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UKSPF Summer Events Fund

Summer Events Fund closed

Applications for the Summer Events Fund have now closed.

Applicants will receive a response about their application by the end of May 2025.

The Summer Events Fund is open to applicants looking to hold a large-scale summer event that helps foster and promote pride in our local area in alignment with the goals and objectives of 'Medway 2041'.

A large-scale summer event is any event:

  • taking place between June and August 2025
  • with a minimum of 500 attendees.

We welcome bids from organisations looking to fund events or a programme of events that align with our Communities and Place: Intervention 3 - Development of campaigns to encourage visits to our local area.

Grants of up to maximum £10,000 are available per application.

Medway’s Summer Events Fund will be a highly competitive fund with extremely limited funding. Because of this, only a small number of projects will be successful.

Who can apply

UKSPF recipients may include:

  • the local authority
  • public sector organisations (if the intervention is relevant to their area of work)
  • higher and further education institutions
  • private sector companies
  • voluntary organisations
  • charities.

What you’ll need

All applicants must:

  • be applying to support the development of a large-scale event (as defined above)
  • be able to evidence a minimum of 500 attendees across the event 
  • be appropriately legally constituted
  • have a bank account in the name of the organisation
  • agree that their application has been assigned to a Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) within their organisation (as part of the UKSPF scheme, all projects must be assigned to an SRO, who is the CEO or managing director of the organisation applying for funding)
  • get their application signed off by the declared SRO before submission
  • agree to provide regular reporting against outcomes and outputs proposed for delivery as part of their project
  • be willing to share financial information (your most recent financial accounts) or justify why they have not included that information as part of their application
  • be willing to provide a case study, showing how their organisation has delivered a similar project, or justify why they have not included that information as part of their application.

Applicants must also declare that:

  • their organisation agrees to follow Medway Council’s Procurement guidelines in association with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, for any procurement activities they intend to enter
  • as an organisation they're willing to comply with relevant guidance and legislation in respect to subsidy control
  • their organisation has the appropriate minimum insurance levels we demand for the activities planned as part of their project:
    • Public Liability Insurance - £5,000,000
    • Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance - £10,000,000 (not required for sole traders)
    • Professional Indemnity Insurance - £1,000,000 (if applicable).

For some projects, these insurance levels may not be needed. Discussions will be held with successful applicants on a case-by-case basis.

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You can no longer apply for this fund.

What happens after

We may contact you if you do not provide enough information in your application.

Eligibility assessment

Financial due diligence checks will be completed as appropriate at our discretion.

Applicants must be legally constituted and if approved, the organisation will enter into a legally binding funding agreement and therefore will carry the liability for ensuring that the terms and conditions of the funding agreement are met.

We reserve the right to say a project is ineligible if the application is incomplete, has insufficient justification or is not signed.

Key criteria assessment

Following eligibility assessments, the key criteria applications will be assessed on will include:

  • how the event addresses local challenges and opportunities
  • delivery of UKSPF outputs and outcomes
  • alignment with 'Medway 2041'
  • value for money and availability of match-funding
  • deliverability, both financial and technical
  • potential impact of the event.

If we consider that a bid to the Summer Events Fund may be better suited to our Pride in Place Fund, we'll work with applicants to consider the options.

Application timeframe

The Summer Events application process closed at 11.59pm on Monday 21 April 2025.

Applicants will receive a response about their application by the end of May.