Application for Funding

Empowering Communities ProgrammeInvesting in Communities Fund

2019-20

Please read the Application Guidance and Help Notes before completing this application

(Lead) Applicant Organisation

Project Title

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About our Fund

The Investing in Communities Fund is part of the Empowering Communities Programme and has been designed to empower communities, enabling them to tackle poverty, inequality and disadvantage on their own terms. The fund is delivered by the Scottish Government’s Regeneration Unit in the Social Justice and Regeneration Division.

PURPOSEThe Investing in Communities Fund has been established to enable communities to more flexibly and holistically design and develop funding proposals based on the priorities they have identified as within their community and the overall outcomes they aim to achieve.

The fund will help support community and third sector organisations in our most disadvantaged and fragile communities to develop and deliver sustainable local solutions that:

that address local priorities and needs, increase active inclusion and build on the assets of local communities

to reduce poverty, inequality and rural disadvantage and to enable inclusive growth as set out in our National Performance Framework.

Successful proposals will put communities first by involving local people in the process and support the aims of the Fairer Scotland Action Plan and our regeneration strategy 'Achieving a sustainable future' to change deep seated, multi-generational deprivation, poverty and inequalities. And will further embed the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 which is giving people and communities more control over decisions that affect them, making it easier for local people to develop their own economies, wellbeing and environments.

Within this context the fund brings together a staged funding approach to enable communities to develop funding proposals from:

capacity building stage – to strengthen communities; design stage – to identify local priorities; and through to delivery stage – to address what is most important to the community.

WHO CAN APPLY?Eligible applicants can be community organisations, including community anchor organisations, community councils, registered social landlords, housing associations and third sector organisations that promote or improve the interests of communities that experience inequalities of outcome as a result of deprivation or rural disadvantage. Please refer to the Application Guidance and Help Notes for details of the eligibility criteria.

APPLICATION PROCESSPlease refer to the accompanying Help Notes and Application Guidance, and read these carefully before you submit your application.

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Submitting your application Applications, the pre-application eligibility checklist, and the memorandum of understanding (or similar) for consortium applications if applicable, must be submitted by:1800 hours on Friday 14 June 2019 to the Investing in Communities email box investingincommunities@gov.scot

Late applications will not be accepted.

You will immediately receive an automated email message acknowledging receipt of your application. If you do not receive this, please check that you have sent the application to the correct email address and that the acknowledgment is not in your spam/junk folders.

If this is a consortium application then the lead applicant must complete and submit the application form and other documents referred to above.

We will only be able to consider information that you provide in the application form itself. We will not consider supplementary attachments or information provided within any included hyperlinks.

Your application will be checked to ensure it meets the eligibility criteria as detailed in the Application Guidance and Help Notes. All applications meeting the eligibility criteria will then be considered by an independent panel. The panel may seek additional technical checks prior to making a final decision. All panel decisions are final.

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Section 1: Applicant Details

Applicant Details (this is the lead applicant for consortium applications)1.1 Name of organisation

1.2 Registered office address1.3 Website address / social media page (if applicable) 1.4 Applicant’s legal status1.5 Registered company number1.6 Registered SCIO number1.7 If not registered as a company or SCIO, is your organisation constituted with memorandum and articles of association, and with a management committee and/or board that has responsibility for planning and decision-making?

Yes Note: If your memorandum and articles of association do not include names of current members please provide the members names here:

No Note: If the answer to this question is No then you are not eligible to apply.

1.8 If your organisation is a subsidiary of / or affiliated to a parent company please provide details1.9 Does your organisation have a UK bank account, annual accounts or current projected annual accounts that have been approved by its management committee or board and control over all income and expenditure?

Note: If the answer to this question is No then you are not eligible to apply.

1.10 VAT Registration Number (if applicable)

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Contact details for correspondence regarding this application 1.11 Name of main contact1.12 Job title/designation

1.13 Full address, including postcode (if different from 1.2 above)1.14 Telephone number1.15 Email address

1.16 Are you a member of or partnering with any of the following umbrella organisations:Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS)Development Trust Association Scotland (DTAS)Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE)Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC)SURF – Scotland’s Regeneration ForumOther - Please specify here: ……………………………………………………………….

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Section 2: About your organisationOverviewThis fund aims to empower communities, particularly those experiencing disadvantage and/or inequality, to deliver local solutions that address local aspirations and needs in a sustainable and inclusive way. Empowering communities can be achieved by:

delivering on community-led solutions that tackle priorities that matter most to communities, or

for more vulnerable and harder to reach groups, through local interventions that act as a catalyst for engagement and offer opportunities and pathways for social and community integration.

