Deadline: 6-Jan-23
The Foundation Scotland is pleased to announce the applications for CalMac Community Fund.
The CalMac Community Fund was created to make a difference to the communities in which CalMac operates, by supporting local groups to tackle local needs.
The fund operates across the following six areas:
- Lewis, Harris and Ullapool
- Uist and Barra
- Skye, Raasay, the Small Isles and Mallaig
- Oban and the Inner Hebrides
- Firth of Clyde
- Southern Hebrides.
Purpose of this fund
- The fund is looking to help people connect with services and each other, and especially helping those who are most in need. The Fund would like to support groups and projects working to tackle the following key themes:
- Reducing social isolation
- Improving health and wellbeing
- Addressing issues related to poverty, especially in relation to the cost-of-living crisis.
- Local and community transport.
Examples of what the fund is looking to support:
- Groups or activities whose work enables people to connect, reducing social isolation. For example, projects which provide transport or space for people to come together, or projects such as youth or elderly outreach projects, befriending services, family support groups, key community clubs and important community events.
- Groups or activities whose work will actively seek to address pressing local issues such as poverty, poor health, or lack of access to services. For example, counselling services, active or creative projects which help people improve mental health, and health and lifestyle projects may be considered, as well as programmes addressing the impact and causes of local deprivation.
- Improvements to well-used community spaces to provide space for people to come together, or supporting vital services. For example, support for community halls or similar to re-open or stay open to enable community groups to deliver their activity in the space, or community gardens or orchards to support outdoor community activity.
- Groups working to train or upskill individuals and volunteers to enhance local delivery and support, enabling the delivery of vital local services, especially where there are shortfalls or gaps in provision.
- This list is not exhaustive. Please get in touch with Foundation Scotland to discuss your project before application if they’re not sure if it will be a good fit.
Funding Information
- Organisations can apply for an award between £500 and £2,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Registered charities
- Constituted voluntary and community organisations
- Community companies e.g. companies limited by guarantee, community benefit societies or Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisations’
- Community Interest Companies are eligible to apply if they meet the Fund’s minimum governance standards.
Additional Criteria
- Priority will be given to applicant groups who are smaller in size, for example, with an annual income under £250,000. Larger groups are welcome to apply but will need to demonstrate a strong fit with the fund and may be a lower priority for funding should the fund have limited capacity.
- The fund would also like to see applications from volunteer-led groups, projects showing connection and collaboration with other groups in their area, and projects seeking to better engage with volunteers, although these are not mandatory criteria.
- The fund will consider applications for a broad range of costs, including direct project costs and core costs for groups whose main work meets the criteria for the fund. However, the programme cannot fund contributions towards large capital projects, and we are unable to make awards which will be used to make cash hardship payments to individuals or be re-granted or other groups. The fund is interested in sustainable interventions wherever possible.
- Applications must be for a minimum of 25% of the total project costs.
What cannot be supported?
- Applications from individuals or private businesses
- Applications to advance a campaign or a religious or political cause.
- The promotion of religious beliefs.
- Activities that are understood to be a statutory responsibility and/or seek to replace statutory sources of funding.
- Pre-existing costs that your organisation already incurred as a result of its day to day activities.
- Applications that are requesting less than 25% of the total project costs.
For more information, visit CalMac Community Fund.