Re: funding for community radio station, anyone got any good idea Hi Vicky
You will probably have thought of some of the following, but sometimes applications for funding to different public and private sector bodies require a creative approach. They get thousands of funding applications and sometimes an application that can show a different angle or link to a in vogue theme can be successful.
Most of the following requires an
'imaginative leap' of faith but I know of a number of organisations who have used the 'creative and tenuous link' to good effect. Though without knowing a bit more about the station programming, content and potential advertising medium, it is difficult to guide you further..... but hopefully the following will maybe give you some ideas.
Grant Funding On the 19th November 2008 Mr. John Swinney MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth announced, as an aspect of encouraging economic growth, improved support for Business Improvement Districts in Scotland (BIDS) with an increase in the grant available to business groups and associations, working in partnership with their local authority, to develop proposals for Business Improvement Districts across Scotland.
The grant is a single payment and no further financial support would be provided by the Scottish Government.
It is expected that the grant will be available throughout this financial year.
Funding for the development of Business Improvement Districts is limited and whilst all applications will be considered, it is inevitable that some will not proceed to grant or may fail to meet the assessment criteria.
Please download both the 'enquiries letter ' and 'application form ', which give further details on the application process and requirements in respect of the grant.
A sample application is available for download here.
If you have any questions you should contact;
Ian Davison Porter Project Director BIDS e-mail
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# In respect of the above.....let's say you could run a series of programmes at a specific time slot that invited secondary pupils from your local high school to join a 'speakeasy' with a local councillor, business leaders and community groups to discuss what initiatives could be employed by the local authority to look at environmental or re cycling or town centre clean ups, or anything that attracts tourism to the area etc .......'wouldn't that be good for the local business district improvement etc' If you applied the same thought process I'm sure it would be worth trying a similar approach with the following.
Historic Scotland Historic Scotland provides a number of grant and funding schemes to support bodies and individuals in the protection, education and promotion of the historic environment.
Details of their funding programmes can be found by clicking here.
Climate Challenge Fund The Climate Challenge Fund is being supported by an alliance of partners from key organisations and networks throughout Scotland, who bring expertise and experience of community-level interventions.
The Sustainable Development Commission Scotland (SDC) is coordinating the work of this alliance. The alliance has three roles:
to develop a shared sense of purpose amongst national stakeholder bodies in supporting the purpose and delivery of the Climate Challenge Fund to provide a network where communities and stakeholders and businesses) can exchange good practice and learning
to support Government work on evaluation of actions by CCF communities in tackling climate change.
For more information go to Keep Scotland Beautiful
p.s. I'm sure you see where I'm going with the suggestions above but in these economic times with funding being stretched then the
'dare to be different' approach can often become the catalyst for change.
Hope this gives you some thought provoking and brilliant ideas in support of your fundraising effort.
John
