brownfield site, or creating a wildflower meadow outside a community centre).
- Contribution towards larger solar power installation costs
- Supporting the costs of training courses, to help community groups who want to develop their energy efficiency and/or environmental ideas (e.g. training as an Energy Heroes Leader to promote and instigate good energy practice)
Grant applications should tell us how the project will reduce climate change, and what other benefits it will have for the global and local environment or local communities.
Funding Information
- The Collective Power Fund invites local charities, community groups and volunteer-led groups to apply for funding of between £500 and £1,000, to tackle a range of environmental issues.
Eligibility Criteria
- One Community makes grants to a wide range of organisations. The Foundation is particularly keen to help grassroots community groups and small-to-medium-sized voluntary organisations, and priority will be given to these groups. They do not usually make grants to large local, regional and national charities (this does not apply to national programmes). If in doubt whether your application can be considered.
- You must have a governing document (constitution, rules, memorandum and articles of association etc.), a governing body of at least three unrelated individuals, and a bank account in your group’s name with at least two unrelated signatories. If a school were to apply for support, it would have to demonstrate that the funding request was not a replacement for statutory funding.
- All organisations must be based in Kirklees or undertaking project work in Kirklees and be one of the following:
- Voluntary and community groups
- Not-for-profit organisations
- Schools – They would encourage schools to make an application via their PTA. If your school does not have a PTA, they will accept applications directly from the school. They will only activity that is not a statutory provision.
- Charities (not registered with the Charity Commission)
- Charities (registered with the Charity Commission).
- Ineligible
- Party political activity
- Promotion of religion
- Replacement of statutory funding
- Projects that have already started
- Groups who have not complied with previous monitoring requirements
- Organisations that support animals
- For-profit organisations
- The statutory provision provided by schools and hospitals.
For more information, visit https://www.one-community.org.uk/looking-for-funding/collective-power-fund-1.php