The Great Aycliffe & Middridge Partnership (GAMP) Board has a budget of £144k available, and applications are invited for projects from community & voluntary or not-for-profit organisations and groups. Grants of between £5,000 – £20,000 are available for project applications which support our key ‘Community Recovery’ priority. Important: anyone applying for a project over £15,000 MUST have a minimum of £10,000 capital expenditure included in the project.
Prospective projects must take place in the GAMP area.
Our focus this year will be on an overarching ‘Community Recovery’ priority theme, and projects should aim to address at least one of the following key issues:
• Employability initiatives
• Advice and Guidance
• Mental Health & Wellbeing
• Organisational sustainability
• Food provision and support
• Social Isolation
• Support for the Voluntary and Community
Sector
• Tackling antisocial behaviour
• Support to small businesses (through
a third party, not-for-profit organisation
to complement existing DCC and
external opportunities)
• Emerging Community Issues
• Targeting Older Peoples Social Isolation
(A proportion of the available funding is aimed at specifically supporting community-led initiatives that improve outcomes for older people who are socially isolated, and encourage participation in activities and projects that provide opportunities for them to contribute positively to their local communities. For the purposes of this fund an older person is someone over the age of 50 years.)
Groups are permitted to apply for more than one grant, so long as one funding allocation is not reliant on another.
Applications can be submitted for either capital or revenue funding (or both), and projects which include a specific element of capital spend are encouraged. If you need advice on the specific definitions for capital/revenue, please get in touch. Project proposals must also include a minimum of 5% match funding (either cash or in-kind, or both).
All eligible applications will be assessed and ranked by a panel of GAMP Board members, to determine which projects will be awarded funding. Prospective projects should have a planned start date no earlier than November 2022 to allow time for the appraisal process.
Please contact us for an application pack, or if you’d like further information, email: gampaap@durham.gov.uk or telephone 07834 147211. The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon on Friday 17th June 2022.