Applying for funds for your group

Thank you for your interest in applying for funding from Claremont, Weaste and Seedley Budget Group.

The group have five priority issues:

• Children and young people
• Crime and disorder
• Environmental improvements
• Older people
• Community cohesion and social inclusion

Applications which address one or more of these priorities will be looked on particularly favourably, however all applications which provide community benefit will be considered.

Budget Group does not fund the following items (except in exceptional circumstances):

• Room hire
• Refreshments
• Salaries for permanent staff
• Expenditure incurred before the application was submitted
• 121 services / treatments
• Trips / outings
• Religious purposes / aims
• Political purposes / aims

Applications relating to youth activities will be reviewed by the Central Locality Youth Partnership and applicants will be required to attend a Youth Partnership meeting. This is to ensure partnership working and avoid duplication of services. Reviews from Youth Partnership will be passed to Budget Group to assist them in making a decision on funding.

Priority will be given to local applications that benefit Claremont, Weaste or Seedley residents, but city-wide applications will be considered when the organisation can demonstrate benefit to local residents.

Equipment funded by Budget Group should, where practical, be made available for other groups to use. If a group ceases to operate, equipment must be returned to the city council to pass on to another group in need in the area.

Successful applicants may be requested to attend a future community committee meeting either in person or online to feedback to residents on how the funding was spent / the success of the project.

Local criteria:

1. Committee will approve grants only for not-for-profit organisations.
2. Individual client/patient type services will not be funded.
3. Grants can be made to cover professional or specialist staffing costs up to £30 per
   hour, per staff member and not to cover core running costs of the organisation (there may be exceptional circumstances that Budget Group may consider supporting)
4. Retrospective applications will not be considered, unless relating to an
   emergency/disaster or unforeseen circumstances. (see grant amounts below).
5. No applications may be tabled at the meeting unless in exceptional circumstances (see number 4 above).
6. Committee will reject any application if it considers there has been canvassing or
   intimidation of a committee member.
7. Successful applicants may be invited to present at community committee and this
   must be taken into consideration by the applicant upon accepting the grant.
8. Where appropriate, applications relating to young people to be reviewed by East
   Salford Youth Partnership for comments and suggestions to advise budget group.

Grant amounts:

9. Committee will approve grants usually up to a maximum of £3000. The committee
   may consider funding projects over £3000 where the local priorities and need are
   clearly demonstrated.
10. Applications up to £500 will be considered by all budget group members via email as
    quickly as possible after receipt.

Eccles Community Committee is keen to support projects which are of demonstrable benefit to the communities within the Eccles, Winton and Barton wards.

Any application will be considered so long as the group meets the Public Health criteria.

In addition to the above, Eccles budget Sub group has applied some additional tenants to ensure that the benefits of the devolved budget are maximised in an equitable manner.

It is also a condition of grants that community groups support festivals within Eccles, Winton or Barton whenever possible e.g. by way of display, or hosting a competition etc.

Retrospective grant applications

Please note that retrospective applications will not be considered unless there is a written statement explaining why the application could not/ was not made on time.

New community groups

A start up grant up to the value of £150 is available to any new community groups wishing to apply.

Festivals

• There will be maximum of £550 awarded to festival committees operating within Eccles, Winton and Barton.
• There will be a maximum of £100 awarded to festivals outside of the service delivery area unless there is a clear evidential basis to consider a larger award.

Day trips

The budget Sub group will not recommend supporting day trips eg to Blackpool or Alton Towers. Whilst they are enjoyable it is not possible to determine how day trips support community priorities as benefits are often short lived.

Volunteer costs

The Community Committee respect the amount of effort made by volunteers and would prefer that organisations found mechanisms of rewarding their volunteers themselves, rather than applying for a contribution to volunteers costs.

Sports kits / dance wear

If groups wish to apply for a contribution to or cost of replacing kits, it would be helpful if they could outline the reason for replacement and if existing kits are to be reused or not. Groups should also quote for having “supported by Eccles Community Committee” embroidered into the kit.

Room hire and running costs

Room hire and/or a contribution to running costs up to a maximum of £150 will be funded during the first year of operation. After that time all applications for room hire will be assessed on an individual basis but should demonstrate self help mechanisms.

CCTV

Eccles Community Committee already fund a number of CCTV cameras and will not consider bids for additional CCTV equipment or monitoring costs. If groups wish to install CCTV they should contact the Neighbourhood Manager for advice on protocols etc.

Luncheon clubs

There is a standard grant award of £55 towards lunch clubs.

Complementary therapies

The budget sub group is unable to recommend that the costs of complementary therapies are supported.

Christmas parties

Eccles Community Committee do not fund Christmas parties.

These are specific criteria, which will enable budget group to work efficiently and with
consistency, when considering applications that fall in line with the priorities of Little Hulton and Walkden’s Community Priorities.

