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Community Council
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Community Trust IntroductionStratherrick & Foyers Community Trust (SFCT) was established in 2004 by the Stratherrick and Foyers Community Council. The aim of the company is to help ensure the environmental protection, wellbeing and economic sustainability of all parts of the community area that may be affected by any “Green Energy” developments. SFCT is governed by a Board of Directors. To be eligible, directors must have been resident in Stratherrick and Foyers for a minimum of five years. The Board is made up of volunteers, one third of whom are obliged to resign at each Annual General Meeting but may offer themselves for re-election. They are appointed for their diverse range of views and knowledge. The Board governs the Company, establishes policy, sets priorities and has responsibility for final grant decisions. Directors at December 2011:
Helen Grainger (Chair) William Ewen Fraser (Vice-Chair) Alexander Sutherland (Secretary) Mark Houston Andy Holt Fraser Ross Justin Sharp Sharon Ferguson In addition, there is one non-voting member who assists the Board: Frank Ellam (Treasurer) The broad aim of the Company’s grantmaking is to assist individuals and community groups working to improve the quality of life and life chances in the area, especially in circumstances where funding is particularly hard to find and where a grant can achieve significant impact in enabling them to fulfil their own objectives. These are all one-off awards enabling individuals and groups to fulfil their objectives and meet the needs of their members or the people they work with. We don’t fund activities for more than 12 months, although groups can reapply in subsequent years. Grants have to be spent within one year. The majority of our funding is directed at locally based work involving, and often initiated by, members of that local community. For many of our grantees, the award from us may be the first grant they have received. We try to make the application process as simple as we can, particularly for requests for less than £1,000. We are particularly keen to use the funds to make a real impact. The Directors are responsible for setting grantmaking policy, monitoring grantmaking activity and making decisions on applications. The Board meets 6 times per year and dates are set well in advance. SFCT currently manage two distinct funds of money: “Glendoe” funds and “non-Glendoe” funds. It is important to note that applications for Glendoe money, which is the bigger fund and therefore more appropriate for larger grants, has to meet criteria which are generally more stringent than for applications for funding from non-Glendoe monies. In particular, applications for Glendoe money are normally only available to properly constituted groups and must have a “charitable” purpose although the applicants themselves do not have to be a registered charity. In the following notes, conditions applying only to Glendoe applications are noted. Groups should have a written constitution and a bank account in order to apply. They should be a non-profit organisation. Finally, we only make grants for projects which benefit people in Stratherrick and Foyers. What we do fund The company’s objects are: (a) The promotion, for the benefit of the public, of regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation in the Stratherrick and Foyers Community Council area by all or any of the following means:- (i) the relief of poverty in such ways as may be thought fit; (ii) the relief of unemployment in such ways as may be thought fit including assistance to find employment; (iii) the advancement of education, training or retraining particularly among un employed people and providing unemployed people with work experience; (iv) the creation of training and unemployment opportunities by provision of work space, buildings and/or land for use on favourable terms; (v) the maintenance improvement or provision of public amenities; (vi) the preservation of buildings or sites of historical or architectural importance; (vii) the provision or assistance in the provision of recreational facilities for the public at large and/or those who by reasons of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social economic circumstances have need of such facilities; (viii) the protection or conservation of the environment; (ix) the promotion of public safety and prevention of crime; (x) such other means as may from time to time be determined (b) To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in particular to conserve and manage for the public benefit, community land and related assets in Stratherrick and Foyers Community Council area as an important part of the protection of Scotland’s natural heritage. We do not fund:
A grant application to the Glendoe fund can be downloaded here and a small grants application can be downloaded here. |
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