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Dec 10, 2021 · This guidance will help applicants prepare and submit applications to the Investing in Communities Fund (ICF), which is a three year fund being delivered over the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2026 providing grants of up to £350,000 in total over this funding period.
- Overview
This guidance will help applicants prepare and submit...
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Managing a local challenge fund. With the sole exception of...
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- Reducing Poverty and Inequality
- Developing and Sustaining Place Based Approaches
- Community-Led Regeneration
- Ensuring A Just Transition to Net Zero
Fewer people experience poverty and inequality, with a focus on: 1. ending child poverty 2. improved life chances and opportunities 3. living healthier lives Your proposal should evidence how it will support people in a holistic person-centred way to help address multiple and complex challenges of disadvantage that people can often experience.
Communities are more resilient, equal and work in partnership to achieve shared ambitions for their place. This means no-one is left behind by including and involving all sections of the community in an inclusive way and by also working collaboratively with local statutory bodies and other organisations. Doing so demonstrates an understanding of th...
Communities are more sustainable and able to shape their own futures by strengthening the role and offering of locally controlled community (anchor) organisations, where local people are enabled to identify for themselves the challenges and priorities for their areas and to also make decisions on what solutions are needed; empowering local people a...
Communities are more climate aware, are better equipped to support behaviour change and are able to contribute positively to taking action on climate change. Just transition is how we get to a net zero and climate resilient economy in a way that delivers fairness and tackles inequality and injustice. Net zerorefers to a state in which the greenhous...
Dec 10, 2021 · The Investing in Communities Fund (ICF) recognises the important role communities play in tackling climate change, and has therefore reflected this in the priorities of the fund. All projects must demonstrate how they meet the objective of ensuring a just transition to net zero.
Nov 18, 2021 · Investing in Communities is a new Scottish Government fund, opening in April 2022. Worth £10 million per year, there are four themes: • Ensuring a just transition to net zero. • Tackling Poverty and Inequality. • Developing and Sustaining Place Based Approaches. • Community led Regeneration.
The new fund will support projects in 2023-26. The first round of grants ranged from £10,000 to more than £250,000 over three years, and among those successful were a number of sports clubs and organisations working to improve health and wellbeing and address challenges of poverty.
May 31, 2022 · The Investing in Communities Fund (ICF) is a streamlined communities fund that is delivered as part of the Empowering Communities Programme. The fund supports our most disadvantaged or fragile communities to tackle poverty in all its forms on their own terms.
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The Investing in Communities fund can be used for projects seeking to support the development of local place plans. The Planning Bill currently before the Scottish Parliament seeks to introduce a new right for communities to produce plans for their places, with scope for those plans to become part of the statutory development plan.
