Wessex Water Environment Fund - application Form

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Please read the funding programme guidance available on our website BEFORE completing your application.

All fields marked with a red asterisk are compulsory fields and must be completed.

If you have applied before, details in section 1 may appear prefilled - please CHECK and AMEND this  information as appropriate. 

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If you experience any difficulties please contact Grants Manager Ellie Maguire on 07592 032666 or email grants@dorsetcf.org
Wessex Water Foundation

Section 1 - Organisation

Organisation Details









The telephone number should be one at which the organisation is easily contacted, especially during office hours.

The email address should be one at which the organisation is easily contacted, especially during office hours.

Main Contact Details
These are the details that will be used for correspondence purposes and is the person we will contact if we have any queries. The contact person should therefore be someone who has a good knowledge of the application. 










Main Contact Details




Organisation Start Date


What Type of Organisation Are You?









Staffing and Volunteers




Bank details



Governance and objectives


E.g. is the larger organisation ultimately responsible for the work of your organisation? Or are you an independent organisation with membership of a wider group of organisations?



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Section 2 - About your funding request

Details of activities for which funding is requested






If there are multiple places please just pick one. If it is too difficult to distinguish please provide the postcode of your organisation.

We want to understand what you plan to deliver using our funding, and over what period. Be clear with how you describe the work you are seeking a grant towards. Avoid getting your description lost amongst lots of context and background information.

Refer to the need or circumstances you seek to address and how have you identified this.

Some projects involving practical work may require specialist advice: for more info see Fund guidance and link to Wessex Water information

Some projects involving practical work may require licences or permissions: for more info see Fund guidance and link to Wessex Water information

Applications must demonstrate one of more of the following outcomes: 1) Involving communities in environmental activities that benefit their local area, 2) Restoring, maintaining or enhancing the local natural environment, 3) Engaging people in supporting the local natural environment

This can be difficult to answer - so please provide any initial thoughts on possible plans and ambitions

This is an opportunity to tell us anything else that you think might be relevant to your application

Section 3 - Impact

People involved


This is the number of people who will benefit from direct participation or involvement in funded activities

This is the number of additional people benefiting indirectly, which may include a wider community beyond your volunteers












Outcomes and Indicators
Outcomes are changes and benefits experienced by beneficiaries in their lives. Please select a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 outcomes that reflect the aims of the activities for which you are requesting funding



Section 4 - Budget

Itemised Budget
Please complete the relevant itemised budget sections, to indicate the costs of the activities for which funding is requested. For each section, please tell us:
  • the total cost 
  • the amount requested (this may or may not be the same as the total cost)
  • what this will cover
If you are requesting a contribution to your overall annual expenditure, the total cost for each section should be your expected annual expenditure.
Staff Costs

£

£

Volunteer Costs

£

£

Operational/Activity Costs

£

£

Overheads, Office/Premises Costs

£

£

Capital Costs

£

£

Publicity Costs

£

£

Other Costs

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Total costs
The form has calculated the totals below based on your itemised budget. Please make sure these figures are correct and make changes to your itemised budget if needed.

£
If you are requesting a contribution towards your overall annual expenditure, this figure should reflect your annual expenditure

£
The maximum you can request is £2000
Other funds raised

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Please provide details of any other funding you have secured for this work. Please include: the name of the funder or source of the funding; the amount secured. We cannot assess your application without this information.

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Please provide details of any pending funding applications or other funding you are seeking for this work. Please include: the name of the funder or source of the funding; the amount you are applying for or expect to achieve, and the date you expect to receive the decision. We cannot assess your application without this information.

Section 5 - Supporting Documents

Supporting Documents
Please upload the following required supporting documents or indicate if you prefer to send them separately by email (please note, they need to be received by the application deadline)

If you have sent supporting documents in the last 6 months, you only need to attach a recent bank statement, and your accounts if these are more recent.


We need to see the bank name, your organisation name, the address where statements go, date of statement, the account number and the sort code. You may obscure transactions if needed.




Section 6 - Consent

Please tick the Declaration underneath to indicate you have read and understood the following Grant Terms and Conditions
Grant Terms and Conditions

1. The organisation and main contact details, and the details of the grant, can be shared with our umbrella body, UK Community Foundations (UKCF), and Wessex Water Foundation, who provide the funds for this programme.

