What projects are eligible?
Community Forum Budget funding can be used to support a wide range of new and existing projects and activities – the key test is that supported projects and activities will need to show that they are appropriate, feasible and sustainable.
To be appropriate, projects and activities should:
- Provide value for money.
- Be led by an eligible group or organisation (see below).
- Link to one or more of the six priorities of the Leicestershire Sustainable Community Strategy. These priorities are:
- Supporting individuals and families
- Delivering effective services
- Protecting our environment
- Improving our communities
- Enhancing children’s lives
- Developing our economy
To be feasible projects and activities should:
- Be able to spend the funding applied for between January 2012 and 30 June 2012.
- Fulfill all legal requirements and have obtained the consents necessary to deliver the project or activity. These requirements and consents may include planning permission, consent from landowner(s), statutory undertakers and the Highway Authority and regulations relating to health and safety, protection of vulnerable people, wildlife etc.
To be sustainable, projects and activities should:
- Provide some lasting or longer term benefits for the community forum area.
- Ongoing projects should be capable of continuing without reliance on further public funding.