The Second Star Community Cash Giveaway - full application process
Please note that this funding is no longer available. Visit the Apply for a Grant section for further details on grants currently available from SYCF.
UNSUNG heroes working to help local communities could be set for a cash boost from the second Star Community Cash Giveaway in association with the South Yorkshire Community Foundation.
The Star Community Cash Giveaway will provide much needed assistance to the area's volunteer led projects, with grants of up to £5,000 available for those making a difference in their area.
The funding has been made available through SYCF's Grassroots Grants programme that offers grants to community groups in the area, and a bumper pot has been made available for The Star's readers.
Voluntary or community organisations that operate for the benefit of residents in Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield and have an annual income of less than £30,000 could be eligible to get hold of a grant to boost their activities.
The type of group or organisation that are eligible will:
- Be a not-for-profit, voluntary or community group.
- Have an income of less than £30,000 per annum.
- Be volunteer led (i.e. with mainly volunteer based input).
- Have a governing document – ie constitution or set of rules.
- Operate for the benefit of their local communities in Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield.
The funding can be entirely for capital purchases (e.g. computers, photocopiers, digital projectors, etc), or for operational costs (e.g. rent, stationery, telephone costs, activities, etc) or a mixture of both.
How much can you apply for?
Grants of up to £5,000 are available for this Community Cash Giveaway with with The Star.
If successful, grants must be spent and monitored by March 31, 2011.
Who and what cannot be funded?
- Statutory organisations such as local authorities, schools and the Police.
- Regional or local offices of a national organisation.
- Activities that promote political or religious beliefs. Groups that are based in a religious building can apply, providing the activity / project is open to all people in the community.
- Retrospective funding – this includes activities that have already taken place or repayment of money that you have already spent.
- Individuals.
- Organisations that operate for the sole benefit or relief of animals or plants. Grassroots Grants are for the direct benefit of communities of people only. This does not preclude city farms or other groups and organisations that work with animals and/or the environment to benefit people from applying.
How to apply
If you want to apply to Grassroots Grants please complete the online application form via the link below.
FULL APPLICATION FORM FOR THE STAR COMMUNITY CASH GIVEAWAY
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 whose 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.
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