Applications:
The development/field worker allocated to your organisation will provide guidance and support for your application. The QDI Project Coordinator can also provide further guidance if there is anything you are unsure about with your application.
Deadlines for applications will be provided once you are selected to participate in QDI.
^ up
What you can apply for:
You can apply for bursary money of up to £5000. How much you apply for will depend on your organisations' needs. These will have been identified in the action plan, which the development/field worker will have produced with your organisation. You can apply for a number of different items but the total amount must not exceed £5000.
The application must relate directly to the needs identified in the plan and will only be accepted by the panel if it does so.
The list below outlines the type of items that will be relevant to the bursary fund. This list is not exhaustive; if you are unclear whether the items you are applying for will be accepted please contact the QDI Project Co-ordinator for more details:
- Computer Equipment & relevant software
- Training (for Management Committee members, staff, volunteers)
- Publications/information resources for the advice service
- Additional staff costs associated with the development process (e.g. additional admin hours to undertake work related to application for a quality standard, additional advice worker time on new project identified in action plan e.g. outreach)
- Consultancy fees (e.g. planning, funding, finance, quality standards, IT)
- Office equipment required to run the advice service
- Case recording & monitoring systems (computerised or manual)
- Fees for translation of materials for the advice service
- Membership fees for the relevant advice network
- Printing/publication costs for the advice service
- Joint project work with another local advice organisation (your organisation may want to pool your bursary with another organisation to pay for particular services e.g. in house training, external supervision for advice staff/volunteers)
^ up
What the bursary will not fund:
- Any items not directly related to the action plan or the advice service
- Core running costs of the organisation
- Regular staff costs not related to any aspect of the action plan
- Money for computer equipment where there are already funds available through the relevant network (most likely to apply to CABx receiving support from NACAB).
- Money for start up costs of a new organisation
- An item which has already been purchased or work which has already been completed.
^ up
Evidence required for the application:
The application must be accompanied by the following information:
- The completed application form
- Copy of the action plan produced by development/field worker working with your organisation
- Copy of your organisation‚s most recent audited accounts
- Realistic costings for each item (including VAT) with any accompanying invoices/ estimates/evidence (e.g. information from relevant training provider on cost of courses; cost of consultancy fees etc.). For VAT registered organisations net amount of costs will be given.
- Full bank account details for information/verification purposes
- Where the application is for consultancy fees — a draft of the tender document stating work required and list of consultants to be approached for the work.
- Supporting statement from the development/field worker working with your organisation
^ up
Outcome of the Application:
You will be informed of the outcome of your bursary application within 6 weeks of the application deadline.
We may need to contact you to negotiate aspects of your application where it is not clear how the application meets your development needs identified in the action plan.
Cheques will be issued once your organisation has indicated acceptance of conditions of bursary money and has provided full costings/invoices. Cheques will only be issued for items where accurate costings have been provided. Where only estimates have been provided for particular items which have been approved by the QDI Panel, cheques will only be issued for these items once accurate costings have been provided.
^ up
Conditions of bursary money
- Full bursary to be allocated on receipt full costings (pro forma invoices) and receipt of letter agreeing to accept conditions of bursary money.
- Full bursary to be fully committed within 6 months of receipt
- Receipts to be provided for all items covered by bursary, copies of original receipts are acceptable.
- Income & Expenditure relating to the bursary money should be separately accounted for and made available to the QDI Project on request.
- The bursary must only be used for the specific charitable purposes for which it was made
- If, during the process of making the application, or while the grant is current, your organisation is successful in securing funds for the same purpose, you must inform your development/field worker immediately. The money can then be allocated to another purpose agreed by the QDI Consortium.
- During the course of the 6 months if you wish to use any part of the bursary money for a purpose other that that which it was granted, up to 10% of the overall amount can be used for other relevant purposes with the authority of the development/field worker working with you.
- On behalf of the Quality Development Initiative (QDI) project, Lasa reserves the right to withdraw, reduce, vary, withhold or demand repayment of the bursary, in whole or in part:
- in the event of any failure to comply with the above conditions
- if as a result of any changes in your organisation or any other applicable circumstances, Lasa has reasonable grounds for believing that further funds would not be applied for the specific purposes for which the grant was made
- if you have ceased to operate as a voluntary organisation, or where the organisation is dissolved, wound up, disbanded, declared insolvent or bankrupt or otherwise ceases to operate for the purposes in respect of which the bursary was paid.
|
-
-
-
