Community Space Fund

2024/2025 APPLICATION FORM

1. Organisation Details

Organisation/Group Name

Organisation/Group Registered Address and postcode (if applicable)

If 'other' please explain here:

Are you formally constituted?

Yes

Charity or Company Number (if applicable)

Please provide a brief description of your organisation/group (maximum 100 words)

Who is the main contact for your project: Name

Role Position in organisation/group

Address (including postcode)

Telephone

Who is the second contact for your project: Name

Role Position in organisation/group

Address (including postcode)

Telephone

*SIMD definition - The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation is the Scottish Government's official tool for identifying areas in Scotland with relatively high levels of deprivation. SIMD looks at the extent to which an area is deprived across seven domains: income, employment, education, health, access to services, crime and housing.

Does your Organisation/Group have a bank account?

Yes

If yes, insert bank details:

Please indicate which fund(s) you are applying for:

Community Space (Maximum £10,000)

Digital Infrastructure (Maximum £6,000)

Amount applying for:

2. Community Space Fund

Please describe how your organisation will use this funding to enhance your community space.

How will you encourage partners of the Moray Pathways* network to utilise your space and as a result widen access to client groups*?
How will you use this fund to improve collaboration and relationships with partners?

Please describe how your organisation will use this funding to enhance your community space. (300 words)

Please advise expected numbers below:

Number of partners utilising your space to support learning and training activities to local people?

Number of projects your organisation will work in collaboration with?

3. Digital Infrastructure Fund

Please describe how you will use this fund to reduce digital exclusion and embed digital support in communities, helping to tackle common barriers. Please include examples around the barriers such as:
- access and assessibiity
- skills and confidence
- motivation and trust

Tell us how you will promote the range of digital support and provision available in the area including the provision of digital events.

Description of digital support (300 words)

Number of premises with improved digital connectivity

Number of new/improved community facilities

Number of organisations/residents accessing facilities/services

Number of people completing the Digital Unite Training

Number of Digital Inclusion events

Number of residents accessing digital support and improving digital skills

The following questions relate to both funds:

4. Please describe how you plan to support, development or training for staff/volunteers. Include the number of staff/volunteers who require Digital Champion Training from Digital Unite

5: Please describe how you will promote your project to meet the aims of the fund

6: Please describe how you will evaluate and measure your success? This must include how you will evidence improving perceptions of your facility and/or services.

7. Funding

1: Community Space

Facility costs e.g. operating costs, energy/running costs, furniture/repair costs/equipment (this excludes rent/lease costs)

Administration costs

Staffing and Volunteer costs

Training and development costs for staff/volunteers

Temporary adaptations to be accessible for all members of the community

PR/Marketing costs

Other costs

Total cost

2: Digital Infrastructure

Broadband installation/upgrade to improve connectivity facilities for community use (where access to R100 contract installations or existing broadband voucher schemes will not be available).

Digital systems hardware and/or software (excluding any ongoing costs post funding)

Interactive white screen, monitors, smart tv’s, printers

Networking hardware including servers, hubs, routers, switches

New/improved networking or trunking

New/additional Wi-Fi connections or access points

Website development (excluding ongoing costs post funding)

Other costs not listed

Total cost

In submitting an application to this Fund, you confirm that:

you have read the Fund guidance and understand the criteria relating to both applicant organisations/groups and projects
you understand funds will be paid retrospectively when you submit a claim with acceptable evidence2
you understand that all expenditure must be evidenced no later than 15th March 2025
you understand that all funds applied for must include VAT
Moray Pathways can hold the data you have provided and share it with partners as necessary to manage and evaluate the grants process

Name

Your Signature

Position in Organisation

Date

If you require any further information, please contact:

moraypathways@moray.gov.uk

For specific digital funding enquiries please contact: CSU@moray.gov.uk

Closing date for applications: 1 December 2024

I confirm I have uploaded the following documents:

Governing document

Accounts (most recent)

Bank statement (within the last 3 months)

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Thank you for submitting your Application.

A member of the team will be in touch as soon as possible.