Community Grants

Grant Application Form

Each year the Town Council give grants to local organisation’s to assist with their funding.

The Grants are considered by Council each year in April.  The deadline for submitting the grant is end of March each year. Please find the 2024/25 Grant Application Form below for you to print and complete then send to the Clerk by email – admin@selbytowncouncil.gov.uk or by Post to the Town Hall, York Street, Selby YO8 4AJ.

Grant Evaluation Form

All grant recipients are required to complete a Grant Evaluation Form. This is important to the Town Council as it is used for internal audit purposes in our community planning work and enables us to review the Community Grants application process. The form is sent to all recipients, but an electronic version can be found below.

IMPORTANT If you are applying for a grant for 2024/25 and you received a grant from the Council last year you are required to complete a Grant Evaluation Form which can be downloaded below or on request from the Town Council office

Grant Application Process

Early each year, there is a grant application form available with the deadline to return the form by 31 March each year.  2023/24  grants have now been allocated.

To apply for a grant 2024/25 you will need to complete an application form which is available below.  If you require any assistance, please make an appointment with the Town Clerk.

You can return your application form back by email admin@selbytowncouncil.gov.uk or post it into the Town Council Office, Town Hall, York Street, Selby YO8 4AJ.

Successful applicants will be invited to a grants presentation at the Town Hall on Wednesday 15 May at 6pm.

 

Community Grants 2024/25

The Town Council awarded £30,320 in grants to the following groups:

  • Coultish Centre
  • Spirit of Christmas
  • Selby Abbey Primary School
  • NY Citizen’s Advice
  • Selby & District Beekeepers
  • Selby & District Family History Group
  • Selby Abbey
  • Selby District Vision
  • Selby Civic Society
  • Selby LGBTQ+
  • Selby & District Rail Users Group
  • Selby Tennis Club
  • Vale of York Athletic Community

Community Grants 2023/24

The Town Council awarded £27,734 in grants to the following groups:

  • Citizen’s Advice Mid-North Yorkshire
  • Spirit of Christmas
  • Selby & District Beekeepers Association
  • Selby Civic Society
  • Dream Heritage CIC
  • Selby District Vision
  • Selby Community Furniture Store
  • Selby & District Family History Group
  • Selby Womblers
  • Selby & District Rail Users Group
  • Vale of York Athletic Community
  • Selby Abbey

The Grants Presentation Ceremony will be held on Friday 12 May at 4pm in the Town Hall

 

Community Grants 2022/23

The Town Council awarded £28,182 in grants to the following groups:

  • Citizen’s Advice Mid-North Yorkshire
  • Selby Civic Society
  • Selby District Vision
  • Spirit of Christmas

 

 

  • Selby Wombles
  • Apollo
  • Vale of York Athletic Community
  • St James’ Church Squiggles and Wiggles Toddler Group

     

  • Selby Abbey
  • Community Furniture Store
  • Selby & District Rail Users Group

 

 

 

 Community Grants 2021/22

The Town Council awarded £26,412.32 in grants to the following groups:

  • Selby Abbey
  • Paws For Pals
  • Citizen’s Advice Mid-North Yorkshire
  • Selby Civic Society
  • Selby District Vision
  • Selby & District History Group
  • Selby Tennis Club
  • Spirit of Christmas

Community Grants 2020/21

The Town Council awarded £39,260 in grants to the following groups.

 

  • Arriva No.42 Discretionary Bus Service
  • Selby Abbey
  • Spirit of Christmas
  • Selby Beekeepers Association
  • Citizen’s Advice Mid-North Yorkshire
  • Selby Community Primary School
  • Age UK Selby District
  • Groundwork North Yorkshire
  • Selby Civic Society
  • Selby District Vision
  • Friends of the New Selby War Memorial Hospital
  • Coultish Community Centre
  • SYPCO
  • Strive
  • Talk Tonight – Selby
  • St James Church – Edge Community Project
  • Selby & District Rail Users Group
  • Selby & District Foodbank

 

Community Grants 2019/20

The Town Council awarded £37,709.67 in grants to the following groups and cheques were presented on Thursday 2 May:

 

  • Selby Beekeepers Association
  • Seby Abbey
  • Spirit of Christmas
  • Longman’s Hill CP School
  • The Coultish Centre
  • Flaxley Road TARA

 

  • Selby District Rail Users Group
  • Citizens’s Advice Mid-North Yorkshire
  • Selby & District Foodbank
  • Selby District Vision
  • Fibromyalgia Support GGroup
  • Selby Civic Society
  • Community Furniture Store
  • St James Church Edge
  • Angela Bridge
  • Lynne O’Dowd
  • Age UK Selby

 

Community Grants 2018/19

The Town Council has awarded grants to several groups as listed below and cheques were presented on Tuesday 8 May 2018. Photographs are below of the grant presentation. £35,997.63 was provided this year.

 

  • Coultish Centre Pensioners Club
  • Selby District Vision
  • Selby Civic Society
  • Selby and District Rail Users Group
  • Selby Citizens Advice Bureau
  • Selby District Food Bank
  • Selby Globe Community Cinema on hold
  • Edge Community DNA (Part of St James Church, Selby)
  • IDAS Selby
  • Purple Patch Arts
  • Spirit of Christmas
  • Selby Family History Group
  • Magnetic Arts CIC
  • Selby Community Trust
  • Abbot’s Staith