Town Clerk's Office, Church Lane, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 7AD

Grants

GRANTS

Charitable and voluntary organisations can apply to the Town Council for a financial grant subject to meeting criteria.

GREEN GRANTS

As part of the Town Council’s pledge to support environmentally friendly and supportive actions the Green Grant has been launched, which offers two match funding grants of £500 per year to community groups wishing to start up an environmentally friendly initiative.

FREE VENUE HIRE

As of the 1st April 2020 Blandford Forum Town Council will consider free venue hire requests separately from any grant applications. The application form is on page two of the Grants Criteria Application Form below.

APPLICATION FORM

The set of criteria and application forms for a grant or free venue hire are available from our offices or you can download them below:

Grants awarded in the 2023/24 financial year (to date):

Blandford Youth & Community Centre – £5,000

Blandford Allotment Society – £2,789.00 for necessary works to the pipework

Grants awarded in the 2022/23 financial year:

Blandford Information Centre for the creation of a professional website, which can be viewed here: https://www.blandfordinfocentre.uk/- £750
 
Creating Musical Participation – Sing Together for the introduction of a second weekly session for people living with dementia – £200
Life Education Wessex & Thames Valley – £300

Blandford Environmental Trust – £300

Grants awarded in the 2021/22 financial year:

Blandford Royal British Legion –  £150.00
Life Education Wessex & Thames Valley – £430.00 (supporting a programme to help local children)
Blandford Forum Snooker Club – £1500.00 for plaster works
In Jolly Good Company – £320.00 (free room hire)
Blandford Environmental Trust – £345.00 Green Grant for the planting of trees

The Town Council currently has Service Level Agreements in place with local groups/organisations, until 31st March 2025, as follows:

Blandford Food Bank – £5,000 a year

TREADS – £2,000 a year

Citizen’s Advice Bureau – £5,000 a year

Town Museum – £2,500 a year

Fashion Museum – £2,500 a year

Blandford Information Centre – £2,000 a year

Blandford Stour Valley Band – £1,500 a year (service provision agreement)

Blandford Boxing Club – £15,000 (year one), £2,500 (year two) and £2,500 (year three)

In addition, the Town Council supported the Leisure Centre at £50,000 a year, for the financial years 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020.

 

The Town Clerk, Responsible Financial Officer and Finance & Staffing Committee at Blandford Forum Town Council, Town Clerk’s Office, Church Lane, Blandford Forum, DT11 7AD, who can be contacted on 01258 454500, will be in control of the data you provide. The information which you provide in this application form and any other information obtained or provided during the course of the application is a contractual requirement to assess your grant application and failure to provide all of the information requested will impact on the likelihood of your organisation being offered a grant. Your information will be used solely for the purpose of assessing the application. A redacted version of grant application will be published in the public domain as part of the Finance & Staffing Committee agenda. If your application is successful or unsuccessful, the information will be retained as part of Town Council administrative and financial records, until there is no longer an administrative requirement, after which time it will be archived at the Dorset History Centre or destroyed after review. You have the right to data portability, request access to, rectification or erasure of your data collected as part of this process.  If your application is successful, the information will form part of our grants payments process and we will be entitled to process it as part of the successful grants process. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner.

 

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