"flash" wrote ...

Due to a failure not to take one step backwards when everyone else did, I
am
now treasurer of a newly founded allotment society.

The allotment site could do with some investment and I am looking around
for
any organisations I could obtain a grant from - in conjunction with the
societies own fund raising activities.

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of
applying
for a lottery grant.

Anyone else got any ideas or experiences?


Check out www.green-space.org.uk and get their book "Claiming your share" it
lists all the grant bodies there are and what they will fund with regard to
Parks and open spaces like allotments.

Like www.awardsforall.org.uk or www.tudortrust.org.uk

Depends how much you want, but if it's big money then there is the Landfill
Tax Credit Scheme run by Entrust. Provided your land is within 10 miles of a
landfill site you can apply but you need to find the local Entrust approved
body that does it for you. You cannot apply yourself.
http://www.entrust.org.uk/


There is one Grant Body that specialises in Allotments, I'll try and find it
for you....sorry can't, too many papers to wade through.

The Heritage Lottery Fund are dreadful, 42 page application form sent to me
after I wrote and described what I wanted it for and then after I take days
filling it in with all the information they want they throw it in the bin
because a new Park has no heritage. Could have told me that at the outset.
Living Spaces are even worse, they send out an application and then change
the goalposts without telling you then reject your application because of
the "secret" change and tell you they are now not sending out any new
applications for two years! More days wasted.

Other Grant bodies do not reply to e-mails, ever. Of all the ones I've
contacted, and it's a lot, only one replied properly and another with a auto
message, the rest ignored the e-mails. You have to telephone or write.

You will rapidly come to the conclusion that the people that work for these
organisations couldn't get a proper job.

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London