Looking for welcoming spaces
Welcoming space | Telephone | Opening days and times |
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Badby Village Hall | 01327 439651 | Last Friday in the month 2pm to 4pm |
Brixworth Library Spratton Road, Brixworth, NN6 9DS | 0300 126 7000 |
Monday to Friday Saturday |
Charwelton Village Hall, Church Street, Charwelton, NN11 3YY | 07817 973642 | TBA |
Clipston Village Hall High Street, Clipston, LE16 9RU | 01858 525275 | Available all day every day dependent on level of grant funding and number of volunteers to run it |
Crick Old School Church Street, Crick, NN6 7TP | 07763 749075 | Tuesday 3pm to 4:30pm Thursday 10:30am to midday |
Daventry Library, The Abbey, Daventry, NN11 4XG | 0300 126 7000 |
Monday to Friday Saturday |
Daventry Volunteer Centre The New Street Centre 13 New Street Daventry NN11 4BT | 01327 300614 | Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9:30 to 12 noon |
Holy Cross Church Church Walk Daventry NN11 4BL | 01327 438032 | Fridays 10 to 12 noon |
Moulton Community Centre Sandy Hill Reedings Moulton NN3 7AX | 01604 642202 |
Monday Saturday |
Olive Branch Community Coffee Shop Brixworth Library and Community Centre Spratton Road Brixworth Northampton NN6 9DS | 01604 889030 |
Friday Saturday |
Southbrook Community Centre Hood Road Daventry NN11 4JS | 01327 624872 |
Wednesday Thursday |
Warm Welcome on Wednesdays at Long Buckby and Brington Baptist Church Market Place, Long Buckby, NN6 7RR | 01327 842587 | Wednesdays (term-time only) Midday to 2pm |
Welton Good Neighbours Tuesday Café | 07938 237070 | 2nd Tuesday of the month 2pm - 4pm |
West Haddon Parish Council - Daisies Café West Haddon Community Hub, Northampton Road, West Haddon NN6 7AS | 07493 366527 |
Tuesdays Thursdays |
Windsor Lodge Tea Room 5 New Street Daventry NN11 4BT | 01327 702061 |
Tuesday to Friday |
Woodford Halse Community Library Friends Group School Street Woodford Halse NN11 3RL | 01327 263054 | Wednesday 10am to 2pm Thursday 2pm to 5pm Friday 2pm to 5pm Saturday 10am to 12 noon |
Welcoming space | Telephone | Opening days and times |
---|---|---|
4U Community Café St Davids church hall Eastern Ave South Kingsthorpe Northampton NN2 7QB | 07896 981011 | Saturdays 9am to 12 noon |
Albanian Cultural Association | 07401 292728 |
Wednesday Sunday |
Bradlaugh Fields and Barn | 07523 474159 |
Monday to Friday Saturday and Sunday |
C2C Social Action Northampton Women's Centre, 1-9 Overstone Road, Northampton NN1 3JL | 01604 824080 | Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 10am to 2pm |
Christ Church, Northampton Parochial Parish Council Christ Church Road, Northampton NN1 5LL | 07904 937908 07525 257547 | Wednesday 10:30am to 12 noon |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 137 Harlestone Road Northampton NN5 6AA | 07927 318603 | Wednesday 9am to 12 noon |
Community Court Yard 62 Gold Street, Northampton, NN1 1RS | 01604 639545 |
Monday to Friday 10am to 2pm Saturday and Sunday 11am to 4pm |
Doddridge Centre 109 St James Road, Northampton, NN5 5LD | 01604 586384 | Monday to Friday 8:30am to 3:15pm Saturday 9:30am to 12:30pm |
Duston Library, Pendle Road, Duston, NN5 6DT | 0300 126 7000 |
Monday to Friday Saturday 10am to 2pm |
East Hunsbury Parish Council Parish Office, Hunsbury Library, Overslade Close, Northampton, NN4 0RZ | 01604 708429 | Wednesday 10am to 2pm |
Friends of Abington Library (FOAL) 18 Lindsay Avenue, Headlands, Northampton NN3 2SJ | 07592 513792 (during library hours only) |
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday First Saturday, every month |
Growing Together Northampton Blackthorn Bridge Court or Blackthorn Community Centre Longmead Court NN3 8QH | 01604 411166 |
Mondays Tuesdays Thursday We also run Tots sessions at Thorplands x2 , Goldings and Blackthorn weekly in term time Gardening groups with coffee drop in 10am to 12 noon Tuesday and Thursday at Blackthorn Community Centre |
