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We Make Camden Project Fund application form

Before proceeding with your application, please confirm that you meet all the minimum requirements for funding. We will not be able to offer a grant to organisations that don't meet these requirements. If you need advice or support in relation to the minimum requirements, please contact us at VCS@Camden.gov.uk  

Minimum requirements

Any employees and/or contractors whose salaries are funded through this Project Fund grant should be paid London Living Wage as a minimum.

Living Wage

1. You pay London Living Wage as a minimum to all your employees and/or contractors. 

You have safeguarding policies for children and vulnerable adults (where relevant) developed or renewed within the last 2 years, with a named designated officer and their contact details, with staff being trained and with relevant checks (e.g. DBS).

Safeguarding

2.1 Children

2.2 Adults

Eligibility criteria

You must be a local Camden based charity or not-for-profit organisation with your main base in Camden and the majority of your organisation’s time and money spent on delivering for Camden residents.

If no, and you are a not-for-profit outside Camden, you will need to demonstrate a strong track record of delivery and how you can fill a gap in provision in your answers to the 'About your organisation' section of this application

1. Are you Camden based?

Complaints

3. You have an up to date and transparent complaints procedure for service users.

Data Protection

4. You have an up to date and accessible data protection policy

Public liability

5. You have insurance in place, including Public Liability Insurance.

Equalities

6. You have an equalities policy which is compliant with existing anti-discrimination legislation and does not unlawfully discriminate

Finance

7.1 You have your own organisational bank account with at least two unrelated signatories.

7.2 You have annual accounts with audited accounting systems and arrangements for income tax (PAYE); National Insurance and VAT where applicable.

You operate in line with best practice in charity/not-for-profit governance including:

Governance

8.1 None of your trustees/directors and/or senior staff members are living at the same address.

8.2 None of your trustees/directors and/or senior staff members are related.

8.3 You have a constitution, trust deed or articles and memorandum of association.

8.4 If you are a charity, you have a minimum of five trustees.

Document upload

Please upload the documents listed below.   If you are unable for any reason to upload these documents, please email vcs@camden.gov.uk or your existing contact in the Community Partnership Team.

1. Governing document – Constitution, trust deed or articles and memorandum of association

2. Your latest annual report and accounts

About your organisation

For example, where you work, who you work with, what kind of activities you deliver and the difference your organisation makes. You may want to include information about the number of people you work with and any evidence you have about the difference your work makes.   

1. Please tell us about your organisation and the work you do 

You might want to consider:
- How your area of expertise addresses a gap in existing provision, showing understanding of community needs and strengths
-	Explaining your strong track record of delivery of projects in Camden
-	Demonstration of existing partnerships in Camden or a plan for how to develop these

2. Please tell us about your organisation’s connections to Camden, and any relevant partnerships you have in place

Project Proposal

Please include as much detail as you can, including the activities you’re planning, expected timescales and numbers of people, where you’ll deliver this, who will be involved in delivering it. 

1. Tell us about your project – what are you planning to do? 

2. Who is your project for and why is it needed?

You should use this space to tell us how your project fits with the missions you ticked on the previous page. You might want to think about what difference you hope it will make in the longer term.

3. What difference will your project make for Camden residents? 

(see ‘fund criteria’ in the Handy Guide)
o	Will your project include opportunities for people to get involved in designing or leading activities?  
o	Will your project help people to get their voices heard in decision making? 


4. How will your project increase community voice and social action?

o	Tell us about how you will make your project accessible and inclusive and recognise the different levels of support some residents may need 
o	Tell us about your project’s approach to intersectionality e.g., the interconnected parts of our identities, such as gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, and how these affect access to opportunities

5. How will your project increase equity and tackle inequalities? 

Learning

This fund has a focus on learning from what works / doesn’t work and sharing learning with others. 

e.g. think about how you’ll track the difference your project is making, learn from feedback from your community or share learning with others. You could use an example of how you have learnt  from what has gone well or not gone well in a previous project. 

7. How will your organisation learn from what does / doesn’t work during this project?

Additional information

Is there anything else that you want to tell us that hasn’t been covered in the other questions? 

You must be a not-for-profit organisation listed below. We are unable to consider applications from private companies e.g. companies limited by shares, private partnerships or sole traders  

2. What is your organisation?

If 'other' please explain below

3. Does your organisation have an annual turnover of less than £500,000 based on your most recent published accounts?

Organisation details

1. Organisation name

2. Registered address 

3. Registered post code

4. Charity or Company number

5. Website link (if you have one)

Main contact details

6. Name - main contact

7. Job title - main contact 

8. Telephone - main contact 

9. Email address - main contact 

Secondary contact details

10. Name - secondary contact

11. Job title - secondary contact

12. Telephone - secondary contact

13. Email address - secondary contact

14. Name of person submitting application

15. Email address of person submitting application

This could also mean wards in Camden that you have service users from, hold projects in, are connected to etc.

