What's Working? 2025: Strength in DataFunding OpportunityExpression of Interest form

What's Working? 2025: Strength in Data
Funding Opportunity
Expression of Interest form

Thank you for your interest in the Prudence Trust’s funding opportunity, “What’s Working? 2025: Strength in Data”
Please read the information about this funding opportunity on our website before completing this application form.

If you need help completing your application, contact grants@theprudencetrust.org

The deadline for submission is Monday 3 March 2025, 4pm.

We will let you know by the end of March if we are inviting you to submit a full second stage application.

A. Primary Contact Information

Details of the primary contact for this grant application

First Name

Last Name

Job Title

Telephone

B. About Your Organisation

1. Organisation Name

2. Organisation address, including postcode

Region of activity:

3. Website

4. This funding is only available to UK registered charities or a registered Community Interest Company, limited by guarantee. Please provide your registration number(s).

Charity Number

Company Number

5. This funding is only available to organisations with an annual income of £250k or more.
What was your total income for the previous financial year? (£)

6. This funding is only available to organisations who work primarily with young people (10-30 years), delivering mental health interventions to children and young people with anxiety or depression. (NB You do not have to work with the entire age range, but 90% of the young people you support should be within this range. You need not include complimentary support for their parents/carers in that calculation.)
What does your organisation do? Referring to the eligibility requirements, tell us what services/activities you deliver for young people and who your beneficiaries are, including age range. (150 words max)

7. We want to support charities that have a culture of curiosity and that prioritises sharing learning and best practice. This could be formally or informally.
Can you give an example of a time you’ve shared or learned from others? What networks are you a part of, if any?(150 words max)

C. Your Proposal

1. This funding is to help organisations bolster their capacity to do quality data collection, manage what they collect and (most importantly) analyse and use that information.

What needs to change about the way you collect, manage or analyse your data? Tell us about the problems you are encountering. What do you want funding for and how will this help to tackle these problems? (300 words max)

2. At the end of the grant period, we want to see a demonstrable difference to your ability to collect and analyse your data and make use of it to improve the way you work
What do you want to be able to do at the end of the 3 year grant period that you can’t do now? (150 words max)

3. We would like to understand what mental health data you currently collect.
Tell us what kind of data you currently collect about your beneficiaries and their mental health. If you measure their mental health using a recognised tools (e.g. WEMWBS, Outcomes Star) please tell us what you use. (150 words max)

D. Financial Details

1. Estimated total project cost (over the whole grant period) (£)

2. How much are you seeking from the Prudence Trust, in total? (£)

3. What will this funding pay for?
(Eg. salaries - £60,000; training - £5,000; etc) (50 words max)

4.Grants will be for up to 3 years and the earliest first payment would be July 2025. If you have a preferred start date for this grant, please tell us when this is (Use format DD/MM/YYYY)

5.Taking the date above as your estimated start, and thinking about how long you want your grant to be (up to three years). What is your estimated end date? (Use format DD/MM/YYYY)

If you have any feedback, you can tell us here. We are keen to know how we can improve and offer a better experience for grant applicants in the future. (50 words max)