Earl Gate Energy Centre Limited (EGECL) has launched their new Community Fund, in order to help as many third sector organisations in the local communities as possible.

EGECL is the new Energy from Waste plant being built in Grangemouth. The Community Fund aims to provide funding to help organisations build stronger communities, reduce social isolation amongst vulnerable people, and strengthen community partnerships and local facilities, and is open to organisations based in 5 specific Falkirk Council wards:

Bo’ness and Blackness (Ward 1)
Grangemouth (Ward 2)
Carse, Kinnaird and Tryst (Ward 4)
Falkirk North (Ward 6)
Lower Braes (Ward 8)

They must also be one of the following:

a registered charity
a constituted organisation or group, such as community or voluntary groups
a Community Interest Company (CIC)
a social enterprise

Along with being one of the above organisations types, applicants must be able to provide evidence that:

they have a Management Committee and/or Charity Trustees
they have an Equality and Diversity policy, and/or an Equal Opportunities statement
they have an organisational bank account with at least 2 unrelated signatories who do not live at the same address
they can provide an overview of last 12 months’ donations and funding
they have practices and procedures in place for any paid employers, employees, and volunteers, and appropriate business insurances
they have a Safeguarding Policy and up to date Disclosure Scotland PVG (if working with young people and/or vulnerable adults)
they comply with GDPR legislation and the Data Protection Act 2018

Organisations can apply for up to £1,500 per application, with consideration by exception for larger individual applications.

The latest deadline for applications, to the fifth round, is 5pm on Sunday 31^st July 2022; organisations can re-apply if they were unsuccessful in a previous round.

To apply, or for further information, please visit the new EGECL website.

Alternatively, contact Emma Farrell by email: Emma.Farrell@brockwellenergy.co.uk or Mosa Hinds-Brown by email: Mosa.hinds-brown@brockwellenergy.co.uk