Expression of Interest

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Guidance for completing your Expression of Interest

Accessibility: we have additional accessibility-related support available for applicants where our online application process may be a barrier to applying, including an Access Payment to support you to apply. If you are interested in this support or our application process doesn't work for you, please get in touch by email: funding@esmeefairbairn.org.uk, or phone: 020 7812 3700.

Completing your Expression of Interest

You'll first be asked for some details about your organisation, the work that you do, your contact details and which of Esmée’s aims and priorities your work matches. You will then have a total of 300 words to tell us about your work by answering the following two questions:
  1. What would you like Esmée to support? Briefly outline how our funding and support will be used.
  2. What's the change you are focused on achieving and how is your organisation well placed to deliver it? We're interested in understanding the need your work will address, and the opportunities your organisation or partnership is uniquely placed to take. We will also look at your website to learn about your organisation so use this space to focus on the change you want to achieve in relation to Esmée's priorities/long-term outcomes.
Please note that you will not be able to save the form so if you’re not ready to complete your Expression of Interest, you will need to start again. 

Response times
We will get back to you within four weeks about your Expression of Interest.

Are we the right funder for you?
It is difficult to get funding from Esmée. The majority of people who apply for our funding are not supported.

We are choosing to focus our funding on work that we believe will deliver the greatest long-term impact and create change for the future.  For our grant funding, this means we are making a smaller number of longer-term grants with a more strategic focus, and fewer short-term or small-scale grants.  


Before continuing, please check if we are the right funder for you.


 


What we don't support:
  • Organisations with a regular annual turnover of less than £100,000 (as reflected in the latest set of accounts)*.
  • Organisations without at least three trustees or directors (the majority of whom should not be paid executives).
  • Organisations without an asset lock or other general mechanism designed to ensure that the assets, including any profits generated, are used for the benefit of its community or to further its activities and mission.
  • Grants for less than £30,000.
  • Social investments for less than £100,000 or more than £2m.
  • Work that is not legally charitable.
  • Work that does not have a direct benefit in the UK.
  • Grants to individuals.
  • Capital costs including building work, renovations, and equipment (grants only, we may make social investments for these).
  • Academic research – unless it can demonstrate real potential for practical outcomes.
  • Healthcare with a clinical basis, including medical research, hospices, counselling and therapy, arts therapy, education about and treatment for drug and alcohol misuse.
  • Independent education.
  • Work that is primarily the responsibility of statutory authorities.
  • The promotion of religion.
* We will identify new ideas to support which are at an earlier stage and would not get through our applicant quiz. We will contact organisations proactively to apply for this support. 


 

Applicants will need to show that:
  • Their organisation is leading the way itself, or is part of a partnership or collaboration which is aiming for transformative change.
  • Their work is pioneering by breaking new ground, or using tried and tested models to push things forward in a new way.
  • Their work is ambitious and aiming to make a long-term impact. To be funded by Esmée, it's not enough to be keeping good things going, you need to be driving change for the future.

What we are most likely to fund:
  • Unusual collaborations and ambitious partnerships which are delivering at scale and involving or engaging a range of charity, public sector or corporate partners.
  • Work which makes connections across our aims: Our Natural World, A Fairer Future, and Creative, Confident Communities.
  • Communities or people most affected being involved in campaigning or leading change.
  • Work which uses a preventative approach.
  • Work that has practical plans to achieve and sustain change over the long-term.
  • For social investments, the existing or potential ability to repay our investment.
  • Alternative forms of investment and social investment in innovative models.

If you are still not sure if we are the right funder for you, please read our full funding guidance.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

We are also gathering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) data from organisations who apply for our funding. Once you’ve submitted your Expression of Interest, you will be redirected to a DEI monitoring form. We want to use the information we gather to help us identify and address structural inequity, and ensure that the reach of our funding and our funding practices are fair and just.
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Your Organisation

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Communities experiencing racial inequity: by this we mean that 75% or more of the Board/Management committee AND 50% of senior staff (where staff exist) are from communities experiencing racial inequity. This is often referred to as 'Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic', 'BAME' or 'Black and Minority Ethnic (BME)'.

Disabled: by this we mean that 75% or more of the Board/Management committee AND 50% of senior staff (where staff exist) are D/deaf or disabled.

In addition to this question, applicants will also be asked to complete a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion monitoring form, which you will be directed to after completing your Expression of Interest.
Your Contact details



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Your Work

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Aim and Priority - Main Grant




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Aim and Priority - Social Investment





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Priority - A Sector Fit for the Future



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Do you operate in one or more distinct areas of the UK, or across the UK as a whole?

Please select from the fields below the Level and Geographic that will benefit from the work proposed.  (Note: you should only go down to the level relevant to your work so if you work on a national level you should select Level = 'Country' and then select Geographic as the relevant country. If you work at local authority level, you should select Level = 'Local Authority'.  If you benefit from more than one Level or Geographic, then you can select 'Add another geographical area'.



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Expression of Interest
Tell us briefly about your work by answering the following two questions, and you will have a total of up to 300 words that you can use.

Briefly outline how our funding and support will be used.

We’re interested in understanding the need your work will address, and the opportunities your organisation or partnership is uniquely placed to take. We will also look at your website to learn about your organisation so use this space to focus on the change you want to achieve in relation to Esmée’s priorities/long-term outcomes.

Total word count: 0 / 300

You will be redirected to a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion monitoring form. After, you will know that all the information has been submitted when you are taken to a ‘thank you’ page.

We will then review your Expression of Interest and get back to you within the next 4 weeks. In the meantime, if you have any queries, you can get in touch by emailing us.

Contact Information