The Prince's Countryside Fund: Rural Response Emergency Grants Programme

Archived Community and neighbourhood development Community development Health promotion Health, wellbeing and sport organisational development Poverty and deprivation Rescue and emergency Rural development social enterprise Social inclusion Social welfare and poverty Strategic and project planning Trading Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales Micro (up to £1,000) Small (up to £10,000)

Track grant Notes

Overview

To be eligible for a grant you will need to demonstrate that your project is providing emergency relief to vulnerable or isolated individuals in rural or farming communities across the UK.

Criteria

The Prince’s Countryside Fund (“the Fund”) will fund organisations operating in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland if they:

are providing emergency relief to vulnerable or isolated individuals or;
are providing support to farmers and farm businesses affected by the Coronavirus pandemic or;
are assisting rural or farming communities to cope with the Coronavirus pandemic.

Who can apply?

Applications are accepted from constituted not for profit organisations with the following types of legal structure (please note this list is not exhaustive):

• Registered Charities (including Charitable Incorporated Organisations)
• Community Benefit Societies
• Community Interest Companies
• Companies limited by guarantee
• Social enterprises

What is funded?

The Fund will assist projects that support farm businesses or other rural business and rural communities to cope with the effects of Coronavirus. This many include but is not limited to:

Fuel costs for grocery and prescription delivery from rural community shops, pubs, and hubs
Costs associated with emergency support by farm and agricultural support groups
Rural foodbanks and food delivery

The money they provide is intended to cover additional costs generated as a result of your response to the Coronavirus. Grants could be used for core costs when current income has been lost as a result of the Coronavirus, or additional wage costs, or petrol/delivery costs and so on, but they would politely ask organisations to be mindful of limited resources and recognise that these are emergency grants intended for costs outside their “normal” expenditure

What funding is available?

Amount of funding Organisations can apply for a maximum of £2,500 (inclusive of VAT) of funding from this grant pot.

Applications for project and core/running costs will be considered.
Applications for capital funding are accepted but only for the purchase of equipment.
The Fund does not accept capital funding requests for the purchase of buildings or land
Funding will be provided immediately following receipt of a signed contract.

For more information, including detailed guidance see the guidelines