Eligibility
Grants made must support only community, voluntary and other non-commercial purposes.
All applications must provide detail on what the applicant is contributing to the project in the way of match funding or contributions in kind. There is no minimum financial expectation for applicants, other than parish councils and businesses (including community and not for profit businesses such as Community Interest Companies or incorporated charities). In those cases, the expectation is for 50/50 match funding.
Profit-making businesses are ineligible to apply for funding from the 2025 Community Fund.
The county council is not able to fund individuals. Fund payments are made by bank transfer and cannot be paid into an individual person’s bank account – if your group doesn’t have its own bank account, it can be agreed to make the payment into a local parish council or voluntary sector group’s bank account for them to hold on your behalf, provided that all parties agree to this approach. If taking that approach, please make this very clear in your application form.
Depending on the nature of your support project, the county council may need to be assured that you have appropriate safeguarding procedures, appropriate insurance etc, and expects that if this information is requested at any time, your organisation will be forthcoming.
If you have accessed funding from the county council’s members’ fund in the past, it will need to be clear what is different about your application to the 2025 Community Fund. Applications that appear to be for exactly the same thing as requested previously will be queried for further information, which may slow down the processing of the payment.
