New Charnwood Community Grant Programme 2021/22 in the UK
Deadline: 10-Sep-21
The New Charnwood Community Grants for 2021/22 enables the Council to provide grants to a wide variety of voluntary and community organisations within Charnwood to further the Council’s aims and actively assist the community to enjoy a better quality of life, particularly where those projects would not go ahead without financial assistance.
This grant is available for applications from all Charnwood Voluntary and Community Sector organisations including Sports Clubs and Physical Activity groups.
Priorities
The Council has identified key priorities and aims set out in the Council’s Corporate Plan. Applications should fulfil at least one of these aims:
Healthy Communities
A Thriving Economy
Caring for the Environment
Funding Information
The maximum amount of grant that can be applied for in one year is £5000.
Note: If £5000 is awarded in Round 1 you will not be eligible to apply in Round 2. The average amount awarded is likely to be lower than this.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply voluntary and community organisations, local charities and sports clubs / physical activity groups must:
Be operating in Charnwood and working with local people
Be ‘not for private profit’
Have a constitution / set of rules / articles of association and can confirm legal status eg CIC, Amateur sports club, Limited by Guarantees
Have a bank account in the name of the organisation with more than one signatory not related or co-habiting, and have available two most recent bank statements from ALL accounts.
The organisation to which the application relates should not be exclusive: it should allow access to, or use/participation by, the general public.
There must be no restriction on membership (unless the group is for a specific age range eg Under 8s football or vulnerable group where restrictions may apply for safety reasons) by any organisation to which a grant is to be made.
Membership must be open to the general public and not refused on grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, occupation, religious, political or other beliefs.
Applications are welcome for sporting activities which demonstrate wider community benefit or being delivered in community settings.
Where applicable, sport clubs or physical acitivity groups will need to evidence their support/membership of their governing body in their application.
Comply with the Prevent Duty requirements. The Counter Terrorism & Security Act 2015 places a duty on certain bodies to have ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’ in the exercise of their functions.
They cannot fund:
Charnwood Borough Council Strategic Partners
Political organisations
Statutory bodies, including Town / Parish Councils
Statutory funded provision e.g. health services, educational establishments (excluding Parent-Teacher Associations providing extra-curricular activities / equipment for the benefit of the wider community)
Exclusively religious activities
Grants to private / commercial sector organisations
Grants to individuals.
Examples of ineligible projects:
Retrospective funding for projects which have already started or taken place or items which have already been purchased
Exclusively religious / political activity
Any form of gambling (except small fundraising activities e.g. raffle, tombola etc.)
For more information, visit https://www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/commdevgrants