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from their doorstep to get close to nature. You
can describe this to the funder as “lack of Access
to Natural and Green Spaces as per The ANGst
Standards”. You will need to do a little online
research to be confident that your area qualifies. You
“doorstep” standards and if your area has a low young adults with learning issues. Aspects such as these
rating (that your association’s idea could help solve) ticked several of Awards for All’s boxes.
can learn more about ANGst Standards and other
they needed to hear. Awards for All, as the name suggests, were very keen that we emphasized the inclusivity of the project with the plots being open to all. That some raised beds were proposed for disabled or wheelchair users was a strong point in our favour. We had a charity partner looking for a plot for use with
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by visiting Natural England’s Green Infrastructure Framework website (see below). Example of an Outcome:“doorstep access to nature is encouraged and improved in [ward/town] area.”
• Lack of Green Infrastructure. This is the interconnected green spaces in an area, allotments are included in the definition of green space infrastructure. You can describe this to the funder as “lack of provision of Green Infrastructure” if you are looking for funding for a new allotment site, or as a “contribution to Green Infrastructure” if you are describing an existing allotment site. You can find more information about Green Infrastructure by visiting Natural England’s Green Infrastructure Framework website. There are interactive maps and buttons you can click on to show which types of deprivation occur in your area, again remember to look at the entire council boundary area not just the immediate streets around your site. Example of an Outcome:“creation/Improvement of green infrastructure in [ward/town] area.”
CASE STUDY: “Providing Evidence of Need & Outcomes: Tweedbank Allotment Society in the Scottish Borders”
The society identified two potential funders to fund infrastructure for their brand new allotment site: Awards for All (The National Lottery) and the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund (a National Strategic Infrastructure Fund, see Part 3).
“The two funds had slightly different slants on what
On the other hand, the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund was more concerned about the green credentials of the scheme. Tweedbank, a new village built from
the 1970s, lacks domestic gardens or areas to grow food: we were offering residents a variety of options to grow their own. The ‘lack of food miles’ was a strong part of our bid as was the fact that we can make our own compost from waste from the site plus recycling carbon sources such as waste paper. The part of each bid that each provider would support varied due to this. Awards for All were keen on overall structure helping with fencing and raised bed building. They would not countenance helping with a communal shed, whereas the landfill tax was very keen to support this.
We got an overall figure for the project and split it amongst which funder it was thought would be most keen to promote which part of the project and how it fitted with the funding required. At this stage we got an opportunity to get free labour from Community Payback (see Part 2). By using this scheme we would only have to buy raw materials and they would provide the labour, cutting our overall costs dramatically. At that stage we found we could provide a better quality layout and a few items from the wish list were moved up. Items such as wooden plot frames to delineate the site we added, as were more compost bins and a water collection system, gravel for the public areas.
Our total request for around £16000 was submitted and several questions were subsequently raised and answered. In the end we managed to get around
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