Deadline: 23-Nov-22
The South Lanarkshire Council is pleased to announce its Community Grants to fund activities and projects which bring community benefit.
Community grant aims to involve people in the community by bringing them together to enjoy educational, recreational, leisure and other community activities or improve local environment.
Funding Information
- Only one award is made to any group in each financial year.
- The maximum award available for any one application is normally limited to £1,000 although, to ensure that funding is spread across as many groups as possible, standard awards tend to be lower than £1,000. Applications are assessed on their individual merits.
Eligible Activities
- Support can be provided for a range of activities
- Administration and publicity costs (stationery, printing of programmes,syllabus, tickets, press adverts, invitations)
- Environmental project
- Equipment (purchased)
- Materials
- Temporary Public Entertainment Licence
- Annual outing/entrance fees (Transport excludes personal cars and permits only 1 outing per financial year)
- Specialist transport (vehicles with adaptations to aid disabled access, including taxis)
- Start-up costs
The following activities are not supported
- Any sort of personal expenses (fuel, telephone bills)
- Cost of food and drinks as part of events
- Foreign trips (bus travel to or from airports/ferry ports can be considered)
- Hire of equipment or accommodation
- Insurance/licence fees (with the exception of Temporary Public Entertainment Licences)
- Payments to organisers
- Personal clothing (uniforms/team strips)
- Prizes given out to individuals
- Retrospective events/purchases
- Tutorial/speaker costs
- Labour costs
- Capital expenditure
- Repair and maintenance costs
Eligibility Criteria
- The Council’s grants scheme is open to:
- All properly constituted organisations who provide benefit to the community
- Local community groups and voluntary organisations
- Organisations not based within South Lanarkshire must be able to demonstrate a benefit to members who live in the South Lanarkshire Area.
Ineligible
- Individuals
- Organisations who promote or support political aims and objectives
- Profit making groups, e.g. owners of private nurseries, instructors in a wide range of activities
- Groups which only exist to benefit members financially
- Churches, Sunday schools and religious groups to promote religious activities. However, applications can be considered for working in the community as long as the funding is used for the community side of the group’s work and not for religious activities. A good example of this are church guilds who are generally eligible for funding.
Deadlines
- Cambuslang and Rutherglen area: Wednesday 23 November 2022
- East Kilbride area: Wednesday 11 January 2023
- Hamilton area: Wednesday 18 January 2023
- Clydesdale area: Wednesday 4 January 2023
For more information, visit https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200168/getting_involved_in_your_community/596/community_grants
