£120,000 available in match funding to support great ideas in Plymouth

Criteria

Get up to £30,000

Plymouth City Council is supporting projects that help improve the city and make it a great place to live, work and play.

Once an eligible project has raised 25% of their fundraising target from multiple pledges, if you meet the Council’s criteria and sign up to their terms and conditions, Plymouth City Council may pledge up to 50% of the target (up to a maximum of £30,000).

You need a crowdfunding project to apply for funding. Start or continue adding your project and, if eligible, you'll be prompted to apply.

Please be as detailed as possible when filling out your application as the Council will take this and your project page into consideration when making a decision. The Council may ask for additional information/clarity when your project is live, but it is expected that this will only be on minor points and it is expected that the information needed to satisfy the Council’s terms and conditions and assessment criteria will be within the details you originally submit.

If you have any questions with regards to the process or a project’s status, please contact the Council before your project has launched or whilst your project is still running.

Eligible projects

Projects must benefit people in Plymouth* and help address the demands that development places on the city the Council will look to ensure your project meets:

• The fund’s assessment criteria
• Plymouth’s terms and conditions
• Crowdfunder’s additional terms and conditions – this document details the fees Crowdfunder charges, please take this into consideration when deciding your projects’ target.

• Projects in an area of the city where development has taken place which has contributed to the fund.
• Projects which help address the demands that development places on the city.

• Help address the need for local infrastructure;
• Reduce any adverse impacts of development; or,
• Help manage increased pressure on local services by enabling community action.
• Projects which demonstrate economic, social or environmental benefits to the local community;
• Projects which are consistent with the Plymouth Plan’s ‘Welcoming City’ value where ‘Every person who lives in or visits the city will be treated fairly and with respect’.
• Projects which help improve the local environment and public spaces.
• Projects which help address climate change.
• Projects which demonstrate added benefit for the city through for example, using local businesses or developing skills of local people.
• *At least 75% of the people benefiting from your project should live in Plymouth.

The Council will only pledge on projects on the ‘all or nothing’ model. The money pledged will be released only if the full fundraising target has been reached.

To find out more about the City Change Fund please visit the Council’s website. Plymouth City Council has also written a paper to help explain how the fund works here.

Match fund criteria

To secure a pledge from the Fund, you will need to do the following:

1. Apply to, and be approved for, the Fund.

2. Receive a provisional pledge from the Fund, by reaching at least 25% of your fundraising target from at least 25 unique supporters*.

3. Receive the Fund pledge by reaching at least 100% of your fundraising target.

*The provisional pledge which will be for up to 50% of your target (up to £30,000) will be made on to your crowdfunding campaign once you have raised at least 25% of your initial target from the required number of unique supporters and will count towards your target. This means in most cases the campaign will then be at 75%. You must then raise the remaining 25% from your crowd, to achieve 100% of your funding target and receive the Plymouth City Council Funds.

To verify whether Supporters are unique we will take account of information including, but not limited to: name, address, email addresses and payment card used.

If the project fails to reach 100% of the target the provisional pledge will be cancelled. The Project owner will be encouraged to review what went wrong and, if appropriate, to attempt to crowdfund again.

Plymouth City Council reserves the right to vary these match funding criteria; projects will be notified if their match funding criteria will vary from the stated terms above.