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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Are you applying as a partnership? 

For each partner organisation, please provide: organisation name, main contact name, contact number, email address, and a brief description of the organisation. 

Please list the organisation names, main contact name, contact number, email and a brief description of each partner - The rest of the application form should be completed by the Lead Partner Organisation

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 - (Lead Partner if you are applying in partnership)

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 organisation

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

Email address of main contact person (if different to the one above) 

Phone number of main contact person (if different to one above)

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, Unincorporated Associations, and Community Benefit Societies 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. 

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?

Project start date

This project end date should be no later than 31 March 2028

Project end date

Please select all London boroughs where you will be delivering activities for this project.

Which London borough(s) will you be delivering this work in?

Please provide a breakdown of the anticipated beneficiary numbers across the borough(s) that you operate in:

Holiday activities - Forecast number of children and young people participating in activities

After School activities - Forecast number of children and young people participating in activities

Holiday activities - Planned number of positive opportunities that will be offered

After School activities - Planned number of positive opportunities that will be offered

Barking and Dagenham

Barnet

Bexley

Brent

Bromley

Camden

City of London

Croydon

Ealing

Enfield

Greenwich

Hackney

Hammersmith and Fulham

Haringey

Harrow

Havering

Hillingdon

Hounslow

Islington

Kensington and Chelsea

Kingston upon Thames

Lambeth

Lewisham

Merton

Newham

Redbridge

Richmond upon Thames

Southwark

Sutton

Tower Hamlets

Waltham Forest

Wandsworth

Westminster

Delivery by London Borough

What can you tell us about the need to tackle serious violence affecting young people and child exploitation in your area ? What access is there for youth provision in evenings and holidays?  Have you done surveys and/or had feedback on your particular offer? Who will benefit and why are you focusing on them? Please provide information that is specific to your delivery area for example information from local authority dashboards, school exclusion data, local VAWG risk assessments and VRU borough profiles. 

Please provide evidence of the need for this work in your delivery area. 

Tell us about what you need the money for and what you will do. What after school 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? 

If relevant please show how your activities meet the Priority approaches outlined in the fund guidelines. 

What AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES will you deliver with the grant? 

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

If relevant please show how your activities meet the Priority approaches outlined in the fund guidelines. 

Please be specific about which holiday periods will be covered. 

What HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES will you deliver with the grant?

All applications must include a food offer in all holiday delivery. This can be through:
-	Providing Mayor for London and VRU “take and make” food packages. These will be directly delivered to organisations, reducing the time spent on shopping and planning, please see attached food package guidance, or
-	Providing food offer that meets high nutritional and hygiene standards.


Please provide details of the nutritious food that will be provided for young people taking part in holiday activities and how this will meet high nutritional and hygiene standards

All organisations will be expected to report back on how the funded work contributes to the programme outcomes which include: 

For young people:
-	Improved mental wellbeing
-	Improved self-esteem/self-confidence
-	Improved ability to respond to stress or trauma
-	Improved life skills Improved motivation Improved aspiration/ personal ambition
-	Increased overall life satisfaction

For organisations: 
-	Improved accessibility and reach of services (particularly for minoritised or often marginalised groups)
-	Improved trauma informed practice
-	Improved ability to successfully maintain engagement with young people
-	Improved knowledge and understanding of the needs of vulnerable young people

The fund guidelines contain a link to the full outcomes framework showing where this programme sits alongside the wider work of the VRU. 

How will this funded work contribute to the programme outcomes? 

How will you measure your activity? How will you record the changes and impact this activity has? What existing systems do you use to monitor your impact? 

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

It is important that all delivery organisations are embedded in the communities where they are delivering. We will expect applicants to demonstrate good local reach and knowledge. Please tell us about your reach in the local area. 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.

Please explain how embedded you are in your delivery area. What local organisations, networks or partnerships do you work with? 

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? 

Will your work specifically target any of the following groups?

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

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

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 

Other ethnicity groups - please select all that apply

We are interested in the primary age group that will be supported 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.

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

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 you are requesting from this grant in pounds (£). 

How much money are you applying to us for?

Please let us know how much you are requesting from this fund from date of grant award to 31st March 2027. 

How much are you requesting in year 1 (date of award to 31st March 2027)

Please let us know how much you are requesting from this fund between 1st April 2027 and 31st March 2028. 

How much are you requesting in year 2 (1st April 2027 to 31st March 2028) 

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 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?

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). Please ensure that holiday food costs are kept separate from other costs in the section listed headed Holiday food costs ONLY. 

Amount in pounds (£) Year 1 (to 31/03/2027)

Amount in pounds (£) Year 2 (to 31/03/2028)

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 - Excluding the cost of Holiday Food

Operational Costs - Holiday Food Costs ONLY 

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.

Your organisation's safeguarding policy should been reviewed in the last 12 months, states it is reviewed annually, and meets the requirements as listed in our safeguarding checklist - please see https://londoncf.org.uk/apply/lcfs-safeguarding-checklist

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

Did you find the application form clear, fair and accessible? 

Please share any other comments about the application form and process

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 organisation 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 organisation 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.

Please tick this box to confirm that you agree to these conditions.

Please outline previous work with this group, please explain what worked and what impact you have measured from your previous work. 

Please outline your track record for working directly with young people between the ages of 8-18 who are at risk of or involved in violent crime?  

Explain your approach to safeguarding particularly when working with young people who may have multiple or complex needs. 