{"id":16570,"date":"2019-04-10T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T14:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities-new\/?page_id=16570"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:44:24","slug":"connection-grant-ideas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/making-the-connection-grant\/connection-grant-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"What sort of ideas might be funded?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ideas and initiatives which:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>strike up a new community conversation; bringing people together to identify, prioritise, develop and achieve, relatively quickly, those small but important things that matter to them,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>strengthen and develop existing community networks, connections and conversations to achieve those things mattering most to a community,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>establish, strengthen or help expand a much needed social or physical activity or offer in a community, such as a youth group, cooking skills workshop, the room hire for a new self-care or social group, and\/or tools and equipment for a group, such as a new shed for a community gardening club or fruit tree saplings for a community orchard.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>focuses on inclusiveness and removing inequalities, loneliness, isolation, exclusion and\/or anti-social behaviour across the age range; enriching the community making it a safer and kinder place to live,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>encourage and help people to live more connected, positive, fulfilling, healthy and\/or active lives,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>support, strengthen and develop people\u2019s learning, knowledge, expertise and skills and\/or encourages people to be more active citizens and volunteers within communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will consider other imaginative ideas or initiatives where a small amount of funding, not available elsewhere, can help benefit quickly a community and\/or make a big difference to people\u2019s lives within it; helping to make a safer, kinder, more connected and stronger community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas and initiatives which: We will consider other imaginative ideas or initiatives where a small amount of funding, not available&hellip;\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/making-the-connection-grant\/connection-grant-ideas\/\" aria-label=\"Read more - What sort of ideas might be funded?\"><span>Read more &gt;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"parent":16560,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-16570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-27 10:02:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16570\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}