Community Buildings Pack

Our Community Buildings Pack will give communities the chance to improve their quality of life by applying for funding for building projects that are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. We will work with organisations to help set up and improve facilities that offer a wide range of services and activities to a broad range of local people.
We want to support the fundraising process for buildings that will promote community interaction and self-help. We hope that these buildings will continue to serve communities in years to come while minimising their negative effects on the environment.
Our Community Buildings Pack offers two services:

• Supporting for the capital element fundraising
• Support for the revenue and running costs once set up

Buildings will need to be accessible to as many people as possible and we advise that the local community will need to be strongly involved in using and managing the building.
Our support through the Community Buildings Pack aims help you to:

• broadening access to, and more use of, existing services
• creating a greater number and wider range of new services
• improving opportunities for the community to access a wide range of learning
• improving the skills, knowledge and capacity to respond to community needs
• increasing participation by the community in decision-making processes that affect the community
• improving community relationships and networks
• improving financial viability of community premises
• premises that use less energy, pollute less, create less waste and have a reduced contribution to climate change.

What Funders are looking for?

What will your Community Buildings Pack will assist with?

• There is a need for the project and this has been clearly identified
• The intended project outcomes will address the need of the target beneficiaries
• The identified need or needs are relevant to the programme aims and the intended project outcomes will help achieve the intended programme outcomes
• The organisation can deliver the project well and achieve the proposed outcomes.
• The organisation has the experience and capacity to deliver the project
• The project is likely to achieve the proposed outcomes
• The project is likely to be delivered well
• The applicant has clearly demonstrated through an options appraisal that the intended project is the best possible way to meet the need and bring about the intended outcomes
• There are clear milestones and plans to monitor the progress of the project and its outcomes
• There are effective plans to manage project staff and/or volunteers
• The applicant has secured any additional funding required to deliver the project
• The budget is clear, accurate and includes all relevant costs
• The applicant has contacted either their local VAT office or a VAT expert to find out how much VAT they can recover on the cost of the building and budget costs reflect this or has demonstrated that they have taken action to ensure no extra costs will be incurred as a result of irrecoverable VAT
• The project offers good value for money when compared with similar projects in terms of costs, resources, and intended outcomes

How much does it cost and what exactly do we provide?