Limavady Borough Council Community Services Programme

Overview

To involve people significantly in the process that lead to decisions affecting their lives
To create the means whereby people can obtain a greater sense of belonging, i.e. community spirit.
With the assistance of statutory and voluntary agencies to encourage the local community themselves to provide services which meet the needs of people.

Levels and Types of Grant Aid

• Seeding Grants (£100 to groups in their first year)
• Community Groups without premises: Administration Grant to groups without premises (75% of expenses up to a maximum of £100 per year); Special Events - Insurance, prizes, speakers, etc. (75% of expenses up to a maximum of £300 per year); Training (75% of expenditure on training courses approved by the Council up to a maximum of £75 per group per year).
• Community Groups with premises - 75% up to a maximum of £2000 per group per year to cover insurance, heat and light, rent and rates, maintenance, programme development, administration, special events, training.
• Summer Scheme Grants (up to £100)
• Emergency Grants (One off payment up to £100 for extreme circumstances)
• Discretionary Grant (One off payment to assist groups demonstrating new community initiatives/projects and who are not in receipt of recurrent grants from other statutory bodies of up to £100)
• Neighbourhood Renewal programme - this funding is only available to groups in the Neighbourhood Renewal Area, The Glens Estate, Hospital Lane Estate, Coolessan Estate, Josephine Avenue and Roe Mill Road in Limavady. This funding is based around four objectives, community renewal, social renewal, physical renewal and economic renewal. The programme is available until March 2015. There is no closing dates. Parties interested in funding through Neighbourhood Renewal need to get involved with one of the sub groups as all proposals for projects go through this and then through the Neighbourhood Renewal Partnership Board. For more information contact Ursuala Coll at ursula.col@limavady.gov.uk or on 02877760304.
• Community Groups must have a constitution, be non political and non sectarian and the committee must have been elected at a publicly advertised Annual General Meeting. They must be locally based voluntary groups who are providing a range of services to a wide range of ages within their own community.

The funding is retrospective, so community groups must spend and then claim the funding from Council.