2025 Windrush Day Grant Scheme Application(Charities, CICs and Community Groups)

2025 Windrush Day Grant Scheme Application
(Charities, CICs and Community Groups)

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Please Read

Further information on how to fill in this application form can be found in the Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2025: 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 23:59 on 25th November 2024. Do not leave your submission until the last minute.
You will have a chance to review and print the final version and print it before you click the final 'Submit'. DO NOT FORGET TO CLICK THE FINAL SUBMIT BUTTON ON THE LAST PAGE.

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.

ARE YOU ELIGIBLE?

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 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 2025. Events and activities must take place between 8th June 2025 and 30th September 2025, provided that projects can focus on one or more of the following:

Clearly demonstrate how a proposal can help build community cohesion between people of different age groups and ethnic backgrounds.
Have a lasting social impact beyond the funding period.
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. Projects must provide details of other funding secured.

Be based in England.

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.

Not utilise funding for the purposes of undertaking political activity nor supporting ideological or extremist causes. ('Extremism' is defined in the 2011 Prevent strategy as vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs.)

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.

Grant Type

Status

Eligibility

Registered Organisations

Is your organisation a registered charity or Community Interest Company?

YesNo

If yes, what is your Charity Commission/Companies House registration number?

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

Is your organisation a company, exempt charity, non-profit or trust?

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

YesNo

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

YesNo

Does your organisation have a governing document?

YesNo

Upload governing document

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

YesNo

Upload accounts (the last two financial years)

If you have multiple documents, please combine them into one PDF file to upload.

Ineligible

To be eligible to apply, your organisation must be able to answer ‘yes’ to the above questions.

You answered 'no' to one of them and so, unfortunately, you are not eligible to apply for this funding.

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

About your organisation

Contact Details

Organisation Name

Organisation Phone Number

Organisation Email Address

Organisation Website

Organisation Address line 1

Town/City

Postcode

Social Media Handles/Links

e.g. IG @nearneighbours FB: www.facebook.com/nearneighbours/

Further Information

Is your organisation a branch of a larger organisation? If yes, please give details

When was your organisation set up?

How many people does your organisation employ?

Number of Full-Time Staff

Number of Part-Time Staff

Number of Volunteers

The Bid

Is this a consortium bid?

YesNo

Please give the names of the other organisations in the bid:

Please outline the purpose of your organisation and some of its biggest achievements. Please also outline any experience your organisation has had of delivering projects and working with Windrush communities. If you are applying as a consortium, please also outline the key attributes of your partners. (250 words)

Main Project Contact

Contact Details

Title

First Name

Last Name

What is your position in the organisation?

Contact Phone

Contact Email

If there is an error with your email, please try typing it, rather than copy/pasting it.

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Your Project

Location/Date

In which region(s) will your project take place?

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

In which local authority area(s) will your project work?

Project events and activities must take place between 8th June 2025 and 30th September 2025. Preparations (such as making bookings, paying deposits, advertising for staff, etc) may begin as soon as you are notified that you are successful. Please note that funding will be released in April 2025.

Proposed Start Date

Unfortunately, we cannot fund work retrospectively, so the start date must be after we inform projects of funding decisions in March 2025.

Proposed End Date

This must be before the deadline of 30th September 2025.

Impact (40%)

Please provide a project summary and list of project outputs/activities, focusing on how it will accomplish one or more of the following; commemorating, celebrating and educating about the arrival and contribution of the Windrush generation. (100 words)

Please describe your project and/or the projects you will oversee, concentrating on the following questions. (750 words)

1. How will your project fulfil at least one of the primary aims of the Windrush Day Grant Scheme (as set out below)?

- To educate people about the Windrush story, seeking to build awareness of historical facts and deepen understanding about the Windrush generation and their descendants. This includes the pioneers who arrived on the MV Empire Windrush in 1948, and those who came on vessels and planes in the decades afterwards.

· - Foster a greater sense of pride and recognition of the contributions made by United Kingdom Caribbean communities to UK society, and amongst the wider public.  The Windrush generation and their descendants have contributed a great deal to society over more than seven decades. The scheme invites proposals for projects that proactively support and encourage people from different backgrounds to embrace this aspect of our shared history.

· - To develop the educational and entrepreneurial skills of young people. To inspire a next generation of young leaders to learn new skills and encourage them to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the social capital of society in the United Kingdom.

- To celebrate and recognise the contribution that the Windrush generation and wider United Kingdom Caribbean communities have made to the UK.

2. How will your project build community cohesion between people of different age groups and ethnic backgrounds?

3. In what way(s) is your project unique, innovative, or exciting?

4. How will your project be community led and have a positive social impact? 

5. How will your project build community cohesion? How will you raise awareness of the project in your area and encourage engagement across generational, regional and social divides? 

6. How will your project mark National Windrush Day 2024?

7. Who will provide oversight and be accountable for the project?

8. What will be key project milestones and when are these intended to occur?

9. How will you ensure that planning and delivery progresses in a timely manner and that timelines are achieved?

Project Lead Suitability (10%)

Please demonstrate how your organisation’s project lead holds the suitable knowledge and skills to deliver the stated aims of their project. This could be shown through examples of previous work undertaken by core project members. This experience should also align with the required headline aims and outcomes of the scheme. If a project lead does not have experience in delivering events that meet the headline aims and outcomes, please set out how the project lead will aim to do so. (250 words)

Community-led and longevity (20%)

Please describe who your main partners will be, and how you will engage with them. In this section, please demonstrate how your project will be community-led, with strong community links, and the ability to foster and grow contacts and relations. (250 words)

Partners may include: charities, schools, Councils, the Police, community organisations, health services, local faith institutions, etc.

How will your project have lasting impact beyond the funding period? (100 words)

Evaluating and measuring impact (10%)

Please describe what your aims for the project will be and how it will meet these. Goals should be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound) and should be aligned to the objectives outlined in the Guidance for Applicants. Please define what success will look like and how it will be measured and evaluated. (500 words) If you require guidance on SMART targets, please see our guide.

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.

How much money are you bidding for as part of this application?

Please type numbers only

Is the amount you are requesting the complete cost of the project?

YesNo

Additional Funding

What is the total cost of your project?

Please type numbers only

Where is the rest of the money coming from? Please list your additional sources of funding and the amounts they have provided, including match-funding.

Is this funding confirmed?

YesNo

Budget

Please provide a detailed overview of how you would spend the grant funding if successful.

This summary is very helpful to us to understand what your budget is for at a glance! What are the major components? e.g. £3k on Delivery of 5 x workshops, £1k on a community fun day, and a £1.5k commission for 1 x artist.

Do you have a budget document ready to upload?

YesNo

Please upload your detailed budget here.

Please provide a detailed budget with the cost for each item and its use. (Note: You cannot create tables in this textbox.)

This should be a detailed budget with breakdowns where appropriate for hourly rates, etc. 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

Value for money (20%)

How will you ensure value for money? (100 words)

Declaration

The application period closes at 23:59 on 25th November 2024. We will inform applicants of the outcome of their bids in March 2025.

Declaration

Please tick this box to confirm that, if successful, you agree to:

- Give your permission for Near Neighbours to process your data on behalf of MHCLG, who are the Data Controllers.
- MHCLG and Near Neighbours contacting you to discuss your application further

- Evaluate and monitor activities specified within your bid as agreed with MHCLG and Near Neighbours

- Cooperate with reasonable requests for publicity (including social media promotion)

- Return a final report at the end of the project.

You will have the opportunity to review and print your answers when you click 'Submit' below.

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