Heathers 86 Kingsley Park Terrace Northampton NN2 7HJ | 01604 717648 | Monday to Friday 8am to 2pm as Café Monday 2pm community litter pick Tuesday 2pm for an hour book group each fortnight or ideas group - helping people start ideas. Wednesday 2pm action for Happiness Thursday 6pm to 9pm craft group. First Thursday of month 6pm to 7pm menopause café |
Hunsbury Library Overslade close, Hunsbury, Northampton, NN4 0RZ | 0300 126 7000 |
Monday to Friday Saturday |
Living Well OT Wellbeing Group Eden Close Community Hub Eden Close Lakeview Northampton NN3 6NS | 07512 187404 | 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month, 2pm to 4pm |
Living Well OT Wellbeing Group James Lewis Court Community Hub James Lewis Court Cherry Orchard Northampton NN3 2TH | 07512 187404 | 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month, 2pm to 4pm |
Living Well OT Public Living Room Eastfield Close Community Hub Eastfield Close Duston NN5 6AL | 07512 187404 | 1st and 3rd Monday of each month 10am to 12pm |
Living Well OT Cognition Café Parsons Meade Community Hub Eastfield Close Duston NN4 9PS | 07512 187404 | 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, 10am to 12pm |
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church 147 - 153 Kettering Road Northampton NN1 4BS | 07904 426629 | Thursdays 1pm to 3:30pm |
New Life Church | 07519 763850 | Every Wednesday from 9:30am to midday |
Northampton Town FC Community Trust Sixfields Stadium, Walter Tull Way, NN5 5QA | 01604 683726 | Monday 10:30am to midday |
Northamptonshire Central Library Abington Street, Northampton, NN1 2BA | 0300 126 7000 |
Monday to Friday Saturday |
Power of the mind networks Spring Lane, Northampton, NN1 2JW | 07932 826673 | Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday |
St Benedict's Church NN4 9UF | 07564 605275 | Mondays and Fridays |
Ramgarhia Board Northampton Cromwell Street, Northampton, NN1 2TE | 07708 371697 | Friday 12 noon to 2pm |
Renew 88 Well-being St Davids church hall Eastern Ave South Kingsthorpe Northampton NN2 7QB | 07896 981011 | Wednesdays 10am to1pm |
Renew 147 Wellbeing Café 147 Kettering Road, Northampton, NN1 4BS | 07904 426629 | Thursdays 1pm to 3:30pm |
Re:Store Northampton 42 Sheep Street, Northampton, NN1 2LZ | 01604 328046 | Monday 10am to midday (families only) Tuesday 11:30am to 1:30pm |
SCCYC Waterside Connect 35-37 St James Mill Road NN5 5JW | 07770 088568 | Thursday and Friday 10am to 2pm |
Semilong Community Centre Norfolk Terrace Northampton NN2 6HS | 07763 361588 |
Wednesday Thursday |
St Alban's Church Broadmead Avenue Northampton NN3 2RA | 07510 218554 | Friday 9am to midday |
St Albans Food Bank and Friday Drop-in 19 Squires Walk Northampton NN2 6AL | 07510 218554 | Friday 9am to 1pm |
St James Three Pillars | 07525 647463 | Tuesday and Friday 6pm to 8pm |
Sunley Hotel, University of Northampton, University Drive, NN4 8RR | 01604 892020 | Monday to Sunday 6am to 8pm |
The McCarthy-Dixon Foundation 65 Grove Road, Northampton, NN1 3LJ | 07709 497036 |
Monday Wednesdays Friday |
The Salvation Army | 07539 227156 | Flexible |
West Hunsbury 60+ Club 8 Heronsford West Hunsbury Northampton NN4 9XG | 07596 916836 | Not yet confirmed |
Weston Favell Library Weston Favell Shopping Centre, Northampton, NN3 8JZ | 0300 126 7000 |
Monday to Friday Saturday |
Wootton Parish Council Wootton Community Centre Curtlee HIll Northampton NN4 6ED | 01604 705055 |
Monday to Friday Wednesday Saturday |
Welcoming space | Telephone | Opening days and times |
---|---|---|
Blisworth Baptist Church | 07764 461671 |
Tuesday and Friday Sunday |
Boddington Village Hall, Warwick Road, Upper Boddington, Northants, NN11 6DH | 01327 720025 or 07836 700063 | 7 days a week, 8am to 11pm |
Brackley Library Manor Road, Brackley, NN13 6AJ | 0300 126 7000 |
Monday to Friday Saturday |
Brackley Library Knit and Natter Brackley Library Manor Road, Brackley, NN13 6AJ | 07966 416025 | Monday 2pm to 4pm |
Bugbrooke Parish Council Parish Office Camp Close Bugbrooke NN7 3RW | 01604 832838 |
