Section 2: About Your Activities
Name of activities
Choose a short, distinctive name which will be used in all correspondence to you concerning these activities.
Tell us about your proposed activities
If you apply for part of a larger set of activities, then tell us about the larger set of activities in this section.
We need to know about your main activities and how you and your partners (if you are in a formal partnership) will deliver them.
Describe the activities clearly and how many people you expect to be involved in each.
We do not expect you to be able to tell us exactly what will happen across the lifetime of the grant period as we expect activities to develop based on monitoring and evaluation.
We need to understand in this section why you have decided to adopt the approach taken by delivering these activities, why it is a good way of delivering the outcomes.
Describe how you will work with other organisations to enhance the effectiveness of your activities
Partnership working is a high priority for us.
If you are proposing to work in a formal partnership, let us know who this is with, whether the formal partnership is agreed or planned and how your partner/s will contribute to the activities.
We want to see evidence of you working with organisations relevant to the outcomes that you are proposing to achieve. Where relevant include partners from the voluntary and community sector, public and private sector.
Tell us how each of these partners will contribute to your ability to deliver your outcomes.
A common mistake is to list lots of partners but without explaining how their involvement will contribute to achieving the aims of the activities.
How do the voices and experiences of children and young people shape/drive your work
Tell us whether children and young people been involved in the design and development of this proposal.
If children and young people are involved in the running or governance of your organisation, tell us how.
Proposed activities coverage
If more than 80% of your main beneficiaries or activities are likely to come from or take place in one area, then only tick this box.
If less than 10% of your main beneficiaries or activities come from or take place in an area then do not tick that box.
Objectives
Tick all of the objectives that your proposed activities will support.
How will you meet the objectives detailed in in the previous question and what outcomes will your activities achieve?
Tell us how your project will meet each of the objectives that you have ticked in the previous question.
What outcomes will your activities achieve? An outcome is the key changes or difference your activities will make. The outcomes of your activities must relate directly to the objectives of the grant programme.
Tell us how you will contribute towards reducing ASB and serious violence so that children to feel safe, supported, respected and hopeful.
Be specific about who you will engage, how many people you will engage and how you will engage them. For example, if an objective of the grant programme is:
- Delivery of group work to understand risk factors, build resilience and ensure the voice and experience of young people is prominent.
Your outcomes might be:
- 25 young people aged 12-17 attended group sessions focused on understanding risks associated with crime and antisocial behaviour
- 15 young people developed awareness raising sessions for their peers
These outcomes will be used as a basis for the monitoring and evaluation of your activities, and you will need to report on your success in achieving them.
Numbers in these outcomes must only be for that portion of the activities that the grant from us funds.
Common mistakes are to repeat one of the objectives, list broad vague outcomes or outcomes that are not measurable.
Describe how you will meet all of the monitoring requirements of this grant (including monitoring the outcomes you have identified above), and how you will use this information to improve your activities.
We want to know how you will meet all of the monitoring requirements of the grant including how you will measure and track your progress in achieving the outcomes you have specified.
Consideration should be given to how you will monitor equality data including the following protected characteristics:
- Age
- Disability
- Gender reassignment
- Marriage and civil partnership
- Pregnancy and maternity
- Race
- Religion or belief
- Sex
- Sexual orientation
We would also like to hear how you would monitor data relating to other vulnerable groups such as:
- Families living in poverty
- Carers
- Homelessness
- Ex armed forces
We also need to know how you would monitor data relating to social value such as:
- Children who are looked after or care leavers
- Children who are NEET – (Not in education employments or training) or at risk of becoming NEET
- Children who are involved in or are at risk of becoming involved in the criminal justice system
You will need to demonstrate how you intend to reach out to these groups. However, the service will not be exclusively for these groups.
We want details of the evidence you will collect, how you will collect it, who from and when. We are interested both in numbers and in qualitative evidence such as case studies.
We want to know how you will use the evidence you collect through measuring your progress to assess the success of your activities in meeting the outcomes and how you will use this information to improve service delivery.
For all grants you will need to report on numbers of beneficiaries, numbers of volunteers and numbers of events/sessions. Check the prospectus for any other requirements.
A common mistake is to describe how your organisation keeps records but not explain how you will measure whether you have reached the outcomes you have specified.