APPENDIX 1

Grant Applications for Trowbridge on 11/07/2013

ID	Grant Type	Project Title	Applicant	Amount Required
89	Community Area Grant	Jubilee Wood Scout Camp Site and Community Youth Activity Centre	Wiltshire West District Scout Association	£1500

ID

Grant Type

Project Title

Applicant

Amount Required

89

Community Area Grant

Jubilee Wood Scout Camp Site and Community Youth Activity Centre

Wiltshire West District Scout Association

£1500

Submitted: 12/05/2013 15:26:28

ID: 89

Current Status: Application Appraisal

To be considered at this meeting:
11/07/2013 Trowbridge

1. Which type of grant are you applying for?
Community Area Grant

2. Amount of funding required?
£501 - £5000

3. Are you applying on behalf of a Parish Council?
No

4. If yes, please state why this project cannot be funded from the Parish Precept

5. Project title?
Jubilee Wood Scout Camp Site and Community Youth Activity Centre

6. Project summary:
Having purchased a field at West Ashton we are making good progress in developing this into a Scout Camp Site and Youth Activity Centre open to Scouts, Guides and organised youth groups nationwide and to local community groups. Having planted over 6200 trees to form a new Jubilee Wood and installed essential infrastructure, we now need items of maintenance equipment and a secure store to keep them in and also need to improve accessibility, particularly for the disabled.

7. Which Area Board are you applying to?
Trowbridge

Electoral Division
Southwick

8. What is the Post Code of where the project is taking place?
BA14 6DF

9. Please tell us which theme(s) your project supports:
Children & Young People
Countryside, environment and nature
Health, lifestyle and wellbeing
Inclusion, diversity and community spirit
Safer communities
Sport, play and recreation

If Other (please specify)

10. Finance:

10a. Your Organisation's Finance:

Your latest accounts:
03/2012

Total Income:
£Â£42342

Total Expenditure:
£Â£17252

Surplus/Deficit for the year:
£Â£41951

Free reserves currently held:
(money not committed to other projects/operating costs)
£Â£1618

Why can't you fund this project from your reserves:
Our existing project commitments leave us with only about £1800 to complete all the necessary work to allow us to open the facility in October 2013. We are conducting fund raising and making grant applications for this. In addition to this basic project, we have new requirements associated with the need to maintain these facilities, the woodland and the open areas and to improve accessibility.

We are a small community group and do not have annual accounts or it is our first year:  

10b. Project Finance:

Total Project cost		£Â£5000
Total required from Area Board		£1500
Expenditure (Itemised expenditure)	£	Income (Itemised income)	Tick if income confirmed	£
Secure Store	2500	Trowbridge Town Council		2000
Disabled Access	1000	Bradford Area Board		500
Mower	1500	Melksham Area Board		500
		Project Funds	yes	500
Total	£5000			£3500

