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Nottinghamshire County Council – Local Communities Fund reopens for applications for revenue projects from Monday 2 October 2023 to Friday 24 November 2023.
The maximum award will be £5,000 per project in any financial year.
Applications for Revenue funding are invited from community and charitable organisations that have developed effective activities such as the following:
- Deliver School Holiday Play Schemes
- Help to improve mental health
- Help to improve physical health
- Enable Nottinghamshire residents to contribute to social and cultural opportunities
- Encourage innovation to strengthen communities and support vulnerable residents
- Encourage local networks where people help themselves and each other to be resilient, neighbourly and safe
- Increase volunteering opportunities that enable more vulnerable residents to be supported
- Help to address climate and environmental change
- Help to reduce loneliness
- Improve access to existing community-based services (e.g. advice and signposting), for the most vulnerable residents
- Offer early help and prevention to those who most need it
- Provide support to communities of interest, for example rural communities.
Revenue funding can help towards the running costs (‘core costs’ or ‘overheads’) that are essential to delivering the project / service as described in the application for funding, such as:
- Utilities (e.g. gas, electricity and water bills)
- Communications (e.g. internet, landline and telephone)
- Rent
- Insurance and professional fees
- Relevant staff salaries and staff training
- Volunteer training and volunteer expenses.