Environmental Initiatives Fund (EIF)

What happens next?

• The EIF Co-ordinator will acknowledge the safe arrival of your application.
• Your application will be assessed and scored against the application assessment criteria.
• A Project Officer may contact you to discuss your project and possibly visit you.
• Your application will be assessed and scored against the application assessment criteria. (link to assessment criteria page)
• The EIF Senior Panel (that includes both Councillors and senior managers) will meet in September/October and allocate the funding.
• You will be advised in writing of the result by the end of October.
• If you are successful, you will need to sign a contract for outlining terms and conditions before any funding is released. Your application will form part of the contract.
• Grants are made as a reimbursement once you have paid for the goods and/or services and you have sent in copies of the full receipts and a bank deposit slip to the EIF Co-ordinator.
• Once you have completed your project you will need to send in a brief report and a reporting form will be sent out to you.