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Funding Opportunities For New School Playground Projects

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How We Can Save You A Lot of Time and Hassle When Looking To Raise Funds For Your School Playground Project

If you are looking to raise funds to pay for a new playground project at your school – this could be playground equipment, outdoor classrooms and shelters, safety surfacing, trim trails, forest school projects, sensory and communication spaces, gardening projects etc – then we have 25 years experience of helping schools find and raise the required funds to pay for our products.

But the first question we always ask of schools is this – how much time do you realistically have to give to this? Raising money is something that typically requires quite a bit of effort on all stakeholders’ behalves   –  researching applicable grants, reading all of the funding criteria, completing and submitting bids, knowing what makes a successful application or not, re-submitting if turned down originally etc.

But at the Hideout House Company, we can offer you a solution and a way round all of this. Firstly, we don’t just rely on one particular avenue for funding (e.g grants) as we feel that it makes much more sense to pursue a varied mix of initiatives so as to maximize opportunities and thereby reach your funding target a lot faster. Our proven method involves accessing grants (and we can tell you which ones we would recommend you apply for and which are applicable), crowdfunding, unique PTA fundraising ideas, company or corporate sponsorship, the exploitation of revenue generating streams (such as renting out your existing school grounds and facilities) and we can also offer part payment plans whereby you can pay in annual, monthly or termly instalments over typically three to five years. If you have already raised some money towards your playground project, then you can have the equipment installed now (and the children can enjoy the benefit of it immediately) but this gives your school the flexibility to pay in pre-arranged instalments over a longer period of time which can work within your budgets. Once we have your quote drawn up, we can easily give you some quotes for using this option.

We have built up many associations and partnerships with specialist companies who can help you with all of the above and we have proved that they work. We have also put together a comprehensive and informative page on our website which can be found on this link: School Grant and Funding

Basically, we can get you from A to B a lot faster and with far less hassle.

To see our comprehensive product range of school playground products, please have a look at our website www.hideouthouse.com

And then please get in contact with us so that we can talk through your project with you, offer some suggestions and advice and explain how we can help with funding opportunities.

The Hideout House Company

Tel: 01832 275902 or email: info@hideouthouse.com

 

 

 

 

Tesco Bags of Help Grant Scheme For Schools

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The Tesco Bags of Help programme has changed slightly as of this August. Applicants can now apply all year round and they will be making multiple grant awards each month. Application and decision times are therefore hopefully greatly reduced.

However, the amounts they will give out are reduced to either £1000, £2000, or £5000.

Applications are now open and you can apply whether you have been previously funded or not.

Programme Information

The new programme is very similar to the old one. Their aim is to support projects which will “promote community participation in the development and use of outdoor spaces”.

What do they mean by this?

They will fund projects that deliver either a physical environmental improvement or encourage the use and long term sustainability of outdoor spaces.

Any non-profits, including schools, are eligible to apply. Grants can be the full amount a project needs, or can just provide a contribution towards the costs.

As we specialise in supplying products to schools which meet their grant funding criteria, then please do visit our website www.hideouthouse.com to find out a bit more about what we as the Hideout House Company do or give us a call to discuss how we can help you with your application bid.

For further information on the Tesco Bags of Help grant please visit:

https://www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/tescocommunityscheme/pages/Category/apply-for-a-boh-grant-tes2

The Hideout House Company Ltd

Tel: 01865 858982 or email: info@hideouthouse.com

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Grants for Schools – Tesco’s Bags of Help Grant

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Tescos are currently offering a grant which schools are eligible to apply for and is a funding scheme which is giving grants of £8 – £12,000 for projects which improve green spaces in communities. These may include building new pocket parks, sports facilities, woodland walks, community gardens and school playgrounds.

Basically they want to fund schemes which will get people out and about and enjoying the great outdoors more, by making physical improvements to open spaces. School playgrounds fall therefore within their funding remits.

Outcomes Tesco wishes to achieve:

Projects must lead to: Physical Improvement of an Open Space

Plus at least one (and as many as possible) of the following outcomes:

  • Protecting or improving biodiversity
  • Promoting physical activity
  • Improving wellbeing
  • Increasing community safety
  • Mitigating or adapting to climate change
  • Improving access to open spaces by under-represented groups

They value any volunteering opportunities created by the project and are interested to know how the scheme will be promoted in the community. The scheme has to benefit the wider local community and not just be for the exclusive use of the school.

Things Tesco want applicants to provide: Organisational constitution, photograph of site as it is now, landowner permission form (this is downloadable, and is just signed off by the landowner).

Tesco look like they want to fund the projects mostly themselves. Match funding can be up to £4000. This means that a total project could cost up to £12,000 – 16,000. But no more.

Decisions on grants will be made at the beginning of September, and paid in Mid-November.

This is a great opportunity to get some funding towards this type of project. Approx. 1 in 4 applicants received a grant in the last open window.

How it works is that the applicant has to say how they would spend £8000, £10000, or £12000 to improve their local space. If the project is successful, then it goes into a Tesco store and customer’s votes decides which amount (of those three) it gets.

Information you’ve got to provide includes project information, pictures of the condition of the area currently and information on local community support.

The deadline for applications is June 3rd!

At the Hideout House Company, this is an area we specialise in as we are able to supply products for schools which meet and fulfill the criteria and outcomes of this particular grant.

For further information on our products please visit www.hideouthouse.com and if you would also like further information on this grant and how we can help, please contact us on 01865 858982 or send an email to info@hideouthouse.com

Tesco’s Bags of Help Grant Initiative for Green Spaces

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The supermarket chain Tesco has launched a community grant initiative which will fund capital projects for school playgrounds.

The emphasis of the grant is on providing green spaces and because Tesco is expecting there to be a major demand for grants, the charity Groundwork will assess all of the applications received and then provide a shortlist of the applications received for a Tesco Shortlisting panel who will agree three successful projects to forward to a vote in Tesco stores.

Tesco customers will vote over two weekends in their store for their favourite shortlisted local project.  Grants will then be awarded as follows:

  • 1st place in Tesco customer vote:  £12,000 grant
  • 2nd place in Tesco customer vote: £10,000 grant
  • 3rd place in Tesco customer vote:  £8,000 grant

Round one of funding is now complete but the second round of funding is to open again on Monday 18th April. You don’t need to have any match funding but if you do, this must not be higher than 25% of the overall budget cost.

The lucky winners will need to complete their projects within 12 months of receiving the funding. For further information on this grant and how to apply, please visit:

http://www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/tescocommunityscheme/pages/large-grants-tes

For further information on our products, please visit www.hideouthouse.com or email info@hideouthouse.com