Funding Information

• Grants can be made of variable amounts from £50 to £5000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Before considering whether to make grants and donations to any organisation or project, the policy requires three main checks to be made against the following criteria:
  • The organisation/project is properly constituted, structured and administered in relation to its financial management and controls. Evidence needs to be sought that appropriate management mechanisms are in place and that accountability is provided through formally elected or delegated members/managers/trustees. This will require the production of the most recent set of audited accounts or annual income and expenditure information.
  • The organisation or project needs to show evidence of efforts made to raise their own funding requirements.
  • It is important that the Town Council knows whether other bodies are being asked to award or have already approved awards. The fact that other granting bodies have been asked for, or have made grants/donations, to an organisation or project, does not exclude Faversham Town Council from awarding.
  • The Town Council reserves its right to withhold repeat applications in year or over a number of years on the basis of equity.
• In addition to policy criteria, the Town Council may wish to seek evidence against all or some of the following supplementary criteria:
  • there is clear evidence of local need or demand for the proposed project/activity
  • the grant will help provide a facility or service that will be of real and direct benefit to local residents
  • local residents will lose, or have significantly diminished, a service if a grant is not awarded
  • the applicant does not clearly fall within the remit of some other statutory agency, e.g. hospital, school, parish council.

For more information, visit Faversham Town Council.

https://favershamtowncouncil.gov.uk/town-council/documents/grants/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLmvbNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFsNVlEZWtVanFQeElrWWhHAR7k9dqTCWpVZV8ftbcS_W3wgxsfZc0swDF5_7eF5vKfLB_osRIAhoG20oO0GQ_aem_4CBDQMRTRQWkf0mGtkgB1A