What we look for in applications

We have developed a set of grant making principles to help guide our decision making. When we come to consider your application, in detail, we will look at the extent to which you work within these principles, and so we recommend you download and read these before you complete an application.

Decision-making timetable

Our next grant making cycle is now open. It is a two-stage application process. This first is an expression of interest. The second is a more detailed application. Both are submitted on-line.

The deadline for submitting your first-stage application is 3 September 2010. We are usually able to let you know the outcome of your expression of interest within 3-4 weeks of the deadline.

If your application is chosen for further consideration you will be invited to submit a second-stage application, again on-line. You will then have 3 weeks to submit your second stage application i.e. by 26th October 2010.

Please note that we will only accept hard copies of these application forms in exceptional circumstances. Please contact the grants team to discuss this at: ukgrants@comicrelief.com or call us on 020 7820 5555.

Monitoring and evaluation

Our involvement doesn’t end with awarding a grant. We need regular reports on your work and will want to see evidence that you are monitoring and evaluating your progress. From the start of your grant, we will help you set clear targets on how to deliver against your outcomes, and you will need to send us regular progress reports. We may also visit you during the life of your grant and may ask you to work with our media and communication teams to help us show the impact of our funding to other organisations, funders and the public.

Further Information

Please contact us if you have any other queries about the application process:

UK Grants Team

Comic Relief

5th Floor

89 Albert Embankment

London

SE1 7TP

Phone: 020 7820 5555

Fax: 020 7820 5500

Minicom: 020 7820 5579

E-mail: ukgrants@comicrelief.com

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