People and communities Application guidance for the VCS protecting children and young people grant

General guidance

We realise completing an application form takes time and effort. This guidance is intended to help you fill in the application form with the information we need to decide whether to give you a grant.

Your application will be assessed and scored by a panel.

Further resources are listed at the back of this guidance which may help you complete your application.

We recommend you get someone to check over your application form before you send it to us to ensure you have answered all the questions and that your answers are clear.

If any part of this guidance is incorrect or incomplete let us know by email to samantha.stabler@manchester.gov.uk

Answer all the questions on the application form. If the question is not relevant, then insert “n/a” (not applicable).

Many questions have a word count. You will be assessed on the quality of what you write not on the quantity. However, answers that are short (less than half of the word count) are unlikely to contain sufficient information to score highly.

You can use bullet points and lists and you do not need to write in whole sentences as long as the meaning is clear.

Formal Partnerships

We define a formal partnership as a group of two or more organisations that have agreed to work together, make a joint application and who have selected one of them to act as a lead organisation to apply on behalf of the formal partnership.

Detailed Guidance Notes

We have only supplied guidance for questions which we consider need clarification.

Can I Apply

 

Is your group a voluntary or community sector organisation?

 

By voluntary and community sector organisation we mean an organisation which is not-for-profit with a social mission and is not a public body. If you are unsure contact Sam Stabler (samantha.stabler@manchester.gov.uk) before applying.

If your application is successful, we will ask you for the documentation and evidence listed in this section.

Evidence of significant recent provision of services to Manchester residents

Evidence may include annual report, monitoring information, and reports of activities. We are looking for evidence that you have carried out significant work with Manchester residents within the year prior to the date of application for this grant. In assessing the significance, we will be looking for a combination of impact and numbers. If your work has high impact, then working with small numbers of residents may be significant but if your work has low impact then there would need to be higher numbers to be significant.

Section 1: About You

How to apply