Deadline: 30-Jun-2024
Applications are now open for the Warwickshire County Council Councillors’ Grant Fund.
The Warwickshire County Council Councillors’ Grant Fund is a revenue grant aimed at community and voluntary organisations. The Fund provides each of the County’s 57 Councillors with a pot of £8000 to support small-scale projects within their division that support the following outcomes:
- They want Warwickshire to have a thriving economy and places that have the right jobs, skills, education and infrastructure.
- They want to be a County where all people can live their best lives; where communities and individuals are supported to live safely, healthily, happily, and independently.
- They want to be a County with a sustainable future which means adapting to and mitigating climate change and meeting net zero commitments.
All applications should aim to build community capacity and improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Warwickshire.
- Improve community assets and their sustainability
- Improve access to services
- Improve financial capability
- Reduce loneliness and social isolation
- Improve physical and/or mental health and wellbeing
- Promote equalities and inclusivity o Improve the local area to support the ambition of becoming a Net Zero county by 2050
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted ‘not-for-profit’ community organisations in Warwickshire
- Non-constituted or new ‘not-for-profit’ groups working in Warwickshire that can be supported by a mainstream service or community group willing to administer the funds through an organisational bank account
- Warwickshire Town and Parish Councils
- Schools, if applying as a PTA or ‘Friends of’ group
Ineligible
- Groups or organisations that have failed to meet the conditions of previous award agreements from Warwickshire County Council
- Party Political/lobby groups
- Individuals
- It is unlikely that applications from statutory organisations will be supported, except for applications from town and parish councils.
For more information, visit Warwickshire County Council.