Goonhilly Wind Farm Community Fund
The Goonhilly Wind Farm Community Fund will provide grants up to £20,000, and multi-year grants of up to three years where appropriate. All organisations must be working to the improve the lives of people living in the TR12 postcode.
Priority will be given to organisations that:
- Address a clear community need
- Demonstrate sustainable impact
- Engage volunteers
- Diverse projectsA piece of work that delivers an output. that will have a longer-term positive effect in the community.
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Grant requirements
To apply for a grant your organisation must meet the general Eligibility criteria. In addition to this, you must also meet the specific criteria of the grant listed below:
Who can apply:
- Charities, CICs and community and voluntary groups working in the TR12 postcode.
- To be eligible to apply your organisation must be based in and solely for the benefit of people in the TR12 postcode.
What it will support:
- Projects that improve the quality of life, independence, or inclusion of people in the TR12 postcode.
- The panel will consider applications for a wide range of projects, including funding for activities, advice and support, capital projects such as new equipment or building work and training.
- Start-up costs for new projects
Please note any Multi year funding would require an impact report to be submitted within 10 months (w/c 27th September 2027) to allow for year two funding to be paid out in time within a 12-month period. Time line for year three would be set once year two payment has been made.
- Projects or activities outside the TR12 postcode
- Commercial profit-making organisations
- Organisations with significant free reserves
- Statutory/public sector organisations such as health authorities, schools, hospitals, parish and town councils
- Contributions to an endowment, payment of deficit funding or repayment of loans
- Grant making organisations or bodies who fundraise or distribute grants on behalf of other organisations
- Activities or projects which have already happened
- Regional offices of national bodies that do not benefit local people
- Organisation that are not correctly constituted
- Organisations whose beneficiaries are not people
- Organisations or projects intended to influence people’s religious choices or faith groups or to promote a particular belief system
- The promotion of political causes.
- Building repairs for churches and halls are not covered, unless the wider community is to benefit.
- Core Costs that are not related to the project/programme delivery.
Please note the reporting requirements for multi-year funding when applying.
REG Windpower own and manage Goonhilly Wind Farm and contribute to a fund to support good causes local to the site. Since the beginning of 2012, the Goonhilly Community Fund has invested more than £800,000 in projects supporting TR12 communities.
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Projects this grant has already supported:
Grant from Goonhilly Wind Farm funds new accessible facilities at community hall
A grant of £5,000 from the Goonhilly Wind Farm FundA sum of money made available for grant making, often with […]
Coverack Gig Club restore their pilot gig The Lark with a grant from The Goonhilly Wind Farm Community Fund
For the last 25 years Coverack Gig Club has provided affordable, friendly , competitive , inclusive welcoming and sustainable rowing […]
Gweek Seals under-fives playgroup supports vulnerable families with a grant from the Goonhilly Wind Farm Community Fund
The Gweek Seals Under Fives Playgroup enables families to meet twice a week at a low cost in a warm, […]
Village Hall and Walled Garden Charity Group in Coverack furnish two new community spaces with a grant from The Goonhilly Wind Farm Community Fund
The Village Hall and Walled Garden Charity Group operate the village hall at the heart of the community. They run […]
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