Current Status: Application Appraisal
To be considered at this meeting:
1. Which type of grant are you applying for?
2. Amount of funding required?
3. Are you applying on behalf of a Parish Council?
4. If yes, please state why this project cannot be funded from the
Parish Precept
5. Project title?
6. Project summary: tentage , fencing and tables) to support its ongoing
project to switch from costly annual hire to owning as many of its own
capital assets as practical for the annual Corsley Show. The project supports
and complements a vigorous programme of cost cutting and income boosting. The
equipment would also be made available to met eg ,
Memorial Playing Field Committee, Elizabethan Evening Committee, Corsley
Festival Choir, Corsley Reading Rooms, the Church, Sports Clubs)
7. Which Area Board are you applying to?
Electoral Division Copheap and Wylye
8. What is the Post Code of where the project is taking place?
9. Please tell us which theme(s) your project supports:
10. Finance:
10a. Your Organisation's Finance:
Your latest accounts:
Total Income:
Total Expenditure:
Surplus/Deficit for the year:
Free reserves currently held: (money not committed to other projects/operating costs)
Why can't you fund this project from your reserves: figure in the Free Reserves box above. For 2015 no
commitment will be taken on unless it is pre-funded and all monies taken for
the 2015 Show will replenish the bank balance. (Please note also that the
figure of £13291 in the Surplus/Deficit box is a deficit.) The historical
cost of mounting the Show is around £25k. Rainy day reserves built up over
the years have been eroded by significant losses through very bad weather on
two out of the last three August Bank Holidays. The residual bank balance
after the 2014 Show is about £11.5k, less than 50% of that required to mount
a normal Show. Over the last two years the Show Committee has already
embarked on a programme of purchasing its own assets in an effort to reduce
costs and recover the bank balance. But this year there is no margin to
continue this project and a very tight budget to put on the Show at all.
Every aspect of Show costs are being challenged for 2015 and all avenues are
being sought to reduce costs and solicit additional funding to continue this
over 100 year old Corsley fixture. Tent, table and fence hire have been large
elements of expenditure over the years and alternative means are being sought
to reduce this particular burden, by a mixture of substituting hire by
capital expenditure where feasible and reducing the overall requirement. On
the tent hire alone this project would save over £1.5k per annum and another
£1k has been saved by reducing requirements (deletion of one large tent).
We are a small community group and do not have annual accounts or it is
our first year:
10b. Project Finance:
Total
Project cost
5942.00
Total
required from Area Board
2942.00
Expenditure
Income
Tick
if income confirmed
6m
x 12m Commercial Standard Marquee with 12 Georgian Windows and two end
walls
1469.00
Parish
Council
yes
2000.00
6m
x 8m Commercial Standard Marquee with 6 Georgian Windows and six end walls
1073.00
Elizabethan
Evening Committee
yes
1000.00
25
x 10m rolls of chestnut paling fencing @ £40 per roll
1000.00
20
Gopak folding tables @ £120 per table
2400.00
Total
5942
3000
11. Have you or do you intend to apply for a grant from another area
board within this financial year?
12. If so, which Area Boards?
13. Please tell us WHO will benefit and HOW they will benefit from
your project benefit your local community? who benefit from exposure to exhibitions of horticulture,
agriculture, dogs, horses and many other items of art, home-craft and
industry, sideshows, arena acts, competitions and amusements. These are all
put together with the long-standing aim of providing encouragement, enjoyment
and education in horticulture, agriculture, rural activities, crafts and allied
subjects. Visitors range right across the age group from children of all
ages, who take part in the sports and competitions, enjoy the animals, the
funfair, the childrens corner where they can watch conjurors, hear
story-telling and engage in artistic pursuits; adults from teenagers to
elderly pensioners, large numbers who come to compete in the horticultural
and produce show and show off their efforts, to show their dogs and learn
about how to handle them , admire vintage cars, enjoy the rural crafts, the
trade stalls and the arena acts etc. Different audiences are attracted by
other Village organisations, which would be supported by the proposed
equipment purchase. These were mentioned in the Project Summary and two are
highlighted below. The Elizabethan Evening Committee puts on at least one
major annual outdoor cultural event at the Tudor Manor House Corsley, which
in recent years has been either a period play or operetta with a professional
travelling company. The open air performance attracts an audience of around
200 from Corsley and adjacent Parishes. The event is complemented by period
music and village sports, with food and refreshment provided by an army of
volunteers from the Village and local schools. The tables are an essential
part of the logistics of the event and the tents would now also be used.
Corsley Festival Choir is a Charity and puts on two annual concerts of
classical and sacred music in St Margarets Church, with professional
musicians and Conductor supporting the amateur Choir. The audience is around
180, drawn from a wide catchment of local Villages, and the Summer concert in
includes pre and interval refreshments for which the tents and tables would
be used. The Show and other Village events for which the equipment will be
used are non profit making. Any surpluses are used
to make grants to local charities and other bodies or organisations deemed to
be of benefit to Corsley and/or the adjoining Parishes of Chapmanslade and Horningsham . The Society is in the process making an
application for charitable status.
14. How will you monitor this? vintage cars.
15. If your project will continue after the Wiltshire Council
funding runs out, how will you continue to fund it?
16. Is there anything else you think we should know about the
project?
17. DECLARATION
Supporting information - Please confirm that the following
documents will be available to inspect upon request:
Quotes:
Accounts: latest accounts
Constitution:
Policies and procedures:
Other supporting information (Tick where appropriate, for some
project these will not be applicable):
And finally...