Nadara Westfield Wind Farm Community Fund (Kinglassie) Education & Training Fund

Grants can be used to attend vocational training and educational courses that will help develop your skills and improve your employment prospects.  The study or training can be at a college, university or private training provider.  Both long courses of a year or more and short courses are eligible.  They can be full or part-time. 

Below are some examples of situations we can help with. 

• Joe has had a few labouring jobs since leaving school but nothing long-term.  Now he’s seen an ad for agency driving jobs but needs a 1-week course to gain a class-2 HGV licence. 

• Jacqui is excited to have been offered a place at university.  Her course is in the central belt so it makes sense to move but she is anxious about the costs involved. 

• Piotr’s being made redundant next month.  He’s heard of a warehouse job… all he needs is a 3-day fork-lift ticket. 

• Margaret had a job in admin before starting her family.  She needs to update her computer skills at an evening class to help her get back to work. 

• Asha is leaving High School and hopes to start an HND or HNC at Fife College.

You may apply for up to £500 per year, and for up to 3 years' funding for multi-year courses (ie. up to £1,500). The amount of grant you apply for will depend on the course you want to do and the other expenses you will have.

You can apply for all or part of the course fees (if these are not going to be paid from another source e.g. SAAS, your employer or the Council). Grants can also cover expenses whilst studying, such as towards travel or accommodation costs, essential equipment such as books or IT equipment, childcare and subsistence. 

The fund is open to applications at any time, there are no deadlines.  

If your application is approved you will receive an email with details of the grant being offered.  If the grant is to help cover the course fees it may be paid directly to your training provider.  In all other cases it will be paid to your bank account.  We ask for a copy of your bank statement or pay-in slip to verify your bank account details when you apply.  

Yes, we will ask you to let us know how you got on with your course and whether the grant has helped you find work that suits you.  You will asked to complete a short online form to tell us how you got on with your course - if your grant is for more than one year, you will need to complete the form each year.  

We always appreciate help to spread the word about the fund to other people in the area, and occasionally we ask applicants for help in sharing 'good news' stories.  

Yes, but please provided details of other grants, bursaries and student loans.  The Fund does not apply a personal ‘means test’ but if we receive more applications than we can support, we may use this information to help us make a fair decision. 

We appreciate that sometimes application can be time sensitive.  Please contact the Fund Adviser to find out how we can help.  Please note that we cannot support applications for courses or activities which have already commenced, we do not fund retrospectively.