Your organisation's total income in the last financial year

Please choose your organisation from the list to confirm your invitation.

How long your organisation has been operating

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Small Grants Programme

What is the name of your group or Organisation?

Is your group or organisation...

You may have rules, constitution or other governing document. Don't worry if you don't, Wirral CVS can help you create one.

Does your group or organisation have a set of rules?

This might be a charity number, company number, society number

If your organisation has a registration number please add it here

Please enter a postcode for your main base

Where do you consider your organisation to be based?

Where does (or will) your organisation deliver activities?

Turnover means how much money came into the organisation (donations, subscriptions etc)
The value must be a number
please use only whole numbers without symbols, for example use 1500 instead of
£1,500 and remember the maximum amount is 5000

What was the turnover of your group or organisation last year?

Ethnic Minority led means that more than half of your Committee/Board and leadership identify as being from an Ethnic Minority

Do you consider your group to be Ethnic Minority led?

Women led means that more than half of your Committee/Board and leadership identify as being women

Do you consider your group to be Women led?

Disability led means that more than half of your Committee/Board and leadership identify as being disabled

Do you consider your group to be Disability led?

Don't worry if you don't, but remember the most you can apply for is £1000

Do you have a Bank Account in the name of the organisation with at least two signatories who aren't related?

Don't worry if the answer is no, Wirral CVS may be able to help.

Does your group or organisation have insurance for the activities you are applying for funding for?

Is your group or organisation able to Risk Assess the activities you are applying for funding for?

By social media presence, we mean a Facebook Page, Twitter (now known as X) profile, Instagram account etc

Does your group or organisation have a website or any social media presence?

Please enter each account separated with a semi colon ( ; )

In the box below, please enter the addresses of your webpage, social media accounts etc

Briefly tell us who you are, how you formed, how long ago and why - no more than 200 words.
Please enter at most 1000 characters

Tell us a bit about your group or organisation...

What is your name?

What is your role within the group or organisation?

Please provide a physical address where your group or organisation is based or registered.

Correspondence Address

What email address should we use to contact you?

Is there a phone number we can contact you on?

Please confirm you have authority to apply for this funding?

Are you planning to do something new or develop/improve a current service?

Which of the following will your project achieve?

The value must be a number
please use only whole numbers without symbols, for example use 1500 instead of
£1,500 and remember the maximum amount is 5000

How much are you applying for?

Very specifically, WHAT will you do? (no more than 200 words)

Tell us WHAT you want to do...

What difference will you make, who will benefit, why is this important? (no more than 200 words)

Tell us WHY you want to do it...

We want to know how you will achieve your aims? Will you be planting things, will you involve other people? (no more than 200 words)

Tell us HOW you will do it...

Will the project need to be maintained? Is this part of something else? Will it end? If it doesn't end, how will it continue? (no more than 200 words)

Tell us what will happen after you've spent the money...

You should use this opportunity to let us know how many people will be actively involved in delivering the project.

How many people will be involved in delivering your project and who are they?

Will your project involve volunteers?

How many volunteers will be involved?

The value must be a number, please think about who will actually benefit from the things you do.

How many people will benefit?

When the project is complete, how will you know that you've made a difference? Think about what you have said your project will achieve (no more than 200 words)

How will you know your project has been successful?

Projects cannot start before you sign a funding agreement.

When would you like to start your project

All monies must be spent and an evaluation report completed within 12 months

When will your project end?

Please complete this simple budget with how you intend on spending the funding.  Dont forget you will need to keep records of what you have spent for the report at the end of the project.  You also MUST keep these records for 7 years after the project.

How will you spend the funding?

The answers given in this application are true to the best of my knowledge

I have the authority from the group / organisation named above to submit this application

I consent to my details being shared with partners in order to assess and administer the funding

I understand that I will need to submit an end of project report that will explain what we did and how the money was spent

I would like to be sent information about future opportunities that are relevant and may be of interest

If you are a Charity or CIC this will probably be your Articles of Association or Constitution.  If you are unincorporated this will be your rules or constitution.  It may also be a Trust Deed or something else.  If you don't have a document, please contact our team to help grants@wcvs.org.uk

Governing Document

Please upload at least one of the following - Year End Accounts, Management Accounts, Bank Statement, Current Profit & Loss.
** CIC's please upload current management accounts not Year End Accounts.**

Accounts

If you work with Children, Young People or Vulnerable Adults, please upload a copy of your policy(s).

Safeguarding

About Your Group or Organisation

Please add the relevant documents here.  All groups should be able to add at least one document to each section.  If you are completely new and seeking startup support get in touch - grants@wcvs.org.uk
