South Lanarkshire Council announces Community Grants

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.