Gilbert Clark Foundation
FEDAGA has been offering small grants to allotment sites for the last 4 years. A total of 45 grants amounting to £11,717 have been awarded to 27 allotment sites, with match funding levering in another £5804 in contributions from sites.
Grants have been awarded for a wide range of items including communal wheelbarrows and trolleys, compost bins, water butts, incinerators, specialist tools and communal and wildlife areas. These are all items that will help individual associations run their sites more effectively and help create a sense of community.
Many of the larger allotment sites have already benefited regularly from the grant scheme so FEDAGA has decided the priority for 2025 should be to encourage the smaller sites to participate. However, some of the smaller sites may not have the resources to make an application or even to receive a grant as they have no bank account.
To overcome this smaller sites will be allocated a mentor from sites that have had previous experience in submitting and receiving a grant to help them identify suitable projects, submit the grant application, procure the items approved and submit a grant claim. Where sites do not have a bank account ways of paying the equivalent grant in goods will be explored.
If you would like to be put in touch with a mentor, contact Dave Roberts, the FEDAGA Treasurer, at the address below.
Applications should be made on the prescribed form (click here: gcf25-applicationform.pdf to access it) and must be signed by 2 members of the relevant association/community garden site committee or 3 plotholders where sites do not have a constituted committee.
Applications must include a person and their contact details who can answer questions on the application.
Applications must be for capital items, not revenue expenditure. The association is required to state how much grant money they require and when they require it, together with any ongoing revenue requirement indicating how they would finance this.
Capital funding includes materials, equipment etc.
Adequate provision needs to be made for the storage of any item purchased, and for its maintenance.
Items could be for more specialised equipment for use by more than one association - for example FEDAGA has an apple press that associations can book to use in the Autumn.
It will be a condition of any grant that the Allotment Association or Community Garden site recognise any contribution from FEDAGA and participate in any publicity organised by FEDAGA in respect of any grant that might be made.
Applications should be submitted electronically to FEDAGA’s Treasurer in the first instance, [email protected] by 31st May 2025.
Applications will be considered by FEDAGA and a decision announced as soon as possible thereafter.
Grants must be spent by the end of June 2025, any unspent grants must be returned to FEDAGA and will be reallocated.
The decision of FEDAGA is final.
Grants have been awarded for a wide range of items including communal wheelbarrows and trolleys, compost bins, water butts, incinerators, specialist tools and communal and wildlife areas. These are all items that will help individual associations run their sites more effectively and help create a sense of community.
Many of the larger allotment sites have already benefited regularly from the grant scheme so FEDAGA has decided the priority for 2025 should be to encourage the smaller sites to participate. However, some of the smaller sites may not have the resources to make an application or even to receive a grant as they have no bank account.
To overcome this smaller sites will be allocated a mentor from sites that have had previous experience in submitting and receiving a grant to help them identify suitable projects, submit the grant application, procure the items approved and submit a grant claim. Where sites do not have a bank account ways of paying the equivalent grant in goods will be explored.
If you would like to be put in touch with a mentor, contact Dave Roberts, the FEDAGA Treasurer, at the address below.
Applications should be made on the prescribed form (click here: gcf25-applicationform.pdf to access it) and must be signed by 2 members of the relevant association/community garden site committee or 3 plotholders where sites do not have a constituted committee.
Applications must include a person and their contact details who can answer questions on the application.
Applications must be for capital items, not revenue expenditure. The association is required to state how much grant money they require and when they require it, together with any ongoing revenue requirement indicating how they would finance this.
Capital funding includes materials, equipment etc.
Adequate provision needs to be made for the storage of any item purchased, and for its maintenance.
Items could be for more specialised equipment for use by more than one association - for example FEDAGA has an apple press that associations can book to use in the Autumn.
It will be a condition of any grant that the Allotment Association or Community Garden site recognise any contribution from FEDAGA and participate in any publicity organised by FEDAGA in respect of any grant that might be made.
Applications should be submitted electronically to FEDAGA’s Treasurer in the first instance, [email protected] by 31st May 2025.
Applications will be considered by FEDAGA and a decision announced as soon as possible thereafter.
Grants must be spent by the end of June 2025, any unspent grants must be returned to FEDAGA and will be reallocated.
The decision of FEDAGA is final.