The Mrs Smith & Mount Trust
Grant Application Questions
Download this page as a Word Document. Please read these guidance notes and prepare your answers before completing the online application form. Online help is available for each question. Click on the question marks on the right of the questions to access this help. You should try to answer all of the questions on the form if you can. Some questions are mandatory, and these are marked with an *. Where a question gives answer options, you should choose the option that most nearly matches your application. Some questions indicate an expected number of words for your answers. No credit will be given for longer answers. You may be prevented from entering more than a certain length of text in some fields. Please enter all currency in full pounds only, without any pound signs, full stops or trailing zeros (i.e. 249 rather than 249.50, £249 or 249.00) |
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Page 1 - Details of your Organisation |
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| A1.* | Name of Organisation – The name of the organisation making the application. In the case of consortiums please give the name of one organisation that is prepared to take responsibility for the application and any subsequent grant. |
| A2.* | Address of Organisation – Please enter the address of your organisation including the full postcode. Please also give the main telephone number for the organisation and a website address if you have one. |
| A3.* | Name of Contact Person – Please enter the name of the person responsible for the application. Please also enter the telephone number and an email address you wish us to use in connection with this application. We will use this address to send you a copy of the text of your answers, when you have submitted this application form. |
| A4. | Contact Address – Please use these fields to tell us your contact address. If your contact address is the same as the Organisation Address you gave in question A2 (above), then these boxes can be left blank. |
| A5.* | Position in Organisation – Please enter the job title and/or explain what the role is in the organisation of the contact person. |
| A6.* | What is the legal status of the Organisation? – Please select the appropriate option. |
| A7. | Charity Registration Number |
| A8. | Company Registration Number |
| A9.* | In what year was your organisation founded? |
| Page 2 - Tell us about your Organisation | |
| B1.* | Briefly describe the aims, objectives and activities of your organisation – Please tell us what your organisation was set up to do. You will find this in your constitution. Please also tell us what your main activities are. |
| B2.* | Please give examples of your recent achievements – Why are you the right organisation to carry out this work? In this question we are looking for evidence that you have a good track record and that you are the right organisation to carry out the project / activity that you want us to fund. (Approximately 100 words – maximum 600 characters) |
| B3.* | Is your organisation part of a larger organisation? – In our guidelines we state that we will only consider national organisation's appeals at branch level. If your organisation is part of a large national organisation we want to know how you are financially independent of the larger organisation. For example, do you have your own separate accounts and governance? (Approximately 30 words – maximum 255 characters.) |
| B4.* | What was your organisation's total annual income as shown in your last set of accounts? £0 - 50K, £50 - 100K, £100 - 250K, £250 - 500K, £500K - 1M, £1M - 5M, £5M or over. Please select the income band from the dropdown that most closely matches. |
| B5.* | People in your organisation: Number of staff – Please put a figure in each of the boxes to show the number of full-time, part-time and volunteer staff you currently employ. |
| Page 3 - What are you applying for funding for? | |
| C1.* | Purpose for which funds are requested – This should be a short project title / activity description of what you require funding for. Please describe this in no more than 15 words. |
| C2.* | What is the start and finish date of the project? – Please give (proposed) dates for the beginning and end of the project. Each date should be composed of a month chosen from the dropdown and a 4-digit year part (eg 2006). |
| C3.* | Which of the Mount Fund's priority areas are you applying under? – Please select one of the dropdown menu options. If more than one priority area applies, please select the most relevant. |
| C4.* | Which geographical area will be served by this project/activity? – Please tell us where most of the beneficiaries of your project live. If more than one geographical area applies, please select the most relevant. |
| C5.* | What is the grant for? –
Please select one of the dropdown menu options. If more than one option applies, please select the most relevant. |
| C6.* | What is the need for the work and how have you identified it? – Please describe why your organisation has decided to do this work. Who have you consulted about the project / proposal and /or what information sources have you used? What did this tell you? How will this work build on your previous activities? (Approximately 150 words – maximum 1000 characters). |
| C7.* | What do you want to do with the grant? – Please summarise the work you want to do including its main aims. What activities are planned (please be as specific as possible)? Where will the work take place and how long will it take? Who will do the work and how will they be supervised / managed? (Approximately 150 words – maximum 1000 characters). |
| C8.* | What organisations provide similar activities in your area and has the charity linked with these or other service providers? – In this question we want to check that the service / activity you propose is needed in your area and that you are aware of other activities that could impact on your work. With some projects it is also important for organisations to demonstrate that they have linked in with other key organisations, for example to take or receive client referrals. (Approximately 100 words – maximum 600 characters). |
| Page 4 - What outcomes do you hope to achieve? | |
| D1.* | Who will be the main beneficiaries of this project/activity? – Please tell us who will benefit from this project.
If more than one group applies, please select the most relevant from the list of options. |
| D2.* | What category do the beneficiaries fall into? –
Please select the most relevant category from the drop down list (e.g. homeless). |
| D3.* | How many people do you expect to benefit in a 12 month period? –
Please select the nearest option from the drop down box. |
| D4* | How many hours do you expect to spend with each beneficiary? –
Please select the nearest option from the drop down box. |
| D5.* | What do you want to achieve as a result of this work and what specific differences will it make to your intended beneficiaries? – We are looking to see how much impact your work will have. For example, how will people benefit from the work that you want to do? What is it you expect to achieve at the end of the grant period? How will your work improve people's lives? (Approximately 150 words – maximum 1000 characters). |
| D6.* | How will you evaluate whether your work achieved what it set out to do and is making a difference? – How will you know whether your work is making a difference? For example, will you monitor the number of people using a service and / or will you assess the outcomes of how much benefit they actually get from your work? What methods will you use to assess your progress? (Approximately 150 words – maximum 1000 characters). |
| D7.* | How will you make sure that all your activities are open to people who might want to use them? (Approximately 100 words – maximum 600 characters). |
| Page 5 - Financial Information | |
| E1.* | Total cost of your project? – Please tell us the total cost of carrying out the work/activity for which you are applying. This may be the same or more than the amount you are requesting. |
| E2.* | Amount received so far – How much money you have raised already towards the total required? |
| E3.* | Deficit to be raised – How much money is still to be raised towards the total required? |
| E4.* | Total amount requested |
| E5. | If your request for funding is spread over more than one year please provide a breakdown |
| E6. | Please give the account name which should appear on the cheque – Please note cheques cannot be made payable to an unregistered charity. If you do not fall into this category then please provide the name of a registered charity who would be willing to administer the funds on your behalf. |
