Community Grant Application Form

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Thank you for your interest in applying to the Westminster Foundation’s Community Grant Programme. Before completing this application form, please read the eligibility criteria on our website - as we will remove ineligible applications from consideration.

We accept Community Grant applications on a rolling basis. Our Grant Panel reviews eligible applications every 12 weeks.

The next application deadline is 15th August 2025 at 5pm GMT. We aim to contact all applicants, regardless of their application outcome, within one week of the panel meeting.

If you would like to know how we collect and use your information, please visit our Privacy Policy, located here.

Application Details

This application form has eight sections. As a matter of anticipation, you may want to have the following documents ready: safeguarding policy, safeguarding reporting procedure(s), annual accounts.

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1 - General Information

1.1 Organisation Name

1.2 Organisation Address

First Line of address

Town/City

Postal Code

Country

1.3 Contact Details

Please provide the details of the primary contact for this application

First Name

Last name

Job Title

Phone Number

Email Address

1.4 Purpose of the grant:

3 - Governance

3.1 Describe the background and experience of your senior management team and trustees:

3.2 What is the legal status of your organisation:

Please specify

3.3 Charity Number

For England/Wales charities: Charity Commission number.
For Scotland charities: ensure you put the letters SC before the number, without any space (i.e. SC012345)

3.3 Company Number

Only if you are not a registered charity

4 - Safeguarding

4.1 Attach copies of your safeguarding policy and reporting procedures

4.2 Does your organisation have a Safeguarding Children and Young People policy in its own name, and how often is it reviewed?

4.3 Does your policy include procedures in the event of an incident or concern?

YesNo

4.4 Does your organisation have a designated safeguarding lead? Please describe their experience in this role.

4.5 Do all staff, volunteers and trustees receive safeguarding training?

YesNo

4.6 Who delivers your safeguarding training, and how often?

4.7 Do all eligible volunteers, staff and trustees who have contact with children and young people have a Disclosure and Barring Service or Disclosure Scotland check?

YesNo

4.8 How often are your background checks repeated? (e.g. Disclosure and Barring Service).
If you are applying in Scotland, please write ‘n/a’

4.9 How many serious incidents/reports to the Charity Commission have been made in the last 12 months?

5 - Finances

5.1 Attach a copy of your most recent annual accounts

5.2 What is your current state of reserves?

5.3 What is your income for the previous 12 months?

Please use whole numbers. No symbols (£) or commas (,)

5.4 What is your expenditure for the previous 12 months?

Please use whole numbers. No symbols (£) or commas (,)

5.5 How much are you applying for with the Westminster Foundation

Please use whole numbers. No symbols (£) or commas (,)

5.6 Attach your budget detail, using our template (Single year template here, Multi-year template here)

6 - Communication

6.1 Website address (if applicable)

6.2 If you have social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn…),
please list them here:

6.3 Which organisations and partners do you mainly work with?

7 - Delivery

7.1 What need(s) or gap(s) have you identified that you are trying to address?

7.2 Describe the programme or activity you are seeking funding for

For "Other", please specify

7.4 You can provide further details on the beneficiaries you are targeting:

7.5 Do you have an estimation of your beneficiaries' demographic split (ethnicity, age, gender or disability)?

YesNoTick "Yes" even if you only have estimates on one of those categories

Ethnicity

Please use whole numbers only. Please do not use symbols (%)

	Estimated %
White British
Black, African, Caribbean, Black British
Mixed
Asian, Asian British
Other

Age

Please use whole numbers only. Please do not use symbols (%)

	Estimated %
0 to 4
5 to 11
12 - 16
17 to 25
Above 25

Gender

Please use whole numbers only. Please do not use symbols (%)

	Estimated %
Female
Male
Not identifying as male or female

Disability

Please use whole numbers only. Please do not use symbols (%)

	Estimated %
No disability
Physical, mobility or sensory impairment (sight, speech, hearing…)
Mental health (distress, depression, other condition…)
Cognitive difference (learning disability or difficulty, neurodivergence…)
Health (chronic illness, long term condition…)
Other

7.6 When or how often is the activity delivered?

7.7 Is this a new or an existing programme/activity

NewExisting

7.8 Do you have evidence that this will successfully address your beneficiaries’ needs?

7.8 Please attach a case study and/or an impact report highlighting how successful it is in meeting your beneficiaries’ needs

7.9 If you involve children and young people in your project design, and/or in the strategic decisions taken by the organisation, please outline your approach and provide examples

7.10 What are the relevant skills and qualifications of the staff members who will deliver the activity or programme?

7.11 Do you already know where your activities are (or will be) delivered?

YesNoTick Yes even if you know only one delivery location

Activity Locations(s)

If you already know, please specify where your activities are delivered:
To add multiple locations use the 'Add another location' button below

8 - Impact

The first outcome to list below will be the main outcome you expect to achieve.

You can add up to another two optional outcomes by using the 'Add another outcome' button below.

Outcome

8.1 Outcome name/title

8.2 Outcome Theme

Healthy dietLand and natureSport and physical activityEducation and career readiness

8.3 Associated success indicator or metric

8.4 Tool or technique used to measure success
(e.g. questionnaire, survey, focus group…):

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