• All applications must have invoices and full information attached. Applications
  will not to be considered if receipts, monitoring forms are outstanding.
• Bank accounts that moneys are paid into must have a minimum of two
  signatures (not related or at the same address).
• Groups can apply twice to budget group in one calendar year.
• Applications from individuals will not be considered.
• Under normal circumstances we will not support applications for long term
  staff salaries and operational costs, but will consider applications for salaries
  to cover one off activities.
• Where applicable, we will look to commission services to address key
  community priorities.
• Transport, room hire and utility costs for groups will only be considered for
  funding in exceptional circumstances.
• City wide applications will be considered, only with all supporting evidence of
  participants and a clear breakdown of where they live and how they will
  benefit. Day trips/excursions, which do not directly benefit the community, will
  not be considered.
• Grants will not be awarded for political or religious purposes.
• There will be a maximum of £500 given to a one-off event.
• Where appropriate, applications relating to young people to be reviewed by
  the local Youth Partnership for comments and suggestions to advise budget
  group.
• Retrospective applications will not be considered, unless relating to an
  emergency/disaster or unforeseen circumstances.

Thank you for your interest in applying for funding from Ordsall, Quays, Pendleton & Charlestown Budget Group.

The Group have five priority issues:

• Children and young people
• Crime and disorder
• Environmental improvements
• Older people
• Community cohesion and social inclusion

Applications which address one or more of these priorities will be looked on particularly favourably, however all applications which provide community benefit will be considered.

Budget Group does not fund the following items (except in exceptional circumstances):

• Room hire
• Refreshments
• Salaries for permanent staff
• Expenditure incurred before the application was submitted
• 121 services / treatments
• Trips / outings
• Religious purposes / aims
• Political purposes / aims

Applications relating to youth activities will be reviewed by the Central Locality Youth Partnership and applicants will be required to attend a Youth Partnership meeting. This is to ensure partnership working and avoid duplication of services. Reviews from Youth Partnership will be passed to Budget Group to assist them in making a decision on funding.

Priority will be given to local applications that benefit Ordsall, Quays, Pendleton or Charlestown residents, but city-wide applications will be considered when the organisation can demonstrate benefit to local residents.

Equipment funded by Budget Group should, where practical, be made available for other groups to use. If a group ceases to operate, equipment must be returned to the city council to pass on to another group in need in the area.

Swinton and Pendlebury have five priority issues:

• Children and Young People
• Crime and disorder
• Environmental Issues
• Older people
• Community cohesion and social inclusion

Applications which address one or more of these priorities will be looked on particularly favourably. But all applications which provide community benefit will be considered. If applicants show that they have tried or are trying other funding sources as well as budget group, or are actively fund raising, this will also be looked on favourably. There are some things that Swinton and Pendlebury Budget Group will not fund:

• Anything where expenditure was incurred before the funding application was submitted
• One-to-one services or treatments
• Funding for individuals

And some that they will only make a partial contribution to at most:

• Food and drink
• One-off trips or outings

The budget is limited, so the Budget Group may feel unable to fund large applications and is not able to pay salaries or wages of full-time permanent staff, where it cannot commit to this support in an ongoing manner.

Applications can be accepted from other council departments, and statutory and voluntary organisations. However, the Budget Group is unable to fund requests from religious organisations for the purpose of furthering their religious aims, political organisations for the furtherance of their political aims.

Applications relating to youth activities may be shared with the SPY youth partnership. Any comments and suggestion that arise will be fed back to budget for consideration.

Priority will be given to local applications that benefit Swinton and Pendlebury residents, but city-wide applications will be considered when the organisation can demonstrate benefit to Swinton and Pendlebury residents.

Swinton and Pendlebury Budget Group
Reviewed and agreed 9 April 2025

Local criteria:

• Budget group meets every two months, in January, March, May, July, September
  and November. Applications must be received on the correct proforma 21 days in
  advance of the meeting date in order to be fully and fairly considered by budget
  group members.
• Applications will be assessed on the extent to which they advance the Community
  Priorities, or otherwise demonstrate wider local community benefit.
• Applications from individuals will not be considered.
• Grants will not be awarded for political or religious purposes.
• Clear evidence must be provided that a group or organisation applying for a grant
  operates locally, clear evidence should be provided for citywide applications as to
  the participation in and how it benefits residents in our community.
• A single grant will be considered for a new group in its first year of operation to
  cover all or part of start-up costs including rent and insurance. After the initial startup year, grants will not be awarded to cover insurance or room hire costs.
• Items in a grant application to run an event involving hospitality (specifically food and meals) beyond teas, coffees and soft drinks will not approved.
• Grants will not be awarded to cover, wholly or in part, salary costs unless this is an essential enabling element in a wider community or group activity (e.g. caretaker on duty while a building is in use, or an accompanist for choir rehearsals, or in exceptional circumstances that Budget Group may consider supporting).
• A further application from a group will not normally be considered within two years
  of the previous application unless the first application was for start-up costs or
  unless exceptional circumstances are demonstrated by the applicants. There is one
  exception to this:
  Applications for room hire costs from uniformed groups (scouts, guides, boys/girls brigade etc) which have previously been in receipt of an annual grant for this purpose will continue to be considered annually. Please note grants to uniformed groups for room hire will be limited to 70% of the full cost.
• Applicants are not allowed to attend any budget group meeting.
• Retrospective applications will not be considered, unless relating to an
  emergency/disaster or unforeseen circumstances.