Section 3: Budgets and Finance
What is the total cost of your activities?
If you are applying for part-funding of a larger set of activities tell us the cost of the larger set of activities here, otherwise your answer to this question will be same for each.
If the grant amount requested is less than the total cost of the activities then identify where the difference will come from and whether you have secured this funding
We understand and value that voluntary and community organisations often put together funding from many sources to run a set of activities. Tell us how you are achieving this and any plans you have to raise funding not yet secured.
The table should be completed to show expenditure per year directly related to this application. You will need to tell us exactly how you will spend the grant that you are asking for.
Where you are asking for a contribution to core costs or management costs, detail these, don’t ask for a set percentage.
How have you worked out your costs?
We need to understand the reasoning behind your costs, why you have chosen to spend the money as you have and how you have worked out the cost of each item. This will help us understand how your activities represent reasonable value for money.
Common mistakes are to list how you have worked out the cost but not why you are spending the money in the way you are or how it represents good value.
Do you or your partners (if you are in a formal partnership) currently receive any funding from any department of Manchester City Council?
We only want to know about grants that you are currently receiving but also include grants that have been awarded but have not started yet.
Date beginning/end
In what month and year did the grant begin and when is the grant period due to end.
Amount
Put here the total amount of grant awarded over the lifetime of the grant.
Partnership Organisation in receipt of grant.
We want to know whether organisations involved in a formal partnership with you are receiving grant(s) from the council. Leave this blank if it is just your organisation receiving the grant.