Give it a Go - Application Form

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Applicant Charter

This is Grimsby's money, allocated by Grimsby people, to support work happening in Grimsby. The Decision Makers who will read your application are local residents who care about the same streets, communities and futures that you do.

We have kept barriers to applying as low as possible and the process as simple as we can make it. A simple process is not a casual one. This money matters, and the people making decisions are giving their time because they believe in the work.

As an applicant, you commit to:

Being honest about what you know — and what you don't. If you are not sure about something, say so. An honest application with gaps is more useful than an inaccurate one.
Being realistic about your budget. Ask for what you actually need. If awarded funding, you are committing to spend it as stated.
Telling us if things change. If your timeline, costs or plans shift, contact us early. We will work with you. We cannot manage problems we don't know about.
Applying in good faith. The information you provide will be shared with Decision Makers and, where grants are approved, with the wider community. Everything you submit should be accurate to the best of your knowledge.

We commit in return to treat every application fairly, provide clear feedback whether you are successful or not, and support you through the process.

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I have read the Applicant Charter and agree to apply in the spirit set out above.

Please note that we will share details about your project, but not about you, with Decision Makers as well as with the wider community. All approved grants will be published and the reasoning behind all decisions will be made available to applicants.

Before you start this application, please ensure that you read the FAQ guide which will help you answer the questions as well as the towns priorities:

Grimsby Together - Our Future that you must address in your application.

Because the money is coming from the government and money for the whole town. we must make sure various standards are met and terms and conditions are agreed to - this is why the application form is quite long.

Before continuing, though your organisation may be based outside of these postcodes, please make sure that your project activities take place in at least one of the following postcodes:

DN31
DN32
DN33
DN34
DN37

,About the fund:

Give it a Go Round 2 has a total funding pot of £87,500. Organisations, unincorporated organisations, and individuals (via a host/intermediary organisation) can apply for up to £10,000 to test a new idea for the first time in their community, through a defined, time-limited activity. Across 2026, the fund's ambition is to make around 12–15 awards in total.

Your project should aim to unlock further support in the future. In other words, the funded work should be testing and stimulating new ideas at your organisation.

What can be funded

Equipment, materials, or small costs needed to test a new idea or pilot project that could grow, or that could generate more money in future . For example:

· Piloting a new project

· Paying someone to run sessions

· Buying materials and equipment

· Marketing and communications costs

Please note that Give it a Go cannot fund capital projects, such as buying land or building things.

Please make sure that you regulary save your application after completing any boxes that you want to keep.

Deadline for this application round is on Monday 19^th October, 5pm.

Please tick the box to show that you have read, understood and agree with the above.

Tick here

Project Details

Project Name:

Give your project a name, something that makes it stand out and is easily recognisable so that we can understand what you are doing.

Please describe the project that you are asking for funding for in a few sentences:

How much funding are you applying for?

You can apply for up to £10,000. Please note that we cannot partly fund projects, so please make sure that the amount you apply for is your final amount. At the same time try not to ask for more than you need because you are more likely to be funded in full if the amount you are asking for is lower and if you don’t reach the amount you request you won't get any funding.

Briefly describe what you are trying to achieve in the project:

A priority of people across the town is that this money creates lasting change and contributes to a thriving town; the money is not designed to cover shortfalls or fill gaps in existing models. We’d love to hear about: • Why you are excited about your project? • What would make you proud about your project? • How your project might contribute to a thriving Grimsby? • If there is a specific thing you are trying to test with your project?

Briefly outline a timeline of your project activities. Are there any risks to activities not being completed on time, and how will you avoid them?

Who do you think will benefit from from your project?

A group of people could be disabled people, children and young people, elderly people etc..

Will other individuals be involved in this project?

Please give details of anyone else that you intend to involve in the delivery of this project. Please let us know if they have confirmed their involvement.

Which priority area will the project support? (Please select one)

Project start date

When do you expect work associated with the funding to be complete?

All funds should be spent and all project delivery complete within 12 months of signing the grant agreement.

Project postcode (s): where will your activities take place? (Hold down the Ctrl key to select more than one)

As Give it a Go is currently funded by Pride in Place, one of the criteria is that activity must take place in one of these eligible postcodes.

