Deadline: 07-Jun-21
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is accepting applications for its Amey Community Fund to offer a comprehensive and innovative waste service to businesses, local authorities and the general public from their 200 hectare (500 acre) site in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire.
By helping to dispose of waste carefully and developing innovative recycling processes, Amey is playing a part in improving the local environment.
In addition, the Amey Community Fund offers grants for the provision, maintenance or improvement of a public park or other general public amenity; the conservation of a specific species or a specific habitat where it naturally occurs OR the repair, maintenance or restoration of a Place of Worship or a Place of Architectural Importance.
The Amey Community Fund, managed by the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, receives landfill tax credits from Amey and uses the money to make grants under set criteria.
Objectives
Projects must be in accordance with ENTRUST’s Objects D, DA and E as listed below:
- OBJECT D: The provision, maintenance or improvement of a public park or other general public amenity. Projects which do not relate to a park must relate to another amenity. According to the 2010 guidance, “An amenity is something that makes the environment more pleasant or comfortable and/or improves the aesthetic qualities of an area for the general public.
- OBJECT DA: The conservation of a specific species or a specific habitat where it naturally occurs.
- OBJECT E: The repair, maintenance or restoration of a building or structure which is a Place of Religious Worship or a Place of Historical or Architectural Importance, which is open to the general public (and the public should benefit from the project going ahead), and is situated in the vicinity of a landfill site. This objective does not allow works to private residences.
Funding Information
- Grants will be offered in range of £10,000 to £100,000 (with the exception of requests under Object DA where the minimum threshold is £5,000).
Eligibility Criteria
- Before considering making an application, please review your organizational capacity. Your organization must have the resources to competently deal with the application process. Whilst past experience of making a funding request is not necessarily needed, familiarity with budgets, cash flow, VAT, procurement and Policy documentation (for Equality, Safeguarding etc) is advantageous. Overall, the process is detailed and will require someone’s committed attention. Having considered organizational capacity, to be eligible to apply, a project must:
- Be ready to start (i.e. have secured the majority of your funding, have planning permission, have identified builders etc) within 3 months of the next expression of interest deadline.
- Be in Cambridgeshire (the Fund does not cover Peterborough);
- Be able to contribute 11% of the value of the grant you are seeking. If you are offered a grant, this 11% sum must be paid to Amey and, upon receipt of the 11%, you will be issued with your full 100% grant;
- Be ready to start (i.e. have secured the majority of your funding, have planning permission, have identified builders etc) within 3 months from when you submit your expression of interest BUT you must not have made any financial commitment – ie signed a contract for work to be delivered – before you apply. Indeed, a financial commitment to a contractor or any other supplier must only be made once the formal grant offer letter is received; otherwise your project is not eligible to receive a grant.
- Your organization must be not for profit and have a Constitution, Equal Opportunity Policy, Safeguarding Policy, Conflict of Interest Policy, Access Statement, an independent management committee and two independent signatures on bank account. They do fund projects run by Parish Councils but we do not invite applications from District, City or County Councils.
For more information, visit http://www.cambscf.org.uk/amey-community-fund.html