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  • Before completing this application, please make sure you have read about our funding aims and read our funding guidelines. You can download a word or pdf version of this application form here.

  • Before submitting your proposal we encourage all applicants to get in touch with a member of our grants team. Organisations that speak to us first are more likely to be successful when they apply because they better understand the aims of our work. And if it doesn't fit, our team will tell you - saving you valuable time in filling out an application form. You can book a call here.



We advise all applicants to book a call with one of our grant managers before putting in an application. These calls are an opportunity to discuss your idea or proposal.


If you're applying for the disability justice fund, please note that we can only accept applications from organisations that have had a conversation with us. See our website guidance for full details on how to do this.


Organisations that speak to us first are more likely to be successful when they apply because they better understand the aims of our work. And if your work doesn’t fit, our team will tell you – saving you valuable time in filling out an application form.  Click here to book a 30 minute conversation.




This is the governing body of your organisation and may be referred to as your Board of Directors



This expression of interest form is for grant applications.
Please note: Applying for Social Investment is not the same as applying for a grant. As outlined on our Social Investment page, “we’re not just about grants… some organisations need flexible, low-cost loans or equity to grow and deliver social impact,” and “invested funds are all repayable – so we can lend them again.”

For more information about what this means and whether it is right for your organisation, please visit our Social Investment page here.  To speak to speak to our Social Investment Manager, you can book a call here.

Unfortunately we can only fund organisations that have 3 or more directors. You may like to try the following link to look for other funders: https://fundsonline.org.uk/search/

Unfortunately, Trust for London does not make grants to individuals

Unfortunately, we only fund work that tackles poverty and inequality in London. You may like to try the following link to look for other funders: https://fundsonline.org.uk/search/

We only fund organisations that pay at least the London Living Wage. Find out more about the London Living Wage here. 

Thank you for completing our eligibility quiz. Please note that based on your response(s) to some of the questions, you aren’t eligible to apply to Trust for London. For further clarification or questions, you can read more about our eligibility criteria in our funding guidelines or contact our grants team at grants@trustforlondon.org.uk


We're only able to accept one application per organisation each year. If your previous application was unsuccessful, please wait at least 12 months before applying to us again - unless a Grants Manager has specifically invited you to reapply sooner. In this case, please tick 'No' to continue your application.

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About your organisation

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You don't have to be a registered charity to apply to us (but the activities we fund must be charitable). Tick as many boxes that apply to you and provide the relevant numbers e.g. your charity and/or company registration number






Organisation Details 

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About your request for funding

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We're especially interested in work with:

  • Meaningful involvement of people with lived experience in the leadership of the organisation, and the delivery of work and campaigns.
  • Organisations whose staff teams and governing boards reflect the diverse range of people affected by economic and social injustice in London.
  • Strong awareness of the interconnected causes of economic and social injustice, and that takes an intersectional approach in addressing them. An intersectional approach means that people with a different range of identities - particularly from multiple marginalised groups - are included in work so that voices are heard.
  • A collaborative approach.
  • Alliances and capacity-building efforts. This might look like work that builds opportunities to work across sectors with ‘unusual suspects’, new allies and creative partners. It may mean work between specialists and non-specialists, for example, the delivery of specialist advice in community settings.
  • A clear plan to campaign for policy change, locally or nationally.
  • Long term impact.

                                                    

                                                    


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Project Costs

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How much are you requesting from Trust For London?
Please use the section below to tell us how much you are applying for. You can include different costs, such as salary costs, direct costs in carrying out the work, any access costs, staff training, and a reasonable proportion of your overheads, amongst others. Do include reasonable inflationary increases for multi-year budgets.
Full Salary Costs Breakdown



 Year 1 (£) Year 2 (£) Year 3 (£) Year 4 (£) Year 5 (£) Total (£)
Salary
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Total Requested Amounts per year






REVIEW COSTS: Grant Total cannot equal 0.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We are committed to fostering diverse, equitable and inclusive communities across London. As part of this, we ask all organisations applying for funding to respond to three standard DEI questions. This helps us better understand who is applying for our support and the communities that may benefit.


For more information about why we collect this data and how it is used, please see link to the document HERE, which also includes guidance on completing this section of the form.

1. Tell us more about the people or communities who are benefiting from the project.


Tell us about the people or communities benefiting from your project(s)

We’d like to understand whether the people your work supports share a particular location, identity, or experience. And if they do, we would like to know what those identities are.

Please tell us if the majority of people you support (more than half) share a specific identity or experience.

Select a category only if it applies to more than 50% of the people you support. You can select more than one category if this applies.


Example

If most of the people you support are African-Caribbean female refugees, you would:

  • Select “Communities experiencing racial inequalities”
    → Choose Black / African / Caribbean / Black British
    → Then select Caribbean
  • Select “Migrants”
    → Choose Refugees
  • Select “Women and girls”
    → Choose Women

Please do not select all categories that are relevant to your work.

We are interested in the main groups your work is focused on, not everyone who may benefit.

DEI Questions




Beneficiaries

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2. Tell us more about your organisation

We would like to understand more about who your organisation is set up to support. By this, we mean any specific groups or communities that your organisation is dedicated to serving. This may be referenced in your governing documents, strategy or public facing materials.  

Organisation


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3. Tell us more about your leadership

We would like to understand more about the leadership of your organisation and how it relates to your mission and the people and communities that you serve. We are interested in whether most of the people who make decisions or lead in your organisation share a specific identity or experience.


For this question, we count an organisation as 'led by and for' when

  • over 75% of your board of trustees/ management committee AND 
  • over 50% of your more senior or management staff

    identify as being from a specific community and/ or sharing the same identities and experiences.

Please answer the questions to the best of your knowledge.  This will help us identify project or organisations led “by and for” the communities experiencing the issues that the organisation is dedicated to and working on. 


We recognise that this doesn’t tell us about wider diversity within the leadership of an organisation or significant proportions of leadership teams consisting of other identities or experiences that fall below these thresholds. We have included an open text box for you to provide us with any other information you feel might be relevant. 


Example

If your leadership consists of over 75% young people with disabilities, they would fall under two categories. You would:


Select “young people” and then select “people with disabilities” and then select the specific impairment, if appropriate. 

Leadership


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REVIEW COSTS: Grant Total cannot equal 0.

Please note you will have the opportunity to review your application and make any further edits before you confirm, by clicking on the 'Review before Submit' button below.  

Once you have confirmed your submission, you will no longer have access to make any further changes.

By submitting this form, you agree that we may store the information you provide for as long as necessary to process your application. We may also retain your data after your application submission to help us analyse application trends. If you are applying to a joint fund (such as the racial justice fund), we may share your information with our delivery partners for the purposes of assessment and monitoring. Read our privacy policy for more information: https://trustforlondon.org.uk/privacy-policy-and-cookies/ 
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