APPLICATION GUIDELINES

INTRODUCTION

Please read these guidelines before starting your application.

GRANT SIZE

Grants of up to £35,000 a year are available for up to 12 months, subject to monitoring and availability of funds. For organisations with a turnover of £231,000 or less, you may only apply for a maximum of 15% of your last year’s turnover. For example, a turnover of £125,000 would indicate that you may apply for £18,750, which is 15% of £125,000. For organisations with a turnover of between £231,000 and £1m, you may only apply for up to £35,000. Organisations with a turnover in excess of £1m are not eligible for funding.

FUNDING AIMS

To promote learning and development that enables young people and adults to gain additional skills and confidence to enter the labour market.

FUND THEMES

We support applications that:

1. Reach and work with young people and adults who face complex barriers to employment, enabling them to move closer or into employment, including but not restricted to ex-service personnel and ex-offenders.
2. Work directly with young people and adults who are either not in employment, education, or training (NEET), or with young people who are at risk of becoming NEET, to improve their access to employment and the labour market.
3. Increase the learning and life skills of people so that they may further develop their careers, with a particular focus on the water, utilities, and construction industries.

WHAT WE FUND

As a funder we seek to be flexible in our approach to grant applicants and are happy to fund both project and/or core costs. We are also happy to fund Living Wage salaries.

Regardless of whether you are applying for core or project costs, we want to know how your work addresses our themes and priorities, and the outcomes you seek to achieve for your beneficiaries. We will also want to know how you will monitor and evaluate your work during the lifetime of the grant.

If you are applying for both project and core costs, you will need to explain to us why this will help your organisation. For example, you could be trying a new approach and need support to fund new project costs. We will consider a 50/50 mix of project/core costs in the grant request.

If you are applying for only project costs, we will consider a full cost recovery model for your back-room costs.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?

Is your organisation one of the following:
• Registered charity
• Community Interest Company
• Co-operative- registered Community Benefit Societies and registered Industrial and Provident Societies
• Social Enterprise

Is it based in and run in the United Kingdom:
• To be eligible, projects must be registered in and deliver in the UK.

Does your project do one or more of the following:
• Work directly with young people and adults people who are not in employment, training or education, (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET, to improve their access to employment.
• Work with individuals with complex barriers to employment to gain life skills and qualifications leading to employment.
• Help ex-service people and ex-offenders to gain new skills, training and employment.
• Have clear and well-established connections to employers who can offer meaningful work experience and/or employment.
• Prepare and develop young people and adults who seek a career in the water, utilities and construction industries.

Has your organisation been operational for at least 12 months, and have accounts for that period:
In order for us to consider your request, we need audited annual accounts for the previous 12 month period.

Is your annual income less than £231,000:
• You may eligible for a grant up to 15% of your annual turnover

Is your annual income between £231,000 and £1m:
• You may be eligible for a grant of up to £35,000

Is your annual income more than £1m:
• You are not eligible for a grant from CABWI.

OUR PROCESS

Please note:

1. If the documents requested are not provided with your application, this may delay the processing of your application, and you may miss the deadline.

2. If you are successful, you will be required to complete a grant monitoring form, six months after the initial grant payment, and again at the end of the funding period.

The form requests information on progress against the outcomes stated on your application, and requests information about the ages, sex, and ethnicity of your beneficiaries. It also asks for an anonymised case study. Failure to complete the form, or sections of it, may result in further payment being withheld.

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