Grassroots Grants Small Grants
Small grants aims to reach out to those in our local communities who need assistance most. The Foundation is able to distribute grants of £250-£5000 to grassroots community groups throughout Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield.
The Grassroots Grants programme is now taking applications for its final year. As all grants awarded need to be spent and monitored by the end of March 2011, we are urging groups who are looking for annual running costs to apply as soon as possible.
We do not expect to be awarding grants after October 2010.
You can now apply ONLINE for assistance from the fund by following the instructions below.
How to apply
If you want to apply to Grassroots Grants please complete the online application form via the link below.
Online application form
You should download and read carefully our Overview and Criteria sheet for the Grassroots Grants programme which gives pointers on what we expect to see in a successful application.
You will be given a unique link to your own application form. Assistance with how to fill in the application form is available when you access the link to apply online and you will be able save the application if you cannot complete it in one go. It will then be emailed to you to print, together with Part B.
Part B requests your organisation's bank details and invites you to nominate an independent referee, who must read and sign your form. Two members of your organisation must also sign Part B to accept the Terms and Conditions, if a grant is made.
Application Parts A & B should then be posted to South Yorkshire Community Foundation together with the following documentation:
- a signed copy of your organisation's Rules/Constitution/Governing Document
- a signed copy of your last year's accounts
- a photocopy of a bank statement no more than 3 months old
- a copy of your Safeguarding: Child Protection/Vulnerable Persons Policy (if appropriate)
- quotes (as appropriate)
- a list of your management committee/trustee names and addresses with any relationships to one another and cheque signatories identified
- any other material you consider relevant to your application (please do not send material you want returned) eg leaflets, flyers, press cuttings
Decision making:
All applications are assessed against the Grassroots Grants criteria. Those meeting eligibility are then passed to a panel of independent volunteer decision makers that meets every 4-6 weeks, and their decision is final.
Monitoring:
We have to ensure that funding has been appropriately spent and therefore require monitoring information. A monitoring form will be posted to you with the letter confirming that your application has been successful. It will ask you to report on the difference the grant has made to your group and beneficiaries. This must be returned six weeks after the grant has been spent or the activity has finished.
Your project may also be subject to a monitoring visit and any audit requirements of the programme. You must retain and return with your monitoring copies of all receipts, invoices and all expenditure relating to your grants including any capital items.
South Yorkshire Community Foundation will only consider further applications if a satisfactory monitoring form is returned.
Data and promotion of Grassroots Grants:
If your application for a Grassroots Grant is successful, South Yorkshire Community Foundation will be required to pass details of your organisation onto the Community Foundation Network (the umbrella body for Community Foundations around the country) and/or Grassroots Grants.
You shall also be asked to cooperate with any reasonable requests by Grassroots Grants for publicity reports relating to the use of the Grant, including requests to film or interview beneficiaries for Grassroots Grants campaigns. Grassroots Grants may use your organisation's name and details of the project on which the money is spent in its reports and publicity materials.
Your authorisation will be requested on Part B of the application.
For further details regarding application forms or to discuss your project before you apply, please contact the Grants team on 0114 2424294.
NB: Doncaster Central Development Trust will be administering the fund in Doncaster and prospective applicants should contact Katie Wall on 01302 735766 for an application pack and further information.
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