Funded Activities. 2.1 EWCO will fund the following items and activities for creation of woodland, paid for as Standard Cost items: • Ground preparation for the planting of trees, or to aid Natural Colonisation; • The planting and protection of young trees; • The installation or improvement of appropriate boundaries, boundary features, gates for the protection of young trees and to enable access; • The management of vegetation to prepare the land for planting or aid the establishment of young trees; • The installation of leaky woody dams, where appropriate. Standard Costs have been defined for these items and activities, as detailed in the EWCO Manual (see Annex 1). The full Standard Cost of these items and activities will be funded by the Authority (100% Intervention Rate). However, Grant funding for the Standard Cost Items is subject to an overall cap that limits the amount that will be paid to any Grant Recipient. The cap is taken as an average per hectare across the whole Land subject of the Grant Recipient’s application. The payment cap is £8,500 per hectare.
2.2 EWCO will make available funds for the maintenance of the Woodland payable as Maintenance Payments, as set out below: • Pursuant to the further special Conditions at Annex 2c, as a condition of the Grant Funding Agreement, the Grant Recipient is required to maintain the Woodland or the conditions of the Land that will enable Natural Colonisation, in each case towards Tree Establishment, during the Obligation Period, i.e., for fifteen (15) years from the date the final Capital Payment is made to the Grant Recipient under this Grant. Maintenance prescriptions covering both Tree Establishment methods are given in the EWCO Grant Manual. • The Grant Recipient is not obliged to apply for or receive Grant Funding in respect of such maintenance. However, the Authority will make funds available to the Grant Recipient as Maintenance Payments, for the maintenance of Woodland after tree planting, and or the maintenance of conditions of the Land that will enable Natural Colonisation, in each case towards Tree Establishment, for the first ten (10) years of the Obligation Period.
2.3 EWCO will make payments to Grant Recipients, payable as Additional Contributions, for activities that meet the following additional Eligibility Criteria that apply only in respect of this paragraph 2.3 of Annex 2: • Additional Contributions are available where the Authority determines in its sole discretion that the Woodland Creation will deliver...
Funded Activities. The Grant Recipient will use the Grant funding to provide six months of employment for Participants, including support to Participants in developing work skills and finding future employment. The activities funded with the Grant are described more fully below:
a. The employment opportunities created with the funding will be equivalent to jobs not funded by the Kickstart Scheme. The jobs will have the same expectation on the employee to improve and develop. The jobs should enable the employee to build up skills that will lead to sustainable employment and should be paid at the normal rate for similar jobs and with the same frequency (see note 6 below).
b. The Grant funding will be used by the Grant Recipient to provide new jobs. The jobs must not: • replace existing or planned vacancies; or • cause existing employees, workers, apprentices or contractors to lose work or reduce their working hours.
c. All Kickstart Scheme jobs must be accompanied by a written job description, setting out the purpose, start date and responsibilities of the position.
d. All employment opportunities supported by the Grant funding must: • provide regular, meaningful work for the Participant, for a minimum of 25 hours per week on average each month, for six months (see note 5 below); and • pay at least the National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage (as applicable) for the Participant’s age group, national insurance and minimum automatic enrolment contributions. The Grant Recipient must make the required employer national insurance contributions for Participants and comply with its employer automatic enrolment duties with respect to Kickstart Scheme Participants. The Grant Recipient must meet its statutory duties in relation to employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace (for example, for health, safety and welfare) for all Kickstart Scheme Participants.
e. Employment opportunities offered by the Grant Recipient should not require Participants to undertake extensive training (either classroom or online) before they begin the job or at any point during the six months. For example, if a significant part of the job involves completing a training course or watching training videos, this would not constitute meaningful work or be equivalent to a job not funded by the Kickstart Scheme.
f. The Grant Recipient will use the Grant to provide employability support to Participants and help Participants to develop work skills. • Employability support includes on-the-job tra...
