KENT COMMUNITY FUND

KENT COMMUNITY FUND
GUIDANCE NOTES
How to Apply

Read the Guidance
Please read these guidance notes in full to find out more about the Kent Community Fund and the sort of projects we are able to fund.
Check your project is eligible
You can apply for funding of between £2,000 and £50,000 under the Kent Community Fund.
Check our operating area
We will accept applications for projects situated within the geographical region of Kent.
Complete a Kent Community Fund application form
Please answer the questions as fully as possible. Do not answer any question ‘see attached’ as your application will be returned. You must write within the word count and indicate the number of words for each section. Please write in plain English.
Send all the required information
Applications that do not contain all the required information will be returned. We will not consider project applications that have previously been submitted.
Make sure you send an on-line and hard copy by the deadline.
We can only consider a limited amount of applications in each round and projects are allocated to panels on a first come first served basis, subject to all information being provided.
About Kent Community Fund

The Kent Community Fund is designed to deliver sustainable public health and health promotion projects that will benefit the local community. Your application must reflect the need for this project. If you are working in partnership with other organisations, you must indicate who these organisations are and what role they play. The primary intent of the project must be for introducing or enhancing a service that maintain or continuously improve the health and wellbeing of local people.
The Fund defines a service as something that will enhance health related learning and/or sustainably provide a healthier setting for the local community. The service must take place within a place that is open and accessible to the general public. It should be somewhere where the general public can go, join or use without any limit or restrictions of use (or with reasonable access costs) being in place. The project or service must be targeted on a specific amenity at a single location.
Who can apply for funding?
Community organisations, voluntary groups, charities, not-for-profit organisations and higher education students can apply for funding as long as they have a bank account. Local authorities can act as partners.
How much can you apply for?
Grants of between £2000 and £50,000 are available for projects.
KENT COMMUNITY FUND APPLICATION FORM
Section 1 – Your organisation

1.1 Contact names and details Apart from your name, provide CCCU details, not your personal ones

Name of your organisation
Contact details Primary contact/
project leader (you) Secondary contact
Title (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, other)
Contact name
Position (within organisation)
Address
Postcode
Daytime telephone number
E-mail address

1.2 What type of organisation are you? Please add X to all the relevant boxes

Health care organisation
Higher education organisation
Local authority or parish council
Registered charity
Voluntary group
Further education organisation

Profit making business
Not for profit organisation

Self employed
Employ 2-10 employees
Employ 10 to 100 employees
Employ more than 100 employees

Section 2 – Your project

1.3 Please briefly provide details about the project leader’s relevant education and experience to lead this project. (max 100 words)

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2.1 Project Title (max 10 words)

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2.2 Please provide a very brief description of your project (max 30 words)

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2.3 Where is your project located? Please complete all sections.
Name of site (if applicable)
Street
Town/village
County
Post Code

2.4 If the project will work with a community partner, please indicate their contact details. If there is no partner, please write ‘NONE’ Please complete all sections.
Name of partner
Address
Indicate their role:  Expertise
 Premises
 Funding (indicate the amount)
 Other: please give brief details

2.5 In which local authority district or electoral ward(s) will your project be based?

2.6 Please describe your project and what it is that you want to achieve. (max 300 words)

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2.7 Please provide evidence of the need for this project in your chosen location. (max 500 words)

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2.8 Please detail the aspects of the project for which you are seeking funding. (max 400 words)

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2.9 Please provide a time-scale for your project. This should include a time line for the key stages of the project and include the date of submission of a final report to us. (max 300 words)

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2.10 Please describe how the project will be evaluated (max 150 words)

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2.11 Please provide information about any permissions which you have gained/will be seeking to gain, in order to carry out this project. (max 300 words)

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2.12 Do you anticipate that any income will be generated when the project is complete? If so, approximately how much?

 

Section 3 – Declaration

3.1 On behalf of (enter organisation name)

We apply for funding for £ (indicate amount) from Kent Community Fund.

• The information given on this application form and supporting documentation is accurate.
• We understand that any materially misleading statements (whether deliberate or accidental) given at any state in the application process, or where material information is knowingly withheld, could render the grant application invalid and any grant monies received with be liable for repayment.
• We will take all reasonable precautions to ensure that grant funding received will not be misused or misappropriated in any way. We understanding that Kent Community Fund may take legal action to recover any misappropriated funds.

Name Signature Date

3.2 References (Please give full details of any authors you have referenced in your text)