Village Halls

County Grant Scheme – Community Buildings/Village Halls

The County grant scheme, is a scheme which provides capital funding to Community Buildings and village halls in Devon.

The old scheme involved the following:

one-third matched by the District Council in which the Village Hall is situated, one-third matched by the community building / Village Hall Committee through local fundraising and one third from Devon County Council administered by the Community Council of Devon .

The current update

The County Council's Executive decided, on 14th October 2008, to allocate £500,000 from the proceeds of the sale of Exeter airport to enhance the County Grants Scheme (CGS) for village halls.

We are aware that the criteria and assessment processes for the CGS were not designed to manage sudden and significant increases in funding and activity.  Therefore there have been some amendments to the current scheme.  Please see the link below for the key changes to the CGS guidance.

[ key changes to CGS guidance ]

Grant awards from CCD are now between £1,500 and £30,000.

An [application form ] - 125 kb and [ guidance notes ] 162 kb - can be downloaded from this website on the Funding pages.

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