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Guidelines for submitting an application
The Woolwich Area Forum has agreed to use the Church Commissioners’ available funds to allocate a number of grants per year for direct use for local mission by churches in the Woolwich Episcopal Area. The total sum will be divided between a norm of 10-15 grants per year. Grants can be given for a max 2 years and will not usually exceed £2,000.

Decisions about allocations of funds will be taken by an assessing committee consisting of:

Applications can be submitted three times per year by fixed dates, and assessment meetings will follow soon after each date.

Next submission dates for 2008
30 Jan for February round
31 May for June round
28 Sept for October round

Please use these guidelines when submitting your application.
The numbering on these guidelines corresponds to the numbering on the application form.

Download application form (37kB Word document)

1 Applicant body

Applications can be from a parish, deanery, churches together, borough dean or other network, which must operate within the Woolwich Episcopal Area of the Diocese of Southwark, and have Anglican involvement.

2 Contact person

We need a named contact, preferably someone who is available during the day, and ideally with an e-mail address.

3 Amount of grant requested

Grants will range from £50 to £3000. Grants of more than £2000 will be unusual.

Applications for match-funding for larger pieces of work will be considered, but match-funding must be secured before the grant is released.

You may be directed to apply elsewhere if it is thought that funding may be available from another source, e.g. from the Church Urban Fund, local authority, Government, Trusts or the parish’s own resources or fundraising.

4 Purpose of grant

Please give a summary here on an accompanying sheet, in no more than 750 words.

All applications must demonstrate the following criteria:

1. that the project is mission-focused, and part of the mission strategy of the applicant body
2. that it has a demonstrable evidence base of need
3. what specifically is expected to happen as a result of the grant being allocated
4. that the project considers all issues around equality of opportunity
5. that the financial breakdown shows the expected results which are realistic and achievable within the time-scale given
6. how the project will be sustainable or have a longer term impact once the grant has been used.

Examples of Applications

• To improve local visibility/publicity, e.g. notice boards, community newspapers
• To make worship more accessible, e.g. sound system, loop, physical accessibility
• To buy or develop resource material for education and nurture, e.g. in faith development, fundraising
• To make a building more welcoming for local people, e.g. furniture, lighting
• To improve secretarial or administrative support, by persons or equipment
• To contribute towards administrative support for deaneries
• To serve the local neighbourhood, eg play scheme, festival, education event, self-help group, residential for young people
• To buy in services to respond to a particular local need, eg housing or legal advice, training for committees, social auditing
• Feasibility studies or mission exchanges

You will be asked to send a simple assessment of the work so far after 6 months of allocation of the grant, and a fuller assessment after 12 months.

5 How does this piece of work fit into the overall mission and mission strategy of the applicant body?

The criteria specify that the project must be part of the mission strategy of the applicant body. Please demonstrate how this is the case.

6 Endorsements

• Parish applications must be endorsed by the PCC
• Deanery applications must be endorsed by the Deanery Synod
• Churches Together or other ecumenical applications must be endorsed by all of the Anglican members of the network.

In addition, your application must be endorsed by the Area Dean and Lay Chair of the deanery within which you are located, to ensure that the purpose for which the grant is sought fits into the overall work of the deanery.

NB Don’t delay your application and miss a deadline by waiting for these endorsements – but they must follow within 4 weeks of you making your application.

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