Apply for a VE Day 2025 Grant from Ripley Town Council today!
VE Day in 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. We are encouraging the Ripley Township to come together as a community to hold a celebration.
We are thrilled to announce that we are able to allocate funding to local community groups, and not-for-profit groups (not businesses, schools, or churches) to organise a celebration in the Ripley Township. Please complete the simple application form below.
Grant Application criteria
Please submit your grant application by 10th March 2025, via the online form below. Ripley Town Council reserves the right to disqualify late applications.
In return for the funding, you are agreeing to organise an event that members of your group and that members of the local community can attend to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, in May 2025.
Financial grants can be applied for by local, not for profit groups, Community Interest Groups and registered charities.
We cannot give financial grants to schools, businesses, Churches or Chapels.
Your group has to be based within the Ripley Township (Ripley, Waingroves, Marehay, Heage, Nether Heage, Ambergate, Street Lane, Sawmills, Bullbridge or Lower or Upper Hartshay). OR if your group is not in the Township, you must provide evidence that you have members who live in the Township attending your group.
Your group MUST have a current bank account in the name of the group - we cannot make a financial payment to groups that do not have a bank account, or to an individual, private bank account.
Ripley Town Council reserves the right to decline applications which do not meet the necessary criteria of the grant.
We will notify you of the outcome of your application on 19th March 2025.