Application Form

Programme Selection

Please indicate which programme you are applying for. If you are unsure which support to apply for then you can select 'Unsure'.

Name of the Organisation

Your Email Address

Weston Charity Awards Application

Thank you for your interest in the Weston Charity Awards. We are looking for great charities working in the fields of Community, Environment, Welfare and Youth from the North and Midlands of England, and Wales. Award winners receive a place on the Pilotlight 360 programme and a £6500 unrestricted grant.

Pilotlight 360 works by engaging with the CEO and the board over a 10 month period to support the charity and its leadership to develop its ways of working and create robust plans for the future. Projects are most successful when there is stable leadership for the duration of the project and commitment from the board and leadership team to fully engage. Meetings take place monthly, are a mix of in person and online, and on average a programme requires one day a month from the charity leader. We expect that a member of the board also attends one in four meetings. Applicants will need to be able to meet in person for four of the ten meetings, including one charity site visit and three meetings in Pilotlight's London office.

For further information, please refer to the Weston Charity Awards website. If you have any questions about the Awards, please contact Pilotlight's Charity Experience team on 07483 014 783 or charityexperience@pilotlight.org.uk.

Please use the Save & Resume function at the top of the form to save and return to your form later. Please note that this function does not submit the form. Please make sure you click 'Submit' at the bottom of the form to submit your application when you are finished.

Weston Charity Awards Application

Many thanks for your interest in the Weston Charity Awards. Unfortunately applications are now closed.

Please contact Pilotlight's Charity Experience team on 07483 014 783 or charityexperience@pilotlight.org.uk if you have any questions.

Pilotlight 360 Application

Thank you for your interest in Pilotlight. Please complete the following application form to apply for support from us.

Pilotlight 360 works by engaging with the CEO and the board over a 10 month period to support the charity and its leadership to develop its way of working and create robust plans for the future. Projects are most successful when there is stable leadership for the duration of the project and committment from the board and leadership team to fully engage. On average a programme required 1 day a month from the charity leader and for a member of the board to attaned one in four meetings.

Click here for further information about applying for support from Pilotlight. If you have any questions about Pilotlight or the application form, please contact the Charities team on 07483 014 783 or charityexperience@pilotlight.org.uk.

Please use the Save & Resume function at the top of the form to save and return to your form later. Please note that this function does not submit the form. Please make sure you click 'Submit' at the bottom of the form to submit your application when you are finished.

The fields marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.

Pilotlight 360 Application - England, Wales and Northern Ireland currently closed, Scotland open

Thank you for your interest in Pilotlight. We are only accepting applications from organisations based in Scotland for Pilotlight 360 at the moment.

Please contact Pilotlight's Charity Experience team on 07483 014 783 or charityexperience@pilotlight.org.uk if you have any questions.

Application

Thank you for your interest in Pilotlight. Please complete the following application form to apply for support from us. Click here for further information about applying for support from Pilotlight. If you have any questions about Pilotlight or the application form, please contact the Charities team on 07483 014 783 or charityexperience@pilotlight.org.uk.

Please use the Save & Resume function at the top of the form to save and return to your form later. Please note that this function does not submit the form. Please make sure you click 'Submit' at the bottom of the form to submit your application when you are finished.

The fields marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.

Eligibility Checker

Is your organisation a registered charity?

Your Eligibility

The Weston Charity Awards is only open to registered charities. If you are not a registered charity you are welcome to apply for other Pilotlight support by choosing another programme on Page One of this application.

Your Eligibility

Does your organisation have an annual income of less than £5m?

Is your organisation focussed on community, welfare, youth and/or environment?

Unfortunately, your application does not meet the required criteria for the Pilotlight 360 programme. If you wish to apply for another programme, please go back and to Page One and choose another from the list. If you are not sure which programme would be right for you, but would like to submit a general application, please choose ‘Unsure' from the drop-down.

Alternatively, please do contact Pilotlight's Charity Experience team at charityexperience@pilotlight.org.uk or 07483 014 783.

Does your organisation serve one or more of the following regions; North East England, North West England, Yorkshire and Humber, West Midlands, East Midlands, North Wales, Mid Wales, South Wales

Has your organisation been delivering services for more than two years?

Is the charity leader able to give at least one day a month to the programme and commit to the work that will come as a result of meetings?

Is your charity tackling social disadvantage in the UK? This can be through helping to improve the lives of individuals or communities, or practical action to protect and foster the environment.

