The Hillfoots Make It Happen Fund
The Hillfoots Make It Happen Fund (MIHF) is run by local people for local people. The aim is to support and encourage local groups, by offering funding to them to support projects and initiatives that create positive change within their communities.
The money comes from the What Matters to You Make It Happen Fund in the High School catchment areas of Alva. We have £10,000 for this grants programme. The grants are administered by Corra, who are supporting the running of the fund.
The Hillfoots Make It Happen Fund is run by a group of people recruited from the communities of Alva, Tillicoultry, Pool of Muckart, Dollar, Coalsnaughton and Menstrie who have designed, developed and are the community voices that make decisions on the funding distributed by What Matters to You via The Corra Foundation.
The Hillfoots area is highlighted in yellow in the map below.
The Hillfoots Make It Happen funds is open to applications that benefit and include the people of The Hillfoots. It’s aim is to ‘promote inclusion and improve the lives of children, young people, parents, families, carers of young people and young carers of the Hillfoots by:
• Building on Community Spirit, bringing community members together to make a change in their communities and sustain groups to benefit the Hillfoots community.
• Providing affordable, subsidised, or free opportunities and experiences.
• Using the information from applications, the Panel will help inform planning for future funding and services for families in the Hillfoots.
The Hillfoots Make It Happen Fund closed at 5pm on Friday 10th October.
We will post further updates here on successful applicants and update on next steps for The Hillfoots Make It Happen Fund.
