Gimme a grant !!!!

[Hereford_angler]

My friend wishes to make a comercial fishery pond in Glouster. He owns a plot of land and a digger and is very eager . He wants to know if he could get a grant so he doesnt have to pay so much. Does enybody know if this is possible? Does enybody know if there is a site i can find out about it for him?

:confused: Thanks

[davidP]

If he was creating a fishery for the disabled he may be able to get something, but its all pretty strict these days.

[Gray-Catchpole]

hi Hereford

to get a grant of any form, from what i can gather, your freind needs to prove that the project is of some benifit to the comunity, ie helping kids and the like.

 

when it comes to any form of comunity situation, the word "commercial" wont get a look in, and rightly so, im sure you are aware there is more to opening a fishery than diging a pond, ask your freind what he actually wants to do, does he need funding to open his fishery, or does he want to open a fishery to help fund others.

 

nothing wrong with either situation, but, they are probably the first questions that will be asked when he applies, preperation and wording are all important.

 

smelly nets

 

[ 29 June 2002, 02:55 AM: Message edited by: Gray-Catchpole ]

[Jim Roper]

Hereford_angler:

He wants to know if he could get a grant

He could try http://www.fwag.org.uk/

My experience of grants is that in order to get them, you have to go about the job in the most expencive way possible.

The common practice with most grants seems to be to get an inflated estimate and receipt from a contractor and either do the job yourself or get the contractor to do it on the cheap for cash.

If you take the risk of a fraud case into account, I do not expect there will be very much nett gain over doing it on his own without a grant.

The main expence is not the digger work, but carting the spoil away. If the spoil cannot be spread and levelled on site, the whole job might not be worth thinking about.

 

Jim Roper

[chesters1]

a chap up the road dug one and very nice it was ,unfortunatly it upset the planning dept and neighbours ,its is now a field just like it used to be

[OP-JB]

New ponds and lakes take up "valuable flood storage capacity". By not allowing lakes and ponds to be created they can allow more concrete and tarmac in towns and green belt. Nice one!