The Zero Carbon Cumbria Community Climate Grants can be used to fund project costs such as staffing costs, room hire, refreshments, promotion, publicity etc. (these are known as revenue costs) or capital costs such as equipment, but excluding the purchase of vehicles, buildings, and land.
If an organisation is starting up, or is very small, we recognise that it will be difficult to separate a specific project from the organisation as a whole and therefore core costs are eligible.
For larger organisations, the fund will consider supporting indirect project costs e.g. an appropriate contribution towards the organisational overheads for an existing group to enable full cost recovery for their project, but this is limited to a maximum of 15% of the value of the grant.