For the duration of the project, it is required that your charity leader and Chair of Trustees are available for project meetings and any associated work that comes out of these. Since you have chosen 'No', the Charity Experience team will discuss this with you again if you reach the assessment stage.

The Pilotlight 360 programme does require charities to tackle social disadvantage in the UK. However, we are open to consider working with those that do not meet this criteria for the programme. Please continue with your application for it to be considered.

Are there any upcoming changes in leadership (board or executive)?

If yes, please provide further detail.

Unfortunately, your application does not meet the required criteria for the Weston Charity Awards. If you wish to apply for another programme, please go back and to Page One and choose another from the list. If you are not sure which programme would be right for you, but would like to submit a general application, please choose ‘Unsure' from the drop-down.

Alternatively, please do contact Pilotlight's Charity Experience team at charityexperience@pilotlight.org.uk or 07483 014 783.

Eligibility Checker

Is your organisation a registered charity?

Does your organisation have an annual income of less than £5m?

Has your organisation been delivering services for more than two years?

Is the charity leader able to give at least one day a month to the programme and commit to the work that will come as a result of meetings?

Are there any upcoming changes in leadership (board or executive)?

If yes, please provide further detail.

Organisation Details

Charity Type

Other Charity Type

Link to Website

Registered Charity Number

Limited Company Number

Street

City

County

Postcode

Please provide your social media tags:

Is your charity tackling social disadvantage in the UK? This can be through helping to improve the lives of individuals or communities, or practical action to protect and foster the environment.

Where you Work

Country (Please click CTRL + Select to choose multiple options)

England Region (Please click CTRL + Select to choose multiple options)

Wales Region (Please click CTRL + Select to choose multiple options)

Scotland Region (Please click CTRL + Select to choose multiple options)

Geographic Reach

Please add any further details on your geographic reach.

Please state which local authority the majority of your work takes place in.

Which categories describe the areas of your work (Please click CTRL + Select to choose multiple options).

Pilotlight 360 Application - England, Wales and Northern Ireland currently closed

Thank you for your interest in Pilotlight. We are only accepting applications from organisations based in Scotland for Pilotlight 360 at the moment.

Please contact Pilotlight's Charity Experience team on 07483 014 783 or charityexperience@pilotlight.org.uk if you have any questions.

Applicant Details

Pronouns

First Name

Last Name

Job Title

Contact Number

Alternative Contact Number

Is the applicant the Charity leader?

Key Contact Details

Charity Leader

Pronouns

First Name

Last Name

Job Title

Email Address

Contact Number

Chair of Trustees

Pronouns

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

Contact Number

About your Organisation

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Number of Full Time Employees. Please use only numbers in your entry and do not include commas, decimal places or other symbols (e.g. 100).

Have you applied for the Weston Charity Awards before?

Annual number of Service Users. Please use only numbers in your entry and do not include commas, decimal places or other symbols (e.g. 100000). If your organisation does not have service users, for example if it is focused on the environment, please enter '0'.

What was your income in the last financial year? Please use only numbers in your entry and do not include commas, decimal places or other symbols (e.g. 100000).

Unfortunately your organisation has an income level above our limit for organisations we support. Please contact Pilotlight's Charities team on 07483 014 783 or charityexperience@pilotlight.org.uk to discuss your needs.

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Please provide the start date of the financial year that this income represents.

What percentage (%) of your Leadership team falls into one or more of the following categories; Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (including Gypsy, Traveller or Roma communities), Disabled, Female, LGBTQIA+, Lived experience of a social challenge, Experience of socio-economic disadvantage?

What percentage (%) of your Board falls into one or more of the following categories; Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (including Gypsy, Traveller or Roma communities), Disabled, Female, LGBTQIA+, Lived experience of a social challenge, Experience of socio-economic disadvantage?

Do you have a policy focussed on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion?

If No, please state why.

In relation to your beneficiaries (children, adults or both) please confirm you have up-to-date, robust safeguarding policies and procedures in place, in line with current legislation and government guidance and that they have been reviewed in the last 12 months. *If your work does not involve beneficiaries in a way that would require safeguarding policies and procedures, please choose ‘No’ and explain in the next field.

If No, please explain briefly why you believe this is not required/relevant.

Please upload your safeguarding policy here

Your Focus

Which of the following categories best describes who you are trying to help? (If more than one, please select the most important focus for your charity currently)

If Other, please specify.

What is the primary ethnic group of your beneficiaries?

If Other, please specify.