Monday Tuesday Thursday |
Cogenhoe & Whiston Village Hall, York Avenue, Cogenhoe, NN7 1NB | 07512 045418 | Wednesday 11am to 1pm |
Deanshanger Library Little London, Deanshanger, K19 6HT | 0300 126 7000 | Wednesday and Friday 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm |
Deanshanger Man's Club (Deanshanger Parish Council/Good Neighbours) Haven Court Ridgmont Close Deanshanger MK19 6JZ | 07879 681745 / 01908 566373 | Every second and last Wednesday of the month 7-9 pm |
Grange Park Church Kairos Centre Wilks Walk Grange Park NN4 5DW | 01604 709519 | Tuesday 9am to 12 noon term time only |
Hackleton Baptist Church/ Coffee@Carey Chapel Lane, Hackleton, Northampton, NN7 2AH | 01604 706812 | Monday - Wednesday 10am to 1pm |
Hartwell Parish Council Hartwell Community Centre School Lane Hartwell NN7 2HL | 07791 000095 | Fridays 1:30pm-4:30pm |
Helmdon Community Foundation Reading Room, 20 Church Street Helmdon Brackley NN13 5QJ | 01295 768922 |
Tuesday Thursday Friday Saturday |
Roade Community Library High Street Roade NN72NW | 01604 419316 |
Wednesday Thursday and Friday Saturday |
St Bartholomew's Church Towcester Road Greens Norton NN12 8BL | 01327 358852 | Wednesday's in term time 9am till 10:30am (Tots Group) Saturday 10am to 11:45 (Coffee morning) Wednesday's - Mums & Tots group with activities for little ones Saturday - a friendly coffee morning particularly geared to over-50s but all are welcome |
Saints (Brackley) Community Trust 13 Terrington Close Brackley Northants NN13 6EN | 07484 813072 | Wednesday from 10am |
South Northants Youth Engagement | 07816 466134 | Term time only Tuesdays - 6:30pm - 7:30pm Southfields Primary School, Brackley Fridays - 7:30pm - 9pm Brackley Leisure Centre |
Space 2 Talk Training CIC | 01327 437020 | Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am to 3pm |
Tove Benefice 88a Watling Street Towcester NN12 6BT | 01327 350459 |
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday |
Towcester St Lawrence PCC (Church) Tove Benefice, The Chantry House, 88a Watling Street, Towcester, NN12 6BT | 01327 352864 | The Church is open until 9pm and later for concerts or other uses of the building outside these hours. |
Towcester Library Towcester Library, The Forum, Moat Lane, Towcester, NN12 6AD | 0300 126 7000 |
Monday to Friday Saturday |
Wellbeing Café 169B Watling Street Towcester Northants NN12 6BX | 07761 041203 | Monday to Wednesday 10am to 3pm |
Yardley Gobion URC Chapel Chestnut Road Yardley Gobion Northants NN12 7TW | 07887 764255 | Friday 12 noon to 3pm |
There is a cost-of-living crisis in the UK resulting in unprecedented pressures on people already in poverty, and this winter despite the support given by the government, many people in West Northamptonshire will struggle to be able to afford to heat their home.
We are working with parish and town councils and partners in the voluntary and community sector to create a network of Welcoming Spaces - a group of non-judgemental, safe and welcoming places where people in West Northamptonshire can come together to stay warm, and perhaps enjoy a hot meal or a cup of tea and a biscuit.
We have created a directory of all the places available to our residents across the public, private, health and voluntary sectors so that anyone who is cold knows where they can go to stay warm and enjoy a little company and some hot refreshments this winter.
Map of Welcoming Spaces in West Northamptonshire
Why we need Welcoming Spaces
Energy bills have increased significantly for many households, and despite the support given by the government, the reality is that for most families this support will not be enough and they will still struggle with the rising cost of food and fuel, and other necessities.
This means that although people will have extra money to go towards their energy costs, it may not make enough of a difference, and many will still be torn between choosing to heat their home or put food on the table.
