Timescale

If you are successful, you will receive a conditional grant offer letter requesting a number of specific pieces of information such as accounts, permissions, licences and so on. 

Once we have received that information back and, subject to all the checks having been made satisfactorily, we will issue you with a final grant offer letter which you will need to sign and return. 

Your project can start from the date you sign and return your final grant offer letter. This is likely to be in September, so please do not plan to start earlier than this. 

We will not fund projects retrospectively. You will be liable for any costs incurred before any firm grant offer letter is issued.

Project timeline

Date Action
16 June 2023 Applications open for REPF business grants and community grants.
16 June - 4 August Team on hand to deal with queries via business@n-somerset.gov.uk.
12 noon, Friday 4 August Deadline: applications close.
August Initial due diligence checks undertaken. Appraisal by Grant Review Panel.
Aug/Sept All applicants informed about the outcome of their application. Those successful at this stage are sent conditional offer letters, subject to sight of accounts, licences, and permissions.
Sept/Oct Completion of evidence checks, final grant offer letters issued, successful applicants sign and return their grant offer letters. Successful projects establish their baseline figures before they start project delivery.
Sept/Oct 2023 to March 2024 Project delivery. Monitoring of milestones and outputs/outcomes.
1 March 2024 Date when work should be completed on projects.
11 March 2024 Successful projects must complete their end-of-project reports and monitoring and submit all invoices by this date.
31 March 2024 End of Year 1 programme.
April 2024 onwards Some projects may be required to continue monitoring beyond the end of March completion deadline.
May/June 2024 Start of year 2 programme (funding applications re-open).

You can view our guidance notes for the REPF grant programme in North Somerset. Please refer to it for full information about the opportunities available.