The organisation must not have two years of net current liabilities within the two most recent completed financial years. Further checks will be applied on Charity Commission/Companies House

LSelect 'yes' if your organisation is one of the following: Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG);  Registered charity; Community Interest Company (CIC limited by guarantee); Social enterprise; Not-for-profit company; Unincorporated association; Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO); Community group.     All eligible legal structures will be required to submit a governing document appropriate to their legal structure when submitting an LCF application. This must include an asset lock (or equivalent clause) and the purpose of all funded activities must be charitable (not for profit). Organisations limited by shares are not eligible for LCF funding.

Having 0 years of net liabilities in the last two years would deem an organisation eligible for LCF Funding, as would 1 year only. Should you have two consecutive years of net liabilities in the last two years please answer no here. Please note, further check will be applied after this stage should your organisation be successful

Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) - may also be registered as a Charity or a Community Interest Company Limited by Guarantee (CICLG), Trust, Unincorporated Association, or Community Benefit Societies (CBS). 

Your organisation's total income in the last financial year

All posts (including staff members, sessional workers, part-time or full-time posts and freelance workers) funded by these grants must be paid at or above the London Living Wage (currently £14.80 per hour).

You must have at least three unrelated members legally responsible for the governance of the organisation; Trustees/Directors/Management Committee as appropriate to your structure. Please note that this refers to the highest level of governance, a management committee/team that sits below a board of Trustees (eg charities, CIOs) or Directors (CLG or CICLG) does not count towards this. We will check the relevant regulator website (e.g. Companies House and/or the Charity Commission) to verify this, so ensure this information is up to date at the point of application. 

The organisation must not have two years of late submissions to the Charity Commission/Companies House within the last two completed financial years

How long your organisation has been operating

Organisations must be based and delivering in London to children and young people living in London. 

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Comic Relief x Sainsbury's HAF 2026 - Application Form

Provide the name of your organisation as it appears on any governing documents. If you are known by another name, please tell us as well.

Name of your organisation

This should be the address of the organisation. If the organisation doesn't have an independent location, you can use the contact details of the primary contact.

Address of your organisations

If you click ‘yes’ a field will appear for you to enter the website address. Otherwise, click ‘no’.

Do you have a website?

Please enter your website URL (e.g. www.example.com)

Website address

Please include details of your social media sites if you have them.

Facebook/X/Instagram

The telephone number should be one at which the organisation is easily contacted, especially during office hours.

Telephone number

The email address should be one at which the organisation is easily contacted, especially during office hours.

Email address

The contact person should be someone who has a good knowledge of the application as this is the person we will contact if we have any queries.

Main contact person

Please enter the date when your organisation was formally established.

Organisation start date

Constituted community groups, registered charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), Companies Limited by Guarantee, or Community Interest Companies Limited by Guarantee (CICLG), Trust, Community Benefit Societies and 'Friends of' schools or Parent Teacher Associations are all eligible to apply to the fund.

What type of organisation are you?

Please let us know your organisation’s income over the last year. If you are a new organisation what is your income to date from your management accounts, or records of income and expenditure. Please note that, for this fund, only organisations with an annual income below £500,000 in the last complete financial year are eligible to apply.

What was your organisation's income during your last accounting year/financial year or last 12 months?

How many full time and part time staff does your organisation have? How many management committee (or board) members do you have? How many volunteers (excluding management committee)?

Number

Full time staff

Part time staff

Management committee (or board) members

Volunteers (excluding management committee)

Staffing and volunteers

What are your aims? What activities do you deliver, for who and where?

Please describe briefly the overall aims and objectives of your organisation and the activities or services your organisation provides:

How do the people you support, or people with experience of the issues, help shape the work you do?:

Please note that we consider an organisation to be 'led by' if 75% or more of the governing body and 50% of senior staff come from a particular population group or community that the organisation is set up to support.

Is your group Led By and For any of the following communities?

If you selected 'Other' to the above question, please let us know how your community identifies itself:

Would you like to tell us anything else about how your group is Led By and For the community?

If the project has a name, put it here. If not, please enter the name of your organisation.

What is the title of this project?

The project start date should coincide with the school holiday start date in your area.

Project start date

The project end date should be no later than 4th September 2026 as this programme is only funding summer school holiday activity.

Project end date

You may select more than one London Borough/Local Authority but all funded activity must be in London for the benefit of children and young people living in London.

Which Local Authorities will the activity take place in?

Please provide the postcode where most of your beneficiaries reside, if there are multiple places please just pick one. If it is too difficult to distinguish please provide the postcode of the activity venue/your organisation.

