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First, go to the eligibility page (Eligibility) and answer the questions to decide whether you are eligible.  If you are in doubt you can ring and discuss the matter, but if you are clearly not eligible you will only be wasting your own time, and ours, by making an application. 

There is no formal application form, but when sending in an application we ask you to complete the registration form (Registration Form) and return it with your application. 

An application should be no more than four sides of A4 but the budget may be on extra pages. It should be accompanied by your last Annual Report and Accounts if you produce such documents and the budget for the whole organisation (and the project budget if they are different) for the current year.  

 The application should answer the following questions:

   ·               What are the aims of your organisation as a whole?

·               How do you try to achieve these aims?

·               How does your proposal

o                   make a lasting difference to people's lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems

o                   reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination or

o                   encourage or enable unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community.

·               Why is yours an unpopular cause or beneficiary group?

·               What do you want our grant to pay for?

·               What difference would this grant make to your work?

·               How much will the work cost?

·               Are you asking the Foundation to meet the whole cost?

·               What other sources of funding are you approaching?

·               How will you know if the work has been successful?

·               How will the work, and the way it is done, promote equal opportunities?  If you do not think equal opportunities are relevant to your work please say why.

If further information is needed this will be requested and a visit may be arranged when the application can be discussed in more detail.

All applications should be made to the Foundation's office and not sent to individual Trustees.  If you have any queries about making an application you are encouraged to phone the staff for clarification.

 Applications can be made at any time and are processed throughout the year. If your application is unsuccessful at the first stage of assessment we will usually be able to tell you within a few weeks. If it is forwarded to the Trustees for consideration at one of their three meetings a year, you may have to wait as long as six months for a decision.  We do not make grants retrospectively for work, such as a particular event, which will have happened before a decision can be made by Trustees.