Hinkley Point C Community Fund Annual Report 2020/21:
Please click here to find out more about the projects that were awarded funding up to the end of April 2021.
Your project must be for the benefit of one or more communities in the county of Somerset experiencing residual and intangible impacts as a result of the construction of Hinkley Point C.
It may be designed to remove or reduce impact and improve the social, economic or environmental wellbeing of communities and improve quality of life. A project could also help your community to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Hinkley Point C development.
We welcome applications from registered charities, voluntary organisations, social enterprises and Parish Councils, Town Councils, District Councils and the County Council.
If your organisation does not match this criteria, please contact us before applying. You may apply for capital or revenue funding or a mix of the two.
There are currently four grant programmes you can apply to.
You may only apply to one of the below programmes for your project.
If your project benefits the parish of Otterhampton please contact Val Bishop T: 01749 344949 E: val.bishop@somersetcf.org.uk
Option One:
Hinkley Point C Community Fund: Open Grants Programme
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Hinkley Point C Community Fund Open Grants Programme
Grants from £5,000 to £49,999 are available to charities, voluntary groups, and social enterprises. Grants will be awarded for projects, measures or initiatives that help to mitigate impacts felt in your community from the construction of Hinkley Point C or which help members of the community to access its opportunities.
You can apply for both capital and revenue costs.
At the current time we are particularly interested in:
1. Applications that include support for people to access education, skills or employment opportunities by overcoming:
• personal barriers such as mental health or a lack of digital skills; and/or
• other barriers such as transport, caring responsibilities or poor broadband.
2. Applications that build community transport provision into their projects or provide new transport solutions to ensure that more socially and geographically isolated people can access essential services.
3. Applications that improve the community environment or use the environment as a catalyst for change in peoples’ lives.
There is a one stage application process and you can apply at any time. The Awards Panel meets quarterly to make decisions. The next deadline is 17 September 2021.
In order to help you ensure that your project will meet the criteria of the fund, we ask that you submit a 200 word summary of your idea and its connection to Hinkley Point C before we send you a link to your application form. This form is available through the link below.
For more information and support contact:
Val Bishop
T: 01749 344949
Click for here for over £50,000
Hinkley Point C Community Fund Open Grants Programme
Grants for projects over £50,000 are available to charities, voluntary groups, and social enterprises. Grants will be awarded for projects, measures or initiatives that help to mitigate impacts felt in your community from the construction of Hinkley Point C; or which help members of the community to access its opportunities.
You can apply for capital and revenue costs.
At the current time we are particularly interested in:
1. Applications that include support for people to access education, skills or employment opportunities by overcoming:
• personal barriers such as mental health or a lack of digital skills; and/or
• other barriers such as transport, caring responsibilities or poor broadband.
2. Applications that build community transport provision into their projects or provide new transport solutions to ensure that more socially and geographically isolated people can access essential services.
3. Applications that improve the community environment or use the environment as a catalyst for change in peoples’ lives.
There is a two-stage application process. The Awards Panel will first consider an expression of interest before deciding whether to invite a full application. You can apply at any time. The Awards Panel meets quarterly to make decisions. The next deadline is 17 September 2021.
Applicants are advised that there could be a period of up to 7 months between submitting an expression of interest and receiving a decision on a second stage application.
In order to help you ensure that your project will meet the criteria of the fund, we ask that you submit a 200 word summary of your idea and its connection to Hinkley Point C before we send you a link to your application form. This form is available through the link below.
For more information and support contact:
Val Bishop
T: 01749 344949
Option Two:
Hinkley Point C Community Fund: Small Grants Programme
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Hinkley Point C Community Fund Small Grants Programme
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises that normally operate on less than £100,000 each year. Grants will be awarded for projects, measures or initiatives that help to mitigate impacts felt in your community from the construction of Hinkley Point C. In exceptional circumstances, we may also offer £10,000 grants, over a period of three years
You can apply at any time. Decisions are generally made every 6 – 8 weeks. The next application submission deadlines are 29 September 2021 and 03 December 2021.
There is currently a special round open, to support community groups who have felt the impact of HPC within their communities and have also been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic with their core, or day-to-day running costs.
The deadline for applications to this special round is 29 September 2021.
For more information and support contact:
Peter Stolze
T: 01749 344949
E: peter.stolze@somersetcf.org.uk
Option Three:
Hinkley Point C Community Fund: Strategic Grants Programme
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Hinkley Point C Community Fund Strategic Grants Programme
Strategic grants will target specific impacts felt within Somerset communities as a result of Hinkley Point C. These impacts will be identified through consultation with communities and their representatives as the project progresses. It is likely that priorities within the strategic grants programmes will change as communities change therefore we anticipate it being an iterative process and advise applicants to continue to check the available grants programmes regularly.
Two calls for bids were issued in 2018 for community cohesion themes.
This grants programme is currently closed to new applications.
For more information and support contact:
Val Bishop
T: 01749 344949
Option Four:
Hinkley Point C Community Impact Mitigation Fund for Cannington
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HPC Community Impact Mitigation Fund
Your project must aim to improve the social, economic or environmental wellbeing of the community of Cannington, affected by the development of Hinkley Point C.
The project must be relevant to the impacts you have identified, either by reducing or removing impacts or by helping your community to take advantage of opportunities presented by the Hinkley Point C development.
Expressions of interest can be submitted at any time
For more information and support contact:
Aly Prouse, Otterhampton Parish Council Clerk
T: 01278 652426
Please look at the descriptions of the current grant programmes above and click on the option that is most suited to your project
If you are not sure, please contact Val Bishop T: 01749 344949 E: val.bishop@somersetcf.org.uk