Places are shaped by the way resources, services and assets are directed and used by the people who live in and invest in them. The Place Principle aims to encourage better collaboration and community involvement, and improve the impact of combined energy, resources and investment in Scotland’s regions, cities, towns, neighbourhoods, villages and islands.

The Place Principle was developed to help partners’, public, third, private and community to develop a clear vision for their place, through a shared understanding of place. By taking a more joined-up, collaborative approach, the principle encourages and enables local flexibility in responding to issues and circumstances in different places.

Throughout your application please consider and describe how you will demonstrate alignment with the Place Principle.

2.1 What is it your organisation does? (Max 300 words)

2.2 What are your key achievements? Please tell us about the skills, experience, track record and capacity you have to develop, manage and deliver local community-led projects and/or services. (Max 500 words)

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2.3 Please tell us who is actively involved in managing and delivering the organisation’s projects and/or services e.g. staff, board members, volunteers, service delivery agents etc.

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Section 3: Participation and engagement

OverviewIn this section we would like you to tell us how your organisation will exemplify the behaviours reflecting the core of the Place Principle? For example, how do you engage with people in your local community, tell us about your ethos of engagement? How do you seek and provide opportunities for engagement with groups who are more vulnerable or harder to reach? How do you secure the participation and/or engagement of your local community? How do you participate with other community interests and public service providers in your local area and how has this impacted upon the way you prioritise activities and what you prioritise?

3.1 Please describe how you involve local people in the design, development and delivery of your organisation’s priorities and objectives (max 300 words)

3.2 How does your organisation link with and contribute to current local delivery plans such as Local Action Plan, strategic plan of the local authority and/or emerging locality plans? (max 250 words)

3.3 What assessment have you made of the support available in your community currently? How does your proposal align with or complement other activity within the community? (max 250 words)

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Note for ApplicantsThe following two sections of this form request further detail regarding your proposal.

Section 4 should be completed by community/third sector organisations who wish to apply for organisational capacity building support. If your application is not for capacity building, please leave blank.

Section 5 should be completed by community organisations who wish to apply for funding for a specific project (i.e. design/delivery). If your application is not for a specific project, please leave blank.

Sections 4 and 5 should be completed by community/third sector organisations who wish to apply for both.

Please see the application guidance and help notes for further details.

Section 4: Organisational funding – building community capacity

OverviewThis section will help us understand more about the circumstances, capacity and capability of your organisation. In this section please tell us about what is it that you intend to do, why you need to do this, what your evidence is to support this need:

A portfolio of evidence should include relevant data and information, supplemented by intelligence about the views, perspectives and experiences of local communities.

Who will benefit from the activity / investment, what challenges / barriers you need to overcome, and what impact you plan to achieve.

4.1 What do you plan to do with this funding? Please tell us about any capacity issues currently facing your organisation and how will you use the proposed funding to overcome these issues? (max 500 words)

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4.2 Please tell us why the activity is needed and what evidence demonstrates this need. (max 500 words)

4.3 Who will deliver the activity? How will your organisation ensure they have the necessary skills and support to achieve the desired outcome(s)? (max words 250)

4.4 How will this funding impact your organisation? Please describe how this will make a difference at community level? (max 300 words)

4.5 Please tell us about how you have assessed your organisations activity within your community, including any evidence that the proposed funding will not duplicate activity already being delivered / available for the community. Please also tell us about any previous or current funding you have received for this activity.

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4.6 Please provide details of the key milestones during the requested funding period.

Key Project Tasks / milestones To be achieved by

Section 5: Project proposal

OverviewTell us about your proposal. What is it that you intend to do? What is the rationale for doing this?

The rationale should explain why are you doing what you intend to do. What the evidence of need is, circumstances and opportunities. Please include in your evidence relevant data, information and intelligence about the views and experiences of local communities. Understanding of need is built upon appropriate evidence and perspectives obtained from effective community engagement. Who do you expect to benefit from the work undertaken? How will they benefit?

In describing your project please tell us how the lived experience of people has shaped the design of your project/proposal, how local people will be involved in its delivery and/or how the project may encourage enhanced engagement and positive destinations. How will you ensure that dignity and respect will be built into the design and delivery of your project or service? Who do you expect to benefit from the work undertaken? How will they benefit? What are the expected outcomes from your project? What effect will this have in supporting individuals and families out of poverty?

