Expression of Interest (EoI) for Community Led Local Development (CLLD) 2025/26
Please return this form to CLLD@orkney.gov.uk by 5pm on Friday 4th April 2025. A CLLD Officer will be in touch once received. If you have any questions meantime, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Orkney’s 2025/26 CLLD allocation is yet to be confirmed, however, the anticipated award is circa £190k capital and £70k revenue. Maximum grant awards within each project category will be finalised once the grant allocation has been confirmed.
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To be eligible to apply for this fund, your project must deliver on one of the following outcomes. Please tick the box(es) to indicate which of the Scottish Government priorities your project will support:
- ☐ Ensuring High Quality and Sustainable Public Services
- ☐ Tackling the Climate Emergency
- ☐ Eradicating Child Poverty
- ☐ Growing the Economy
Please tick the box(es) to indicate which of the CLLD grants you are hoping to apply for:
Capital Projects
☐ Helping communities to derive lasting economic and social benefit from the Island Games which are being held in Orkney in July. The investment being made by communities and sports groups in their facilities will strengthen their membership and enhance their resilience.
☐ Providing essential capital to support community groups that have acquired, or are in the process of acquiring, land and buildings to fund early-stage upgrades to enable them to start “open for business” and to start to generate revenue to meet their operating costs.
☐ Supporting elements of the community led projects identified in local place/development/action plans.
☐ Supporting community groups to deliver community wellbeing and recreational projects
☐ Providing essential capital to support sectoral based community groups to become more resilient
Revenue Projects
☐ The development of Place Plans, where the community has indicated a desire for such a plan to ensure that their wishes influence future planning decisions. Place Plans also identify the priority projects that the community wish to see progressed and lend weight to funding applications.
☐ The engagement of resource/expertise to move a project forward where it can be shown that support of this nature will progress a project to the point of delivery. Applicants wishing to access this support would be required to provide evidence that they have a competitive quote for the work and that the contractor has capacity to deliver within permitted timescales.
☐ The building of capacity within applicant groups by supporting them to review their governance and financial management and ensure that their operating policies are fit for purpose.
☐ The encouragement and support of networking and knowledge exchange between community groups, and with public sector and agencies, in order to strengthen the confidence and capacity. This could include building on the success of Orkney’s Winter Conference which sought to create a networking opportunity for staff and trustees from the Development Trusts across Orkney and Shetland.
☐ Providing revenue funding to support primary sectors and rural development to transition with new Scottish Government and UK requirements.
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- Fits with Community Led Vision (CLV)? – Yes/No
- Suitable for CLLD funding? – Yes/No
- Level of Funding Requested is Reasonable/Appropriate? – Yes No
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