Small Grants Fund Application Form 2024 - Personal Best Foundation

SECTION 1 - ABOUT YOU

Organisation / Club name*

Main Contact Name*

First Last

Position within organisation*

Main Contact Phone*

Main Contact Email*

Organisation Address*

Street Address Address Line 2 Town / City Post Code Country

Address where project will be delivered (if different to organisation address)

Street Address Address Line 2 Town / City Post Code Country

Local authority*

Is your organisation based in or serving a borough or ward within the top 20% Indices of Multiple Deprivation.*

Yes
No
Unsure

Type of organisation*

Personal Best Foundation is an independent registered charity affiliated to and supported by England Athletics. As such, we are interested in knowing if you are affiliated to England Athletics?

Yes
No

Company number (if applicable)

Registered charity number (if applicable)

Organisation website

Social media handles

SECTION 2 - ABOUT YOUR PROJECT

Please tell us about your organisation including the overall activities or services you provide.*

Are you requesting funding to support a new or existing project/programme*

New
Existing

Will your project / programme specifically support any of the following:

Children and young people from low income families
Young people from Black, Asian and under-represented ethnic and faith based communities
Disabled children and young people
Neurodiverse children and young people
Children and young people with mental health problems
Children and young people in care

Please describe the project, programme or activity for which you are applying for funding including the time frame in which it will be delivered and the young people it will aim to support.*

Please tell us why your project or programme is needed. What insight and or consultation has informed your project proposal?*

How will you know that your project has been a success? Please detail up to 4-5 KPIs for your project.*

What positive changes (outcomes) would your project / programme aim to make to the lives of children and young people who access this project / programme?*

What will happen after your project ends?*

BUDGET: Please tell us how much your project will cost in total and how much funding you are requesting from Personal Best Foundation's Small Grants Fund (between £500-£2,000). Please provide a breakdown of how the money will be spent, including details of the items and estimated costs and how you will raise any shortfall.*

SECTION 3 - SAFEGUARDING AND HEALTH & SAFETY

The welfare and safety of young people is of the upmost priority for Personal Best Foundation and we believe in a pro-active approach to ensure this happens. We want to help organisations delivering activities to provide a safe and enjoyable experience to all young people who take part. The information you share will help us understand your organisation's approach to safeguarding. We want all organisations receiving investment from this fund to operate best possible safeguarding practice so the information we collect here can help make sure we can provide all organisations with the most relevant support and information. The questions below are in relation to the activity you are delivering as part of this funding application as well as your organisation as a whole.

Do you have a safeguarding and child protection policy in place that covers the activity within this funding application?*

Yes
No

Do you have a process for reporting and managing safeguarding incidents?*

Yes
No

Who is responsible for safeguarding in your organisation? (it may be your designated safeguarding lead)*

Please provide name, e-mail and contact number.

Is safeguarding training mandatory for all staff (paid or voluntary) who are involved with the delivery of the activity/project within this funding application?*

Yes
No

Please upload your safeguarding and child protection policy

Max. file size: 64 MB.

Does your organisations have a code of conduct for staff and volunteers?*

Yes
No

Do you carry out DBS checks for all staff (paid or voluntary) who are involved with the delivery of the activity/project within this funding application? ALL staff and volunteers in ‘regulated activity’ must have a valid DBS check.*

Yes
No

Do you have a system to record and track staff training, DBS checks etc?*

Yes
No

My organisation has adopted a health and safety policy and procedures which all staff and volunteers work to?*

Yes
No

My organisation holds appropriate public liability insurance for its activities and (where appropriate), leaders / coaches responsible for the programme hold professional indemnity.*

Yes
No

SECTION 4 - REVIEW AND DECLARATION

As a charity working with, and supporting a range of organisations that work with children and young people, it is important that the organisations we invest in have the relevant policies and insurances in place to ensure safeguarding of young people. Therefore, there are some assurances/checks that we need to carry out before funding can be awarded. As such, please complete the questions below.

Please confirm that your organisation has a business bank account in the name of the organisation in which funding can be paid to? Personal Best Foundation can only make payment to a business account in the name of the organisation provided.*

Yes
No

Please confirm that your organisation has adopted a data protection policy and procedures which all staff and volunteers work to, and that your organisation has a privacy policy that can be viewed online or is included where personal data is collected?*

Yes
No

If successful please confirm that you are happy for your details to be used in publicity materials?*

For example radio, print, website, newsletters, PR/ Press Releases, on granting maps etc

Yes
No

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST TO BECOME A LOCAL DELIVERY PARTNER FOR THE PERSONAL BEST FOUNDATION*

The Personal Best Foundation is a charity that was launched in 2022 with the defined purpose of ‘changing young lives through the power of athletics’. We are currently looking for local delivery partners in areas of high deprivation to deliver free community and/or after-school athletics / funetics programmes which support children and young people from low income families. These programmes would be funded by the Personal Best Foundation and would be for delivery from 2025 onwards.

Yes, I'd be interested in hearing more about becoming a delivery partner
No, not at this time

Thank you for entering the information required. Please review your answers and ensure you have provided the information required. Please tick this box to indicate that the information you have provided is true and correct to the best of your knowledge*

Yes

GDPR consent*

As the data controller, England Athletics Limited take the protection of the data that we hold about our customers seriously and will do everything possible to ensure that data is collected, stored, processed, maintained, cleansed and retained in accordance with current and future UK data protection legislation and our privacy policy. In this instance we are collecting your personal data in order to contact you in relation to the PBF and to send you PBF newsletters (which you will be able to opt out once you receive one).

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Application Form

Small Grants Application Form 2024

SECTION 1 - ABOUT YOU

SECTION 2 - ABOUT YOUR PROJECT

SECTION 3 - SAFEGUARDING AND HEALTH & SAFETY

SECTION 4 - REVIEW AND DECLARATION