Augean revenue and small grants fund

Provision, maintenance or improvement of facilities or schemes that increase:

• health and wellbeing and active lifestyle participation in the community
• volunteering within community to contribute to community self-help
• financial resilience and sustainability for community groups
• existing community services offered that benefit the wider community

• Large capital purchases in excess of £5,000 (e.g. sports facility improvements)
• Works that are considered a statutory responsibility (e.g. verge mowing)
• Projects that have exclusive membership and do not allow anyone to join
• Any commercial or business venture which makes a profit
• Religious promotion
• Political promotion
• Replacement of facilities subject to an insurance claim
• Land banking
• Organisations with more than 12 months free reserves unless a good reason can be given 

To help make your application as clear as possible, please include:

1. How you will measure project outcomes - what monitoring you have in place or how you will monitor how successful the project has been to deliver the outcomes mentioned above. (e.g 'By receiving this funding we will be able to deliver x amount of sessions and will ask participants to complete feedback forms on our service')
2. What experience you have in delivering similar projects. Give an example of what other projects you have done in the same organisation and what outcomes you achieved and how you monitored them
3. What measures you have in place to achieve your organisation’s future financial resilience and sustain- ability. (e.g. tell us why you need to invest in this in order to receive x amount in fees back)
4. How you expect to receive good value for money. (e.g. explain how many quotes you will get to ensure the price is competitive)
5. How you have worked with the community to assess the need for this project. Please explain how the idea for the project evolved and what evidence you have to support it (e.g. consultation)
6. How you will try to source local contractors where possible. Please show how you have tried to use suppliers within the local area where applicable
7. Who will benefit from the project. Please indicate the approximate numbers of people that will benefit, their age ranges, demographics, etc
8. What will be the legacy of the project. This is the outcome and what you hope the lasting impact of the project will be

• Match funding is not required
• All awards will be subject to a grant agreement
• All grants are paid retrospectively upon receipt of invoices
• Projects cannot start before the funding application has been approved
• Applicants are responsible for ensuring they have all relevant documentation (e.g. planning permission, building control, regulations, tenancy and lease agreements)
• Activities must be widely advertised, open to the public and fully accessible to all
• The project must acknowledge the contribution of Augean PLC
• The project must have the support of the community, its need identified in consultation and be sup- ported by the management committee, landlord, town or parish council, etc, and ratified in minutes
• The amount of monies available each year differ and can be withdrawn at any time. Therefore, projects are asked to look at their other options for future sustainability
• Where the amount of monies requested exceeds the amount of monies available, preference will be given to those within a 5-mile radius
• Where the amount required from applications exceed the amount of funding available, priority will be given to those projects that best meet the outcomes

This is not an exhaustive list, and the Augean Revenue and Smaller Grants Fund Ward Councillors and Advisory Panel makes its recommendations based on the information provided by each application. The more detail that is given, the more information we have to assess your application.

If you have any questions, please contact the Grants team at [email protected].