Your Fund Surrey Small Community Projects fund is for capital funding. Capital funding is money to improve a building, equipment, infrastructure or software.
Revenue funding costs, such as on-going running and maintenance costs cannot be covered by this fund.
Please see the criteria for the fund below:
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Eligibility | You are eligible to apply for Your Fund Surrey if you are/ or part of a: - Voluntary or community organisation
- Registered charity
- Constituted group or club
- Community interest company (CIC)
- Social enterprise
- School or statutory body (including town, parish or community council)
- Local business
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We do not fund | - Projects supporting political organisations or individuals
- Ongoing revenue costs such as salaries or running costs
- Replacing any withdrawn funding from Surrey County Council or existing projects
- Funding public sector bodies or private companies to carry out their statutory duties
- Projects that contravene any of Surrey County Council's agreed policies or priorities
- Paying for a consultant to make an application to the fund on the applicants' behalf
- Retrospective funding
- Highways projects
- The purchase of land and/or property.
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Funding requirements | Applicants for the Small Community Projects fund must be able to demonstrate that the project supports at least one of the aims of Surrey's Community Vision 2030 listed below: - Children and young people feel safe and confident
- Everyone benefits from education, skills and employment opportunities
- Everyone lives healthy, active and fulfilling lives
- Everyone gets the health and social care support they need
- Communities are welcoming and supportive
- Residents live in clean, safe and green communities
- Journeys across the county are easier and safer
- Everyone has a place they can call home
- Businesses in Surrey thrive
- Communities are well connected and grow sustainably
Applicants must also demonstrate that they have engaged with their local community and there is support for their project. |
Funding conditions | - Allocated funding must be spent or the project commenced within 6 months of award.
- Applications will be considered for projects between £1,000 and £50,000.
- Any projects or individual purchases under £25,000 will require evidence of cost but, in accordance with the Council's procurement guidelines, projects or individual purchases between £25,000 and £50,000 will require three quotations.
- The funding can form part of a larger project, as long as the total project value does not exceed £50,000.
- Surrey County Councillors are able to pool their funding to support a project, as long as the total project value does not exceed £50,000.
- Applicants can only apply to one Surrey County Council community funding for the same project.
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If you have any questions about the criteria for the Your Fund Surrey Small Community Projects fund, please email YFSsmallcommunityfund@surreycc.gov.uk.
