We want Your Fund Surrey to be as easy as possible for communities to access, but we must stay true to our number one aim of delivering meaningful improvements to local areas.
Your Fund Surrey is there to bring community led projects to life that make a real difference to local areas with a focus on providing wide community benefits that leave a real legacy.
By 'community-led projects' we mean projects that are identified and driven by the community coming together. Examples to show how your project is community led could be surveys or consultation events with the wider community, including non-members or groups not currently using your facility. The National Lottery have produced a short video we think fits well with YFS and helps to explain the ethos behind incorporating the whole community in a project. You can watch the video below:
People in The Lead
The Your Fund Surrey - Large Community Projects fund is comprised of public money, and it is essential that it is put to good use.
Please see the criteria for the fund below:
Criteria | Details |
---|---|
Eligibility | You are eligible to apply for the YFS - Large Community Fund if you are/ or part of a:
|
We do not fund |
|
Funding requirements |
|
We strongly encourage applications from groups that |
|
Building renovations and/or community halls | Your Fund Surrey is looking for projects that can demonstrate that their idea is community-led, will leave a long-lasting positive impact and deliver wider community benefit. Clubhouse/building renovations are within scope of the fund; however, we want to see how the project would benefit local residents beyond existing users and club membership. For example, a project may include a hall or meeting room space that will be offered to local community groups at an affordable rate to deliver different types of activities, meetings and initiatives. Other applications might also be looking to improve their facilities so they can offer their service to a wider range of the population for instance providing access to facilities to a range of ages, gender, ethnicity and physical abilities. |
Full submission criteria
Criteria to be scored against | Details |
---|---|
How will the project be delivered? | Projects should have a clear project plan in place to show how the project will be delivered and demonstrate it necessary support needed to do so. The application will be assessed by looking at the following information alongside all other documentation:
|
Is there any additional help needed to run the project? | Proposals should highlight if there are additional people or volunteers that can be called upon, or money from other sources that can be used to make the project work.
|
What are the long-term benefits? | Please outline how using the funding will have lasting benefits, for at least five years going forward, explaining who will benefit and how they will benefit. The application will be assessed by looking at the following information alongside all other documentation:
Please look at the Community Vision for Surrey 2030 for further information. |
Does it make a positive difference to people's lives? | Show us how the project will make a positive difference to peoples' lives and the wider community. This could include improving people's health and wellbeing, the environment around them or helping people to come together. The application will be assessed by looking at the following information alongside all other documentation:
|
Has the environmental impact of the project been considered? | Show that the project will encourage sustainable practices and activity and that long term it won't have a negative impact on the environment. Please find further support for this area of your application on the Your Fund Surrey application support webpages. |
Is there wider community support? | Using the Commonplace platform, you will need to demonstrate that others in your community support the project idea and that it will benefit the wider community. |
The governance behind Your Fund Surrey is currently being updated. For more information or if you have any questions about the criteria for the Your Fund Surrey Large Community Projects, please email yourfund@surreycc.gov.uk.