Using Welcoming Spaces
Everyone is invited to visit our Welcoming Spaces and will be given a warm welcome from the staff and volunteers each time they visit. Guests are treated equally, with dignity and respect. Everyone has a right to be warm, so everyone in a Welcoming Space treats people, and is treated by people, with dignity and respect.
Your Welcoming Space will be a safe space and will stick to the safeguarding policies and food hygiene rules. We won’t tell anyone about you needing a Welcoming Space, but if you want to share the reasons you need a Welcoming Space, someone will listen.
Every Welcoming Space is a non-judgemental space; whatever the reason you have for needing to come in, you'll be treated the same and never judged.
Offering Welcoming Spaces
Do you have a community building that could be used as a Welcoming Space to support people in West Northamptonshire?
As part of our Anti-Poverty Strategy we are continuing to look for Welcoming Spaces to support anyone struggling with the cost of living this winter and are keen to work with community groups and organisations that would be able to provide Welcoming Spaces within their community.
If you have a community space that can be used, please let us know
Welcoming Spaces Grant
West Northamptonshire Council can award a Welcoming Spaces Grant to support the creation and/or development of Welcoming Spaces across West Northamptonshire to support residents struggling with fuel costs.
These awards can be made to parish and town councils, community and voluntary organisations, registered charities and to other qualifying bodies.
The funding round will be open to all applications seeking a Welcoming Spaces Grant (WSG) from the value of £500 up to £1500.
The grant process will close on 1 March 2024, organisations may apply only once.
For a paper copy of the application form, please email [email protected].
Guidance for completing the form can be found below.
The Application Form
The application form is divided into five tabs:
- Introduction – summary of the grant criteria and application process. Data protection agreement must be agreed to continue the grant application process
- Organisational details – including contact details and organisation’s aims, objectives, and purpose. Tab must be completed to progress to next stage
- About your project or service – an outline of the project / service you will provide with the grant funding. Tab must be completed to progress to next stage
- Bank account details – to be used to make payment of grant if application successful
- Supporting documents – to attach key documents for the application
The appendices to this guidance contain:
- Appendix A: Grant terms and conditions
- Appendix B: Grant terms and conditions on award of grant
- Appendix C: Privacy notice
- Appendix D: Next steps
Additional guidance and support
If you require any clarification or help to complete the application form process, please email: [email protected] or call Emma Parry, Welcoming Spaces Lead/Co-ordinator, telephone number: 07435 619890 (normal working days Monday to Friday).
Guidance
This guidance should be read as you complete each question of the grant application form. The application form will be used to assess and evaluate your grant application.
It is important that you:
- complete all the relevant application form sections in full - compulsory fields are marked with a red asterisk (*), and if a question is not applicable to your application, please mark this as not applicable (N/A)
- provide all the documents requested at the same time as your application
- complete the declarations
Incomplete grant applications and grant applications awaiting further information
To be fair to all grant applicants, we will not accept incomplete applications or applications awaiting further information. These will require a new submission. This may result in your application missing the allocated funding round and, as a result, a delay until the next suitable funding round is open.
Grant application form completion guidance notes
The guidance numbers below correspond with the expandable text completion boxes on the application form. You need to only complete the boxes that are relevant to your application. You can cross reference to other questions to avoid repetition if you wish.
Tab 1 - Introduction
Grant Aims – defines aims and objectives of grant. To be used to shape grant application.
The Welcoming Spaces Grant has been developed to support the creation and/or enhancement of Welcoming Spaces provided by the voluntary and community sectors across West Northamptonshire. The programme is to provide residents with welcoming community space. Residents are offered a warm, trusted setting for people to socialise and access services tackling social isolation and cost of living challenges.
Application Criteria
- All sections of online application form must be completed to be considered for the grant
- Applications must be between £500-£1500
- Grant applications must be submitted by 1st March 2024
- Organisations may only apply once
- All supporting documentation must be uploaded
- Data protection agreement must be signed to progress All fields marked with red asterisk (*) on each tab must be completed to submit the application.
Tab 2 - Organisational details
Please complete the following:
- The organisations name, organisation type, registered charity / companies' number, and address to be completed
- The date the organisation was set up
- Outline the organisation’s aims, objectives, and purpose
- Lead person’s details including name, email address, telephone number
- Confirm if the organisation acting as a sponsor for a small group or individual
- All fields marked with red asterisk (*) on each tab must be completed to submit the application.
