Offham Solar Park Community Fund

The site was developed by Infinis Energy.

The developer has committed a Community Benefit Fund. There is £14,897 available to allocate.

Offham Parish Council will decide how to allocate the funds to community projects within their respective Parish, which meet the criteria below.

GrantScape will then work closely with each community group to ensure projects meet the criteria and monies are spent appropriately.

Minimum grant – £500

Maximum grant – £14,897

Grants will be available for both capital and revenue projects and can be used on the following:

Community buildings and facilities. For example: capital improvement works to village halls, community centres, museums, heritage centres and community cafes.
Energy conservation and renewable energy. For example: Insulation and energy efficiency improvements in community buildings, solar panel projects.
Community activities and services. For example: projects addressing health and wellbeing, volunteering, social isolation, family poverty, community safety, access to amenities, young and older people’s projects, and projects providing support for local clubs and groups.
Environmental and public open space projects. For example: projects involving parks, nature reserves, community growing schemes, and habitat/species conservation.
Sports, recreation and play. For example: playgrounds, skate parks, sports equipment and sports field drainage projects.
Educational grants. For example: targeted STEM educational activities, outdoor classrooms, Forest School development, educational trips.

Please note: this list is not exhaustive, but just gives examples of the types of grants that can be supported.

Voluntary, community groups, local charities
The Parish Council
Social Enterprises and Community Interest Companies operating on a non-profit-distributing basis. These are defined by Social Enterprise UK as ‘businesses that trade to tackle social problems, improve communities, people’s life chances, or the environment. They make their money from selling goods and services in the open market, but they reinvest their profits back into the business or the local community’. Such organisations must have a minimum of three unrelated Directors.
Schools (as long as it is above and beyond the LEA responsibility).

Grants will not be available for:

Commercial organisations
Any works that are a statutory duty (such as works to public highways), or that are the legal responsibility of others to fund
Projects that are religious in focus, or that support a party political campaign or cause, or may bring the Fund into disrepute
Projects that only benefit individuals
Projects which are contrary to energy conservation and efficiency
Retrospective funding (i.e. funding can only be requested for works that will begin/ expenditure that will be incurred AFTER the funding decision has been made and a formal grant Contract issued)

For details of grants awarded to date, please click the button below.