Merchant Taylors' Grant Application Form

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Organisation details

1. Registered name of organisation or school name

2. Registered charity number or school URN number

If you are unclear what to put in this box, please contact us:
If you are a school please email education@merchant-taylors.co.uk, other organisations please email charities@merchant-taylors.co.uk.

3. Registered Address Line 1

4. Registered Address Line 2

5. Registered Address Line 3

6. Postcode

7. Website

8. General contact number

Contact details of the person completing this application form

9. Title

10. First Name

11. Surname

12. Email

13. Telephone

14. Job title or voluntary role in your organisation

15. Do you consider yourself fluent in English?

We are asking this information so we can continue to improve our grant application process and make it more accessible.

About your organisation

16. Charitable purpose of organisation

If your organisation is a registered charity, please type your charitable purpose exactly as it appears in your governing document. If it is not a registered charity, please type the purpose of your organisation exactly as it is worded in your organisation's constitution.

17. Geographical remit of your organisation within the UK

18. If applying under the Merchant Taylors' Foundation Small Grants Scheme, please select all the boroughs that you work in.

To select more than one borough, hold down CTRL as you select the relevant names.

Grant application details

19. Please select which funding stream you are applying to:

19.a Are you applying for the small grants scheme?

Schools please select no here

20. Are you applying for unrestricted funding or restricted funding/project costs?:

20.a If you are applying for unrestricted funding/project costs, please tell us why using the drop down box below:

Select the option that best fits your application

21. What name have you given this application you want funding for?

22. Are you asking for funding for more than one year?

Please check guidance notes for the grant scheme you are applying for Merchant Taylors' Company website. If you are unclear, please contact charities@merchant-taylors.co.uk

23. How much are you asking for in year 1?

Put the amount you are seeking for Y1 in numbers without £ signs or commas.

23.a How much are you asking for in year 2?

Put the amount you are seeking for Y2 in numbers without £ signs or commas.

23.b How much are you asking for in year 3?

Put the amount you are seeking for Y3 in numbers without £ signs or commas.

24. Summarise what you want to use the grant for in no more than 2 sentences in the box below:

We ask for further detail later in the form. If your application is for unrestricted funding please summarise what your organisation does.

25. Why is funding needed?

If you are applying for unrestricted funds, just type ‘unrestricted funds’ in this field. We’ll look at your website to understand why you feel your organisation’s work is important.

26. Use the drop down box to select what best describes the work that you do:

27. Start date of project (please select from the pop-up calendar or type in format dd/mm/yyyy)

If your request is for unrestricted funding, please put the start date of your organisation's next financial year.

28. End date of project (please select from the pop-up calendar or type in format dd/mm/yyyy)

If your request is for unrestricted funding, please put the end date of your organisation's next financial year.

29. Please describe project activities and who will be doing the work (including qualifications and experience):

30. What will your project deliver? (These are your outputs.)

Things you will count e.g. number of people who will take part or number of sessions you will deliver. Please make sure you include all project activities.

31. What positive changes will you achieve for your participants during the funding period and how will you monitor progress? (These are your outcomes.)

What will people gain? This depends on your project but it could include increased confidence, streamlined processes, reduced costs and improved qualifications.
If you are applying for unrestricted funds, please just type ‘Application for unrestricted funds’. We’ll contact you if we want to know more about this issue than we can work out from your website.

32. At the end of the funding period, how will you know if you have been successful in bringing about those changes? (This is the impact.)

Refer to the section where you talked about why the project was needed. What is the long term change you want to achieve for people who have taken part?
If you are applying for unrestricted funds, please just type ‘Application for unrestricted funds’. We’ll contact you if we want to know more about this issue than we can work out from your website.

Project Budget

33. Are you applying for Restricted funding/Project Costs?

34. If you are not applying for 100% of your project costs where will the shortfall come from?

Please give details of how you will get funding for the difference between what we may grant you and what you need to run the project.

35. What will happen if the total funds are not raised?

Please tell us what your backup plans are. Would you cancel the project? Reduce the number of people benefiting? Make the project shorter?

36. Please attach a budget here (spreadsheet). Your budget should clearly show not only projected expenditure, but also projected income. If your projected income includes grant-funding, please state which grant funders you have approached and in each case for how much, and when you expect to receive their final decision. We have provided an optional budget template which you are free to download and use: Budget Template

Financial information

The following financial information questions do not need to be completed by schools. Please answer the question below to be directed to the next relevant question for your organisation.

37. Please indicate if your organisation is a school?

37.a What are your current total unrestricted reserves?

Please ask your Chief Executive or Finance Trustee to answer this question. Please use the figure in your most recent management accounts.

37.b What is your target amount of unrestricted reserves and how many months operating expenditure does this equate to?

This is about how much money your organisation aims to have to use for any emergency or unforeseen need.

37.c In your organisation, do all bank payments have to be authorised by two unrelated people?

Other information

38. Please provide any other information that you consider important for us to know when making a decision about your application:

Please select the appropriate statements about your organisation from the drop-down lists below:

39. Your child protection and/or vulnerable adult safeguarding policies are current and that relevant staff and volunteers are adequately trained

39.a Can we find it on your website?

39.b Please attach your safeguarding policy here

40. All staff and volunteers working with children or vulnerable adults have had a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

40.a Please explain why

41. How did you hear about us?

42. If you have a funder who could act as a reference, please provide the contact details below

Please note that this is not mandatory and will not impact on our assessment of your application.

When you click Submit, you will be prompted to confirm the details you have entered in this form. At the bottom of that page is an option to print your form and we recommend that you print or save a copy electronically. Please also save a copy of the documents you have submitted with this form. If your application is successful, you will need the information to complete your end of grant report.

Before you go, please help us to continually improve by taking one minute to provide some feedback on our application process. Your answers will be anonymous. Please click on this link: Feedback form

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