Details
- Name of Service - Community Partnership and Engagement
- Directorate – Customers and Communities
- Date of Issue: 23 January 2023
- Date of current version – 23 January 2023
- Review Date: 23 January 2025
Notice
The reasons why we use your personal data
This privacy notice applies to the functions of the Your Fund Surrey team on behalf of the Customer and Communities Service for the Council.
Our commitment is:
To engage and empower community-led place-making projects by being open, transparent, and accountable in our assessment and granting of funds.
To enable local Communities to carry out projects to improve their local area.
To encourage communities to contribute ideas by:
- Connecting - residents and community groups to build ideas
- Stimulating - local engagement and involvement
- Providing - the financial backing for community-led projects
- Delivering - benefits that match local need
- Building - local resilience and sustainability by helping people help themselves
To ensure submissions via the applications, assessment and approval process meet the criteria* and propose to deliver positive benefit for local people.
* As grant funding is paid from public funds, which are subject to scrutiny, the process at all stages involved will be subject to research and statistical analysis, auditing and evaluation on the use of funds.
What processing of personal data is undertaken by the team?
In order to carry out our activities and obligations your personal data in conjunction with the information about your organisation is being used as follows:
Submitting an application
As part of the application process, information is obtained from individuals, groups and organisations who have registered on the application portal to apply for funding using the online application form. By logging onto the portal applicants can change their details or close their account at any time.
Assessment and granting of funding
As part of the assessment and approval process, potential successful applicants' data will be subject to verification processes, anti-fraud checks, in accordance with our legal obligations.
Use and granting of public funds will be subject to scrutiny and include the following
- Auditing
- Research and Statistical analysis (at an anonymised level) including fund evaluation
- Equal opportunity monitoring
- Residents who contact the Community Funding team to ask a question, or discuss their project idea, may have their contact details kept by the team in order to contact them on their idea or application.
What Information do we collect?
We collect the following personal data including related organisation information as part of the assessment, approval and granting of funding process:
- Name
- Address and contact details
- Location
- Link to the county, such as resident
- Financial information
Auditing
All personal data mentioned above and held by Your Fund on the individual and related to their organisation may be assessed.
Research and Statistical analysis including fund evaluation (reported at an anonymised level).
How we are allowed to use your personal data
For some activities we have a legal obligation or can act under a public interest task under various UK legislation. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Local Government Act
- Localism Act 2011
- Crime and Disorder Act 1998
- Welfare Reform Act 2012
- Health and Safety at Work Act
- Equalities Act 2010
We also use data where necessary for contract with the individual.
Consent
To process your personal data, we will explain to you what we are asking you to agree to and why. If we have consent to use your personal data, you have the right to remove it at any time. If you want to remove your consent, please contact us at the following email address: yfssmallcommunityfund@surreycc.gov.uk
Who we share your personal data with
We may share your data in order to respond to an enquiry or issue you have raised with us with the following:
- Councillors and other departments within the county council
- Providers including internal and external experts such as representatives from the District and Borough Councils (if associated with the proposal)
- Active Surrey
We may share your personal and related organisational data as part of the assessment and approval of your application to the National Anti-Fraud Network, credit reference and other selected agencies.
Retention of data
Data will be retained for between 6 to 12 years. The minimum term for unsuccessful applications will include the 2-year duration of the fund followed by 1 year for the purposes of evaluation.
The retention of data for successful applicants' will be dependent on the funding terms, but up to a maximum of 6 years.
The minimum standards for data retention are detailed in the our countywide data retention schedule.
Other information
For further information on our privacy notices, please see information and privacy.
