Deadline: 22-Sep-22
The Vale of Glamorgan Council has announced the applications for its Strong Communities Grant Fund to Community Groups, Voluntary organisations and Town and Community Councils towards the cost of initiatives within the Vale of Glamorgan that help to support the Council’s vision of “strong communities with a bright future”.
Aims
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The fund aims to:
- Improve the resilience of organisations/groups or their activities by funding activities which add value to their current work and reduce their reliance on grant funding in the future;
- Provide seed corn funding towards initiatives that can demonstrate longer term sustainability;
- Undertake consultation, feasibility, design and other specialist work to develop proposals for future activity and funding bids;
- Meet the capital costs of schemes by purchasing plant, machinery, equipment or other assets or
- Undertake work that would enable services to be provided, for example, through increased income generation potential;
- Open up Section 106 funding to specific communities where developments have taken place. Funding for facilities and open space projects in specific areas will be announced when each round is opened for applications;
- Encourage projects that include innovative ways of addressing climate change
Funding Information
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There is no minimum grant. The maximum grant that will be offered towards any single project is £25,000. Applications are invited for 1 – 5 years until March 2025 and they encourage projects of all sizes within this framework. Applications will be assessed in the following bands:
- Grant applications of up to £3,000
- Grant applications between £3,001 and £25,000.
Eligibility Criteria
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The following categories of organisation are eligible to apply:
- Community groups and voluntary organisations
- Town and Community Councils, independently or in partnership with a community group where the latter lacks legal status
- Consortia including those that have established formal governance arrangements such as social enterprises
For more information, visit Strong Communities Grant Fund.
For more information, visit https://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/working/Business-Support/Strong-Communities-Grant.aspx