Tab 3 - About your project or service
Please outline the following:
- Confirm that you understand and accept the conditions of the application as set out by clicking on the box indicated
- Confirm the project / service name, a brief description of the offer and how the funding will be used; state how you will spend the money
- Confirm how many residents will access the project / service offered
- Identify which communities in West Northamptonshire will benefit from the project / service
- Confirm when you will deliver your project e.g., October 2023 – March 2024
- Confirm what will happen to the project / service once the funding ends
- Confirm how much funding you are applying for (£500-£1500)
Organisations must provide details of purchases they wish to make
All amounts claimed must be net of VAT if you are claiming back the VAT from HMRC. The council will not pay the VAT element of your costs if you can claim these back from HMRC.
Please confirm the details of what is being purchased:
- Complete the details below for the first record of what is being purchased
- Select the ‘Save details’ button to add the purchase information to the form
- Repeat steps 1 and 2 to add another record or continue with the form
Please select if your organisation is VAT registered or not.
All fields marked with red asterisk (*) on each tab must be completed to submit the application.
Tab 4 – Bank Account Details
Please complete the following details to ensure swift payment if successful. Note: Organisation Name field is prepopulated
- Email address for remittance
- Bank name
- Bank account payee
- Bank account number
- Bank account sort code ll fields marked with red asterisk (*) on each tab must be completed to submit the application
Tab 5 – Supporting Documentation
Please upload the following documents:
- Public Liability Insurance (minimum £5 million)
- Constitution or Governing Document
- Equality Policy
- Accounts ((audited accounts, independent examination, or statement of accounts)
- Child Protection Statement (if applicable)
- Vulnerable Adults Statement (if applicable)
- All fields marked with red asterisk (*) on each tab must be completed to submit the application.
Tab 6 – Applicant Declaration
Part D: Declaration
20. Agreement and Undertaking:
Please read prior to completing the declaration to ensure the application is correctly completed
- By signing this agreement, you agree to provide the following reporting:
- Attendees per month broken down by age groups, ethnicity, gender, and long-term health conditions for example Cardio-Vascular and Respiratory diseases where possible
- Number of attendees per month who have been referred on to other services for example: CAB, Social Prescribers etc
- Case studies to illustrate individual stories showing impact of use of Welcoming Spaces to their lives.
- By signing this agreement, you undertake the conditions in regard to the Data Protection Act outlined in the paragraph ‘Data Protection Act’
21. Declarations: The Declaration should be completed and signed by an authorised signatory of your organisation.
Appendix A
Grant terms and conditions
- The recipient organisation will not operate for profit for its members.
- There will be no distribution of assets or funds from this grant to any individual during the existence of the organisation or on its dissolution, other than the payment of salaries or wages that have formed part of the grant application.
- For grants provided to community and voluntary organisations, the grant recipient shall have a written constitution / Trust Deed, UK Bank Account and Audited Accounts.
- The grant recipient has not committed itself by purchase, contract or other binding agreement to expenditure relating to the project / service for which the grant is being sought (it is not the Council’s policy to fund retrospectively). If work has already commenced, contracts made, or goods, services or equipment has been purchased, you will be unable to claim grant against those costs. You may only place orders / contracts once a funding decision has been made, you have signed and sent back your acceptance of offer form to the Council, and receipt of your completed acceptance of offer form has been acknowledged by the Council.
- The Council shall reserve the right to suspend, defer, withhold or clawback any or all the grant payments and / or require repayment of all the financial assistance if:
- all terms and conditions of the grant offer are not met in full
- any information given to the Council in connection with the application for the grant is found by the Council to be false, misleading, or there has been a failure to disclose any material fact which would have had a bearing on the initial consideration of the application
- there is a substantial or material change in the nature, scale, or timing of the project / service
- the project / service extends to purposes other than those specified in the application; or
- grant funding is received from any other source, or services are provided in kind, for the same project / service that would result in the total eligible project costs being reduced to those stated in the grant application
- All works and activities covered by the grant will conform to all relevant statutory obligations, bylaws, licences, regulations, and consents.
- The grant-aided assets / activity will be adequately insured, and the organisation will maintain adequate insurance covering public liability. Evidence of insurance cover must be produced for the Council if requested.
- The Council reserves the right to require the applicant to comply with any relevant recommendations or requirements imposed on the Council by Internal Audit, External Audit or other statutory inspectorate or regulatory body in relation to the grant.
- By signing the grant application form your organisation is declaring that the project / service is exempt from State Aid Regulations.
- Grant payments will be made by the Council in line with the request for payment procedures.
