Criteria for granting an award over £5,000
The applicant is a formally constituted, not for profit organisation. These may include charities, schools, colleges, CICs, HEIs, and community organisations that have adopted a formal constitution. Applicants will need to provide their governing documents with their application.
The applicant has completed an application form and provided accompanying documentation demonstrating their need for funding.
The applicant can demonstrate their vision for a long-term impact for the organisation and the participants.
The applicant must set out a business case for the award, approved by their organisation, including intended outcomes milestones, and monitoring framework.
The applicant must outline the key risks you envisage could affect the delivery of your project and how these risks would be mitigated.
The applicants must provide a business case to demonstrate that the purchase of any equipment provides value for money.
The applicant can demonstrate how they will provide and evaluate high quality educational and/or enrichment activities.
The applicant must provide evidence of the organisation’s financial rules and rules of delegation to ensure the award is spent appropriately.
The applicant has provided two references to support the application. These should be from people who have known the organisation or the cohort who will benefit from the funding for at least one year.
the beneficiaries of the funding are between 11 and 19 and are at risk of failing to achieve academic benchmark qualifications (usually identified as predicted GCSE results in core subjects) and/or the beneficiaries are between 16 and 25 and in need of support into meaningful employment.
The applicant can explain how they will ensure the safeguarding of participants supported by the project. This will include:
What safeguarding processes will be embedded into the delivery of the project to ensure the safety of participants.
Processes in place to communicate policies and practices to staff, subcontractors, stakeholders, and participants
Processes are in place to review the currency and effectiveness of policies and practices – specifying who will be responsible for this.
How the policy and risk assessment will be applied to off-site delivery and residentials (if applicable)
13. The applicant can explain how they will positively promote and encourage equality and diversity and inclusion throughout the lifetime of the project. This will include:
That effective equality and diversity policies and procedures are in place and that their equalities policy is widely available and communicated clearly to key stakeholders.
Processes are in place to communicate the policy and practices to staff, stakeholders, and participants.
Processes for reviewing and managing implementation of policy and practices to ensure they are current and effective.
How complaints of discrimination, harassment and victimisation are investigated and addressed.
Processes are in place to assess the diversity and equality impact of the project.
If the trust receives more applications than it can fund in any quarter, priority will be given to projects:
Whose participants have the most need of intervention and who fall into the following categories: FSM, PP, SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities), LAC, EAL, WP.
That can demonstrate a plan for encouraging participation by beneficiaries in FOUB’s wider activities by working towards becoming mentors, trustees, or advocates for FOUB.
That include youth testimony.
We will give feedback to applications we reject and if appropriate, invite them to reapply once our concerns have been addressed.