2. The grant recipient must promptly notify and repay immediately to Dorset Community Foundation (DCF) any money incorrectly paid to it either as a result of an administrative error or otherwise. This includes (without limitation) situations where the grant recipient is paid in error before it has complied with its obligations under the Terms and Conditions.

3. The grant can only be spent as stated in the grant application and for no other purpose, unless you have written approval from DCF to use the grant for any other purpose than that stated in the application form. DCF reserves the right to require repayment of the grant (or a relative proportion) if the grant is not used for the purpose and activities as stated in the grant application or subsequent written agreement from DCF.

4. The grant must not be used to fund items or activities retrospectively.

5. The grant funded activities must not be designed to, or include elements that are designed to influence people’s religious or political choices.

6. The grant applicant must start the funded project within 6 months of receipt of funds and complete within 12 months of receipt of funds. Extensions may be requested but remain at the discretion of DCF.

7. The grant recipient agrees that it will not apply for, obtain or accept Duplicate Funding in respect of any part of the funded activities for which the grant has been paid. Duplicate Funding means funding provided by a Third Party to the grant recipient, which is for the same purpose for which the Grant was made but has not been declared to DCF. This includes payments for the same expenditure items from government support mechanisms. DCF reserves the right to require repayment of the relevant proportion of the grant if the project has received duplicate funding.

8. Any funds remaining after the end of the grant period and any agreed extensions, must be returned to DCF.

9. DCF do not commit to renew or continue financial support to you after the Funding Period has ended.

10. You must comply with the 2018 Data Protection Act and UK General Data Protection Regulation. You must comply with all current legislation relating Safeguarding, including Safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and must adhere to relevant Safeguarding policies at all time. This includes ensuring all paid staff and any volunteers working with children and vulnerable adults have had the required Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks and you can evidence this if requested. DCF may ask at monitoring visits about Safeguarding practice, including any recent incidents and how the policy was followed – funded groups must provide open and honest responses to these queries.

11. Receipts for items of expenditure should be retained for at least 6 years and submitted to DCF if requested e.g. by our auditors or by any grant verification process.

12. Grant recipients are required to complete an End of Grant Report, to include the monitoring of outcomes. The End of Grant Report is to be returned to DCF no later than 4 weeks after the end of the grant period (12 months from the date the grant is received) or as soon as the funded activities are completed. DCF reserve the right to recall the grant if an End of Grant Report is not received. Failure to submit the form will negatively effect future applications to DCF.

13. If agreed to be appropriate, DCF and Wessex Water Foundation will use the project for the purposes of publicity. Your publicity must recognise DCF and Wessex Water Foundation. You will be required to use the DCF logo and Wessex Water Foundation in any publicity related to this grant/activity. Please see ‘Promoting Your Grant Award’ http://www.dorsetcommunityfoundation.org/promoting-your-grant-award/

14. We reserve the right to recover the Grant in whole or in part or to reclaim any equipment purchased under this agreement, should the project or organisation cease to exist.

15. The grant recipient must be fully insured against any risks which may arise from any activities or property which is grant aided, including loss or personal injury to persons undertaking those activities.  DCF is not liable for any contingency involving property or activities for which they have provided grant aid in whole or in part.

16. The grant recipient should ensure that services provided by and through the grant are underpinned by equality and diversity principles.  Ensuring there is no discrimination on the grounds of characteristics that are protected by the Equality Act 2010: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

17. The grant recipient understands that providing false or misleading information in this application or subsequent communications related to this funding programme could lead to funds being withheld or [subsequently] recovered.

18. If an Event of Default occurs, DCF may require you to repay all or part of the Grant. An Event of Default occurs if:

  1. You fail to comply with these Grant Terms & Conditions
  2. You fail to take adequate measures to investigate and resolve any reported Financial Irregularity
  3. You change the nature of your operations to an extent we reasonably consider to be material, including if you (or any substantial part of your operations) merge with or are taken over by another organisation
  4. You have a petition for an administration order or a winding up order brought against you before the end of the funding period
  5. You are involved in illegal activity in your administration of the funded activities
  6. You take any actions which in our reasonable opinion are likely to bring our name/reputation into disrepute
  7. You are otherwise in material breach of these Grant Terms & Conditions
Declaration
I confirm that the information given on the application form is true and I certify that I am authorised by the organisation to accept these Grant Terms and Conditions on their behalf.

I confirm that I have read and understood the Grant Terms and Conditions and if funded, our organisation agrees to accept the Grant Terms and Conditions.

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