Project Budget

Please give a full breakdown of your project budget.

Please see the FAQs for the explanation of what is capital funding and what is revenue.

Items* that are purchased under £5,000 we require evidence of cost (can be website shots, catalogue images etc. with the price on).

Items that are purchased over £5,000 require 1 formal quote.

*by items we mean capital items, bought items and consultancy that you will have to buy in

Item/Activity	Capital	Revenue	Total

Will any other funding contribute towards the project? If so, please provide details in the table below:

Item/Activity	Capital	Revenue	Total

Where has the additional funding come from?

How will the activity continue after the grant has been spent? What are your plans for after this money? Where else might you get money from?

Safety, Deliverability and Policies

What policies do you have in place to support your answer above (question above)? Are there any gaps that you need to fill?

Please tell us which existing policies your safety approach relies on (for example, health and safety, safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults), and note any new policies you will need to create before the project starts. Your answer should show how these policies back up the practical steps described above.

Keeping everyone safe is important. We would love to know: how will you make sure people involved in your project activities stay safe?

How will you make sure people involved in your project activities stay safe?

Do you have insurance already in place to deliver your project (if you do not you must include insurance in your budget).

Please upload a copy of your insurance policy/ies here

This next section is about you and your organisation

Are you applying as an individual, organisation or an unincorporated group?

IndividualIncorporated OrganisationUnincorporated Group(You can apply for this programme as an individual, but you will need a host organisation to hold and manage the funds for you. See FAQs for more information).

Organisation Details

This section is about you and your organisation.
The information in the next few sections will not be shared with decision makers as part of the decision making process.

Legal name of your organisation

Legal identifier if you have one

This is your company house or charity number if you have one.

Type of organisation

Main address of your organisation:

Building Name/Number:

Street:

Area:

Town:

Region:

Postcode:

Website (if you have one)

Social media accounts (if you have any)

Your role in the organisation:

File Uploads

Please upload your latest full year accounts (either audited or unaudited management accounts)

Please note this does not apply for individuals applying for the fund.

Please upload your last 3 months bank statements

Will other individuals be involved in this project? Please give details of anyone else that you intend to involve in the delivery of this project.

Group Details

Main contact name

Main contact phone number

Main contact email address

In one sentence, what does your group do:

Group name:

Group address:

Building name/number:

Street

Town

Postcode

Region

Please upload your group constitution:

Please upload your most recent 3 months bank statements:

Host Organisation

A host organisation will support you by holding the grant award for you and making payments for the items in your budgets. Grants cannot be paid direct to individuals.

Your host organisation will need to provide accounts and sign a subsidy control declaration as the grant will be paid to them, you will need to get this information from your host organisation.

Legal name of the host organisation

Please tell us the legal name your host organisation is registered under.

Main address of the host organisation:

Building name/number:

Street

Area

Town

Region

Postcode

Main contact at the host organisation:

This is the main person that you will work with within the named organisation. This person will be our main contact.

Title:

First name:

Last name:

D.O.B.

we require this for ID purposes only

Email address:

Telephone number:

Please upload the last full accounts of the host organisation:

Main Contact

Please provide the name they use for official purposes and a date of birth for ID purposes. This is so we can do basic due diligence checks.

Title:

First name:

Last name:

D.O.B.

we require this only for ID purposes

Email address:

Telephone number:

Additional Information

In one sentence, is there anything about you or your organisations values and approach that you would like us to know?

Any other final information that you would like to give us?

Please can you provide details of a second contact at your organisation who has authority to sign the legal agreements for this programme. We will need to ID check this person. Please provide a full legal name and email address.

By signing this document, you agree to the programme standards including safeguarding and compliance. If your project involves vulnerable adults or children, you must have a safeguarding of vulnerable adults and/or safeguarding of children policy. You must also include Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) checks on any adults working with vulnerable adults or children in your budget if required.

By signing below, you confirm that the information in this application is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you agree to the programme standards referenced above.

Name:

Signature:

Date:

Data Protection

Your application data is collected and processed jointly by Key Fund, Our Future and North-East Lincolnshire Council. Full details of how each organisation uses your data are set out in our Privacy Notice.

