1 Our capital grants and you. 2 Capital grants How Where Why Who What When How Much.

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Our capital grants and you

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Capital grants

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Where

Why

Who

What

When

How Much

Things we do fund

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• Allotments, burial grounds, recreation grounds, ponds, green spaces and public car parks

• Festive decorations, village signs, notice boards, memorials and clocks

• Leisure, play and sports facilities

• Community and public buildings (including public toilets)

• Equipment purchases including defibrillators, furniture, AV/IT items and much more

• Purchase of land/property for community use

• Community website design (or similar)

* List based on the roles of parish/town councils on the NALC and loval.gov websites

Things we don’t fund

• Litter and dog waste bins

• Entertainment, community festivals and public art

• Sport development/active communities

• Community safety and preventing anti-social behaviour

• Flood prevention/alleviation

• General spending (revenue costs)

• Bridleways, footpaths and rights of way

• Street lighting, roads, traffic signs, bus shelters and verge/service strip maintenance 

• Traffic calming and speed management

• Community transport schemes4

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Recent improvements

•One scheme for large and small grants

•Open more often

•Removed the £100,000 maximum

•Added a £1,000 minimum

•Pay in two stages

•Removed the two-year break before applying again

•Revised the scoring criteria

Other grants my team look after

Revenue grants •For non-profit community organisations excluding local councils and statutory bodies

•Committed the funding for four years from 2013/14 – 2016/17

•Fund services that work with priorities from our corporate plan

•The services we fund are offered district wide or help specific vulnerable groups

Young Achiever Awards•Open to 11 – 18 year olds living in the district

•Categories are citizenship, art and sport

•Can receive up to £250 6

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Other council services and you

Name of service/scheme Team responsible

Community loans (low interest) Finance

Flooding grants Technical services

Community safety grants and advice

Community safety

Community led planning advice Policy and partnerships

Community art projects Art development

Neighbourhood planning / Local plan

Planning policy

Sport participation/development Leisure

Section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy contributions

Planning policy

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What’s on offer for your parishioners

Type of assistance Team responsible

Fuel poverty (residential) and energy saving home improvements

Policy and partnerships

Disabled facility grants (residential) and small home repairs

Environmental health

Empty home loans and help to buy scheme (residential)

Housing team

Home improvements loans Environmental health

Mortgage rescue scheme and homelessness prevention

Housing team

LEADER grants (for organisations) Economic development

Contact us on 01235 540525 or [email protected]

Carole Cumming

grants team leader

Sophie Milton

grants officer

Shona Ware

communications and grants manager

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Contacting the grants team