Deadline: 1st February 24

Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is offering grants for community projects that benefit residents in eligible parishes near Woolley Hill Wind Farm, Hunts.NEW TRAINING VIDEOHow to apply and succeed in raising seed grants for your organisationWATCH NOW

Information on financing

• Grants of up to £5,000.

Funding Criteria

• Grants are available for charitable projects that benefit local communities in the parishes listed below. Eligible projects can be supported if they are proven to benefit a significant proportion of the local community living in the "area of benefit".

Eligible areas

• The parishes of Alconbury, Alconbury Weston, Barham and Woolley, Buckworth, Easton, Ellington and Spaldwick.

Election criteria

• Financing only not-for-profit, community-focused organisations, which must be legally registered if their income is over £5,000. This includes the following:
  • Registered, exempt charities.
  • Religious organisations if the project benefits the community in general and does not include religious content.
  • Parish and town councils, town councils and parish church councils
  • Incorporated charitable organisations (CIOs)
  • Community interest companies (CICs)
  • Social enterprises that have the Social Enterprise Mark
  • Co-operatives and community benefit societies (formerly industrial and provident societies)
  • Schools
  • Sports clubs that are community amateur sports clubs (CASCs), affiliated to a national governing body (e.g. Badminton England) or have an income of less than £5,000.
• They support projects carried out in Cambridgeshire by national organisations, as long as the funding is restricted to this area of benefit. A very small number of their funds accept applications from outside Cambridgeshire.
• They accept applications for a wide variety of projects and charitable causes and can fund project-related salaries, vehicle hire and capital items.

Ineligible

• They don't finance the following:
  • Organisational structures not listed above or projects with a non-charitable focus
  • Activities or projects already carried out
  • Sponsored events, fundraising activities or organisations or activities that grant donations
  • Improvements to land/buildings that are not open to the general public at convenient times
  • Projects that promote political activities or lobby for causes
  • The practice of religion or any projects that actively promote religion, a particular belief system or even the lack of a belief. This is because such projects exclude some people from participation on religious grounds.
  • Animal welfare projects
  • Travelling abroad
  • Buying vehicles
  • Statutory obligations, i.e. activities that replace government funding
• They also manage a limited number of funds that award grants to individuals. However, applications must be made by a reference organisation.

For more information, visit Cambridgeshire Community Foundation .