The Burton Pidsea Wind Farm Community Fund currently receives an annual donation from the developer. Find out more about funding information for communities here.
The Burton Pidsea wind Farm is owned and operated by EnergieKontor UK Ltd who make an annual donation of c. £20,400 per annum to a community fund. The Burton Pidsea Wind Farm Community Fund was set up to distribute this donation and the first grant payments were awarded in 2015 to support a wide range of projects of benefit to the local community.
For further information on EnergieKontor UK Limited visit:
EnergieKontor UK Ltd (external website)
The area of benefit of the fund is the electoral wards of Mid-Holderness, North Holderness, South East Holderness and South West Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire, with a preference for appropriate initiatives within the proximity of the development. The fund panel defined proximity to the development as a 5-kilometre radius of Burton Pidsea Post Office, HU12 9AX.
The fund is designed to promote initiatives for public benefit within a defined area (the area of benefit). The following types of projects are eligible for help from the fund:
Applications are welcomed from community groups, community organisations, charities, parish councils, schools and faith based groups. New groups or ideas for projects where a group does not currently exist can be considered. Applications cannot be accepted from individuals.
For further advice please contact the fund administrator:
Email: ruralfunding@eastriding.gov.uk
The following activities cannot be supported by the fund:
Payments from the fund will usually be made in the form of grants. Subject to appropriate governance measures as required, other forms of financial assistance (e,g, commissioning, loans, donations) can be considered by the fund panel. For further details contact the fund administrator at:
For information on other funding opportunities please visit Finding a grant.
Applications for over £500 (and up to a maximum value of £10,000) should be made online to the main fund.
Applications for up to £500 can be made to the Small Grants fund.
Please also see the answer to How do I submit an application for funding?
In certain circumstances, up to 100% funding is available however, projects that show their own contribution to costs will be viewed more favourably. As a guide the fund panel suggest 20% of total projects costs as a contribution. The contribution can be cash, donations, equipment loans, free use of land or buildings and/or volunteer time.
Decisions on how the money is spent are made by a fund panel made up of representatives from the following organisations:
The Developer.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is the Accountable Body for the fund and provides the secretariat and administration service through the council's Rural Policy and Partnerships Team.
The main fund re-opens on 16 January 2023 and closes Monday 24 April 2023. Applications will be considered at a Panel Decision Making meeting in June 2023.
Applications for up to £500 can be made to the Small Grants Fund which can be made at any time and will be considered in between panel meetings.
For the small grant option the applicant completes a paper based application using the forms and guidance that can be downloaded from the bottom of this page. The applicant completes the form and returns it to the administrator via email. The application is then circulated to the panel for a decision and if the application is approved by a majority the applicant is informed and the grant is paid directly into the group/organisations account without the need for an invoice. In most cases this process should only take approximately 14 days from application to decision.
For applications to the main fund:
Applications to the main fund (over £500) should be made online within the Flexi-Grant system. To access this system click on the link:
Flexi-Grant System (external council website)
There are guidance notes to help you complete the form.
Applications for up to £500 should be made on the Small Grants Form which, along with Guidance Notes, can be downloaded from the documents box below.
If you have any queries please contact the fund by email: ruralfunding@eastriding.gov.uk.
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