Social Investment Expression of Interest

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Guidance for completing the Expression of Interest

You'll first be asked for some details about your organisation, the work that you do, your contact details and which of Esmée’s aims and priorities your work matches. You will then have a total of 300 words to tell us about your work by answering the following two questions:
  1. What would you like Esmée to support? Briefly outline how our funding and support will be used.
  2. What's the change you are focused on achieving and how is your organisation well placed to deliver it? We're interested in understanding the need your work will address, and the opportunities your organisation or partnership is uniquely placed to take. We will also look at your website to learn about your organisation so use this space to focus on the change you want to achieve in relation to Esmée's priorities/long-term outcomes.
If you already have a pitch deck or a one- or two-page summary about your work, you will also be able to upload it to your application.

Please note that you will not be able to save the form so if you're not ready to complete your Expression of Interest, you will need to start again.


Response times
We will get back to you within four weeks about your Expression of Interest.


Are we the right funder for you?
We provide social investment to organisations whose work is a good fit to our strategy, has a credible plan for repayment and meets our eligibility criteria below. Before submitting an Expression of Interest, please read about our social investment support on our website. You can also download the information here. 


Before continuing, please check if we are the right funder for you.


 


To be eligible for social investment, you must:
  • Deliver or plan to deliver measurable outcomes that align closely to our aims.
  • Be a charity or social enterprise or have a structure that includes a Mission Lock or be willing to add one (we can talk to you about this if you need guidance on mission locks).
  • Demonstrate a suitable repayment or exit plan for the investment you are seeking.
What we are most likely to fund:
  • Organisations led by and for people with lived experience of the issues they are working on.
  • Ideas with the potential to influence wider positive change, help attract mainstream finance into impact or disrupt broken markets (for examples see our Investment priorities).
  • Ideas, structures and interventions that meaningfully involve their communities.
  • Impact that intersects across multiple Impact Aims.
  • Partnerships and collaborations.
  • The existing or potential ability to repay our investment.
What we don't support:
  • Profit-based structures without a mission lock that are not willing to add one.
  • Work that does not have a direct benefit in the UK.
  • Healthcare with a clinical basis, including medical research, hospices, counselling and therapy, arts therapy, education about and treatment for drug and alcohol misuse.
  • Independent education.
  • Work that is primarily the responsibility of statutory authorities.
  • The promotion of religion.

If you are still not sure if we are the right funder for you, please read our social investment guidance.


Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

We are also gathering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) data from organisations who apply for our funding. Once you’ve submitted your Expression of Interest, you will be redirected to a DEI monitoring form. We want to use the information we gather to help us identify and address structural inequity, and ensure that the reach of our funding and our funding practices are fair and just.

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About your organisation

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FTE (full time equivalent)
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Please include the full website address including the https://





Your organisation's leadership


Communities experiencing racial inequity: by this we mean that 75% or more of the Board/Management committee AND 50% of senior staff (where staff exist) are from communities experiencing racial inequity. This could be as a result of their race or ethnic group, which may be related to their national/geographical origin, skin colours, and other identities.

Disabled people: by this we mean that 75% or more of the Board/Management committee AND 50% of senior staff (where staff exist) are D/deaf or disabled.

In addition to this question, applicants will also be asked to complete a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion monitoring form, which you will be directed to after completing your Expression of Interest.
Your contact details



This question is not compulsory - please only answer if you would like to





Alignment to Esmee's aims and priorities

If more than one, choose the one it fits best


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You can only select a maximum of 2 other priorities

Funding request

Please use one sentence to sum up your work - maximum 230 characters

Please enter a round number, do not include the currency sign or commas


Please note this is optional, and if you don't already have an existing document to upload, please don't worry about creating something new


Please select from the fields below the Level and Geographic that will benefit from the work proposed.  (Note: you should only go down to the level relevant to your work so if you work on a national level you should select Level = 'Country' and then select Geographic as the relevant country. If you work at local authority level, you should select Level = 'Local Authority'.  If you benefit from more than one Level or Geographic, then you can select 'Add another geographical area'.


Your Expression of Interest
Tell us briefly about your work by answering the two questions. Please aim for no more than 300 words for both questions, though we allow some leeway should you go slightly over. Your responses are meant to be brief and focus on how your work relates to Esmée's strategy. You can submit your answers either by:

  • Writing your answers in the spaces provided.
  • Share a link to an audio or video recording with your answers to both questions. As a guide on recording length, 300 words is usually about 2 to 3 minutes of speaking.
If your work is a good fit under Esmée's social investment strategy, we will invite you for a phone call to learn more about your work.



Briefly outline how our funding and support will be used.

We’re interested in understanding the need your work will address, and the opportunities your organisation or partnership is uniquely placed to take. We will also look at your website to learn about your organisation so use this space to focus on the change you want to achieve in relation to the relevant priority or priorities in Esmée’s strategy.

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Please ensure your recording file has your answers to both questions:
  1. What would you like Esmée to support? Briefly outline how our funding will be used.
  2. What's the change you are focused on achieving and how is your organisation well placed to deliver it? We're interested in understanding the need your work will address, and the opportunities your organisation or partnership is uniquely placed to take. We will also look at your website to learn about your organisation so use this space to focus on the change you want to achieve in relation to the relevant priority or priorities in Esmée's strategy.

Please include the full website address including the https://
Submitting your form
Once you submit, you will be redirected to a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) monitoring form (a sample DEI form can be downloaded from here).

We will then review your Expression of Interest and get back to you within the next month. In the meantime, if you have any queries, you can get in touch by emailing us.

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