COVID-19: LOCAL ADVICE AND GUIDANCE My Account Do you have financial worries? Find out about financial help available to you Home Council Grants and funding Rural funding About rural funding Explains what is meant by rural funding, how to find out about it, what funds are available in the East Riding and how to apply for rural funding. What is meant by rural funding? How can I find out about community funds linked to energy-related developments? What is meant by rural funding? Rural funding refers to money that is specifically aimed at projects in rural areas. Rural funding can help rural businesses to grow and support rural community projects. Rural funding in the East Riding comes from a variety of sources including the following: Rural Grants and Payments - to access additional information click on the link Rural Payments Agency (external website) Funding from grant-making trusts, please visit Finding a grant Community funds linked to energy-related developments. For information on other types of funds or funding relating to specific topics such as sports, arts or council service delivery, please visit Finding a grant. How can I find out about community funds linked to energy-related developments? The rural policy and partnership team is responsible for a number of community funds in the East Riding (mostly linked to wind farm developments). These funds are provided by companies for community benefit as part of their corporate responsibility policy. Each fund has its own criteria, its own area of benefit and local decision-making panel that allocates the money to projects. A guide to how the council administers community funds can be found on the following link. Guide to Community Funds (pdf 216kb) The map below identifies wind farms that have community funds associated with them. A more detailed map identifying the areas of benefit for each fund can be found on the following link: Areas of Benefit (pdf 2mb) Once you have viewed the map, please use the links below for further information about a particular fund: Burton Pidsea Wind Farm Community Fund Goole Fields Wind Farm Community Fund Lissett Wind Farm Community Fund Routh Wind Farm Community Fund Sancton Hill Wind Farm Community Fund Spaldington Airfield Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund Tedder Hill Wind Farm Community Fund Withernwick Wind Farm Community Fund Twin Rivers Wind Farm Community Fund The following funds are within the East Riding but administered by other bodies; East Coast Community Fund This fund is part of the community engagement programme for Orsted’s (Formerly DONG Energy) Race Bank and Hornsea Project One offshore wind farms which are located off the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk coast. The area of benefit for the fund stretches from Bridlington down to the Wash and provides grants of between £1,000 - £50,000. The fund is administered by Grantscape. For more information visit the Grantscape website (external website). Fraisthorpe Wind Farm Community Fund This fund aims to support projects that improve the local quality of life and community resources for residents who live in the parish council areas of Barmston and Fraisthorpe, Carnaby and part of the area served by Bridlington Town Council that is south of the Spa. The fund is administered by the Two Ridings Community Foundation. For more information please visit the Two Ridings Community Foundation website. Two Ridings Community Foundation (external website) Roos (RES) Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund This fund aims to support the community within a 5-kilometre radius of Roos Post Office. The secretariat for the fund is East Riding Voluntary Action Services. For more information and to download a fund application form please visit the ERVAS website. East Riding Voluntary Action Services (external website) Six Penny Wood Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund This fund aims to promote charitable, educational, community, environmental, energy efficiency, and general community amenity schemes within the East Riding of Yorkshire with a preference for projects within 5 kilometres of the wind farm at Balkholme. The fund is administered by the Two Ridings Community Foundation. For more information please visit the Two Ridings Community Foundation website. Two Ridings Community Foundation (external website) Sober Hill Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund The Sober Hill Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund is exclusively for the benefit of Newbald Parish and is managed by Newbald Parish Council. For more information please visit the Sober Hill Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund. 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