The purpose of the St Briavels Turbine Community Resilience Fund is To help build community resilience in St Briavels and environs by addressing current needs and future challenges.

Within the online Application Form, all applicants are required to explain how they believe the funding they seek will help to build community resilience in St Briavels and environs, showing a basic understanding of what this means.

The board is keen to receive applications for projects/actions which will help to create a lasting legacy, providing social, environmental and/or local economic benefits for the community.

There is no requirement for match funding as with some community grant schemes. However, applicants may leverage additional funds by the use of a successful funding award from the St Briavels Turbine Community Resilience Fund as match funding for another funding stream.

Whilst the majority of successful applications to the Community Fund are anticipated to be from applicants in the St Briavels and immediately surrounding area, applications from further afield may be considered, at the discretion of the appointed Advisory Panel, but only where the applicant can clearly evidence that there would be significant benefit to the communities of St Briavels and environs.

Applications to the fund are invited twice a year. The allocation of available funds will be based on 4% of turnover achieved by the project in the preceding period. The expectations are that the average annual donation to the St Briavels Turbine Community Resilience Fund, over the turbine’s 25 year operation, will be of the order of £15,000 – £20,000. The project is currently on track to deliver this. 

Retrospective applications to the fund (ie where expenditure has already been incurred) are not eligible for funding.

The process is competitive and not all applicants will be successful at each round. The decision regarding allocation of available funds by the Advisory Panel will be final. Feedback will, however, be provided to all applicants.

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