Please provide a London postcode which represents the geographical area you will benefit:

What can you tell us about the need for the work that you do? Have you done surveys and/or had feedback? Is there a gap in provision? Is there nothing else in the area? Is it in response to local demand? Who will benefit and why are you focusing on them?

What are the problems or issues that this project will address and how do you know?

Tell us about what you need the money for and what you will do. What services and/or activities will this enable you to deliver? For how many people? When? How often? Where? Who will deliver the activity or services? What's their expertise?

For this programme, it is helpful if you can tell us how many days of the school holidays you will run the project and for how many hours per day. For instance, we will run the holiday club for four weeks, four days per week, between 9am and 3pm each day. Total days of club = 19 (because of one bank holiday).

What would you do with the grant - Please describe the FORMAT of your project or activity, giving specific details on WHEN, HOW OFTEN and WHERE it will take place, as well as the EXPERTISE of the people delivering it, and whoever will manage the project?

What difference will this project make? How is this directly related to the issues you have identified? List the benefits or changes that will directly result from this project and please explain how these benefits or changes respond to the programme priorities below:

Sainsbury’s and Comic Relief are keen to deliver a programme with the aim of:
•	Providing food to children experiencing food poverty which will, in turn, increase their health and well-being.
•	Addressing gaps in the current provision and reviewing the impact of this programme.
•	Raising awareness of child food poverty through storytelling and publicity, in turn generating further funds towards activity tackling food poverty.
•	Showcasing how summer holiday childhood food poverty can be tackled differently to potentially develop a larger scale programme in the future. 
•	Supporting children and young people with a disability with increased and/or improved access to summer holiday activity and food projects.

What would the benefits and outcomes be as a result of this project?

How will you measure your activity? How will you record the changes and impact this activity has? You might do questionnaires, keep a log of services delivered, use a known mental health measurement tool, record number of cases, referrals made or quotes from discussion with service users.

How would you measure and report the benefits and impact this project is having?

Tell us about any organisations you work with - especially if they are involved in the delivery of this project. Are you part of any local networks? If you work with multiple organisations it is ok to list these.

What local organisations, networks or partnerships do you work with? 

Please estimate how many people will benefit from any changes to your organisation which are as a result of this funding, throughout the funding period. We realise that you cannot give exact figures but please estimate as accurately as possible. This information is important and will be used to evaluate the project at the end of the grant period. 

Please note this is the total number of beneficiaries supported by your organisation and its activities and should not include staff or volunteers unless volunteers are also beneficiaries.

How many people will directly benefit from this funding? 

Will any volunteers be taking part in this project and if so, how many? They would not usually be paid for their activity but can typically receive expenses or reimbursement for travel. 

If no volunteers will be involved in this project please enter 0.

How many volunteers will help to deliver or take part in this project? 

From the drop down list, please click on the one group that best reflects the majority of the beneficiaries of this funding. This just gives an indication, you are not assessed on this information.

Primary beneficiary – select a single option to represent the primary beneficiary group for this grant.

Now that you have selected your primary beneficiary group, please tick any other relevant groups that will benefit from this funding. Tick as many as apply but please don't tick them all if they don't apply. This just gives an indication, you are not assessed on this information.

Other beneficiary groups - please select all that apply.

Please select one ethnic group that best reflects the majority of beneficiaries of this funding. You will not be assessed on this information, it is for guidance only.

Ethnicity – select a single option to represent the primary beneficiary group for this grant.

Now that you have selected your primary ethnic group, please tick any other relevant ethnic groups that will also benefit from this project. Tick as many as apply but please don't tick them all if they don't apply. This just gives an indication, you are not assessed on this information.

Other ethnicity groups - please select all that apply.

We are interested in the issues that will be addressed by this grant. From the drop down list the primary issue that will be addressed by this grant. 

Primary issue – select a single option to represent the primary issue that will be addressed by this grant.

Having selected the primary issue, please select any other issues that will be addressed by this grant.

Other issues that will be addressed by this grant - please select all that apply.

We are interested in the primary age group that will be addressed by this grant. Please select the age group that most beneficiaries will be part of. You will have the opportunity to select additional age groups in the next question.

Please indicate the primary age group that will benefit from this grant - select a single option to represent the primary age group.

Project Budget

This section asks you to provide details regarding the amount of money you are applying for and what type of items you will be spending it on. 

Please enter the total cost of your project in pounds (£). This should include all costs associated with delivering the project, whether funded by this grant or from other sources.

