Local Funding

The Community Covenant Grant Scheme was established to support the community covenant and to fund local projects that bring together the civilian and armed forces communities.

The signing of the covenant allows groups in Salford eligible to apply for funding from the Ministry of Defence's grant scheme.

What type of project is eligible?

There are a variety of projects that could be supported by this fund. Projects range from the replacement of a scout headquarters or community link activities. Examples can be found on the GOV.UK website.

Tips for a successful bid

There are a number of easy steps that applicants to the Community Covenant Grant Scheme can take to help ease the passage of their bid through the decision panel:

• Ensure that your project has at least one of the aims of the community covenant at its heart
• All applications must be signed by local authority and armed forces partners; without these signatures the bid won't go forward
• Keep it simple: if anything is unclear or vague at best the panels will ask further questions (which delays the whole process) but at worst they will simply say no
• Make it clear: while the overall aims of your project can be valuable to panel members you should also take care to exactly describe the steps you plan to achieve them 
• Provide a breakdown of costs, this not only helps to establish value for money (a vital factor in bids that are approved) but also gives panels enough information to provide partial funding
• Panel members have a lot of applications to read through so please stick to the word count, the risk is that vital points may begin to be lost if too much information is provided
• The application template was designed so all the information the panel need to reach a decision should be there, lengthy annexes or additional pages will not generally be read, although some additional information can be useful but by exception, for example, maps or schematics
• Ensure that the contact details of local authority representative and project leader are clear and complete to help avoid unnecessary delays, please include telephone and email addresses (where possible)

Local community groups working in partnership with the armed forces.

Please the Salford City Council website for details.