The   Grants   Process 

GUIDELINES

 

Eligibility to apply

If you would like to apply for a grant, your scheme can be of any size – but it must support local people. 

The application needs to be from a charity, faith-based organisation, school, university or properly constituted not-for-profit organisation. 

Your organisation must be based within the BCP council area, Purbeck or East Dorset.

When you apply, your organisation will need to prove that it has - or can - raise at least 25% match funding. 

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WHAT WE FUND

Examples of recent funding include:

 

Community

  • Community events
  • Repair and refurbishment of community buildings
  • Youth clubs and activities
  • Playground equipment
  • Venue hire
  • Festivals
  • Carer support
  • Programmes to address loneliness and isolation
  • Advisory and support services

Education

  • Training and learning opportunities
  • Improving playground facilities
  • Extramural / community activities
  • Specialist equipment

Faith

  • Improvements to places of worship and buildings with wide community use
  • Programmes or festivals open to all

Youth

  • Youth clubs and activities
  • Youth development projects

Health/ Medical

  • Community health and wellbeing services
  • Innovative hospital equipment
  • Hospices for the terminally ill
  • Defibrillators
  • First aid training
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Contributing to costs of counselling / therapy sessions

Environment

  • Environmental improvements to local areas
  • Restoration of green spaces
  • Promoting climate change awareness and actions

Tackling disadvantage

  • Accommodation, support and allied services for people with learning disabilities
  • Supporting foodbank service provision
  • Activities or facilities to support people with physical disabilities
  • Advice services
  • Programmes to alleviate poverty
  • Community kitchens
  • Homelessness

If you would like to apply for a grant, your scheme can be of any size – but it must support local people.  

 

When you apply, your organisation will need to prove that it has - or can - raise at least 25% match funding.

WHAT WE DON'T FUND


Generally the Trustees will not give assistance in the following circumstances.

    • Animal welfare organisations unless for assistance therapy
    • One-off events with limited longer-term benefit
    • Applications made by individuals except in exceptional circumstances
    • Where the application is to repay a loan or previous commitment
    • Retrospective funding – grants for work that has already started or been completed
    • To fund the cost of repairs to churches and church buildings unless these benefit the wider community
    • Where the application is purely concerned with the environment and not linked to local community-based sustainability efforts
    • Where the application is from an independent or fee paying school unless the application is to assist those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds
    • Where the application is from a local authority school, unless the application is to meet expenditure which is clearly outside of the scope of funding for which the State should be responsible
    • Public bodies to carry out their statutory obligations
    • Projects for items/ refurbishment which are the responsibility of the applicant’s landlord
    • Projects where statutory funding has been withdrawn and/or where the proposed project is duplicating an existing service
    • Swimming pools, unless for specific therapeutic reasons
    • To fund research including medical research
    • Provision of broadband

Please note that we are reviewing this list; so if in doubt, please contact us.

If you meet our criteria and would like to apply for a grant, you can do so here.

 

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