- The Council may require its grant to be recognised by the use of the Council’s logo or appropriate wording on promotional literature, website, social media, or via either a poster or a plaque being installed on the premises in a location to be agreed by the Council.
- The Council reserves the right to use photographs, videos, or other promotional material to publicise the grant aid projects / services.
- The Council reserves the right to inspect the assets and / or activities for which the funding has been sought on giving reasonable notice to the applicant or organisation.
- If required by the Council, six months from the date of the award, grant recipients will provide the Council with a monitoring report on the use to which the financial assistance has been put, including any metrics or deliverables that may be specific to the project
- If required by the Council, not more than twelve months from the completion of the project, grant recipients will produce a monitoring report on the use to which the financial assistance (grant) has been put.
- The organisation must have security of tenure on the facilities (including playing facilities) through the ownership of the freehold or by means of a long lease.
- Beyond anything shown in the application, the property will not be subject to a mortgage or loan secured on it without prior consent of the Council.
Appendix B
Grant terms and conditions on award of grant
If you are successful and you are awarded funding, a confirmation letter will be sent to you. All terms and conditions attached to your grant offer have been issued on the grant application form. The Council will not cover any additional costs or overspends above the amount of the grant award. In exceptional circumstances, the Council may consider additional funding on completion and approval of a new grant application.
Appendix C
Privacy Notice
The Council is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. The personal information we collect will include your name, address, contact details and other relevant information to process the grant application and make grant payments.
How we use your information collected by the Welcoming Spaces Grant application process
The Council processes applications and makes decisions for the management of the Welcoming Spaces Grant programme, draws up offer letters, project manages the grant claim process and makes payments of grant. The Council, in liaison with the grant recipient, reserves the right to enter publicity and press releases with regards to the project.
Who will have access to my personal data?
Council staff and Councillors involved in the grant application, decision- making and project / service monitoring processes.
What information is processed?
In order to ratify that a grant applicant has a bank account set up in the organisation’s name, at the application stage, for bank or building society accounts we record the account holder’s name, the branch address, sort code, account number and signature and the name, address and contact details of the organisation / applicant.
What is the data retention period?
The Council will retain data for five years from the date of receipt of the application and thereafter all personal data will be redacted, leaving the organisation’s data only to be retained for a further period of five years for grants awarded up to and including £5K. And 21 years for grants over £5K or as set out in the terms and conditions of the grant offer letter. Thereafter, once the retention period has expired all documentation shall be securely disposed of by the Council.
Appendix D
Next steps
- Once an application has been received it will be acknowledged by website receipt or email receipt.
- Your application will then be assessed for completeness. To be fair to all grant applicants, we will not accept incomplete applications or applications awaiting further information. These will require a new submission. This may result in your application missing the allocated funding round and, as a result, a delay until the next suitable funding round is open.
- The Council’s Sector Specialists’ will be emailed a copy of your application for their views on the viability and need for your project / service.
- You may be asked to provide some additional / information or clarify some points on the application form to assist with the assessment of the application.
- Complete applications will then be assessed by a Panel of Council’s Sector Specialists’ against the objectives of the Welcoming Spaces Grant.
- If your application is successful, you will be sent an offer letter and an acceptance form to sign and return.
- Once you have returned an appropriately completed and signed acceptance form to the Council, and any other duly completed legal documents required by the Council, you will be sent a Payment Request Pack which sets out how to claim your grant award.
- Please note, it is not the Council’s policy to fund retrospectively. The grant recipient should not commit itself by purchase, contract or other binding agreement to expenditure relating to the project / service for which the grant is being sought. If work has already commenced, contracts made, or goods, services or equipment has been purchased, you will be unable to claim grant against those costs. You may only place orders / contracts once a funding decision has been made, you have signed and sent back your acceptance of offer form to the Council, and receipt of your completed acceptance of offer form has been acknowledged by the Council.
- Follow up questionnaires / inspections may be required on completion of the project for monitoring purposes. The details of this will be explained in your offer letter.
- Successful applications will be promoted through various communication channels to help promote the project / service and the Council’s grant scheme.
- If your application is refused, the reasons for the refusal will be contained within a notification letter.
- There is no right of appeal.
- You cannot reapply for a grant for the same project / service if your initial application has been submitted and refused and you are not asked to resubmit by the Council in writing. Any subsequent grant applications for the project / service will only be accepted, for a following appropriate grant round, if there has been a material change to the application or the amount of funding being requested.
Last updated 01 December 2023