Transcript Grants and Funding - Action with Communities in Rural Kent

ESF Community Grants
in Kent and Medway
Action with Communities in Rural Kent
What happens when the money
gets to Rural Kent?
Three budgets:
Project Management
Capacity Building
The grant pot itself
Action with Communities in Rural Kent
Project Management
Helping groups and organisations to:
• help themselves to the money
• make sure the grant fits their project
• be prepared for the hefty paperwork
• meet their targets
• spend their money
• meet evidencing requirements
• network
The role is
one of
flexible,
critical friend!
Helping the panel to make sound decisions based on local
knowledge
Action with Communities in Rural Kent
Capacity Building
This pot has been used to fund
sessions such as
• Funding and bid-writing
• Organisational Development
• Evaluation
• Today’s event!
.
We have provided
1:1 training, at
home, after work,
to set up and use
a spreadsheet ...
Action with Communities in Rural Kent
The Grant Pot
£224,557.00
• 92 applications received
• 64 went to panel (70%)
• 23 were funded (36%)
.
An estimated
585
beneficiaries
will have been
supported!
Action with Communities in Rural Kent
The Projects
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“She was living like a hermit.
Now she says she gets an
adrenaline rush every time she comes up to the farm”
Action with Communities in Rural Kent
Good Practice
Lots of well researched projects;
realistic, manageable, well
organised - putting good reporting
systems in place and then getting
on with the work
TillSkills
Action Women! Network to Work
Passport to Employment
14 of the 60 groups
and organisations
supported over the
last 4 years have
collaborated to apply
for further EU
funding.
“It was a year well spent for those who engaged with the project and
took the help on offer ... they remain in voluntary work or education ...
and are rebuilding their lives slowly but surely”.
Action with Communities in Rural Kent
Challenges
Paperwork! Paperwork! Paperwork!
The most difficult question we have to
answer?
Balance right between making sure people
are aware of the requirements, without
putting them off.
True administration costs are hidden.
Small/new/innovative projects inevitably
have teething problems that cause delays
within a tight timeframe.
We want to work
with groups to give
pre-application
advice and to help
them develop their
project so that they
can access the
funding that is
meant for them
Action with Communities in Rural Kent
What Next?
Take up opportunities to network and build
partnerships
There may be some additional funding: be
prepared for a quick turnaround
Keep in touch!
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[email protected]