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Eligibility Quiz

Please Note: If you are unable to check any of the required boxes below, your project will not be eligible to apply for funding from The Royal Countryside Fund.  

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3.  We are not able to provide funding for the following:
  • Care farms or similar projects where the beneficiaries are drawn from a larger area than just the local community.
  • Local authorities (including town and parish councils).
  • Hospitals or schools.
  • Private companies or individuals.
  • Youth clubs.
  • Uniformed groups such as scouts, guides or sea cadets.
  • Sports clubs or associations.
  • Organisations that look to make profits and share these profits out privately - including companies limited by shares, organisations without the right asset locks, or organisations that can pay profits to directors or shareholders.
  • Organisations applying to more than one of our funds for the same project over the same period. This is because you cannot get duplicate funding for something we're already funding you to do. It’s OK to apply to another programme if you've already had an unsuccessful decision though.



6. We are not able to provide funding for the following:
  • Rent costs
  • Activities which involve capital work to buy or build, refurbish, extend or alter a property or other construction-related works. This includes:
    • refurbishment
    • retro-fitting
    • extending buildings
    • purchasing land or buildings
    • creating a new building
    • developing an external space like a community garden
  • Landscape-scale or nature recovery type projects
  • Planning permission/building regulations.
  • Insurance costs
  • Activities taking place in a location where the purchase/rent agreement is not complete.
  • Statutory requirements.
  • Technical energy activities where a specialist funder might be more appropriate.
  • Activities that replace government funding
  • Activities that benefit individuals, rather than the wider community
  • Lobbying activities
  • Retrospective costs
  • The topping up of organisation reserves.
  • Activities where our contribution makes up less than 10% of the total cost of the activity
  • Activities that aim to promote a religion 
  • Consumables including food, fuel or refreshments.
  • Political activity/campaigning
  • Working capital 
  • Loans.
  • Activities where there may be other, more appropriate funders with a better understanding of the issue. For example, those dealing with:
    • domestic violence
    • migration
    • dementia or elderly care
    • healthcare or mental healthcare provision.





Section 1. Applicant Details 

Please answer all questions on this form as openly as possible.  We are expecting a great deal of interest and will rely on the information you’ve given us. Please do not send us any supplementary information other than that which is requested in the online application form.

Completing the application form will not guarantee that your project will be funded. We usually receive many more applications than we can fund.






1.3  Organisation Address *

















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1.13  Main Contact details
Please provide details for your main contact. This will be the first person we contact if we need to discuss your project.






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1.19  Senior Contact details
Provide the details of your senior contact. This cannot be the same person as your main contact. They’ll be legally responsible for the funding. They can’t be married to, in a civil partnership with, in a long-term relationship with, living with, or related to the main contact or through a long-term partner.






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Section 2. Activity Overview






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2.7 What will you spend the money on? Please itemise what the funding from The Royal Countryside Fund will be used for (enter one item per line below). Only list items that will be funded by RCF, not the entire project budget. You can include approximate costs for now, but we will ask for an itemised budget if you are asked to submit a full proposal. Please note, although we accept an approximate budget breakdown at this stage, the total amount requested cannot be amended if invited to submit a full proposal.
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Section 3. Declaration





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