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Nottinghamshire County Council’s Local Communities Fund supports the delivery of projects that help to deliver the strategic aims of the County Council Nottinghamshire Plan Vision and Ambitions.
The latest round of the Local Communities Fund is now open until Friday 8 November.
The Capital Programme is designed to contribute to improvements of facilities or purchase assets that support community access and improve health and well-being. Eligible organisations can apply for one-off Capital grants up to a maximum of £20,000 per organisation in any funding year.
Applications for Capital funding should have in place at least 50% match funding and should show how the proposed project:
- Helps to address local priorities e.g. improving access to new or existing services such as sports and leisure, protecting the environment, reducing loneliness, improving physical and mental health
- Improves local places and spaces that are important to communities
- Brings people together and involves them in the design and implementation
- Helps to address climate and environmental change and/or minimises any negative impact on the environment.
Applications for Revenue funding are invited from VCS organisations that have developed effective activities in response to a local need / gap analysis, in particular activities that:
- Contribute to a prosperous and growing economy
- Deliver School Holiday Play Schemes
- 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 improve mental health
- Help to improve physical health
- 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.
The deadline for these two programmes is 8th November 2024.
The council’s Talented Athletes Programme is due to open Monday 11 November.