16. Which ward(s) do you currently work in?

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Data – 360 Giving  

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Questions

We would like to ask some questions about the people being supported and your organisation, to help us to understand our applicants and funding better. This information is being used to inform our monitoring and the development of our equalities impact assessment to ensure that our approach to funding is open, accessible and inclusive. 

We are aiming to ensure that the organisations we fund through this programme reflect the diversity of the borough and that the partners that we work with are able to address structural inequalities in the borough. This will be a consideration in our final recommendations. 

We may also use this data for monitoring purposes to track the progress of our grants over time, and any changes to organisations. If you are awarded a grant then the responses you provide in this section may be included in data published about our grants to support our transparency and accountability on our grant-making and decision-making processes. 

To help understand who your organisation supports, please answer the questions below. You can consent to your data being published or not, and this will not impact on our grant funding decision.


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Funding amount and grant length

If you currently receive funding via the Community Partner Fund, you can only apply for a 12-month grant. Please note that priority may be given to organisations that do not currently receive funding from the Community Partnership Team.

1. Are you currently receiving funding via the Community Partner Fund?

2. Which grant length are applying for?

Only applies if you are applying for multi-year funding. Please note, the amount you apply for must be the same each year.

3. How much funding are you applying for each year?

4. How much funding are you applying for in total?

Please include all the costs you are applying for to deliver your project (e.g. staffing, venue, materials, management costs) – you don’t have to go into too much detail, broad headings are fine. Refer to the Handy Guide ('what kind of work will we fund?') for further guidance.

5. Please set out your project budget for your first year

We understand that costs and priorities change over time and we appreciate the need for some flexibility. Please include an indicative budget. 

6. If you are applying for a multi-year grant, please set out your project budget for year 2 

7. If you are applying for a three-year grant, please set out your project budget for year 3 

8. Have you secured any match funding for this project?

9. If yes, please tell us how much you have secured. Please include name of funder(s), amount, timescales: 

10. Please tell us about how you plan to make your project sustainable over the long term

Your project should contribute to one or more of the following missions 

We Make Camden Missions

Estates and Neighbourhoods

o	Working with people in a local area to build community, and support wellbeing 
o	Making sure homes / neighbourhoods / estates provide opportunities for people to connect, learn and be creative
o	Enabling everyone to live happy, healthy and fulfilling lives.

Diversity

o	Supporting people from marginalised communities to develop leadership skills and capacity
o	Creating opportunities for people from all backgrounds to take on leadership roles  
o	Projects could be focussed on one of the following areas: schools and education, local businesses, trustees and charity leadership, and other decision-making bodies e.g. school governors  

Young People

o	Creating places and spaces for children and young people to be safe and have community role models
o	Delivering opportunities for children and young people to get on in life
o	Support children and young people to build connections and improve their skills and talents 

Food

o	Finding solutions that support people to access healthy, nutritious food over the long term 
o	Addressing the root causes of food insecurity and connecting people to support services including debt, housing and employment

1. Which is the main mission your project will contribute to?

2. Does your project contribute to any other mission(s)?

1. Is there a specific community that your organisation is dedicated to serving?   You may select from multiple categories to reflect your mission/ purpose.  

2. Let us know if the drop down list does not accurately reflect the community your organisation is dedicated to serving? Please describe below.

About the Leadership of your Organisation 

We would like to understand more about the leadership of the organisations that we are supporting. By leadership of the organisation we mean that the majority of the key decision-makers have a shared identity.  As an indication, this might be 75% or more of the Board of Trustees/ Management Committee AND 50% or more of senior staff self-identify as from a community or characteristic.   

3. Does the leadership of your organisation self-identify in any of the following areas: 

https://www.funderscollaborativehub.org.uk/collaborations/dei-data-standard

4. I agree that this data can be published by the London Borough of Camden as part of our reporting to the DEI data standard.

Do you consent to us sharing your application with other teams in the Council or other funders where there are funding opportunities that would be suitable for you to apply for?

Do we have consent to share your application form?

Feedback on the application process

Thank you for completing your application. We'd love to hear your feedback on the application process  - please fill in this short feedback survey to help us improve the process for future rounds: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=NEqPXtsrVEi7QrTQx9AkbH4pEADmpItNjv1dGsTNAx5UOTZBSlZLUTg1TVQyRDVRREI1VDc4STE3Ti4u

If 'no', please contact vcs@camden.gov.uk before continuing with your application.