Recommended Layout for a Trust Application
(Unless otherwise stated you should keep your application to 2 x A4 sheets of paper)
Title of Project – Amount of funding requested:
e.g. Moray Youth Street Art Project – requesting £10,000
Background information on organisation:
e.g. when organisation began. What organisation does. What issues the organisation addresses and how it addresses them. Successful track record of organisation (facts & figures). Who runs the organisation.
Short summary of the project you are applying for:
e.g. what will be the activities of your project, who will be the partipants and how will they benefit.
The Need for the project (facts & figures):
Quotes from strategies, policies and studies that prove the need for your project.
e.g. No. of people who currently use the project. The issues that the beneficiaries of the project are facing (poor education? risk of drugs/alcohol abuse, risk of crime?). Results from questionnaires you have completed on the proposed project.
How you will address the need:
e.g. How will you attract people to the project?
How will your project address the issues that the young people are facing?
What skills will the young people acquire through the project?
Some Objectives:
Try to have at least 3 objectives
Ensure the objectives are SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time measurable). You should link the objectives to the need mentioned above.
e.g. 80 young people to acquire a new arts/crafts skill in the year to 31/12/08
Monitoring / evaluation (how you measure the objectives):
e.g. quarterly questionnaires. Regular attendance keeping. Bi-annual forum meetings. Who will organise the monitoring/evaluation.
Conclusion:
e.g. £5000 from your trust fund would enable us to give 80 young people in Moray new skills in the arts/crafts, boost their confidence and decrease their likelihood of being involved in drugs/alcohol abuse.
Budget:
Income and costs and how they were calculated.
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