Welwyn Hatfield – Small Community Grants (UK)

Deadline: 8-Jan-23

The Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council is pleased to announce an open call for the Small Community Grants to support projects that make a positive impact on the community.

The Welwyn Hatfield Small Community Grants are available to community and voluntary organisations from a range of sectors including music, dance, drama, sport, youth, health and many more.

Priorities

• The projects considered by the Grants Board are often varied and diverse but must show how your application for funding makes a positive contribution to one or more of Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council’s priorities, which are:
  • Maintain a safe and health community
    • Promoting inclusive and safe communities
    • Improving public health and well-being
    • Supporting local sport and leisure
    • Promoting local art and culture
  • Protect and enhance the environment
    • Keeping their streets clean
    • Reducing waste and improving recycling
    • Enhancing their green spaces
    • Managing the borough's parking
  • Meet the borough’s housing needs
    • Planning for current and future housing need
    • Providing more affordable homes
    • Being a high quality landlord
    • Improving housing quality in the borough
  • Help build a strong local economy
    • Promoting investment and regeneration
    • Revitalising their neighbourhoods and town centres
    • Supporting sustainable economic growth
    • Being business friendly
  • Engage with their communities and provide value for money
    • Achieving value for money
    • Putting their customers first
    • Promoting equality and fairness
    • Being an employer of choice

Funding Information

• The maximum amount of funding you can request is £2,000.
• The project budget must be completed clearly and accurately, stating what percentage of the item will be covered through the funding. All items in your budget must be reasonable and necessary to complete the project.
• Projects funded within the last 24 months

Eligibility Criteria

Your application is only likely to be considered if you meet the following criteria:

• At least 50 per cent of your organisations’ members/clients/users live or work in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield
• Provided project updates and/or final feedback if you were successful with a previous grant application from the council
• Your organisation is either a registered charity, incorporated or unincorporated charity or a voluntary/community/not-for-profit group
• Your organisation commits to equality and diversity, and can provide a copy of equality and diversity statement or policy
• Your organisation commits to safeguarding vulnerable members of the community, and can provide a copy of safeguarding statement or policy
• Appropriate insurance is in place for all events and services provided
• Finances are audited or independently reviewed on an annual basis
• Your organisation is able to be sustainable and is able to show budgetary information for the next financial year
• Able to provide signed constitution or Articles of Memorandum
• Able to provide copies of your organisations’ last three months’ worth of bank statements
• Able to provide detailed costs relating to application

Ineligible

Projects they are unlikely to support include:

• Applications for commercial/profit making organisations
• Applications from town/parish councils
• Projects that are deemed to be in place of statutory bodies
• National charities, unless the project is solely for the benefit of local residents
• Projects promoting political or religious beliefs
• Funding for individuals
• Projects that have already taken place
• Projects that do not benefit or are not based in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield
• Applications if the funding request is for 100% of the salary of an individual. However applications for contribution to a salary for a new post on a fixed term contract will be considered.
• Funding requests for contributions to capital costs (e.g. new buildings)
• Projects that are requesting funding for temporary buildings or structures
• Projects that directly conflict with the council’s priorities
• Organisations that are publically funded such as schools and universities if they are requesting funding for projects for a select group of young people, but does consider projects benefitting the wider community.

For more information, visit Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council.