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Small Community Capital Projects Grants Applications for up to £20,000 per scheme. Are you eligible?To guide you in deciding whether to put forward a project, please note all of the following points:
The Small Community Capital Projects Fund makes grants up to a maximum of £20,000 per project.
You should not regard the maximum grant as a target figure. In practice, most allocations from the Fund will be for smaller amounts.
Any funding awarded is a one-off payment. We only award grants to properly constituted organisations. This includes organisations such as district, parish and town councils, voluntary and community groups, churches, societies, charities, etc. Your organisation must be properly and legally organised, and have its own bank account. Grants are not to replace funding for other support you may be eligible to obtain, or that you have obtained in the past, from Kent County Council (KCC). They are for new projects involving capital expenditure. The Small Community Capital Projects Fund only awards money for the purchase, creation or significant renovation of capital assets. It does not fund past, current or future running costs, or your organisation’s core costs, for example. Your Application
We will ask you to show:
That you have a specific and realistic capital project in preparation, and that it will bring benefit to the community, or to the provision of services to the public of Kent;
That you have made a realistic assessment of the cost, based on proper estimates;
That your project will be viable and sustainable within the cost you have identified, and in a time scale you can achieve;
That any funding allocated by KCC from its Small Community Capital Projects Funding will go directly to that project.
The KCC Small Community Capital Projects Fund is for support to capital projects only. If your application succeeds in whole or in part, any funding KCC awards you will not cover expenditure on recurring expenditure or running costs. Therefore, your application must show that you have assessed the subsequent running costs of the project, and that, once your project starts, you can achieve these. This is important.
It is also important that you tell us if you are applying to any other part of KCC for grant for the same project or part of it.
KCC’s priorities for fundingYour project must be for something that will bring benefit to the community or to the provision of services to the public of Kent. You must be able to demonstrate this in your application. Start dates for projects: Every year, we receive many applications for grant for projects for which the planned start date is unclear, even if we awarded them the grant they sought. The financial year runs from April to the following March. When you send in your application, it must show that by or before 31 March 2009 your project will be able to commit to a definite start date. If your project cannot do this, you should make your application in the next financial year. Application ProcessYou must use the attached application form, and complete all parts of it. You may submit your application as the attachment to an e-mail message, but if you do, please follow this up with a signed copy by ordinary post, and a signed covering letter on your organisation’s headed note paper How do we assess your application?We make grant allocations under the Small Community Capital Projects Fund once a year, in the autumn. The closing date for applications is 30 September 2008. Please note:
- When we receive your application for a grant, the KCC Community Liaison Manager for your area will contact you to discuss the project with you. This may involve a meeting.
- Your local Community Liaison Manager will summarise all the projects from an area and submit these to KCC’s Local Board for the area. The Community Liaison Manager will tell you when and where the Local Board meeting will take place.
- These are public meetings.
- To help the County Councillors who make up the Local Board to compare projects, we use a simple and objective scoring process which highlights certain key issues in your application. That is why you must use the attached application form.
CostYour application must show that you have made a realistic assessment of the cost of your project. We will expect you to obtain proper estimates for this. We do not insist that you have other funding, or matched funding available to meet the capital cost of your project. However, when we assess each project, we may give preference to those projects which do have some form of additional funding. That funding could include commitment ‘in kind’ through high levels of volunteer participation. Please also note:
- KCC does not fund projects that have already been completed, or reimburse costs you have already incurred before making your application.
- KCC does not take any responsibility for any spending you may incur in preparing or submitting your grant application.
- We will not pay supplementary funding if your costs rise after you submit your application, or if you later find that you did not assess them properly.
- All costs must include VAT where this applies, and you should show VAT figures separately.
- KCC’s Small Community Capital Projects Fund cannot pay for any running costs related to your project. After you have incurred the capital cost of your project, you must be able to meet all subsequent running costs from sources available to you.
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