5.1 Please complete the table below by listing your key project tasks/milestones with estimated timescales for completion, noting that these must all be completed by the end of your requested grant funding period. Please indicate the anticipated start date of your project.E.g. If you plan to recruit staff in the 1st quarter of the project and develop and launch new social media page in the 2nd quarter you would complete as suggested below:Key project tasks / milestones Date to be

achieved by:Example only -Recruit staff 30.11.19Example only -Launch new social media page 31.01.20

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5.2 Please use this box to describe the project activity in more detail - what you plan to do and why. Please provide the evidence that supports the need for your proposal. (max 500 words)

5.3 Please list your key outputs from this project in the undernoted table as well as the resultant, sustainable outcomes that the project will deliver/enable by the end of your requested grant funding period.Project outputs Project outcomes

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delivery of this project? (max 300 words)

5.5 Please provide details of any/all partners who will be working with you on this project (e.g. local authority, community council, development trust, other community organisation etc.) and please describe the role of each partner in delivering this project.

5.6 What systems, processes and procedures do you have in place for monitoring this project’s progress? And, how will you know if the project is delivering and on track? (max 250 words)

5.7 Please describe the evaluation activities you will carry out and the tools and techniques you will use to assess the project’s impact. (max 250 words)

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funding period? Please include your proposed plans for the project’s future financial sustainability. (max 300 words)

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Section 6: Geography, criteria and themes

6.1 In which local authority area(s) will this activity take place? Please tick all that apply.

Please tick all that apply:Aberdeen Edinburgh Orkney Islands Aberdeenshire Falkirk Perth and Kinross Angus Fife RenfrewshireArgyll & Bute Glasgow Scottish Borders Clackmannanshire Highland Shetland IslandsDumfries & Galloway Inverclyde South Ayrshire Dundee Midlothian South LanarkshireEast Ayrshire Moray StirlingEast Dunbartonshire Na h-Eileanan Siar

(Western Isles)West Dunbartonshire

East Lothian North Ayrshire West LothianEast Renfrewshire North Lanarkshire

6.2 In which community area(s) will the activity take place? (Please complete both columns)Local community area(s) e.g. Govanhill Post code(s) e.g. G42

6.3 Which of these descriptors best describes your proposed activity? Please tick all that apply:Childcare Family supportChild poverty Food insecurityClimate & environment Fuel povertyCommunity capacity building HomelessnessCommunity empowerment Improving health & wellbeingCommunity engagement Learning/skills developmentCommunity-led action research Participatory budgetingCommunity-led design (Charrettes) Partnership workingCommunity transport Poverty (other than child or fuel) Developing/informing local action plans

Safer communities

Early learning Social/community enterprise development

Early years Social isolation/lonelinessEducation VolunteeringEmployability OtherOther – Please specify here:

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Section 7: Financial Information Overview - Financial information Please list all eligible project costs clearly below. If your proposal includes funding for both organisational community capacity building and design/delivery activity (you will

have completed both sections 4 & 5) please clearly and separately list all the costs for each category. Please remember to complete the four State Aid tests to ensure that your proposal does not constitute State Aid.

7.1 Please detail the costs of delivery for your proposalMinimum £3,000 (6 month project) Maximum £250,000 (over 3 years) Please see the guidance notes for further information SUMMARY DETAILS (£) 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 TotalHow much are you applying for from the Investing in Communities Fund (ICF) Total amount of confirmed match funding contributions for the project/proposal (please provide further detail at 7.2)Total amount of match funding contributions awaiting confirmation for the proposal/project (excluding the sum requested from this fund)How much do you need to run an inclusive PB process to engage the more vulnerable and hard to reach in the community? (max is £3,000)The total cost of the proposal/project (i.e. the sum of the three figures above)If funding is only available for one year please indicate how much funding you require for one year costs from the ICF.

7.2 Match FundingMatch funding source * Please identify all match funding sources including other Scottish Government and European Social Funds

Funding confirmed? Yes or No

If No, please state when a decision is expected.

Amount (£)2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 Total

*Please note this fund cannot provide match funding for existing or possible future awards from European Social Funds (the Scottish Government’s Aspiring Communities Fund, Social Economy Growth Fund and the Social Innovation Fund)

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7.3 Please detail the proposal/project costs.

Please list eligible project costs clearly below. (refer to Application Guidance if you need more detail)Cost breakdown

Please list the name of each individual cost category (‘other’ is not acceptable). Include direct project cash costs only Any non-recoverable VAT must be included as part of the specific project cost to which it relates – VAT must not be designated as a

separate cost category Do not include in-kind costs

Cost Category ICFGrant Requested (£)

Total Project Cost:ICF plus all other Match Funding (£)

2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 Total 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 Total

TOTAL(must be the same figures as Q 7.1)

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7.4 Do these project costs include VAT? Yes No If yes, is it VAT recoverable? (only non-recoverable VAT should be included as part of the relevant project costs) Yes No

7.5 Have you applied for or are you currently in receipt of any other Scottish Government funding, during 2019/20 and/or the last three fiscal years?

