Does your business, group, organisation or charity have an innovative and exciting idea to encourage active travel on the Isle of Wight? If so, the Isle of Wight Council is keen to hear from you.
The Isle of Wight Council is inviting potential innovators to bid for an Active Travel Innovation Grant. The purpose of the grant is to support organisations which seek to deliver their own projects which inspire additional cycling and walking on the Isle of Wight. The type of funding available is revenue funding. No capital funding is available.
Organisations are invited to bid for a maximum of £15,000 for projects which:
• unlock potential to increase walking and cycling on the Island;
• embrace innovation; proposals which present a new concept or idea are likely to be weighted above those which expand an existing initiative;
• applicants are expected to contribute 100% match funding to the overall project costs. Match funding can be capital or revenue funding, and can include monetised ‘in kind’ support, such as volunteer time costed.
Do not worry if your idea has never been done before or is ground breaking – those are exactly the sorts of projects the Council are looking for, to truly put the Isle of Wight on the map as a venue for active travel.
Applications must be submitted by the deadline of 17:00 on Friday 28th July 2017. All applicants will be notified of the results of the application on 17th August 2017.
The application requires the completion of an online application form, available on the Isle of Wight Council website at www.iwight.com/sportsunit.
The assessment will be in 2 parts:
• Part 1: applications are reviewed to ensure they are complete and that they meet the funding objectives;
• Part 2: eligible applications are evaluated by a panel, using a transparent evaluation methodology which will be applied consistently across all applications.
