What are the criteria for grants?
Grants will be assessed against the following criteria.  Please note that you do not have to meet all the criteria:

Promoting independence
Supporting independent living and helping individuals to maintain and enhance their quality of life.  This includes developing and supporting local alternatives to residential, hospital or institutional care.

Examples of successful applications:

• Transport service for older or disabled people
• Club for the Disabled
• Youth project for Disabled young people
• Gardening scheme for older or disabled people

Promoting social inclusion
Developing learning, training, employment or leisure opportunities for disadvantaged and vulnerable people.

Examples of successful applications:

• Day Centre for older people
• Workshops to help stroke recoverers regain speech

Supporting vulnerable people
Providing help and support to vulnerable people (children or adults) in their homes or within the community.

Examples of successful applications:

• Support and help for families with young children who are isolated of under pressure
• Relationship counselling

Making communities safer
Providing services to engage disaffected people and encourage them to make a positive contribution to the community, or providing services that contribute to the safety of the community as a whole.

Examples of successful applications:

• Youth project to provide facilities and activities for disadvantaged young people, and to direct them to other agencies, if required.

Supporting carers in the community
Providing services that help and support carers (adults or children)

Examples of successful applications:

• Provision of home-based respite support for carers
• Provision of outreach worker to help sufferers from dementia and their families

Facilitating and promoting better health in the local community
Providing services that can be seen to contribute to better health in the wider sense.

Examples of successful applications:

• Bereavement counselling
• Drug and Alcohol outreach worker

For further help or information contact the Voluntary Grants Monitoring Officer.

Voluntary Grants Monitoring Officer
Community Care Services
Guildford Borough Council
Millmead House
Millmead
Guildford
GU2 4BB

Tel: 01483 444301
Email: voluntarygrants@guildford.gov.uk