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 What is the Community Chest?
Who can apply?
What can you apply for?
How can you apply?
When do you have to apply by?
What are the judges looking for?
The Process
What is the Community Chest?
Hall & Woodhouse set up the Community Chest in 2002 to provide local help for its local community in and around Dorset.
Since then they have donated over £100,000 to 148 worthy voluntary organizations. Hall & Woodhouse's employees have also completed nearly 2,000 hours of voluntary work assisting with practical projects in the local community.
The ethos of the Community Chest is:
- Working together towards improving both facilities and the lives of residents in the community.
- Promoting, encouraging and supporting community involvement.
- Offering access funds to local voluntary groups with clearly identified needs.
The Community Chest for 2007/08 is a pool of £15,000 and supporting funds raised by Hall & Woodhouse pubs in the Horsham area.
Hall & Woodhouse is supported by partners The West Sussex County Times and Spirit FM, who provide the scheme with publicity, advice and local knowledge.
Who can apply?
Applications are welcome from any voluntary or community organisation or group with a local interest that is based or works in the Horsham area for the benefit of local people.
Grants could be made in the following areas:
- Youth work and activities
- Pre-schools
- Elderly or disabled
- Health and social care
- Local arts
- Conservation and the environment
- Animal care
- Local community
Applications will not be considered from national organisations or those that are profit making, political, or outside the Horsham District Council area.
What can you apply for?
Groups can apply for grants of amounts between £300 and £3,000. Grants could be awarded for:
- Equipment, furniture
- Training
- Transport
- Professional assistance
- Specific project resources
Practical assistance has been provided:
- Painting and decorating
- Gardening
- Electrical testing
- Woodworking
Brewery tours for special needs groups have also been provided.
How can you apply?
You can apply online or application forms will be printed in The West Sussex County Times.
When do you have to apply by?
The West Sussex Community Chest for 2007/08 is now closed but details of the 2008/09 scheme will be notified in the autumn.
What are the judges looking for?
The Community Chest judges are made up of representatives from the scheme's partners Hall & Woodhouse Ltd., West Sussex County Times and Spirit FM.
Each judge has their own criteria but organisations should ask themselves the following questions:
Need - Is there a real need for this project? Does your project or organisation really improve the lives of local residents or is it nice to have?
Own Efforts - What efforts have you made to help your own organisation? How much money have you raised for your project or organisation?
Difference - How much more money is needed to make the project a reality? Will a grant of up to £3,000 enable the project to happen?
The judges will have to look through over 200 applications so the organisations who have demonstrated that they have a real need, have helped themselves and that any money awarded will make a difference, are more likely to be successful.
The judges will split the applications into two groups: large awards of over £1,000 and small awards. The large awards will be short listed for a judges' visit and the small awards judged on the merit of their application form only.
The Process
Applications are now welcome up until 26th January when the judging will commence. Applicants will be notified of the outcome in April and Hall & Woodhouse pubs will be invited to raise further funds for the successful organisations.
The awards will be made in a Hall & Woodhouse pub in the Horsham area at the end of May.
 
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