If we are unable to give you any money we will let you know within a few days of a grants committee meeting and tell you why. We will also suggest other sources of help.
When we have agreed a grant and everything else is in order we send you a cheque within about a fortnight. If there are further details we need we will write to you within a week of the meeting. If you need to know urgently you can email or phone us the day after a grants committee meeting.
Sometimes a grants committee will impose additional conditions. This may be simply that we have not received a satisfactory constitution, accounts or child or vulnerable adult policy and we need to see it before we can agree a grant. Sometimes we will need some alteration to your procedures. We may also be looking at another grants programme with a different timescale which might give additional money.
Once you have received your grant we will want to know that it has been spent in accordance with the decision of the grants committee. We need a monitoring form back from you. For small grants with a short timescale, this is when the money is spent. For larger and longer grants we usually ask for an interim report after six months. Certainly if a grant is over more than one year we need evidence of satisfactory progress before agreeing and paying a further instalment.
If you complete your project before we send you a monitoring form you can complete and return it to us, preferably by email. In any case it is worth looking at the form to see what information you will need to collect. Some grants programmes have additional questions, but the standard monitoring form is here for you to copy and return.
If you have a grant from the n2n Fund (Nought to Nineteen) we also ask you to complete an outcomes form before we give you a grant. We also send you an attendance spreadsheet for you to return at the end of March and September whilst you have a grant.
Systems for grants to individuals differ slightly. If in doubt, please ask us.
updated 14.07.2009