Community Funding Grant Scheme application form

Westmill Solar Co-operative Community Funding Grants Scheme form

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Use this form to apply for a community grant from Westmill Solar Co-operative Ltd. Please read the accompanying guidance notes below to check your eligibility. Please be specific in your responses. Deadline: 12 noon, 14th September 2026. For information or queries about applying for grant, please contact us at communityfunding@westmillsolar.coop.

Part A: About your organisation

Name(Required)

First Last

Organisation name(Required)

Your position within the organisation

Address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

Email(Required)

Enter Email Confirm Email

Phone(Required)

Website

What type of organisation are you?(Required)

Co-operative

Community interest company

Community benefit society

School, college or other educational body

Faith organisation (e.g. church, mosque)

Charity (registered with the Charities Commission and/or recognised by HMRC as a charity for tax purposes

Charitable incorporated organisation

Unincorporated club or association

Other not-for-profit voluntary or community group, or social enterprise.

Other (please explain)

Briefly, what does your organisation do?(Required)

If a Westmill Solar Member is recommending your application, please give their name here.

Part B: About your project or activity

Project name(Required)

Amount being requested (excluding overhead contribution)(Required)

If funds are being sought towards the cost of a larger project, what is the total cost?

Project start date(Required)

Project end date(Required)

Give a summary overview of the activity you wish to carry out. Be as specific as you can.(Required)

If the funds sought are towards the cost of a larger project, how do you anticipate that the additional costs will be met?(Required)

What lasting impact do you hope that your project will deliver?(Required)

The following questions help us to understand how your activity might contribute to one or more of the co-operative principles or other values that guide Westmill Solar Co-operative’s community benefit funding strategy (see application guidance notes for more details). We do not expect every application to cover every principle, so please leave boxes blank if they are not relevant.

COMMUNITY: In which community is it proposed that the activity will take place? Who will benefit from your proposed activity – directly and indirectly?

SUSTAINABILITY: How will the project contribute towards cutting greenhouse gas emissions? What environmental benefits will you achieve?

EDUCATION, TRAINING AND INFORMATION: How will individuals and/or organisations benefit from learning generated by this project? How will you share any information that you gain?

CO-OPERATION: How will you co-operate with other like-minded organisations to help achieve shared goals? Tell us about any other organisations that will be involved in the delivery of the activity, and their role. What other ways might you be able to work with Westmill Solar Co-operative, now or in the future?

Part C: Additional information for requests over £1,000: if you have additional diagrams or tables which you would like to submit with your application, please send these to communityfunding@westmillsolar.coop, using your organisation name as a reference.

Project Plan Template: Please set out below the key tasks associated with your project and the anticipated cost. Larger activities (e.g. community consultation) may be broken down into several smaller activities where possible (e.g. a series of public consultation events or surveys). Capital costs, such as equipment, may be shown as purchase or installation tasks.

Task 1: Total cost, how you calculated this and who will carry this out, grant request amount(Required)

Task 2: Total cost, how you calculated this and who will carry this out, grant request amount(Required)

Task 3: Total cost, how you calculated this and who will carry this out, grant request amount(Required)

Task 4: Total cost, how you calculated this and who will carry this out, grant request amount(Required)

Task 5: Total cost, how you calculated this and who will carry this out, grant request amount(Required)

Total cost of project and total grant request(Required)

Project Milestones: Your milestones should relate to the completion of tasks that you have outlined in the previous section – we want to understand what will be the ‘outputs’ of the tasks you have identified.

Milestone 1: Start date and expected completion date(Required)

Milestone 2: Start date and expected completion date(Required)

Milestone 3: Start date and expected completion date(Required)

Milestone 4: Start date and expected completion date(Required)

Milestone 5: Start date and expected completion date(Required)

What success measures will you be using to evaluate your activity?(Required)

How will you report your outcomes to Westmill Solar at the end of the project?(Required)

Part D: Additional contribution to overheads (for requests over £1000)

Would you like to apply for an additional 10% contribution towards overheads?

Yes

Other

If you have answered yes, what is the total amount you are requesting (amount requested in Part B plus 10% overhead)

Part E: Completing your application

How will you publicly acknowledge this funding?(Required)

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your application? (refer to guidance notes)

Please tick the boxes to confirm the following about your application:(Required)

To the best of my knowledge the information in this application is correct, and the application is submitted with the consent of the organisation’s Management Committee / Board of Trustees / equivalent.

We will inform Westmill Solar Co-operative if our organisation’s contact details change. This includes any changes to the organisation’s main mailing addresses, contact telephone numbers and/or email addresses and the name and/ or mailing or email address of the main contact.

We acknowledge that, if our application is successful, we are encouraged to share images and stories with Westmill Solar Co-operative to use in its own communications.

We will acknowledge Westmill Solar Co-operative in all publicity related to this grant (e.g. press releases).

Funds will be paid into a UK bank or building society account in the organisation’s name, which requires two signatures to operate. Receipts and financial records will be kept of how the grant is spent.

Please tick each of these boxes before submitting your application.

Name and signature(Required)

Date(Required)

Consent(Required)

I agree to the privacy policy.

By completing this form, you are consenting to Westmill Solar Co-operative processing your data in line with the Westmill Solar Privacy Policy for the purpose of assessing and administering your Community Funding Grant application.

What happens next? Westmill Solar Co-operative will convene a panel of volunteers to assess the applications received and make recommendations to the Board of Directors at its next meeting. Successful applicants will be contacted after this with further information.

Westmill Solar Co-operative Community Funding Grants Scheme form

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