You can ask for the full cost and do not have to provide match funding. Both project and core costs (including staff, running costs) are eligible and a combination of these can be requested. If you are asking us to contribute towards an activity or larger project, consider what are the total costs of the whole project? The total cost here should not include in-kind costs, as these are calculated separately and on top of the total project cost.

What is the total cost of the project?

Please enter the amount of funding you have already secured for this project in pounds (£). If no funding has been raised yet, please enter 0. You do not need to raise any match funding and you can ask for the full costs of delivering your project. 

How much has been raised so far?

Please enter the amount you are requesting from this grant in pounds (£). Please remember that the maximum grant request for this fund is £10,000.

How much money are you applying to us for?

Please let us know if you are applying to other funders or seeking funding from other sources for this project.

Are you seeking other funding for this project?

Please list the other funders or funding sources you are applying to or have applied to. For each one, please indicate whether the funding is secured, pending, or not yet applied for.

If yes, what other funders or sources of funds are you applying to and are they secured or not?

Please value in pounds (£). In-kind support is goods, time or commodities that are donated or given on a pro-bono basis, instead of (or in addition to) a financial contribution.  These are non-cash contributions, such as materials or services that are provided free of charge or at a reduced rate.

Please tell us the value of any in-kind support you are receiving. This includes volunteer hours (valued at £14/hour), value of equipment, space, or publicity for example, that you may be given free of charge.

If you have in-kind support, please list the type and nature of the support here. In-kind support is goods, time or commodities that are donated or given on a pro bono basis, instead of (or in addition to) a financial contribution.  These are non-cash contributions, such as materials or services that are provided free of charge or at a reduced rate.

If you have secured in-kind support, please describe these contributions here:

Living Wage

The London Living Wage is £14.80 per hour in London. We are asking groups to make their applications for any staff costs at the London Living Wage rates, so please budget for this in the staff costs section below. We understand that for some groups paying a Living Wage can be difficult for several reasons, and we would like to work with groups to see how we can support you to enable you to pay a Living Wage. Also, if there are any general comments on what you think about us paying a Living Wage through our grants please put them in here.

Have you budgeted all staff costs at the Living Wage? Please provide any comments on any difficulties or positive impact this will have on your organisation (please type N/A if this does not apply to you i.e. you are not applying for salary costs).

Budget Breakdown

Here you itemise the costs that will be incurred in running your project. The headings (staff costs, volunteer costs etc.) are examples of types of costs and the amount – you do not have to put a cost in each heading if it does not apply. For each category, there are two cost boxes, one for the total project cost and one for the amount you are applying to us for. The cost breakdown field allows you to enter the details behind the cost (e.g. 2 Youth workers @ £15 per hour x 3 hours per session x 20 weekly sessions = £1,800). The breakdown detail should only refer to the elements of the project that are covered by your grant from us (i.e. you do not need to fill in the breakdown field for total project costs).

Amount in pounds (£)

Breakdown

Requested amount

Total amount

Staff Costs

Note for volunteer expenses - Only out-of-pocket expenses can be paid to volunteers, who should submit receipts and/or proof of payment such as bus/rail tickets for your records. Volunteers should not be paid a flat rate as they will be classed as employees of your organisation.

Volunteer Costs

Operational Costs

Overhead Costs

Capital Costs

Publicity Costs

Other Costs

E.g. constitution, memorandum & articles or set of rules.

Please upload a copy of your organisation's governing document.

Please supply a copy of your most recent annual accounts, or an income and expenditure sheet for your last financial period for smaller groups. For new groups please provide a forecast for your income and expenditure for your first financial period, and a copy of a recent bank statement. 

Please upload a copy of your organisation's most recent annual accounts.

For further guidance on what your safeguarding policy should contain please see our website. 

Please upload a copy of your organisation's safeguarding policy.

Now that you have selected your Primary Age Group, please select other age groups that will also directly benefit from engaging with your project/activity. You may select multiple options.

Additional age groups that will benefit from this grant - please select all that apply

How did you find the application form?

Please read each statement carefully and check the box if you agree with the statement. Please confirm your name and role.

Declaration Name

Declaration Position

I confirm that the information given on the application form is true and my group has formally agreed that I can act on their behalf.

Terms and Conditions

I confirm that the information given on the application form is true, and my group has formally agreed that I can act on their behalf. I confirm that I have attached all necessary supporting documents.

By submitting your application, you are agreeing to allow London Community Foundation and UK Community Foundations to retain your personal data. We will use this information to help assess your application and administer any grant we award.  We may also publish some of this information on our website and other promotional materials (we will not publish contact details or personal data relating to individuals). If your application is successful, you agree to take part in, where appropriate, any relevant publicity activities.