If you experience any difficulties completing the application form below, please email: windrush@nearneighbours.org.uk

 

Windrush 75 - 2023 Windrush Day Grant Scheme Application

(Charities, Community Interest Companies and Community Groups)

 

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  • Further information on how to fill in this application form can be found in the Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2023: Guidance for Applicants. There is also a document containing the answers to frequently asked questions. In addition, there will be bidder application workshops, which will provide more information on how to write a good application.

  • You can click through the pages to see all the questions before you start filling them in. Questions are clearly marked with word limits.
  • You can save this form and come back to it at any time until the deadline of 12 noon on Wednesday 22 February 2023.
  • You will have a chance to review and print the final version and print it before you click the final 'Submit'.

By submitting this grant application form, you recognise that we will process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy which we encourage you to review before you make an application. We will use the data you give us to assess your proposal and determine whether you fulfil our criteria and are eligible for funding. When we collect your data, we will use it in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and ensure that is kept secure and confidential.

ESSENTIAL Criteria

Your organisation must be a registered charity or community interest company, or it must be able to answer ‘yes’ to the following questions:


·       Was your organisation established for charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purposes?

·       Does your organisation have a governing body with at least three members?

·       Does your organisation have a governing document? 

·       Can you provide accounts for the organisation both of the last two financial years? 

Your project bid must:

 

-       Demonstrate how it contributes to at least one of the aims of the Windrush Day Grant Scheme as set out in the Guidance for Applicants.

-       Include a lead event or activity on National Windrush Day, 22 June 2023, which coincides with the 75th anniversary celebrations of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush to the UK. All further events and activities must take place within the 10-week period of 8 June 2023 to 31 August 2023. Project events and activities taking place after 22 June 2023 must do one or more of the following:  

o   Clearly demonstrate how a proposal can help build community cohesion between people of different age groups and ethnic backgrounds.

o   Have a lasting social impact beyond the funding period.

o   Help develop the educational and entrepreneurial skills of young people across this period.

-       Subject to the relevant tier of funding applied for, seek no less than £5000 and no more than £50,000 and provide details of other funding secured.

-       Be based in England or Northern Ireland.

-       Meet all relevant criteria as set out in the Guidance for Applicants.

-       Not make a profit from activities. Organisations should be mindful of the staffing costs associated with their project and make efforts to limit how much of their allocated grant funding is used for this purpose.

DESIRABLE Criteria

We encourage applications from outside Greater London and the South East, so that Windrush Day builds a good profile throughout all regions in England and Northern Ireland.

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Eligibility
Non-Registered Organisations
To be eligible for funding you must be able to answer yes to all the following questions and upload the required documents
If you have multiple documents, please combine them into one PDF file to upload.

Applications without these documents from non-registered charities will not be considered. 

About your organisation

Contact Details
e.g. TW: @churchurbanfund, FB: https://www.facebook.com/ChurchUrbanFund
Further Information
How many people does your organisation employ?
The Bid

Main Project Contact

Contact Details
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Your Project

Location/Date
To select multiple values, hold down the Ctrl key and click.

Unfortunately, we cannot fund work retrospectively, so the start date must be in the future.
Events and activities must take place between 8 June 2023 and 31 August 2023.
Project Proposal
Partners may include: charities, schools, Councils, the Police, community organisations, health services, local faith institutions, etc.
Please indicate which specific groups of individuals you intend to participate in your project.

About Your Project

Finance

The Department reserves the right to award projects partial funding, i.e. an amount that is less than the amount requested.

Grant funds cannot be used for work that has already taken place. Funding can only be used for work/items that takes place after confirmation of receiving grant funding and subject to due diligence checks.

 

While we encourage you to be ambitious on sourcing match funding contributions for your project, match funding is not needed in order to be eligible for the scheme. Match funding can include in-kind support.

Additional Funding
Example: Hall hire – 8 hours, £100 per hour (£100 x 8) = £800.00; Project management (scheduling, contracting, partnership development) – 10 days, £x per day = £xx

Declaration

The application period closes at 11:59 on Wednesday 22 February 2023. We will inform applicants of the outcome of their bids in March 2023. 

You will have the opportunity to review and print your answers before the form is submitted.

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Photo above: 2022 Windrush Day Grant Recipient - Bristol Windrush Reggae Choir hosted by Bristol Reggae Orchestra. Photo by Mark Simmons Photography.