11. Have you or do you intend to apply for a grant from another area board within this financial year?
Yes

12. If so, which Area Boards?
Bradford on Avon
Melksham

13. Please tell us WHO will benefit and HOW they will benefit from your project benefit your local community?
Our 800 young members in West Wilts,of whom 285 plus 75 adult volunteer leaders are from the Trowbridge Area Board area, plus Guides, local youth groups and the local community will benefit. WE do not have numbers for these but do know that the 105 pupils at West Ashton School intend to use the facility. We are already enjoying a high level of engagement as young people and the local community have helped with tree planting etc. This project is about encouraging young people to get the best out of life and to enjoy their childhood in the great outdoors. Links to local priorities are: Economy: Increasing skill levels: We believe that young people develop most when they are 'learning by doing,' are given responsibility, work in teams, take acceptable risks and think for themselves. The leadership and team working skills that young members acquire, together with the self confidence that the training engenders helps to provide them with the skills that future generations of leaders and of our national workforce will need in order to make planned economic growth become a reality. Addressing Anti-social behaviour: We encourage our members to understand the consequences of their actions, and aim to help build the strength of character necessary to resist pressures to join anti-social behaviour. Sport and Active Leisure: Our project is all about getting away from the TV and computer and enjoying an active, fulfilling life-style Environment and the Countryside: we foster understanding of how communities and individuals need to integrate with the countryside and how the actions and behaviours of young and old alike impact on the environment. The aim is to create a safe, self-sustaining environment in which the trees, the flora and the wildlife can flourish alongside and integrated with citizenship training. Education & Lifelong Learning; Improving chances for children. To improve young people’s outcomes and outlook on life, it is vital that the cycle of dependency on benefits is broken and young people aspire to a career or work life. Scouting promotes the development of young people in achieving their full potential. Health & Social Care; Improving Life Styles: Increasing levels of obesity and low fitness in young people is a matter of national concern. We encourage and foster a healthy life style based upon healthy eating, hygiene, exercise and outdoor pursuit. The camp site will enable these important life-skills to be reinforced by means of day visits and over-night camping where young members will, for example, plan their menus, buy their provisions and cook for themselves. Crime & Community Safety: our training helps young people to find the strength of character to make the right choices and helps give them the maturity to resist pressures to take a part in activities such as drug dealing and gang cultures. Many church leaders, members of the police force and social workers value the contribution that scouting makes towards achieving better, safer communities. Community: As well as being used by Scouts and Guides from outside the District, we are committed to making the site available for use by other groups, who need not necessarily be youth groups, and to schools etc. We envisage making the facility available for use by schools and youth and other groups for a variety of social, educational and sports activities. Our long-term aim is that the site will become some form of hub for youth outdoor activity, helping young people to appreciate the importance of conservation and how to enjoy the countryside in a responsible manner. We try to foster understanding of why individuals should contribute to the well-being of the community of which they are part and the benefits that they and the community at large will derive from this. We hope that by adulthood our young members will have a keen understanding of the needs of their community and be willing and able to contribute to the life of the community and to strengthen the voluntary sector in years to come.

14. How will you monitor this?
In this project success is about people. It is the delivery of the benefits described above – better quality of life, encouraging young people to get the best out of life and to enjoy their childhood in the great outdoors. We are confident that the facilities and the environment that we will create will deliver success. We will measure it through: - The numbers that use the site - Customer satisfaction surveys with users and leaders - Routine monitoring and reporting by the Management Committee to the District Executive Committee

15. If your project will continue after the Wiltshire Council funding runs out, how will you continue to fund it?
We will charge modest fees from groups using the site and have been awarded a Forestry Commission woodland maintenance grant of £680 per annum to help towards maintenance and replacement of the 6200 trees that we have planted

16. Is there anything else you think we should know about the project?
Excluding items listed in this application and volunteer labour, our latest estimate for completion of the site is £193,500. We have so far raised £188,500 (This is made up of Grants from Charitable bodies and Local Authorities - £152,600, Donations from individual well-wishers and local fund raising - £4,900, Contribution from own reserves - £10,000, Forestry Commission woodland creation grant - £21,000) We have spent £175,800 and are contractually committed to a further £11,000. This leaves us with a cash balance of £1700 and so need to raise a further £5000, which we will do by applying for further grants and local fundraising

17. DECLARATION

Supporting information - Please confirm that the following documents will be available to inspect upon request:

Quotes:
yes I will make available on request 1 quote for individual project costs over £500 & 2 quotes for project costs over £1000 (Individual project costs are listed in the expenditure section above)

Project/Business Plan:
yes I will make available on request a project or business plan (including estimates) for projects where the total project cost (as declared in the financial section above) exceeds £50,000 (tick only when total project cost exceeds £50,000).

Accounts:
yes I will make available on request the organisation's latest accounts

Constitution:
yes I will make available on request the organisation's Constitution/Terms of Reference etc.

Policies and procedures:
yes I will make available on request the necessary and relevant policies and procedures such as Child Protection, Safeguarding Adults, Public Liability Insurance, Access audit, Health & Safety and Environmental assessments.

Other supporting information (Tick where appropriate, for some project these will not be applicable):
yes I will make available on request evidence of ownership of buildings/land
yes I will make available on request the relevant planning permission for the project.
yes I will make available on request any other form of licence or approval for this project has been received prior to submission of this grant application.

And finally...
yes The information on this form is correct, that any award received will be spent on the activities specified.