Community Intervention Fund

The fund aims to give capital grants to projects that support the delivery of the Council Plan and the East Lothian Partnership’s Local Outcomes:

Growing our Economy

• reducing unemployment
• improve the employability of East Lothian’s workforce

Growing our People

• improve the life chances of the most vulnerable people in our society.
• reduce the attainment gap and raise the achievement of our children and young people

Growing our Communities

• extend community engagement and decision making
• increase community and individual resilience

Growing our Capacity

• deliver transformational change
• harness the opportunity technology offers in the provision of services.

What can we apply for?

You can apply for funding for any project that would meet the definition of capital expenditure, and can be demonstrated to enhance the value of an asset. “Capital Expenditure” includes:

• improving the fabric of a building
• improving access to a building
• extensions to a building
• removing hazardous materials as part of a set of works
• structural repairs
• putting in fixed items of equipment (e.g. floodlights)
• carrying out improvements to a public space

The Community Intervention Fund will not provide grants for:

• any item not deemed to be capital expenditure such as to support on-going running costs of an organisation
• endowments, loan payments or bank charges
• projects where the beneficiaries are resident outside of East Lothian
• the cost of buying a second-hand vehicle
• activities promoting religion or political beliefs
• VAT – you may need to pay VAT on purchases you make as part of your project
• items which will be covered by buildings insurance

About your application

You can apply for up a maximum of £50,000, or 60% of the total cost of the project, not including VAT - whichever is lower.

Any organisation or community group can apply for funding once during our financial year. This runs from 1 April to 31 March.

The Community Intervention Fund is open to applications with the following deadlines:

• 31 May
• 30 November

Once received, applications will not be assessed until after the next deadline.  Any organisation or community group can apply for funding once during a 1 year period. 

Please note that the Community Intervention Fund budget is limited and in the event that all funding has been allocated in one round, the Council may close the fund and defer applications to the next financial year.

How to apply

A template application form is available to download. Completed application forms along with supporting documents should be emailed directly to: partnershipfunding@eastlothian.gov.uk