Deadline: 16-Oct-22
The Warwickshire County Council is accepting applications for the Councillors Grant Fund which is a revenue grant aimed at community and voluntary organisations.
A Warwickshire County Council-funded grant scheme, which supported one Studley-based theatre company to provide arts-related activities to the local community, is once again accepting applications from local organisations and voluntary groups.
Aims
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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
- Support residents with the current cost-of-living crisis
- Reduce loneliness and social isolation
- Improve physical and/or mental health and wellbeing
- Promote equalities and inclusivity
- Improve the physical environment or reduce the environmental impact.
Funding Information
- The Fund provides each of the County’s 57 Councillors with a pot of £8000.
Outcomes
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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.
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.
- Community groups and organisations who are continuing to support COVID-19 as well as organisations supporting residents with the current cost-of-living crisis across Warwickshire.
Ineligible
- Groups or organisations that have failed to meet the conditions of previous award agreements from Warwickshire County Council’s Locality Working Service
- Party Political/lobby groups
- Individuals
- It is unlikely that applications from statutory organisations will be supported, with the exception of applications from town and parish councils.
What will not be funded by the Grant fund?
- Projects that promote religious or party political beliefs.
- Projects for personal profit or personal gain.
- Costs relating to items purchased or work already carried out before the grant has been awarded.
- Loans or debt repayments.
- Activities that are part of statutory obligations.
- Running costs of an established group or activities which are that group’s main service.
- Projects clearly demonstrating supporting residents with the current cost-of-living crisis may be considered for running costs.
- Existing contractual arrangements with WCC.
For more information, visit Councillors’ Grant Fund.
For more information, visit https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/news/article/3241/supporting-our-communities-county-councillor-grant-fund-now-open-for-applications