Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund Program (UK)

Deadline: 27-Jun-25

The South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation is seeking applications for Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund Program to improve the physical, built or social environment, and other community-led projects.

Priority Areas

• They are keen to fund projects and initiatives that involve one or more of the following:
  • capital item(s) with a tangible and lasting benefit, including improvements to community buildings
  • bio-diversity and habitat conservation
  • energy conservation and increased use of renewables
  • other projects that are community-based and/or community-led which meet identified local needs and issue

Funding Information

• Grants will normally be in the region of £500 – £10,000
• Exceptionally, grants of up to £20,000 can be applied for if they have significant and lasting community benefit.

Eligible Activities

• Examples of projects/activities which can be funded:
  • improvements to community buildings, i.e. a new roof, or redecoration of the village hall
  • improvement and maintenance of recreational facilities, i.e. the cricket club need a new mower to enable them to cut the grass, or the football team need new training equipment.

Ineligible Activities

• Parish, Town or Metropolitan Borough councils
• for profit organisations
• registered Community Interest Companies, also known as CICs
• individuals
• the promotion of religious or political views
• to replace existing statutory Council provision (but such facilities could be enhanced e.g. Parks)
• applications which the Community Foundation believes, in its discretion, present or have identified a health and safety risk; against the interests of the developer or windfarm landowner(s) or antirenewable energy/windfarm activities
• retrospective funding – i.e. things or activities that either have already been paid for or have already happened

Eligibility Criteria

• locally led, run, and constituted, community or voluntary organisations
• locally led and run registered charities
• local schools and colleges

For more information, visit SYCF.