Funded Activities. The Grant Recipient and the Employers will use the Grant funding to provide six months of employment for Participants, including support to Participants in developing work skills and finding future employment. The activities funded with the Grant are described more fully below:
x. Xxxxx funding will help the Grant Recipient to carry out the following activities as a Kickstart gateway: • gathering information from Employers about the Kickstart Scheme jobs they provide; • passing on information about these jobs to work coaches so that the right young people are referred; • passing on to the Employers the relevant payments made by DWP for set-up costs and wage-related costs; • sharing its expertise with Employers to help them onboard and offer employability support to Participants; • providing help directly to Participants to find work after completing the scheme; • ensuring that the funding payments claimed by Employers in respect of the Participants they employ are valid and accurately represent costs which have been properly incurred in employing the relevant Participants and providing the Funded Activities; and • recovering the value of any funding payments wrongly paid to Employers due to a failure to deliver the Funded Activities.
b. The employment opportunities created with the funding will be equivalent to jobs not funded by the Kickstart Scheme. The jobs will have the same expectation on the employee to improve and develop. The jobs should enable the employee to build up skills that will lead to sustainable employment and should be paid at the normal rate for similar jobs and with the same frequency (see note 6 below).
c. The Grant funding will be used by the Grant Recipient and Employers to provide new jobs. The jobs must not: • replace existing or planned vacancies; or • cause existing employees, workers, apprentices or contractors to lose work or reduce their working hours.
d. All Kickstart Scheme jobs must be accompanied by a written job description, setting out the purpose, start date and responsibilities of the position.
e. All employment opportunities supported by the Grant funding must: • provide regular, meaningful work for the Participant, for a minimum of 25 hours per week on average each month, for six months (see note 5 below); and • pay at least the National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage (as applicable) for the Participant’s age group, national insurance and minimum automatic enrolment contributions. The Grant Recipient or Employer ...
Funded Activities. 2.1. UTCF will fund the following items and activities, paid for as Standard Cost items: • Supply a standard tree, with a clear stem up to 1.8m from ground level with a head of branches. Standards come in a range of sizes and age is dependent on species and growth rate. Funding is based on a 14-16cm standard. Prepare a tree pit in a grass verge, with local authority approved pit edging. Plant tree with twin stakes, watering tube and mulch. Supply a lightweight steel mesh tree guard (the protection must be suitable for the planting location). • Supply a standard tree, with a clear stem up to 1.8m from ground level with a head of branches. Standards come in a range of sizes and age is dependent on species and growth rate. Funding is based on a 14-16cm standard. Prepare a tree pit in a hard surface (tarmac, pavement, concrete), with local authority approved pit edging. Plant tree with twin stakes, watering tube and mulch. Supply a lightweight steel mesh tree guard (the protection must be suitable for the planting location). • Excavate trial pit for services check in hard surface. Pit size 1000mm x 1000mm x 800mm. Back fill with topsoil. Where required: abort excavated trial pit due to presence of services backfill with excavated material and reinstate to match existing surface to meet the requirements of the New Road and Street Works Act 1991 Specifications for Reinstatement of Openings in the Highway. • Excavate trial pit for services check in grass verge. Pit size 1000mm x 1000mm x800mm. Backfill with topsoil. Where required: abort excavated trial pit due to presence of services backfill with excavated material and reinstate to match existing surface. • Water young tree in pit via tube applying a minimum of 60 litres per visit, 14 visits per season. Weed and check stake and ties, 7 visits per season. Per year for a three (3) year period.
Funded Activities. 1. The Liaison staff will engage in a variety of activities including, but not limited to, field work. The January 2005 draft Irrigated Lands Conditional Waiver Program Workplan prepared by the Central Valley Water Board’s staff sets forth a list of field work activities to be engaged in to ensure compliance with Waiver terms. (draft Workplan, attached hereto as Exhibit A.) These are the types of activities that the Liaison staffs will be engaging in to support the ILP. These draft Workplan tasks include observation and communication activities such as: inspections of watershed monitoring locations, inspections of monitoring locations where data indicate that water quality objectives have been exceeded, and assisting in identification of sources of water quality violations.
2. The Liaison staffs will engage in other related activities as directed by the Commissioners in accordance with their contract with the Central Valley Water Board. These activities will include such things as public education, public outreach, and reporting to the Commissioners and Central Valley Water Board on the results of their activities along with recommendations for alternative approaches and strategies.
3. The Liaison staffs will perform oversight oriented tasks only, and will not engage in enforcement activities unless they are already authorized under DPR’s existing authority to regulate and enforce on pesticide issues. The Commissioners shall refer appropriate matters to the Coalition Groups, DPR, and the Central Valley Water Board in a timely manner.
4. The Central Valley Water Board shall set priorities for all activities related to the ILP to be undertaken in conformance with this Agreement with input from the Commissioners.
