[Talk-GB] Geovation - Location information innovation grants - now open for applications

[SK53]

I hadn't even thought of the travel side tbh! Faily glaring when its
pointed out!

This type of competition for a grant or similar has become increasingly
common. I think Nottingham spent £500,000 to try & win a slot as a venue
for England's wonderfully successful World Cup bid, and the local Wildlife
Trust has pitched for a few (e.g., for revamping Sherwood Forest visitor
centre).

I rather suspect they're a decent source of fee income for the sundry
consultants and judges necessary for running them. Also like most
grantsmanship the idea is that you use money from your last grant to help
bid for the second (e.g., by scheduling grant-funded travel to coincide
with next round bid meetings).

Jerry

On 15 February 2016 at 19:33, Killyfole and District Development
Association <webmaster at killyfole.org.uk> wrote:

> I think you are quite right Jerry, looks like participants are expected to
> travel to London?!?  Thats one way to keep the numbers down and limit it to
> the South East England area!
>
> On Monday 15 February 2016 17:23:37 SK53 wrote:
> > I think most folk on this list are fairly familiar with these: they've
> been
> > running for quite a few years. I think CycleStreets participated in one
> of
> > them a while back. My general impression is that the cost of
> participating
> > is often non-trivial in comparison with the potential reward.
> >
> > Jerry
>
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