The Goonhilly Wind Farm Community Fund has been made available to support good causes local to the site, for every year of the wind farm’s working life.

Funding Information

• Grant value: £1,000 - £5,000.

What it will support?

• Core costs such as room rental and salaries may be considered if towards a specific project but not for ongoing costs of an organisation.
• The panel would like to see a clear sustainability plan in your application.

What it won’t support?

• They would not normally expect to support projects for more than 2 years.
• This fund will not support 100% project costs and would expect to see a contribution made by the group applying.
  • Projects or activities outside the TR12 postcode
  • Commercial profit making organisations
  • Organisations with significant free reserves
  • Statutory/public sector organisations such as health authorities, schools, hospitals, parish and town councils
  • Contributions to an endowment, payment of deficit funding or repayment of loans
  • Grant making organisations or bodies who fundraise or distribute grants on behalf of other organisations
  • Activities or projects which have already happened
  • Regional offices of national bodies that do not benefit local people
  • Organisations whose beneficiaries are not people
  • Organisations or projects intended to influence people’s religious choices or to promote a particular belief system
  • The promotion of political causes.

Eligibility Criteria

• Charities, CICs and community and voluntary groups working in the TR12 postcode.
• To be eligible to apply your organisation must be based in and solely for the benefit of people in the TR12 postcode.

For more information, visit CCF.

https://cornwallcommunityfoundation.com/grants/goonhilly-wind-farm-community-fund/