5. The Liaison staffs will perform the following specific field work activities as part of their efforts in support of the ILP:
a. extra pesticide application inspections based on water quality issues and/or objectives;
b. additional field site assessments that identify practices that protect water quality to allow for targeted outreach efforts such as:
1) documenting buffer zones, cover crops, or other mitigation measures and noting areas where these are absent, and
2) increasing inspections in areas with the potential for pesticide run-off concerns;
c. inspections of monitoring locations where data indicate that water quality objectives have been exceeded for constituents of concern;
d. assisting Central Valley Water Board staff in identifying sour...
Funded Activities. Background/purpose of the Grant
Funded Activities. 2.1. UTCF will fund the following items and activities, paid for as Standard Cost items: • Supply a standard tree, with a clear stem up to 1.8m from ground level with a head of branches. Standards come in a range of sizes and age is dependent on species and growth rate. Funding is based on a 14-16cm standard. Prepare a tree pit in a grass verge (other planting surfaces are acceptable, but the payment rate is fixed), with local authority approved pit edging. Plant tree with twin stakes, watering tube and mulch. Supply a lightweight steel mesh tree guard (the protection must be suitable for the planting location). • Water young tree in pit via tube applying a minimum of 60 litres per visit, 14 visits per season. Weed and check stake and ties, 7 visits per season. Per year for a three (3) year period.
Funded Activities. ANNEX 3 - Payment Schedule INSTALLMENTS GRANT SUM PAYABLE (On completion of agreed milestones where applicable) PAYMENT DATE Year 1 Year 2 ANNEX 4 - Eligible Expenditure schedule (breakdown of forecast grant expenditure) Item of Expenditure Budget (in UK Sterling)/forecast expenditure ANNEX 5 - Agreed Outputs/Long Term Outcomes and Key Performance Indicators Agreed Outputs 1.
Funded Activities. The Grant Recipient will:
i. Design and implement support based on the need of UC Claimants at either national, local and/or community based level;
ii. Provide support for UC Claimants to understand eligibility to UC, taking full account of the circumstances of UC Claimants, to help them understand if UC is the right benefit for them, including variations to the rules and regulations across England, Scotland and Wales;
iii. Provide support for UC Claimants to make a new UC claim, either through the on-line UC claim process or the UC non-digital claim process where appropriate, up until their first full correct payment;
iv. Encourage and promote self-service using the UC online channel, whilst demonstrating that the most vulnerable and hardest to help UC Claimants who may have more than one issue are fully supported (and referred effectively to other provision);
v. Support UC Claimants to provide the evidence needed to make a new claim to UC;
vi. Ensure the support is available to UC Claimants making a new claim to UC from different demographic-based claimant groups including employed/unemployed, those with a disability or health condition, different ages and UC Claimants who have never interacted with the benefits system before;
vii. Provide accessible support through telephony and digital channels (including webchat);
viii. Support UC Claimants with understanding how UC works;
ix. Provide support through telephony and digital channels (including webchat) to eligible UC Claimants who request support from the Grant Recipient irrespective of how the UC Claimant contacts the Grant Recipient;
x. Maximise the FSO 2024 Grant funding to deliver high quality support across England, Scotland and Wales, that demonstrates value for money through vigorous performance management via the collation and monitoring of management information (see Annex 6 Agreed Outputs and Long Term Outcomes);
xi. Provide a quality assurance process, using recognised industry standard quality methodologies (or equivalent), and report quality to the Authority (see Annex 6 Agreed Outputs and Long Term Outcomes);
xii. Provide management information to the Authority which focuses on the quantitative and qualitative FSO 2024 outcomes (see Annex 6 Agreed Outputs and Long Term Outcomes);
xiii. Provide national coverage across all localities, in England, Scotland and Wales (including capability to support Welsh speaking UC Claimants), with a consistent and high quality of support, irrespective of t...
Funded Activities. The HS2 Woodland Fund will fund the following items and activities to restore PAWS sites, paid for as Standard Cost items: • Ground preparation for the planting of trees, or to aid Natural Colonisation where there is no surviving ancient woodland flora, natural regeneration, or native understory present; • The planting and protection of young native trees and shrubs; • The installation or improvement of appropriate boundaries, boundary features, gates for the protection of young trees and to enable access; • The management of vegetation to prepare the land for planting or aid the establishment of young native trees; • The installation of leaky woody dams, where appropriate. Standard Costs have been defined for these items and activities, as detailed on the HS2 Woodland Fund Xxx.xx webpage - xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xx/guidance/. The full Standard Cost of these items and activities will be funded by the Authority (100% Intervention Rate). This Agreement is dated * and is made between the following parties:
