Cellnex Digital Inclusion Fund- £500 Awards

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PLEASE READ BEFORE STARTING YOUR APPLICATION

Fund Criteria

The Cellnex Digital Inclusion Fund (up to £500) is offering small awards from groups of local residents or grassroots constituted community groups who want to get a new project or activity up and running. The Fund will focus on three main areas:

Empowering communities and places
Increasing confidence, skills and motivation
Affordability, accessibility and connectivity.

Who can apply?

If you’re a group of local residents who want to get a new digital inclusion project or activity up and running, or a constituted community group with an income of £2,500 or less, then you can apply.

You need to be based in one of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester and be planning to run your activity in the area where you live.

How much can you apply for?

The maximum award request that will be considered is £500.

What can you apply for?

Local communities understand how they can best work to promote digital inclusion in their communities. We don’t want to limit the type of request you can make, let us know what you want to do and what positive things your activity will provide for people in your community, as long as it achieves one of the 3 themes above.

Some examples of digital inclusion projects include:

Sessions aimed at helping people in your community to develop digital skills
provide digital-based training to young people
improve online access for jobseekers
refurbished computers for the local community
access to technology to tackle social isolation
making community information accessible to all
online support service for the community.

To learn more about digital inclusion, what the issues are in Greater Manchester and further information about this topic, please see the Greater Manchester Digital Inclusion Strategy.

Is there anything you can’t apply for?

Unfortunately, there are a few things that can’t be funded, such as activities that have already taken place or been paid for, contributions to major appeals, activities promoting political or religious beliefs and activity which should be provided by statutory services.

If you’re not sure if we could consider your application for funding, please contact a member of the Forever Manchester Communities Team, email awards@forevermanchester.com and we’ll be happy to help.

Supporting Documents

If you will have Under 18’s or Vulnerable Adults attending your project you must have a Safeguarding Policy in place. If you are a constituted community group you will need to provide a recent bank statement in your group name.

Please get in touch if you’re at all unsure on the above, please contact us at awards@forevermanchester.com or phone 0161 214 0940.

Deadline for Applications

The Fund will close once all funding has been fully allocated. Please note if we are oversubscribed the Fund may close at short notice.

How long will a decision take?

We aim to let you know the outcome of your application within 8 weeks of submission. Please do not plan to start any activity until after you hear if your application has been successful.

Our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) provide further information on our funding programmes. We encourage you to have a look if you would like to know a bit more about who can apply and what the application process involves.

If you have difficulty accessing the application form or require a different format please contact awards@forevermanchester.com or call the Awards Team on 0161 214 0940 and select option 1.

Please read all guidance carefully before starting your application.

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About You

These are the details that will be used for correspondence purposes.

First Contact

Title

First Name

Last Name

Number and Street

Town/City

Postcode

Email

Mobile Phone

Home Phone

Second Contact- this should be somebody who is involved in the project and be contacted in case of your absence

Title

First Name

Last Name

Number and Street

Town/City

Postcode

Email

Mobile Phone

Home Phone

About Your Group

What is the name of your group? If your group has a consitution, write the name of your group. If not, write the name of your project or group name if you have one.

Are you part of a community group? (i.e. a constituted groups/ registered charity/ C.I.C / etc.)

YesNo

What was your income for the last year? (this should be the last full year you have accounts or income for the last 12 months

Numbers only

Please attach a copy of your latest accounts or income and expenditure records here

Please attach a copy of your most recent bank statement (which includes the name of your group and the bank account details you have provided).

Bank Name

Bank Account Name

Bank Account Number

Sort Code

Building Society Roll Number or Reference (if applicable)

About Your Project

Tell us about your group and what you usually do. Approach answering this question as though you were talking to a friend about what you do, where you meet, who attends etc.

Tell us why you have chosen to run a digital inclusion project. What have you noticed within your community and who would you like to involve in the project and why? Tell us about any evidence which has led you to this idea.

The Fund will focus on three main themes that align with the Greater Manchester Digital Inclusion Strategy as follows:

Empowering communities and places
Increasing confidence, skills and motivation
Affordability, accessibility and connectivity.

Which of the above themes will your project address and why? Please focus on one theme, tell us how your project will tackle the theme.

How much money are you applying to us for? (MAX £500)

Numbers only

What will you spend the money you're awarded on? e.g. venue hire for the day= £50, tea and coffee= £30. We know things change when you're doing the project but we need an idea of how you will spend the money.

Address where the activity will take place (inc. borough and postcode

Which Local authority will the activity takes place in?

Tell us the age range of the people taking part in the project or activity? e.g. 10-16 years old, 16-25 years old, 50 and over

How many people do you think will take part?

Numbers only

When will your project start?

When will your project end (we know you might be running something ongoing, but how long would this funding support you for)?

Can you tell us about a particular person who comes along to your group on a regular basis and how it makes a difference to them

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Payment

If you are a constituted community group with a bank account any award will be paid into the account you have already told us about (on Page 2).

If you are not a constituted community group and therefore you don't have a group bank account, how would you like to receive payment? Please select one option

Local community group's bank account- this must be a not for profit group and not a business or personal accountDirect payment- if all your money is going to one or two places (e.g. rent, single item purchase) we can pay directlySelect one option

Please give direct payment information. What company would you us to pay directly and for which costs?

Name of group

Group bank account number

Group sort code

Please give the name, telephone number and email address for your contact at the group. We will contact them to confirm these details an that they are happy to accept the award on your behalf

Safeguarding

Any organisation that works with under 18’s or vulnerable adults must have a safeguarding policy in place. Does your group have a Safeguarding policy?

YesNo

Please attach your policy below. Please note based on your project we may be in touch to advise that a Safeguarding policy is put in place.

Using your personal information

By completing this application form, you accept that Forever Manchester will have access to the personal data about you and other individuals named.

As a necessary part of the application process, Forever Manchester will collect personal data about you and other people connected with your organisation. The personal data we collect includes name, address, telephone number, email address and could also include date of birth and photographs.

We will use the information you give us during assessment and during the life of your award (if successful) to manage and monitor the award and check the money is being used appropriately.

If you do not give us consent to use this data, we will not be able to process your application.

We hold and store your information in line with the Data Protection legislation currently in force. For more information explaining how we use your information, please see our privacy policy which can be found on our website by clicking here.

I confirm that I have read and understand the privacy statement above and consent to my personal data being used as outlined within the privacy policy.

Yes

Publicity

Forever Manchester would like to follow up successful applicants and potentially feature them in publicity activities. This could include featuring the work of your organisation on our website or social media channels.

Please tick the box to confirm that if your application is successful, you are happy for Forever Manchester to use information about your group or project for publicity purposes. If you would prefer not to feature in any publicity, don’t worry, not ticking this will not affect the outcome of your award application.

If successful, do you agree to partake in Forever Manchester publicity activities?

Yes

Declaration

If successful we agree to spend any award as outlined in our application form or specified within the award letter. Should we be unable to continue with the awarded project or there are any changes to the way in which we wish to spend the award, we will contact Forever Manchester first.

Please tick this box to indicate that you have read the above and agree to the terms

Yes

If there are any details missing from your form or we have any questions, we will be in touch so that you can tell us more.

If you’ve got any questions please contact our Communities Team on 0161 214 0940 or awards@forevermanchester.com.

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