Which of the following categories best describes what you are trying to achieve/ the difference you are trying to make for your service users? (If more than one, please select the most important focus for your charity currently)

If Other, please specify.

The Weston Charity Awards and You

Please provide a single paragraph that tells us about the organisation and its work. Please note, that if successful with the Awards, this will be used for publicity purposes.

Please give a brief description of your main services and beneficiaries.

Please describe the impact of your work and how you currently measure this.

What challenges and opportunities is your charity facing, both internal and external, that you would most like to explore with Pilotlight?

Please outline the work that has been already done to address the challenges and opportunities described above.

Please indicate what changes you would like to see organisationally and personally as a result of working with Pilotlight.

Please outline any other relevant information.

Working with Pilotlight

Please provide an overview of the organisation and the reason why you’re looking for support from Pilotlight.

Please give a brief description of your main services and beneficiaries.

Please describe the challenges and opportunities you are seeking help with.

Please indicate what changes you would like to see organisationally and personally as a result of working with Pilotlight.

Please describe the work that has already been done to address the challenges and opportunities described above.

Please outline any other relevant information.

Please indicate whether you, as the applicant, would be the lead on this project.

Please provide further information on who would be the lead on this project and others from your organisation that would be involved. Please provide their names, role and email addresses.

Financial Position

Understanding your financial position and the stability of your finances is crucial to us being able to establish if we can support your organisation effectively. We are keen to understand where you get your funds from, how long they last for, how stable each stream is and what plans are in place to generate income/ raise funds over the coming year.

Please briefly outline your position in the box below and attach your existing documents in the Attachment section. This allows us to understand your position further (suggested docs; latest annual accounts, most recent management accounts, a copy of the budget for the current and next year, cashflow forecast).

Please provide your level of reserves and how many months operating cost this equates to.

Please attach any relevant financial documents below. You can attach multiple documents by clicking 'Add another response'.

Other Attachments

Please attach any documents that will help us to understand your organisation better (e.g. your latest business/ strategic plan, an organisation chart, list of trustees etc.). You can attach multiple documents by clicking 'Add another response'.

Other Attachments

Please attach any documents that will help us to understand your organisation better and work that relates to the specific ask (e.g. your latest business/ strategic plan, any research you have done or papers on your specific ask, any useful contextual docs). You can attach multiple documents by clicking 'Add another response'.

How did you hear about us?

How did you hear about the Weston Charity Awards?

Please specify how you heard about the Awards.

How did you hear about us?

How did you hear about us?

Please specify how you heard about us.

Other Support

Have you previously received support from Pilotlight?

If yes, which programme did you participate in?

Pilotlight's programme names were updated in 2022. The outdated names are listed against the new to assist you with answering the above question.

Pilotlight 360, formerly the Pilotlight Programme
Pilotlight Insight, formerly Unlocking Insights, Unlocking Potential, Skills Connector, Make an Impact
Pilotlight Direction, formerly Strategic Review, Strategic Directions
Pilotlight Impact Day, formerly Make a Difference Day

Have you been funded by the Garfield Weston Foundation before?

Please provide the year that you received support.

Have you received support from another pro-bono support provider in the last three years?

If so, which provider?

If Other, please specify which provider you received support from.

Accessibility

Please do let us know if there are any accessibility requirements we need to consider to ensure you and your organisation is able to engage in the programme fully by outlining these here.

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Submission Statement

In submitting this form you are confirming you have the written agreement and permission of any individuals identified in your application to pass their personal information to the Garfield Weston Foundation and Pilotlight, who will hold and process their personal data in accordance with all current data protection legislation.

We will use this information only for the purposes of assessing your application, managing or monitoring any grant awarded, related administration or research purposes, and for sharing relevant information to other funding organisations to use in their own assessment of applications and managing or monitoring of grants awarded. Data may be retained for up to 6 years, in accordance with our data retention policies, after which time it will be destroyed.

You can find more information on the Garfield Weston Foundation's privacy policy on their website here.

Submission Statement

By submitting this form, you consent to Pilotlight using the above information for the purposes of processing your application and contacting you in relation to your request. If at any time you wish us to amend or delete the above information which Pilotlight may hold, please contact us. All materials provided to Pilotlight will only be used for the shortlisting process, and full confidentiality will be maintained. If your application is successful, materials provided may be shared with Pilotlight members who are invited to work on your project and bound by the same principles of confidentiality.

You can find more information on our privacy policy on our website here.