Community Grants Scheme

Sometimes it's best to just cut and paste:

"It's that fantastic time of year again when Fenland District Council

officially launch their Community Grants Fund and we are inviting

community groups to apply for our funding! We have a total pot of

100,000- (25,000 from Roddons Housing Association and 75,000 from

Fenland District Council which amounts to 25,000 allocation per

Neighbourhood Management Board Area). 

Each Neighbourhood Management Board assesses applications for their

local area to ensure that local people have an active role in decision

making. This new assessment process has been very exciting. 

The Community Grants fund has continued to help small projects across

Fenland provide essential services for local residents and we would like

your help to make this year a bumper year of applications. If you work/

volunteer for a community group,know a community group in your parish or

have a project which you need

funding up to (a suggested amount) of 5,000 then this could be your

opportunity to bid into our pot.

There are opportunities within the funding pot for District Wide

funding applications 

(and there is no upper limit) so if you know of a project which has

outcomes across Fenland then please ask the group to firstly contact our

community development team for more information. 

The projects must support outcomes within the Sustainable Community

Strategy as follows; 

?  Fenlands children and young people- to enable children and young

people to have the best possible start in life, to be healthy, stay

safe, make a positive contribution, enjoy and achieve and achieve

economic well-being.

?  Safer Fenland- help to make Fenland a safer place to live by

reducing anti-social behaviour, drug and alcohol misuse etc. 

?  A sustainable Fenland environment - Working together to create a

clean and healthy environment as well as combat climate change.

?  Fenlands community health and social well-being- to deliver

services which help to develop the health and social well-being of local

residents.

?  Fenlands Economic and Sustainable Community development- to

promote the growth of local businesses, enable residents to have access

to high quality training and education. Enable a thriving and cohesive

local community.

If you know of a group who are considering submitting an application

and they would like a bit of guidance in filling it in then please do

not hesitate to contact the Community Development Team. Please feel free

to forward this email onto other groups who may be interested in

applying for funding from us.

If successful the funding allocation will not be made until April 2011

i.e. the next financial year. The deadline for applications is Friday

8th October and if you would like an application pack and guidance notes

please contact Steve Drew on 01354 654321,  email sdrewATfenlandDOTgovDOTuk

or write to Fenland District Council. Fenland Hall. County Road. March.

PE15 8NQ"