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society was able to “pay it on” and suppor t another local good cause. Grant funding amounts do not need to be large to make a difference to allotment communities and beyond.
Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs)
NSIPs are large scale development projects such as
Tywardreath
project, in this case to celebrate and commemorate HM Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee. “We decided to plant a small Jubilee Orchard on our community plot, featuring Cornish heritage apple trees. We also wanted to mark the occasion with a cream tea event for members. With the funding, we bought and planted one each of three varieties – Ben’s Red, Duke of Cornwall and Tregonna King. Our cream tea event on 9th July was sponsored by Rodda’s ‘Good Deeds’ which provides free cream and jam for community events to raise money for local charities. Our members enjoyed the cream teas and seeing the new Jubilee Orchard. Through their own donations on the day, we were able to send £100 to a local group “Man Down (Cornwall)”, which addresses men’s mental health issues in the county. Via local council funding the society was able
to fund its own idea. By obtaining sponsorship from a business the society was able to celebrate its success with a social event for all plotholders. In addition, the
new nuclear power stations, railway lines, open cast mining, large wind turbine sites, landfill sites, major
road widening schemes. They are almost always accompanied by some form of funding scheme for the local communities in the wider geographic area which they directly affect. This is to make up for disruption and other negative effects of the project. These funds are usually well publicised in the geographic area they cover and often run for many years, although timescales can vary. Your association’s ‘local voluntary organisations support service’ (see funding routes, part 4) can usually advise if there are any of these funds active in your area and which organisation manages applications.
Police and anti-crime funding
There is a crime commissioner for every part of England and Wales; Scotland has chief constables. Although not guaranteed, these officials or their area constabularies may have small grant schemes from time to time for community groups for crime prevention such as allotment site security.
Congratulations! Your association can now consider which types of grant funding are right for your association.
This factsheet is one part of the ten part “NAS Members Guide to Funding”. All ten parts are available to download free of charge from the Members Area of the NAS website.
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