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. 

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  

Your organisation's total income in the last financial year

How long your organisation has been operating

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We Make Camden Project Fund Round 2 - 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

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

Children

Adults

Eligibility criteria

Is your organisation Camden based?

Complaints

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

Data Protection

You have an up to date and accessible data protection policy

Public liability

You have insurance in place, including Public Liability Insurance.

Equalities

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

Finance

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

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

Governance

Are any of your trustees/directors and/or senior staff members living at the same address?

Are any of your trustees/directors and/or senior staff members related?

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

You have a minimum of three (unrelated) trustees/directors.

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. You will need at least one year’s accounts to be eligible to apply.

A governing document would include your memorandum and articles of association, or constitution.

Governing document

You will need at least one year’s accounts to be eligible to apply. If this is available to view on the Charity Commission website you do not need to submit it with this application.

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.   

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

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 who your project is for, the activities you’re planning, expected timescales and numbers of people, where you’ll deliver this, who will be involved in delivering it. 

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

You might want to think about why your project is needed and what difference you hope it will make in the longer term.

What difference will your project make for Camden residents? 

You might want to think about how people are welcomed into the project and how you consider and address any barriers to taking part. You may also want to tell us here about how your project involves people and inspires them to take action. 

Please tell is about how your project is accessible, inclusive and tackles inequalities

Learning

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

Think about how you’ll track the difference your project is making, learn from feedback from your community or share learning with others. 

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? 

What type of organisation?

Organisation details

Organisation name

Registered address 

Registered post code

Charity or Company number

Website link (if you have one)

Main contact details

Name - main contact

Job title - main contact 

Telephone - main contact 

Email address - main contact 

Secondary contact details

Name - secondary contact

Job title - secondary contact

Telephone - secondary contact

Email address - secondary contact

Name of person submitting application

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.

Which ward(s) do you currently work in?

Funding amount and grant length

Please note, the amount you apply for must be the same each year.

How much funding are you applying for each year?

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.

Please set out your project budget for your first year

Have you secured any match funding for this project?

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

Your project should make a difference to Camden communities – contributing to one or more of the Camden 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 diverse 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

Which is the main mission your project will contribute to?

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

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?

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

Declaration

In submitting this Application Form, the named contact is agreeing to the following statement on behalf of your organisation:

 I confirm that the information provided within this form is true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to update you if any of the contact details change, or if our circumstances change and we no longer require funding. The closing date for applications to be submitted is 20 April 2026 at 1pm.

Please ensure you press the submit button below when your application is complete.

If you are successful in this grant application, we will ask for other documents mentioned in the minimum requirements (see Handy Guide) to be supplied.


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Tell us about how your project contributes to the mission(s) you've ticked above:

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

If you can’t confirm that you meet all the above requirements, you are unfortunately not eligible to apply. If you have any questions about this, please contact vcs@camden.gov.uk

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: understanding your organisation

We would like to ask some questions about your organisation and the people you work with, to help us to understand our applicants and funding better. This information is being used to make sure we’re reaching the diversity of Camden’s communities. The responses you provide in this section may be included in data published about our grants to support our transparency and accountability on our grantmaking. If this may cause any issues, there is an opportunity to tell us in the questions below that you don’t want this data to be shared externally.

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

The questions below are part of the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) Data Standard, agreed and adopted by a group of UK funders. By asking these questions in a similar way across grant programmes, we hope to make it easier for applicants to complete, and easier for funders to compare their programme data. 

These questions are about the specific communities that your organisation is focused on serving.

You can select multiple options. If you are a general / universal community organisation or project, please tick ‘not targeted to a specific community or group’

Is there a specific community that your organisation is dedicating to serving? This might be referenced in the governing documents, strategy or public facing materials.

 If you work with all communities experiencing racial inequity, please skip this question. If you would like to select a more specific group, you can do here. You can select more than one option.

 If you work with all disabled people, please skip this question. If you would like to select a more specific group, you can do here. You can select more than one option. 

 If you work with all faith communities, please skip this question. If you would like to select a more specific group, you can do here. You can select more than one option. 

 If you work with all LGBT+ people, please skip this question. If you would like to select a more specific group, you can do here. You can select more than one option. 

 If you work with all migrants, please skip this question. If you would like to select a more specific group, you can do here. You can select more than one option. 

 If you work with all children and young people, please skip this question. If you would like to select a more specific group, you can do here. You can select more than one option. 