Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund (Up to £20,000)

The Community Benefits Programme funds community groups improving the physical, built or social environment, and other community-led projects.

About Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund

Opportunity Details

Date Published: June 21, 2025
Application Deadline: June 27, 2025
Category: Grants
Oppotunity Locations: United Kingdom
Eligible Locations: United Kingdom

A fund for community groups and charities of all types and sizes: the Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund supports community organisations close to the Park Spring wind farm in North East Barnsley

EDF Energy Renewables operate the Park Spring windfarm in North East Barnsley and have pledged to provide £42,750 per year for the life of the windfarm to fund local community projects and initiatives benefitting people living close to the windfarm.

The fund is intended to improve the physical, built or social environment of the local area.

They are keen to fund projects and initiatives that involve one or more of the following:

Capital item(s) with a tangible and lasting benefit, including improvements to community buildings
Bio-diversity and habitat conservation
Energy conservation and increased use of renewables
Other projects that are community-based and/or community-led which meet identified local needs and issues

Examples of projects/activities which can be funded:

Improvements to community buildings, i.e. a new roof, or re-decoration of the village hall
Improvement and maintenance of recreational facilities, i.e. the cricket club need a new mower to enable them to cut the grass, or the football team need new training equipment

NB: All of the above must be benefiting the residents living within 3km of the windfarm (you may be asked to provide evidence of the number of beneficiaries you serve and where they reside as part of the application process)

Where?

The windfarm is situated in the North East of Barnsley located North West of Little Houghton. All projects funded must benefit resident within a 3km boundary of the windfarm site*.

Priority will be given to projects within 3km. This includes Great Houghton Little Houghton, Grimethorpe, Darfield, Billingley and parts of Cudworth
Projects within a 5km boundary of the wind farm may also apply if some of the beneficiaries of the project/activity reside within the 3km area

Sponsor Organisation: South Yorkshire's Community Foundation

Benefits of Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund

Grants will normally be in the region of £500 – £10,000
Exceptionally, grants of up to £20,000 can be applied for if they have significant and lasting community benefit

Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund Requirements

Locally led, run, and constituted, community or voluntary organisations,
Locally led and run registered charities, or
Local schools and colleges

But not for:

Parish, Town or Metropolitan Borough councils
profit organisations
registered Community Interest Companies, also known as CICs
individuals
the promotion of religious or political views
to replace existing statutory Council provision (but such facilities could be enhanced e.g. Parks)
applications which the Community Foundation believes, in its discretion, present or have identified a health and safety risk; against the interests of the developer or windfarm landowner(s) or antirenewable energy/windfarm activities
retrospective funding – i.e. things or activities that either have already been paid for or have already happened

Priority will be given to local, grass-roots organisations.