COMMA Fund 2008-2011

Defra has commissioned ACRE to deliver three years of funding with finances drawn from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. The distribution of the grants programme, known as COMMA, is in 3 stages: 2008-2009, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 and focuses on supporting community projects in settlements affected by the impacts of quarrying. The COMMA Fund has supported a wide range of projects which have directly improved the lives of people in their communities.

ACRE is pleased to announce that COMMA 2010-11 is now open for applications and it will remain open until Friday 14th May 2010. 

Five essential conditions must be satisfied for projects to be eligible for the COMMA fund:

• The community where the project is based, is/has been affected by aggregates extraction or transportation of aggregates
• The proposed project is within 10 kilometres of an aggregates extraction site, either current or disused
• The proposed project must benefit the whole community or section of the community, not an individual
• The applicant must be a community organisation, a charity or a parish/town council

All project works funded by COMMA grants in 2010/11 must be able to complete by 31st March 2011.

Applications may only be submitted for grants of between £3,000 and £20,000

For more information on eligible areas and guidelines on completing the application please go to http://www.acre.org.uk/sustainabledevelopment_comma.html