Deadline: 7-Mar-25
The Northamptonshire Community Foundation is pleased to announce the Towcester Park Community Fund to support projects in Towcester, Tiffield, Greens Norton and/or Easton Neston that will strengthen communities, enhance the natural environment and promote positive change.
Priorities
- Strengthening communities
- Promote and encourage community cohesion
- Tackle social isolation and/or help to build social networks
- Help to raise aspirations and provide learning opportunities for children, young people, adults and families
- Enhancing the natural environment
- Promote education and awareness of sustainability
- Encourage resource efficiency by reduction, recycling and reusing waste materials
- Support environmental initiatives including wildlife and habitat creation
- Promoting positive change
- Support health and wellbeing
- Promote inclusion and diversity within the community
Funding Information
- Grant Amount: £5000
- The grants are for one year maximum i.e. you cannot apply for more than 12 months’ costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must be based in and benefit residents of Towcester, Tiffield, Greens Norton and/or Easton Neston
- Your project can be for new project activity, start-up costs for a new group or service, or can build upon the good work you already do.
- Revenue and Capital projects are eligible.
- Your group must be a small, locally managed, voluntary, community or self-help group. Parish Councils are also eligible to apply for non-statutory activity. Please note that as a general exclusion they do not fund social enterprises with persons with significant control (PSC).
- You should have people volunteering to help with your activity, who are not part of your management committee.
- You must have a set of written rules or constitution that your group adheres to, and this must contain a dissolution clause specific to Northamptonshire. They can help advise you on how to do this especially if you are a new group.
- You must take care to ensure that young people or vulnerable people taking part in your activity do not come to any harm whilst in your care. To this end, you must have written procedures for keeping young people and/or vulnerable people safe otherwise known as a Child Protection or Vulnerable people’s policy. You will also need an Equality policy in place.
Exclusions
- Northamptonshire Community Foundation is also unable to fund the following:
- General and major fund-raising appeals
- Direct replacement of statutory and public funding
- Work that is a statutory responsibility
- Schools (except Friends of Organisations)
- Organisations that aim to convert people to any kind of religious or political belief
- Medical research and equipment
- Projects operating outside Northamptonshire
- Animal welfare
- Large national charities (except for local branches working for local people)
- Work that has already finished
- Work that is not charitable
- Projects that will redistribute the funding either as prizes or any other way including awarding grants or bursaries (excluding Warm this Winter grants)
For more information, visit Northamptonshire Community Foundation.