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This page provides additional advice and information on completing certain parts of our application.

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING GRANT APPLICATIONS

We will, for a short time, take our grants portal offline to enable us to make updates to our application system and website. This will mean a temporary suspension of applications from 16 June to 2 July.

If you wish to submit an application using our current application forms, you must do so before 5.00pm on Monday, 16 June. Please make sure you submit (or download and save a copy of) your 'in-progress' application, otherwise your application will be lost. If you download and save a copy of your incomplete application, you may be able to reuse some of your previous reponses on our new application forms. Our new website will launch and our grants portal will reopen (with revised application forms) on Wednesday, 2 July.

Budget templates

You can use these template budgets to help decide on the correct budget to send with your application:

Outputs/Outcomes information

It can be difficult to identify outcomes for a capital project, particularly when it is the first stage of a longer journey to improve the lives of your beneficiaries. Because of this, we are keen to find out about predicted outcomes for your organisation even if you are unable to predict outcomes for your beneficiaries.

We believe that all capital projects should be able to identify changes which lead to at least one of these three longer term outcomes:

An improved work environment
Maintained, improved, and/or increased services
Improved financial sustainability

Outcomes may not always be quantifiable but should relate to the programme area you are applying under.

Please see the examples below to give you an idea of how you might answer this question. Our examples are brief and lack detail – we would expect more detail in an application.


Example projects	Example outcomes
The purchase of IT equipment for staff at a charity working with disadvantaged minority communities	Staff will now have access to the IT equipment needed to deliver services. This means staff will be happier, there will be an improved work environment. The service to beneficiaries will be more effective and efficient with an extra 10 beneficiaries being supported per week because of time saved
The purchase of a sensory room for pupils at a special school	Pupils will receive improved support as they have access to the benefits of a sensory room. The knock-on positive effects will also be felt by staff supporting pupils.
The construction of new accommodation units for an organisation supporting homeless people.	15 additional people per year will have access to safe and secure accommodation. The charity will own the new building, so increasing its financial sustainability and also help it to unlock further funding from elsewhere.
Purchase of AV equipment for a charity working with disadvantaged young people.	It will give staff the tools they require to deliver the services, improving our current workshops but also meaning we can deliver an additional four film craft and production skills training workshops per week.
The construction of a community centre in a highly deprived area	The new community centre will ensure that more services and community spaces are available to beneficiaries from across The Clothworkers’ Foundation programme areas – particularly, older people, disadvantaged young people, and people with disabilities because…. We will own our own building so it will improve our financial sustainability. Extra space means we can attract funding for new activities, and the modern facilities means staff are happier and more resilient.