Weekly grants and community newsletter

Compiled by the Grants Team at North Devon Council.

Email grants@northdevon.gov.uk or call 01271 388253

 

Community Councillor Grants – Scheme to re-open in May!

Our Community Councillor Grant scheme will reopen to applications on Monday 13 May 2019. 

42,000 pounds will be available to local charities, Town and Parish Councils, CICs, Voluntary groups and other Community Groups across the region to help support the running costs of local organisations, projects providing services to the Community, new facilities or re-furbishing existing ones, events and environmental or open space community projects.

The Council recognises the value that Voluntary and Community Groups add to life in North Devon, and the Community Councillor Grants scheme offers a way for Councillors to help support these groups and the local Community.  

Each of our 42 District Councillors is allocated 1,000 pounds per year to help address the issues, needs and aspirations of local communities through projects or services run by community groups and voluntary organisations.

Watch this space for further details!

 

Movement for Good!  - A chance to WIN 1000 pounds for your chosen charity – Nominations close 17 May 2019

Your charity could benefit from 1000 pounds from www.ecclesiastical.com.

Through their Movement for Good awards, Ecclesiastical are giving 1million pounds to charities, putting the funds directly into the hands of remarkable organisations (like yours perhaps) that are changing people’s lives for the better. 

The 1000 pound awards are open to eligible charities registered in the UK and Republic of Ireland - these could range from smaller volunteer-run groups to larger, well-known organisations.

Anyone can nominate a charity to win one of the 1000 pound awards…  And it’s quick and easy to do.  Nominations open on 23^rd April and close on 17^th May 2019.

You can only nominate a charity once, and your nomination is identified by your unique email address. However your chosen charity can receive multiple nominations. So the more support you can drum up, the more nominations your chosen charity will get and the greater their chance of winning.

500 awards of 1000 pounds will be made – chosen at random from the eligible nominations. 

To make your nomination please visit https://www.ecclesiastical.com/movement-for-good/nominate-a-charity/

 

Citizens in Policing Crowdfunding – Community Resilience Fund

Devon and Cornwall Police are the first policing organisation in the country to support a crowdfunding platform in order to support community projects that reduce demand on policing.
The fund is now hosted on the following platforms:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/crowdfund-plymouth/extra-funding

https://welcome.crowdfunder.co.uk/crowdfund-devon/

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/funds/crowdfund-cornwall

Projects could be eligible for a contribution of up to 50 percent of the funding target (up to a maximum value of 5,000 pounds). This fund is their way of supporting local projects that aim to increase community resilience within local communities and help to support vulnerable people.
 
Projects must raise 25 percent of their target before they will be considered eligible for possible funding. Projects must be registered as an ‘all or nothing’ scheme to be eligible. The money pledged will only be released if the full fundraising target has been reached. Funding is available to help groups set up community-led projects that meet the following criteria:

• Projects must benefit people in Devon, Plymouth, Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly*

Delivering one or more of the following outcomes:

• supporting vulnerable people
• tackling social isolation
• building local capacity and resilience
• supporting community safety (and in so doing, result in the reduction of demand on frontline emergency services)
• Demonstrates added benefit for the county, for example using local providers or developing the skills of local people

 
(*At least 75 percent of the people benefiting from your project should live in Devon, Plymouth, Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly). 

For further details contact Paula McGinnis on 07793 877290

 

Loans for Enlightened Agriculture Programme (LEAP)– Deadline 30 April 2019

The Loans for Enlightened Agriculture Programme (LEAP) offers a mix of affordable loans and grants to farming and food enterprises along with a comprehensive mentoring programme. These are for community-based food and farming businesses with an ethical and sustainable ethos.

LEAP is a new model for financing and supporting food and farming enterprises that puts people and the biosphere at the heart of our food system. LEAP will provide a critical next step for community based agro-ecological enterprises that have relied on grant funding to date and who have had nowhere to go to finance their onward development.

LEAP has been set up by the Funding Enlightened Agriculture (FEA) network which supports projects that have the potential to increase agricultural output, adopt sustainable farming methods, create local supply chains, increase employment and engagement, revive local economies and bring other social benefits.

It supports cooperatives, social enterprises and community businesses that are at an early stage of development but have already built up their local community of support. It is for food and farming enterprises such as community bakeries, box schemes, growers and producers, retailers, markets and Community Supported Agriculture schemes.

Loans can be for amounts between 25,000 pounds and 100,000 pounds and can be used for capital or revenue. Alongside the loan, the programme provides a grant at 18 percent of the loan amount and a tailored and structured mentoring package.

http://www.feanetwork.org/our-projects/loans-for-enlightened-agriculture-programme

 

Triangle Trust 1949 Fund – Unpaid Carers - Deadline 7 May 2019 (Noon)

The Triangle Trust offers funding for specialist community and voluntary organisations working with carers in the UK.

Roughly 1 in 10 people are unpaid carers supporting a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems.  Carers say access to information, financial support and respite care are essential to help them maintain their own health and quality of life, but this basic support is not always available.  The Triangle Trustees recognise the enormity of the task voluntary organisations have in reaching out to carers and offer dedicated funding for carer organisations where they will not have to compete with applications from other sectors.

Development grants up to 80,000 pounds over 3 years are available to registered charities, social enterprises and community interest companies whose primary purpose is to support unpaid carers.

Grants are to be used for core funding to support organisations to implement a step change in their development and therefore build increased sustainability.

To apply online visit https://www.triangletrust.org.uk/apply-funding

 

The Concertina Charitable Trust

Grants of up to 250 pounds are available to charities that provide musical activities for the elderly community in need.

The trustees review applications after the deadlines of April 30th and October 31^st each year. Please submit your application in good time so the administrator can review it to ensure there are no omissions and that it is suitable before submission to the Trustees.

Applicants must provide details of their charity’s objects, its financial position, the sector of the elderly community which it benefits, amount sought and proposed cultural activities or related facilities it intends to provides.  Accounts or financial statements must be submitted with your application. Any applicant who has not included their accounts or financial statements with the application will be automatically refused.

Charities are invited to send their applications to the Trustees via the Administrator at the Bodfach Hall, Llanfyllin, Powys SY22 5HS.  No phone or email conversations will be entered into with regards to your application.  Please check the website for full details of the scheme.

http://www.concertinamusic.org.uk/Grants.php

 

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Are you renting in the private sector?

Or – are you a private sector landlord?

Standards of housing within the private rental sector can be poor due to the unbalanced nature of the local housing market, with some landlords not looking after their tenants the way they should.

North Devon Council are proposing to introduce civil penalties for landlords for certain housing offences as an alternative to prosecution. This could help raise standards in the private rented sector and improve our housing service by providing a revenue stream for the council.

To have your say, take part in a quick online consultation at northdevon.gov.uk/rent-consultation

By participating you’ll be in with a chance to win a 25 pounds cash prize.