Community Grant Core Funding application guidance

The details below will help you to fill in the online application form. You can save and resume your application at any time by clicking on the save and resume button. You will have 30 days to resume your application. 

Please note that file uploads are NOT saved, and you will be required to upload your files again before submitting your application. We recommend uploading files last.

If a field has a * next to it, the information is required for you to be able to submit your application.

Summary Information

How many people from Elmbridge will benefit in total approximately?

Please give the total number if over more than one year. Please give a breakdown of adults and children. Eg, 150 in total (10 adults and 20 children each year for 3 years).

Your Application

What positive change(s) do you hope to see as a result of this grant? Approximately 300 words.

Please include 1-2 specific and measurable outcomes that you will report on during this grant. These can be for your organisation or your beneficiaries.

How will you measure these positive changes? Approximately 300 words.

Explain how you will know if you have been successful in achieving the changes you have outlined above. We will expect to see evidence to support any statements (eg, survey/feedback data) and can provide support in this area.

Financial procedures

Please provide the date upon which your financial procedures were reviewed, including prevention of fraud and financial irregularity (for organisations with income over £10,000). Please provide brief details about your financial controls and checks. 

Does your organisation have three months’ expenditure or more in your reserves? 

Are you a Living Wage employer? 

Does your organisation pay all directly employed staff the Real Living Wage (not to be confused with the statutory National Living Wage)? For a definition, please see www.livingwage.org.uk/what-real-living-wage

Organisational information

Please provide this information the first time you apply and if you have not applied in the last three years. If we fund you on a regular basis, we will ask you to complete this information at least every three years.

Organisational activities

Please provide a brief summary of your organisation’s work.

Financial review date and controls and checks

Please provide the date on which your Financial Procedures were last reviewed. Please provide brief details about your financial controls and checks, including prevention of fraud and financial irregularity. You can also share a copy of your policy (optional).

Three months’ expenditure in reserve

Please confirm if you have at least three months’ expenditure in reserve as unrestricted funds. If you do not have this amount, please explain why.

Legal status of organisation

Please use the drop-down menu to choose the status which best describes your organisation.

Registered charity number

If you are not a registered charity, please write n/a.

Registered company number

If you are not a registered company, please write n/a.

Employed staff paid at Real Living Wage

The real Living Wage is a voluntary, hourly rate of pay that is based on the actual cost of living. Over 6,000 employers in the UK are choosing to pay these rates to all their staff. Walton Charity is a Living Wage Funder and we seek to ensure that all posts which are wholly or partially funded by us pay the real Living Wage unless there are particular reasons for this not to happen. Please cost up any funding application for salaries to at least the real Living Wage. Organisations do not need to be accredited Living Wage Employers to apply to Walton Charity, but we do encourage organisations to consider whether this is a possibility for them. For more information see https://www.livingwage.org.uk/.

Does your organisation pay all directly employed staff the Real Living Wage (not to be confused with the National Living Wage, which is statutory)? For current rates see www.livingwage.org.uk/what-real-living-wage. This is a compulsory question. If the answer is no, please provide further information under the section on organisation activities.

Contractual staff

If your organisation employs staff on a contractual basis (rather than directly), are these staff paid at least the National Living Wage National Minimum Wage and Living Wage calculator for employers - GOV.UK?

Appendices

To process your application, we will also need you to upload the documents listed on the online form. Please note, if you save and resume your application, you will need to attach all file uploads again before submitting your application. Individual file uploads should not exceed 12MB. If you need to submit larger files, please email them directly to grants@waltoncharity.org.uk.