This application form contains information that is personal data for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and any applicable law relating to the processing, privacy and/or use of personal data, and in respect of which the Key Fund and its funders are obliged to supply the following information:
Your personal data provided will be used for the purpose of administering this application and where applicable, providing a grant by Key Fund.

Your personal data may be given to any relevant agency, Key Fund’s funders and auditors, internal or government department for this purpose and will not be disclosed to any other organisation for any other purpose other than in relation to cases of suspected fraud or where there is a statutory requirement for disclosure.

We may want to contact you for marketing purposes, to notify you of further opportunities and invite you to events organised by Key Fund. We will keep your personal details confidential and will not pass them to any third party organisation without your explicit consent.

You can read the full details on our Privacy Statement at the following link to our website:

Privacy Statement 1 - Proposal Applicants (Sep 2026)

If you agree to receive marketing communication from Key Fund, please tick

If your project is funded, we would love to share your story. With your permission, we may share information about your project publicly – for example on our website or social media, in reports or press coverage. This would include your project name, a description of what you are doing and the amount of funding awarded. You can withdraw this consent at any time by contacting Our Future at growingtogetherfund@our-future.io Where information has already been published we will take all reasonable steps to remove it on request. If your project involves photographs or videos of other people, it is your responsibility to make sure you have their permission before sharing those images with us.

I agree to the Growing Together Fund and / or Our Future sharing information about my project for promotional purposes if I am successful.

Subsidy Control

I understand that my application for a grant from the Key Fund is subject to the laws applying to subsidies that the grant is made available as “minimal financial assistance” and that, therefore, my application must satisfy the conditions applying to minimal financial assistance. 

I further understand that subsidies that exceed the limit on minimal financial assistance may be unlawful and that my business may be required to make repayments of any unlawful subsidy. 

I confirm that I have listed below the total amount of all forms of public subsidy received by my business in the past three years and I acknowledge that the Key Fund will use this information to determine whether my application meets the conditions allowing payment of minimal financial assistance.

To be eligible to receive certain types of publicly funded business funding and support, we will need to establish whether you can receive a subsidy within the regime set out in the Subsidy Control Act 2022 (and if relevant the Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) between the United Kingdom and the European Union).

We hereby notify you that:

(a)  if your application is supported, we would be proposing to give you a subsidy by way of minimal financial assistance,

(b)  the gross value amount of the assistance will be confirmed at the point of making a written offer, and

(c)  we are seeking your confirmation that any eventual payment to you will not cause you to have received more than £315,000 attributable to minimal or SPEI financial assistance in total in the current and two preceding financial years (beginning on 1^st April).  (SPEI assistance relates to services of public economic interest, and this will have been explained in the context of the award of any such funding.)

Please note, we are unable to provide you with any funding until we receive the confirmation referred to in the previous paragraph.

Potentially any assistance you may have received from a public body might be a subsidy. This could be from Central, Regional, Development Governments or Agencies or Local Council. If you are not sure whether any assistance you have received is a subsidy, and whether it qualifies as minimal financial assistance, please clarify with the body which granted the assistance.

The Regulations allow an entity to receive up to £315,000 as minimal financial assistance over any period of three financial years.  This is subject to cumulation rules and any SPEI assistance, EU de minimis aid or SAFA subsidy given under the TCA will reduce the scope for receipt of subsidy.

Please confirm the amount of subsidy or state aid your business has been granted within the current and two preceding financial years beginning on 1^st April:

For information, full details of the UK Subsidy Rules can be found here

UK SUBSIDY CONTROL: SMALL AMOUNTS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE DECLARATION

Please complete the table below listing any other subsidies (particularly grants/loans/equity packages) received by your business from public (UK Government or European) sources in the past three years and tick the above box. The Key Fund will then be able to check the minimal financial assistance position as part of the eligibility assessment process.

Please note that at our discretion, as part of the application process we may require you to take legal advice confirming that any funding we provide to you further to this application will not breach the rules relating to subsidy control.

In certain cases, the recipient of funding may consider that use of the minimal financial assistance exemption is not appropriate in the circumstances.  Where this is the case, please let us know as soon as possible.

Date	Grant/Loan/Equity	Funder

Signed: