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Know Your Neighbourhood Application Form

What is Know Your Neighbourhood (KYN)?

KYN will help to develop our collective understanding of what works to improve wellbeing and pride in place through volunteering and community initiatives tackling loneliness. Citizens will be able to participate in local projects which build their skills, wellbeing and social networks. 

The four key objectives are: 

  • To build the evidence to identify scalable and sustainable place-based interventions that work in increasing regular volunteering and reducing chronic loneliness.  
  • To increase the proportion of people in targeted disadvantaged local authorities who volunteer at least once a month.  
  • To reduce the proportion of chronically lonely people in targeted disadvantaged local authorities who lack desired level of social connections.  
  • To enable targeted disadvantaged local authorities, and the local voluntary and community sector in these places, to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage volunteering and tackling loneliness. 

 

What is chronic loneliness?

KYN Fund aims to tackle chronic loneliness and people at risk of chronic loneliness i.e. currently experiencing loneliness or are in one of the high-risk groups for chronic loneliness. 

 

High risk groups of chronic loneliness are listed below:  

 

  • People who identify as LGBT 
  • Young people (16-34) 
  • People who recently moved to their current address 
  • People who live alone 
  • People in the lowest income quintile 
  • People with a mental health condition 
  • People with a disability or long term health condition 
  • New parents 
  • People who are unemployed 
  • People who are widowed 
  • Groups identified through local knowledge of chronic loneliness 

 

Grant prorities & conditions 

  • Grants should support meaningful and impactful volunteering and / 'help people to make meaningful and sustainable connections with others in their local area, reducing loneliness.  
  • Increasing volunteer engagement and/or engaging those not currently participating in activities.  
  • Not necessary for all grants to focus on all four key objectives, but this will be considered during the process of FC looking at applications and making recommendations for Years 2 & 3 to ensure a good balance across the programme.   
  • There is no maximum or minimum size of grants.  

  • Grants can be multi-year, but all DCMS funded activity must be complete by 31st March 2025. 

Organisation Details

Write the name of your group as it appears on any governing documents. If your group has another name, please tell us too.

This should be the address of the group.






We need to contact you using the email and telephone number. Please write down ones that you use often. You can use the phone number and email of the primary contact.
Main Contact Details
The main contact should be someone who has good knowledge of this application.















Give us the date (month and year) that your group was set up or formally established.
Bank Details





What Type of Organisation Are You?
Open to any registered UK charity; Charitable Incorporated Organisations; companies limited by guarantee; not for profit registered Community Interest Companies; Constituted community and voluntary sector organisations (you must have a minimum of three unrelated committee members) with a registered bank account.

 Non-constituted groups or collectives can apply. They should apply in partnership with an eligible organisation. The eligible organisation must be part of delivering the project. The eligible organisation must manage the grant.  
















Free reserves is the money that is freely available for general purposes.
We will assess free reserves on a case by case basis. Although we do not impose a limit, if an applicant organisation has more than 8 months of its annual expenditure in unrestricted reserves then its application will be considered a lower priority for funding. If your group is holding significant financial reserves you will need to make it clear why these reserves cannot be used to cover the cost of the activity.
Staffing and Volunteers
We need to know more about how your group is managed i.e. the structure. Please tell us if you have any staff, full-time or part-time. How many people are on your management committee (we recommend this is a minimum of 4).



To be eligible you will need to have a minimum of 3 unrelated committee members.

Referee Details
This section is optional












Additional Organisation Details

Project Details

Does your project have an overall project name, if so please enter it here.




For example Local Authority statistics and evidence you have collected such as evaluation forms, emails from users, user surveys.

Tell us what activities you would carry out with this funding and the methods you would use, if these are tried and tested tell us about previous successes, if they are new methods, tell us why you think it will work and whether you have evidence of success from elsewhere. Demonstrate how this project presents good value for money by explaining why the number of people you plan to reach is realistic and proportionate based on activity, staff time and budget.









Write NA if your project doesn't aim to work with lonely people.




This may be useful for evaluation purposes as we may be able to compare beneficiaries who are not on the project with those that are.

This may be useful for evaluation purposes, as the people with a similar profile could form a ‘control group’ and be compared to the people taking part in the project.

Please note, that incentives do not need to be financial, and there may be other incentives relevant to your project, organisation and the people involved.

If it is a new project, what evidence do you have that it will be successful? Are you aware of it working in another area/ context? If so, where? If it is a project you are already delivering/ have delivered previously, how will this fund be used to learn something new or demonstrate scalability? For example, it is being delivered with a different type of beneficiary / scaled up to include more beneficiaries, being delivered in a different area, etc?


Please explain how you will fund your project if it is to continue after this grant.

You might have informal discussions with users, do questionnaires, gather people in one place, do interviews and arrange discussion groups. You need to tell us how you will monitor and report on this project through the life of the grant. For example we suggest you keep a log of users of your services, participants on your courses, enquiries you deal with etc. You should also use this section to tell us how you will know whether you are being successful or not in meeting your objectives.
Partnerships






Project Budget and Consent
Please enter the total amount you are applying for, followed by the individual amounts for the first and second year. In the budget breakdown section, please show your calculations for each year.  

Please enter the amount you are requesting from us.



Please let us know the amount the project will cost in total.

Please include all costs likely to be incurred to run this project e.g. salaries, admin, rent, equipment.
In the below sections, please state the total amount you are applying for in the "Total Amount" field. Then provide a breakdown of costs per year in the breakdown section. 
Staff Costs



Volunteer costs



Operational Costs



Office, Overhead, Premesis Costs



Capital Costs



Publicity Costs



Other Costs



Supporting Documents

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Please clearly label each document with a name and a short description of what it is.
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