Community Support Scheme
The COMMUNITY SUPPORT Scheme intends to support the development and strengthening of cultural and social investments in their diverse forms, as these activities represent the people’s way of life within their community.
Community Support Scheme
The Community Support Scheme (CSS) is intended to compliment the LEADER Programme, a programme which has been widely recognised as having been a successful and innovative pilot instrument to mobilise local actors in a bottom-up, territorial and integrated approach to pursue local development in rural areas. The COMMUNITY SUPPORT Scheme is intended to support those organisations which come from localities which are not eligible under LEADER programme.
The COMMUNITY SUPPORT Scheme intends to support the development and strengthening of cultural and social investments in their diverse forms, as these activities represent the people’s way of life within their community. The rationale of the Scheme is to encourage a very wide scope of actions with a cultural dimension, arising from the wide spectrum of cultural heritage within our communities, with the intention to further expand on it. With this reasoning, the aim is of this Scheme is two-fold: to ensure that no group or sector coming from other localities in Malta and which do not fall under the present LEADER programme are excluded, however small or under represented it is, as long as it has a genuine intent to engage in the creation and development of cultural investments with true links to the local community in which it operates, and to stimulate the further development and growth of this rich cultural and social fabric of the community.
SCOPE and OBJECTIVES
The
COMMUNITY
SUPPORT Scheme is intended to provide support for
the setting up and/or quality improvement of activities, events, experiences
and sessions of cultural and social value, that have a strong link to the
historical, social and cultural development of the locality or the region,
build on the heritage of the particular locality/areas, and that are aimed to
provide a means of entertainment and recreation, social space and expression
for members of the community.
BUDGET
The COMMUNITY SUPPORT Scheme shall be managed and
administered by Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector (MCVS) with budget
allocation of € 800,000.
The guidelines for the CSS are published on same portal and constitute an integral part of the call for proposals. (Guideline)
Guidelines
