Angus Council Community Grant Scheme
The Angus Council Community grant scheme aims to support small community and voluntary groups across Angus and with a grant towards the cost of a range of projects including in the fields of arts, heritage, the environment or sport. We may also support activities that are educational, health related or generally improved people's quality of life.
Frequently Asked Questions
What can you fund?
We may give you money for things like:
- buying new equipment and materials for example for a playgroup or youth centre
- providing training courses
- setting up or starting up a new group
- running a conference or seminar
- upgrading or improving a community hall
- advertising and marketing an event or a new brochure or book about your area
- employing a consultant to carry out a feasibility study - this means a study to find out if there is a need for your project and if what you plan to do is possible.
Your project could combine a range of different activities.
How much can we get?
You can ask for any amount of up to £5,000. This is the most that we will give your group in any 12 month period (starting from the date we send you your grant offer letter). You can only make one application at a time. Grants of up to £1000 can be dealt with quite quickly while grants of over £1000 and up to £5,000 take longer to process as they are decided by Angus Council elected members at Angus Council's Corporate Services Committee.
The total cost of the project can be more than £5,000 but we will only give up to £5,000 towards it. You can match fund your project from your own, private, trust, lottery or EU funds. You can also match fund your application from Common Good Monies.
When can we apply?
You can apply at any time but at least two months before your project is due to start.
How do we apply?
You can get an application form and guidance notes
- by phoning Angus Council's External Funding Team on 01307 473222 or ACCESSLine on 08452 777 778
- by using the online Enquiries & Requests form
- by e-mailing: externalfunding@angus.gov.uk or accessline@angus.gov.uk
- in person from any ACCESS Office
- by downloading them by going to this website's Community Grant Scheme section. Application forms and guidance notes are available in Word or PDF formats.
You can send your application by post to:
Senior External Funding Officer
Angus Council
County Buildings
Market Street
Forfar DD8 3WD
Or you can complete your application and e-mail it with any attachments to externalfunding@angus.gov.uk
How do you assess our application?
We will check your application form and additional documents to see if it is complete. If your application is not complete, we will contact you to get the missing information, and may have to send the form back to you. An incomplete form is the most common cause of delay, so use the checklist to make sure that you've sent us everything we need.
Once we are happy your application is complete, we will send you a letter of acknowledgement within five working days telling you the reference number for your application. You should use this reference number in any correspondence with us.
One or several of our officers will assess your application, and we may contact you to get more information. They will look at how your group is set up, how well your application fits our aims, and the costs that you have asked for. These costs should be realistic and give value for money, and we expect you to contribute something towards your project. This could be cash, or it could be something in kind such as time, materials, transport or use of premises.
What happens once you make a decision?
If you have applied for less than £1000 you should hear the result within two months of us receiving your completed application form.
Angus Council's Corporate Services Committee makes a decision on all applications over £1000, based on the information you have given us. We aim to let you know their decision as quickly as possible after the Committee meeting.
If your application is successful, we will send you a letter telling you how much the grant is and when we will pay it. You must spend the grant within one year of the date on our award letter, and complete an end of project monitoring report form. We will also ask for copies of receipts where your grant is for the purchase of equipment, materials etc and evidence of publicity. We may also attach other conditions to your grant.
If your application is not successful, we will write to you telling you the main reasons why.
Can we apply again?
We welcome applications from groups who’ve had a grant from us before. Once you have spent your grant and we have received your end of project monitoring report form, you can apply again. However we consider each application individually, so there's no guarantee that we will give you another grant. You can also apply within the same year for a grant for a different activity. However the two grant requests should not be for more than £5,000 in total. All requests are subject to availability of funding.
If we turned down your application, you can apply again. We will always write to you telling you the reasons why your application was not successful.
Who do I contact for further information?
Senior External Funding Officer
County Buildings
Market Street
Forfar DD8 3WD
Tel: 01307 473222
Fax: 01307 467357
Use the online Enquiries & Requests form.
Service Page: grantaid.htm
Service Details Last Reviewed : 17 March 2010