Deadline: 6-Oct-22
The Veolia Environmental Trust is seeking applications for Community Grants from non-profit organizations to create or improve buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.
Funding & Duration Information
- A project with a total cost of no more than £250,000
- A grant application requesting between £10,000 and £75,000
- A project where the 10% CTP payment* has been secured, which is required to release the grant
- A project that will physically start within four months of being awarded a grant
- A project that will complete within 12 months of its start date.
They will consider funding For:
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Project Site
- structural improvement works to a single building or outdoor space which has public access: e.g. community centre, public park, play area, skate park, MUGA, sports ground, woodland, nature reserve, community garden, public right of way, inland waterway
- a project with all permissions (e.g. planning) in place prior to application.
- a project where the applicant is the landowner or has a formal agreement (e.g. a lease) with the landowner, with at least six years of the term remaining
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Access
- a project to improve an outside space or community building available for everyone and anyone to use on a daily basis
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Expenditure
- construction and/or improvement of buildings, or outdoor spaces
- fixed items (e.g. kitchen cupboards and worksurfaces, boilers and radiators, windows and doors, toilets, fencing)
Eligible Projects
When considering your application, we look at how your project will:
- have a positive effect on your local environment, improve biodiversity and reduce your organisation’s carbon footprint
- benefit as many people as possible, reaching out to communities, improving lives and bringing people together
- actively encourage the whole community to use your building or outside space for the maximum time possible
- deliver a project that the community has identified
- actively involve volunteers and the community
- achieve good value, by creating a lasting improvement for your community
Eligibility Criteria
An application from an organization which:
- Is charitable and operated on a not-for-profit basis
- Is constituted, with a set of signed governing documents
- Has been established for a minimum of two years
- Has a minimum of two directors, trustees or committee members who are not related to each other
- Does not financially benefit directors, trustees, members
- An application from a local authority
- An organization that accepts any grant awarded will incur an additional CTP cost.
They will not consider funding For:
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Project Site
- a project that will take place in a theatre, museum, art gallery, schools and educational establishments, library, medical centre, hospital, police station, fire station, hospice, zoo, retail spaces, cafe, office/flexible workspace, allotment, graveyard, crematorium, road, car park or where there is on-site accommodation
- historic building restoration, statues, monuments, memorials or art installations
- the purchase of land or a building
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Access
- a project site with restricted access e.g. prevents use by any person or user group defined by age, gender, disability, race,
- religion or belief
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Expenditure
- costs which have already been incurred (e.g. design fees, planning application fees)
- car parks, furniture and equipment (e.g. kitchen and electrical appliances, sports equipment, lawnmowers, computers, audio and visual equipment, CCTV and Wifi)
- running costs (e.g. staff salaries, rent and maintenance fees)
- unidentified project costs (e.g. contingency)
- Work which has a negative environmental impact (e.g. replacing turf with artificial grass)
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Organisation
- an application from hospice, care home, emergency service, theatre, museum, art gallery, educational organisation including
- a pre-school, school, university or organisation with an affiliation to a school, including PTA
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Timescale
- a project that forms part of a larger project
- a project that has already started or is anticipated to start before formal agreements are signed
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Finance
- a project that intends to generate an income for use other than for the upkeep of the project site
For more information, visit Veolia Environmental Trust.
For more information, visit https://www.veoliatrust.org/funding/index.php?page=Our_Criteria_1