Bath Communities Partnership

Funding: £96,000

Date of funding approved: March 2003

Date of project completion: March 2007

Project summary

The project is to establish and administer a fund from which small grants will be made to finance the development and/or implementation of community based regeneration projects.

To be eligible for grant funding, projects will be required to help toward achieving one or more of the Bath Communities Partnership objectives:

• Enhance the employment prospects, education and skills of local people.
• Address social exclusion and enhance opportunities for the disadvantaged.
• Promote sustainable regeneration, improving and protecting the environment and infrastructure, including housing.
• Support and promote growth in local economies and businesses.  Tackle crime and drug abuse and improve community safety.
• Reduce health inequalities, and improve health indicators in target areas and groups.
• Empower disadvantaged communities and groups to be integral to decision making.

In addition, applicants will be required to demonstrate that they:

• Have evidence of need/community support.
• Have considered other options for achieving the projects aims.
• Will achieve measurable outputs.
• For existing projects, development of the project to provide new activities or facilities that will achieve benefits and outputs additional to those already provided.
• Are complementary in relation to other activities.
• Have funding from other sources that will match and not duplicate RDA funding
• Effective arrangements for implementation, management and monitoring.
• An exit/forward strategy for the project.

Applicants will need to be able to contribute at least 25% othe total funding they require from other named sources. This contribution could be wholly or partly in kind. The maximum grant suggested for the scheme is £2,000.

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