Grants will be available for:
To be eligible to apply for a grant your project must be located, and be for the benefit of communities, within the funding area. (Please note the area of benefit also includes the coastal tidal zones and marine area directly in line with the onshore areas).
Follow this link to view an online map of the areas covered.
There are two levels of grants available, and groups can apply for both revenue and capital costs in the same application. For projects involving revenue costs, groups can apply for funding for up to two years. The levels of grants are as follows:
a) Small grants between £1,000 and £10,000
b) Main grants between £10,001 and £50,000
Organisations can only submit one application at an application deadline.
Eligible applicants include:
• Voluntary and community groups, and charities
• Parish and Town Councils
• Local Authorities (if they working with community organisations on community-led projects).
• Social Enterprises and Community Interest Companies operating on a non-profit-distributing basis. These are defined by Social Enterprise UK as ‘businesses that trade to tackle social problems, improve communities, people’s life chances, or the environment. They make their money from selling goods and services in the open market, but they reinvest their profits back into the business or the local community’.
These organisations must have a minimum of three unrelated Directors, that also do not reside at the same address.
Applicants are required to have a written constitution, a set of rules, or a governing document and a bank or building society account, held in the name of the organisation, in place before applying for a grant.
Grants will not be available for:
• Commercial organisations
• Any works that are a statutory duty (such as works to public highways), or that are the legal responsibility of others to fund
• Projects that are religious in focus, or that support a party political campaign or cause, or may bring the Fund into disrepute
• Projects located at religious buildings (unless the project is clearly for the benefit of the wider community, for example a church hall improvement project where the building is available to the general public)
• Schools and educational establishments (unless the application comes from a separate body and the project is for wider community benefit). All applicants with projects located on school grounds should contact GrantScape before applying to ensure your project meets the criteria.
• Private membership-based sports clubs and facilities (unless membership is open to the general public without undue restriction which includes restrictive fees and charges, i.e. not membership by nomination organisations)
• Sports kits and club uniforms
• Projects that only benefit individuals
• Retrospective funding (i.e. funding can only be requested for works that will begin / expenditure that will be incurred AFTER their funding decision has been made and a formal grant Contract issued)
• Public conveniences and public car parks
• Allotments
• Festivals, carnivals, music festivals, theatre productions, fairs, fetes, arts festivals, firework displays, parades, day trips, overseas travel and other similar one-off events
• Memorials, statues, sculptures and other pieces of public art
• Land and building purchase
• Stand-alone feasibility studies, project development costs (including planning costs) and neighbourhood and community plans
• Costs associated with ‘Asset Transfers’ from Local Authorities (i.e. legal costs, feasibility costs etc.). However, once the Asset has been transferred, the group responsible for the amenity is eligible to apply for a grant from the Fund.
East Coast of Lincolnshire
