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Eligibility Quiz

Please Note: If you are unable to check any of the required boxes below, your project will not be eligible to apply for funding from The Royal Countryside Fund.

You may save the application as you go along and come back to it, however, we recommend drafting your responses offline just in case. If you choose to save your application, you will be asked to enter your email and create a password. A link will then be sent to your email which you can use to log back in.

Please ensure you have filled out your Organization Name, Postcode and Contact email before you click Save.

1. Have you read the guidance document and checked that your project aligns with the objectives of this programme?

Yes

2. Are you located in a rural area or delivering your project in a rural area?

Yes

3. Are you located in Cumbria?

Yes

4. We are not able to provide funding for the following:

Care farms or similar projects where the beneficiaries are drawn from a larger area than just the local community.
Local authorities (including town and parish councils).
Hospitals or schools.
Private companies or individuals.
Youth clubs.
Uniformed groups such as scouts, guides or sea cadets.
Sports clubs or associations.

Can you confirm your organisation is not one of the organisation types listed above?

Yes

5. Does your organisation have an annual turnover of less than £500,000?

Yes

6. Can you provide evidence of need directly from your target community? This will be required if you are invited to submit a full proposal. This needs to be clearly demonstrable in the form of surveys and/or multiple testimonials from community members. More information on what is expected is available in the guidance notes.

Yes

7. We are not able to provide funding for the following:

Activities which involve capital work to buy or build, refurbish, extend or alter a property or other construction-related works.

This includes:

· refurbishment

· retro-fitting

· extending buildings

· purchasing land or buildings

· creating a new building

· developing an external space like a community garden.

Rent costs
Purchase of buildings or land.
Planning permission/building regulations.
Activities taking place in a location where the purchase/rent agreement is not complete.
Statutory requirements.
Technical energy activities where a specialist funder might be more appropriate.
Activities that replace government funding
Activities that benefit individuals, rather than the wider community
Lobbying activities
things you’ve spent money on in the past and are looking to claim for now (retrospective costs)
The topping up of organisation reserves.
Activities where our contribution makes up less than 10% of the total cost of the activity.
Activities that aim to promote a religion (we can fund religious organisations if their activity benefits the wider community and does not include religious content).
Consumables including fuel, food or refreshments.
Political activity/campaigning
Working capital - the liquid funds available to meet your daily business expenses.
Loans.
Activities where there may be other, more appropriate funders with a better understanding of the issue. For example, those dealing with:

o domestic violence

o migration

o dementia or elderly care

o healthcare or mental healthcare provision.

Village hall and other community asset renovation activities

Can you confirm you are not applying for any of the project types or items listed above?

Yes

8. Do you have the necessary permissions in place. including (if relevant) a completed building purchase, planning consent, or rental agreement?

Yes

9. We are unable to fund work that has already taken place or finished. Can you confirm the project or work you are applying for hasn't taken place?

Yes

10. Will RCF be contributing at least 10% (or more) of the total project budget?

Yes

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Section 2. Activity Overview

2.1 Please submit a short video with your application. We want to hear your story – who you are, what your organisation does, what the project is you’d like us to support. It would be great to hear more about: where you are based, the main activities and objectives of your organisation, what you’d like to do. Please see the video guidance on our website for more info on how to film this. Please enter the URL for your video below:

Alternatively, please tick to confirm you have sent your video, with your name, email and contact number via whataspp:

2.2 Which theme(s) does your project fall under? (You may select more than one)

Powering up Rural CommunitiesIncreasing environmental sustainability

2.3 A very brief overview of the project you would like us to support. You should start with “this project will ….”  Tell us:

- what you’d like to do

- where the demand for your project is coming from

- who will benefit from it

- If it’s a new project, or if you’re continuing something that has worked well previously (both are eligible)

(max 500 words)

2.4 Which of these key characteristics do you think your organisation demonstrates? Please note, we don’t have a preference for organisations that select every option. If you do, that’s fine, but please be realistic in your selection. Please see the guidance for more information on what we are looking for organisations to demonstrate.

2.5 What do you aim to aim to achieve through your project and why are you well placed to deliver this? (Max 300 words)

2.6 Total Cost of Project

£

Please enter a number (without decimals)

2.7 How much are you requesting from RCF? This must be at least 10% of the total cost of the project and cannot be more than £30,000.

£

Please enter a number (without decimals)

2.8 What will you spend the money on? Please itemise what the funding from The Royal Countryside Fund will be used for (enter one item per line below). Only list items that will be funded by RCF, not the entire project budget. You can include approximate costs for now, but we will ask for an itemised budget if you are asked to submit a full proposal.

Item	Order created	Approximate Cost
e.g. 50% of manager salary for two years		£ Please enter a number (without decimals)

2.9 If the total project cost (question 2.6) exceeds the amount being requested from RCF (2.7), please provide details of where the additional funding will come from. This must include funder name, amount requested, outcome status / date outcome is expected.

If additional funding has not yet been secured, please tick here

Section 3. Declaration

3.1 I confirm that the information provided in this application is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge, and that the governing body of the applicant organisation (trustees, board of directors, management committee or other) has authorised this application and the proposed project/activity described in it, which is within the objects set out in the governing document.

I agree

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I have read and agreed to the RCF Privacy Policy

I agree

Full name of person completing this form

Position in organisation

Please provide two signatories.

The signatories confirm they have been authorised by the people named as the Main Contact and Senior Contact to include them in this proposal and to submit their details in this form to us.

Signatory First Name:

Signatory Last Name:

Title:

Date

Position in Organisation

Signatory First Name:

Signatory Last Name:

Title:

Date

Position in Organisation

Once you are happy with all your responses, please press 'review & submit'. This will take you to a page where you can review your entire application and save a copy by pressing 'print' at the bottom.

Please note, your application will not be saved or submitted when you press 'review & submit' below. You must review and submit on the next page.