Who Can Apply for Funding?
Community Groups - Max Grant award £600
We offer assistance to charity and community groups within the boundaries of Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling council areas.
Our objective is to support small community groups who benefit communities at 'grass-roots' level.
In exceptional circumstances we will fund larger organisations and charities, however we prioritise groups with a turnover less than £25K.
If you are a larger organisation, please contact us to discuss your application before applying.
To be eligible:
- be a properly constituted community group or a registered charity
- be operating at grass-roots level and be able to show evidence of community benefit
- be able to provide your most recent annual accounts.
Click here to access the CFSLA Grant Application Form
What do we Fund?
The ‘type’ of projects we favour are:
- Equipment or materials which are essential to allow an existing group to continue or extend the activities or services that group can provide to the community.
- Equipment or materials that will allow the group to raise additional funds for themselves.
- New groups which need essential equipment to begin operating.
- Employee fund-raising in aid of eligible groups (Separate form available).
We cannot fund the purchase of items which would become the property of a statutory agency nor items which a statutory agency is responsible for providing.
Please refer to our awards page for groups and projects we have funded previously.
Click here for Funding Criteria
*New* Community Hardship Fund
Max Grant award £500
The CFSLA has made £7000 available in the calendar year 2024 for one-off community action which aims directly to help mitigate the effect of rising prices and rising energy cost on the well-being of low income families / sectors of the community in the participating areas (Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling ).
The Hardship Fund aims to allow grassroots community groups who can show they are in a position to understand and address the effects of inflation on the proposed beneficiaries to respond to the community need in their area even if they don't normally address this sort of issue directly.
To be eligible:
- your group should be properly constituted and not-for-profit
- you should be able to show evidence of community benefit
- your project should have clearly defined objectives
- applications should show a breakdown of costs and details of likely suppliers
Click here to access the CFSLA Grant Application Form
Use of the Fund
The Fund is for one-off activity and short-term initiatives which demonstrate:
- Understanding of the needs of a community
- Collective problem-solving
- Solidarity, fellowship and co-operation within communities
- Creativity in approaches to addressing community needs
- Optimising the use of limited resources for collective benefit
- Sensitivity to marginalised sectors of the community.
We cannot fund the purchase of items which would become the property of a statutory agency nor items which a statutory agency is responsible for providing
When are Applications Reviewed?
Committee Meetings are held Quarterly
The CFSLA Committee meets quarterly to review funding applications.
We meet the first Monday of March, June, September and mid November
Meeting Dates for 2025 are:
- 3rd March 2025
- 2nd June 2025
- 1st September 2025
- 17th November 2025
Applications should be submitted no later than the Wednesday before the meeting.
Dates for 2025 are subject to change