Yes No

If yes, please provide details:

Please explain why your proposal does not constitute Stat proposal does constitute State Aid how will your organisation manage this7.6 Have you or any of the partners in your proposal received any de minimis aid in the last three fiscal years? Yes No

If yes, please provide details

Section 8: Legal Requirements and Conditions

COMPLIANCE WITH INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS

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Freedom of InformationThe Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 introduced important rights for all to access information held by Scottish public authorities - anyone asking for information will be entitled to receive it unless the information requested falls within an exempt category and even where information falls within an exempt category, there may be a public interest in the information being disclosed.

Data ProtectionThe form contains information that is personal data for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR) and in respect of which the Scottish Government is obliged to supply the following information:

The data controller is the Scottish Government. The legal basis for collecting the information is Article 6(1) (c) and Article 6(1) (e) -

of the GDPR.

The information you provide will be used for the following purposes:a) Processing your application. Your application will be made available to the Investing

in Communities Fund Independent Panel as part of the appraisal process.b) Where you have identified additional funding sources within your application, the

application may be shared with those funders as part of the assessment and appraisal process.

c) If your application is successful, we may publish this application in hard copy or on the internet.

d) Data may be used for statistical and Scottish Government performance reporting and evaluation.

The application form will be stored securely and retained in order to ensure compliance with grant conditions that apply to projects that are successful in receiving funding. Apart from a) to d) above, the information you provide will not be disclosed to any other organisation for any purpose other than detecting or preventing fraud. For the purpose of the detecting and preventing fraud, data may be disclosed to (i) subcontractors or sub-contractors employed by the Scottish Government for this purpose (ii) Audit Scotland and (iii) law enforcement agencies.

Your Rights:You have the right to request information about how your personal data is processed and to request a copy of that personal data.

You have the right to request that any inaccuracies in your personal data are rectified without delay and you can edit your contact details at any time. This should be done in the first instance by contacting the organisation providing you with support.

Further information on The Scottish Government and its processing of personal data can be found here https://beta.gov.scot/about/contact-information/personal-data/

Equalities and Environmental LegislationAll organisations submitting an application to the Investing in Communities Fund must satisfy themselves that they are compliant with relevant equalities and environmental legislation, including the requirement for Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) under the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005.

Further information on equalities legislation can be obtained from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and guidance on relevant environmental legislation from the Scottish Government.

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We may require proof from you that you have considered your obligations as required under legislation.

State AidIf the activity you are undertaking constitutes economic activity then the European Commission State Aid rules and regulations apply. If so, based on the level of funding applied for, you may be eligible to receive this funding under the de-minimis regulation 1407/2013. There is a ceiling of €200,000 (euros) for all de minimis aid provided to any one organisation over a 3-year fiscal period. Any de minimis aid awarded to you under this offer letter will be relevant if you wish to apply, or have applied, for any other de minimis aid from any other public body.

Fraud PreventionShould your application be successful, please be aware that we will provide details to fraud prevention agencies if you provide inaccurate or false information in this application or at any point throughout the funding lifecycle. If you are a company, this will include the names of the Company Directors at the time of the fraud. You must inform all Directors, Trustees and Committee members of this notice.

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Section 8: Declaration

By signing this declaration you are confirming that you are an authorised signatory for the community organisation applying to the Investing in Communities Fund (ICF). You are also confirming that the statement below is accurate, and that you have robust governance arrangements in place.

As far as I know and believe, all of the information in this application form is true, accurate and complete. I am authorised to allow this proposal to go ahead. Partner organisations and I are happy for the Scottish Government to:

a) publish details of the financial support they are giving to this proposal;b) give any details they have about our proposal from this application or from

future assessments to Scottish Government colleagues, other agencies, including other grant-making bodies; and

c) use any of these details in news releases, case studies, publications and other publicity materials;

d) publish information within this application in hard copy and on the internet, if successful.

Our organisation complies with Data Protection and Privacy requirements and has undertaken a Privacy Impact Assessment (if appropriate).

The Scottish Government can do these things without asking us again for our agreement and will not use any of these details for commercial purposes.

Authorised Signatory DetailsFull Name:

     

Title/Designation in Applicant Organisation:     

Contact address:     

     

     

Telephone: Email:           

Signed:     

Date:

     

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