Kingsbury Community Shop Project

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	Hello and Thank You for visiting our website Please visit regularly for more news and future events. Read on for latest news..... Since hearing about our lack of success with the Village SOS project in May, we have been collecting our thoughts and looking to the future. We were greatly assisted in this by our Village SOS Grants Officer, Laura Cremin, who was almost as disappointed as we were when we did not get through to the final six! She has already forwarded our full bid file to the Lottery South West Regional Office, including details of all the contact we had with her during the six months Development Grant period. It is good to know that our next bid comes highly recommended by an experienced Grants Officer within the Lottery organisation and we are very grateful to her for her assistance. We have now been allocated a new Grants Officer, Chris Lang, who is conveniently based at the Lottery South West Regional Office in Exeter. He and Laura visited us in early July to discuss future opportunities. continued below........ Previous Newsletters For the latest newsletter click below Our next Event is Inspector Drake and The Black Widow Click on the picture for more details Latest News continued..... Chris explained that he had already gone through our application, and was very impressed. He outlined various opportunities within the Lottery structure which were currently open to us, but suggested that it would be better if we waited for a new capital fund (part of the existing Reaching Communities programme) which is scheduled to come on stream in the Autumn. The date has not yet been published, and they are currently working on the fine detail, but our project certainly fulfils the requirements as currently proposed. The new programme covers large capital grants, so would enable us to apply for the whole amount needed, rather than applying elsewhere for several smaller grants. One advantage of the new programme over the Village SOS programme is that whereas SOS involved us in a competition with others, this one enables our application to stand on it’s own merits – either it meets the funders requirements or it doesn’t, and Chris is confident that it will be successful. We have been advised to leave our existing Business Plan, and Capital Project Delivery Plan, exactly as they are, since they cannot be improved. All we have to do is to fill in the initial application form as soon as it becomes available. Chris will keep in touch with us, and let us have all the information as it is released. This is very good news, since it means that very little additional work will now have to be done to complete this second bid. It also means that we will be one of the first applications to be considered within the new programme. Because the decision process is in weeks rather than months, if successful, we could be awarded the whole grant by the New Year, and be in a good position to start building in the Spring. Another advantage of the Reaching Communities programme over SOS is that if we get the funding, it does not come with the expectation that we also have the intrusive presence of the BBC, with all the extra work that would have entailed, and that will certainly make the whole thing much easier! (The BBC documentary series on Village SOS is due to go out in the first half of 2011, and we will remind you nearer the time – it should be worth watching if only as a reminder of what might have happened to us!) REMEMBER – TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Hello and Thank You for visiting our website

Please visit regularly for more news and future events.

Read on for latest news.....

Since hearing about our lack of success with the Village SOS project in May, we have been collecting our thoughts and looking to the future.

We were greatly assisted in this by our Village SOS Grants Officer, Laura Cremin, who was almost as disappointed as we were when we did not get through to the final six! She has already forwarded our full bid file to the Lottery South West Regional Office, including details of all the contact we had with her during the six months Development Grant period. It is good to know that our next bid comes highly recommended by an experienced Grants Officer within the Lottery organisation and we are very grateful to her for her assistance.

We have now been allocated a new Grants Officer, Chris Lang, who is conveniently based at the Lottery South West Regional Office in Exeter. He and Laura visited us in early July to discuss future opportunities.

continued below........

Previous Newsletters

For the latest newsletter click below

Our next Event is

Inspector Drake and The Black Widow

Click on the picture for more details

Latest News continued.....

Chris explained that he had already gone through our application, and was very impressed. He outlined various opportunities within the Lottery structure which were currently open to us, but suggested that it would be better if we waited for a new capital fund (part of the existing Reaching Communities programme) which is scheduled to come on stream in the Autumn. The date has not yet been published, and they are currently working on the fine detail, but our project certainly fulfils the requirements as currently proposed. The new programme covers large capital grants, so would enable us to apply for the whole amount needed, rather than applying elsewhere for several smaller grants. One advantage of the new programme over the Village SOS programme is that whereas SOS involved us in a competition with others, this one enables our application to stand on it’s own merits – either it meets the funders requirements or it doesn’t, and Chris is confident that it will be successful.

We have been advised to leave our existing Business Plan, and Capital Project Delivery Plan, exactly as they are, since they cannot be improved. All we have to do is to fill in the initial application form as soon as it becomes available. Chris will keep in touch with us, and let us have all the information as it is released.

This is very good news, since it means that very little additional work will now have to be done to complete this second bid. It also means that we will be one of the first applications to be considered within the new programme. Because the decision process is in weeks rather than months, if successful, we could be awarded the whole grant by the New Year, and be in a good position to start building in the Spring.

Another advantage of the Reaching Communities programme over SOS is that if we get the funding, it does not come with the expectation that we also have the intrusive presence of the BBC, with all the extra work that would have entailed, and that will certainly make the whole thing much easier! (The BBC documentary series on Village SOS is due to go out in the first half of 2011, and we will remind you nearer the time – it should be worth watching if only as a reminder of what might have happened to us!)

REMEMBER – TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN!