Deadline: 27-Jun-25
The South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation is seeking applications for Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund Program to improve the physical, built or social environment, and other community-led projects.
Priority Areas
- They are keen to fund projects and initiatives that involve one or more of the following:
- capital item(s) with a tangible and lasting benefit, including improvements to community buildings
- bio-diversity and habitat conservation
- energy conservation and increased use of renewables
- other projects that are community-based and/or community-led which meet identified local needs and issue
Funding Information
- Grants will normally be in the region of £500 – £10,000
- Exceptionally, grants of up to £20,000 can be applied for if they have significant and lasting community benefit.
Eligible Activities
- Examples of projects/activities which can be funded:
- improvements to community buildings, i.e. a new roof, or redecoration of the village hall
- improvement and maintenance of recreational facilities, i.e. the cricket club need a new mower to enable them to cut the grass, or the football team need new training equipment.
Ineligible Activities
- Parish, Town or Metropolitan Borough councils
- for profit organisations
- registered Community Interest Companies, also known as CICs
- individuals
- the promotion of religious or political views
- to replace existing statutory Council provision (but such facilities could be enhanced e.g. Parks)
- applications which the Community Foundation believes, in its discretion, present or have identified a health and safety risk; against the interests of the developer or windfarm landowner(s) or antirenewable energy/windfarm activities
- retrospective funding – i.e. things or activities that either have already been paid for or have already happened
Eligibility Criteria
- locally led, run, and constituted, community or voluntary organisations
- locally led and run registered charities
- local schools and colleges
For more information, visit SYCF.