Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) monitoring information

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) monitoring information 

We would like to ask some questions about your organisation and the communities that will benefit from the funding you are applying for. 

Why we are asking for this data 

At Co-op Foundation, with our strategy ‘Building Communities of the future together’ we are committed to creating diverse, equitable and inclusive communities. As part of fulfilling our strategic priorities we are gathering data about organisations who apply for our funding to help us identify and address structural inequity and ensure that the reach of our funding and our funding practices are fair and just. 

Our approach to collecting DEI data is aligned with the DEI Data Standard, and the Racial Justice Audit Tool, shared frameworks between funders in the UK, designed to systematically gather information in a respectful and comprehensive manner.

How we will use and share your information 

We will use this information to better understand the organisations applying for our support and who it's reaching. This will inform our funding strategy, enable us to identify any imbalances in our funding and how we can improve our practice to ensure our resources are directed toward communities facing systemic challenges.  

If you are successful in your application, the responses you provide in this section may be included in data published about our grants on websites such as 360Giving'sGrantNav and Funders for Race Equality Alliance

to support our transparency and accountability. We respect the sensitivity of DEI issues, and you have the option to opt out of the publication of your leadership DEI data if you wish. This can be found at the end of the form. If you are a small organisation with a small number of Trustees and Senior Staff, we suggest you opt out of sharing this data publicly, unless all Trustees and Senior Staff have given their consent. Please read our full Privacy Notice.  

If your application is unsuccessful, any shared or published information will be aggregated and anonymised, protecting the confidentiality of your organisation. 

Please note this form should take about 15 mins to complete. 

Mandatory questions are highlighted by *

Thank you in advance for completing it.


About the mission of your organisation

We'd like to understand more about the mission of your organisation and who it is set up to support. By this, we mean any specific groups or communities that your organisation is dedicated to serving. This might be reflected in your governing document, strategy or any materials you publish about your organisation. 

The categories in this section focus on groups who may be living in a particular location or groups who are more likely to experience inequality in society. If your mission is aimed at supporting a group that isn't listed below, you can tell us in the question about any other lived experiences at the end of this page.  




































The people/communities who will benefit from the project you are seeking funding for  

We want to know if the people your project is supporting or targeting share a particular identity and/or experience(s). And if they do, we'd like to know what those shared characteristics are. 

By this we mean that 75% or more of the people supported or being targeted by your project live in a particular location or share a particular identity and/or experiences. You can choose more than one in the categories below. But please note that 75% or more of the people your work supports should share these identities and/or experiences. If fewer than 75% of the people you target belong to the group please indicate as ‘No’. 

We understand that individuals may belong to multiple groups or communities so you can choose several, but 75% or more individuals you support should share the characteristics of all groups you select. 

Example

If the people you’re supporting are 80% Asian Female Refugees, you would do the following: 

  • Answer Yes to Communities experiencing racial inequity and select ‘Asian’ 
  • Answer Yes to  Migrants and select ‘Refugees’ 
  • Answer Yes to Women and Girls and select ‘Women’ 
  • Leave all other drop down menus as ‘No’ 


Please select any category that you anticipate that 75% or more of people benefiting from your proposed work will identify with. 






































Leadership of your organisation

We’d like to understand more about the leadership of your organisation and how it relates to your mission and the people your organisation supports. We understand that there are also other ways to involve the people you support and we may ask about this separately in our application materials if it is relevant to our funding. We are interested in whether most of the people who lead or make key decisions in your organisation share a particular identity or experience(s)

By this we mean: 75% or more of your Board of Trustees/Management Committee AND
50% or more of senior staff self-identify as being from the same specific community and/or sharing the same identity(ies) and/or experience(s).
 

Example

For example, if your leadership consists of more than 75% young people (typically young people aged 8 – 25) with care experience, they would fall under two categories:


‘Young people’ and

‘Lived experience’ and then specify ‘care experience' in the free text box at the end of this page


You can also choose ‘Prefer not to say’


Please answer the following questions to the best of your knowledge. 


If 75% percent or more of your leadership share identities/experiences, select the relevant categories below or use the ‘Lived experience’ text box if there isn’t a relevant category in the list.  



Please tell us which of the following groups the leadership of your organisation self-identifies with: 
































Opt Out


Diversity Questions 


These questions aim to learn more about your organisation's approach to diversity. They are not considered part of the assessment process for your application and will not be shared externally. These questions were developed with reference to the DEI Data Standard, Funder’s for Racial Equity Audit, and Foundation Practice Rating but are separate from them. 
 
These questions are to find out more about the diversity of your leadership team. By leadership, we mean your board of trustees (or your Management Committee) as well as your senior management team






These questions are to find out more about our organisation’s approach to diversity and inclusion.