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Community Champions are one of the links between the store and the community it serves. With expert knowledge of programmes such as our Food Collections and Community Grants scheme, Community Champions help people to understand how to benefit from them. They assist with filling in grant application forms, or give contact information about our charity partners and share other useful tools.Community Champions also manage a small community donation budget that can be used for financial support for community groups or events.They are also the point of contact for charities and community groups wishing to visit the store for awareness days or to fundraise.What do Community Champions do:- Help with applications for one of our Community Programmes (Surplus food donations, Community Food Connection, or Tesco Community Grants)- Offer small donations to their community for events and support (e.g., oranges for a school sports day, a box of chocolates for a raffle prize)- Visit local community groups. They play an active role in getting to know local organisations and schools.- Engage and communicate with customers around what the store can do for the community. They can use a noticeboard, local press, and in-person contact to communicate with as many people as possible.- Offer guidance on in-store bookings for charities and community groups.

The Whiteside Hill Wind Farm Community Fund supports community projects benefiting those living in areas covered by the community councils of Kirkconnel and Kelloholm and the Royal Burgh of Sanquhar and District.All applications should show how the event, project, activity, or service contributes to the Upper Nithsdale Community Trust (UNCT) priorities. Within the Upper Nithsdale area, the following have been identified as key priorities:- Services and projects which deliver activities that bring economic benefits to Upper Nithsdale, for example, events, local festivals, arts and galas, employability activities, social enterprises, tourism related projects.- Services and projects which deliver activities that demonstrate community benefits and build community capacity in Upper Nithsdale, for example, community-managed services, community-run facilities, community safety activities, civic pride and environmental projects, and projects that identify community needs.- Services and projects which demonstrate early intervention and address the needs of disadvantaged groups in Upper Nithsdale, for example, young people are more actively involved in decision making, the aging population is active and engaged in influencing services in their own community, and projects that promote fairness and respect across communities. Grant requests to support a wide range of costs and activities will be considered, such as equipment costs, running costs for local groups, staff or sessional worker costs, consultations, and maintenance or refurbishment of community facilities.

Each of Glasgow’s 21 Area Partnerships has an annual budget from which it awards grants for a variety of developmental projects. Area Partnerships allocate funding that will assist in the delivery of their agreed Area Budget Investment Priorities. It is designed to provide relatively small, one-off grants throughout the year, ensuring that a wide range of new and existing local organisations can access funding each year to develop their activities. It can fund a wide variety of developmental projects including: projects that promote community activity; short-term/pilot projects (including staff costs); new equipment/materials for local organisations; activity costs at residential centres; environmental improvements; production of educational plays/materials; hire professional instructors; start-up grants or bus hire for day trips.

The Small Grants Fund supports groups who wish to engage their communities in climate related activities. The fund aims to encourage new climate action and conversation in communities who are less engaged on climate issues. It is a requirement that funded activities are used to get the climate conversation going in your communities.Groups could run activities such as climate-themed film showings, ‘climate conversation’ discussion groups, led walks with a climate-change theme or a climate change litter pick. Groups are encouraged to run activities during Fife Climate Festival (23 September to 5 October 2024).Fife Communities Climate Action Network (FCCAN) administer this funding as part of the Fife Climate Hub project and in partnership with Climate Action Fife.

Crossdykes Community Benefit Fund can support a wide range of charitable activities providing benefit to the five community council areas of Langholm Ewes & Westerkirk, Lockerbie and District, Middlebie & Waterbeck, Eskdalemuir, and North Milk. In particular, priority will be given to applications that align with the findings of the East Dumfriesshire Community Consultation (2020). Funded activities must align with the charitable purposes laid down in Crossdykes Community Benefits Limited’s own Articles and Memorandum of Association. These purposes are focused principally on the fund area and include community development, rural regeneration, the prevention and/or relief of poverty, the advancement of education, health, arts, heritage, culture and science, public participation in sport, the provision of recreational facilities, projects which improve the quality of life or wellbeing of residents, environmental projects, specifically those relating to climate change, the relief of those in need due to age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage and animal welfare. Applicants are normally expected to have secured at least 10% match funding from a range of funding methods and CCBL will only fund 90% of project costs in exceptional circumstances. For clarity, match funding may come from reserves or from other sources of funds.

This theme aims to support nurturing relationships within families and communities to help break the cycle between persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma, and support recovery. The open call will focus on funding work which addresses the following priorities:- Preventative support for families in poverty (including children and their caregivers), to help build and maintain strong family relationships, and reduce the risk of intergenerational trauma.- Whole family support for families (including children and their caregivers) in care, or on the edges of care, to address the impacts of persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma. They will also fund services for care experienced young people who are not in a family setting under this priority.- Crisis support at the point of family breakdown, including support for women and children experiencing domestic abuse.- Recovery and restorative approaches to address the impacts of childhood trauma, homelessness, substance misuse and/or offending.

This funding is for projects that support children, young people and families; or that help people to be healthier and have better access to support.Projects should support people experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination.Your project should be designed with the people you support. You should:- involve them in how it’s developed, delivered and led- make use of their existing skills and interests- complement and make connections with other services that support them.Projects must meet one of these outcomes:- Children, young people and families thrive.- People have better relationships, connections, and physical or mental health.

The Community Choices Small Grants programme offers community groups the opportunity to suggest project and activity ideas they want to make happen and to receive public funds in their ward to do it. The programme supports groups with a project idea that will make a difference to people living in the Falkirk area.The priorities for community grant funding are:- People: Projects that foster good community relationships between people. Projects working with people who are disadvantaged or with protected characteristics are more likely to be successful particularly if the application can provide evidence of how people are coming together to improve relationships between people and communities.- Place: Projects that encourage people to take pride in their community. Projects that clearly set out the history or culture of the community they are celebration are more likely to be successful. - Partnership: Projects that support the Council's approach to early intervention by providing services so that people can live full, independent and positive lives.

The Cervus Trust is interested in supporting charitable activities under the following themes:- Food Poverty: projects that are empowering and help people to help themselves e.g. community growing projects rather than foodbanks.- Mental Health: projects targeting those with depression and anxiety, support for those who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACES), projects that help to develop emotional resilience; projects supporting carers with their mental health.- The Arts: using arts, including music tuition, as an enabling tool to develop skills, confidence, and emotional wellbeing.- Education: projects which involve outdoor education and play are preferred. School-based initiatives will be a low priority unless they involve non-statutory provision and involve the wider community.- Disadvantaged families and children: support for projects that will help families and children to thrive.

This fund supports local community projects during the 25-year lifetime of the wind farm. The fund welcomes applications from organisations whose focus covers aspects of the following:- a broad span of the community- children and young people – especially projects focused on improving access to activities and services and where young people play a key role in the decision-making- carbon reduction – helping to tackle climate change.- vulnerable people – especially projects involving increased access to services and facilities for people with disabilities, the homeless and the elderly.- community regeneration – projects that improve health and education; reduce crime level, regenerate employment, housing and the physical environment.- self-help groups – community-based groups that deliver basic services.- environmental and wildlife projects – especially those involving improvements to communal land.- education and skills development – group and community-based programs, particularly for those who have had no previous access to training opportunities.- health – projects providing access to services that aim to improve the health and well-being of communities.- heritage – projects that celebrate and protect the local heritage.- sustainability – projects that promote sustainable development.- community buildings – projects that help maintain community owned buildings widely used by the community.The fund is open to applications from projects which benefit residents living in Arbuthnott, Catterline, Kinneff and Dunnottar, Mearns, Stonehaven and District