Transcript Derry City Council Good Relations Core and Project Funding

Community Relations Funding –
practical help on applying elsewhere.
Thursday 11th April 2013 10am – 1pm
Purpose of Today’s Session
• Advice session only open to groups
who applied for DCC Good Relations
Funding and were unfortunately
unsuccessful.
• Will aim to advise which of the
following may be a suitable
alternative – CRC, OFMDFM Minority
Ethnic Fund, Derry City Council
Support Grants, Culture for All
Lottery fund, John Moores
Foundation.
Structure for today.
1. General Feedback
Powerpoint (20 mins).
2. Focused Feedback
(15 mins per group).
3. Agreeing ‘next steps’ /
applications.
4. Drafting applications
to CRC or other
funders.
A note on the level of demand for
the DCC GR Funding.
• Just because you did not get funding from Derry City
Council Good Relations Grant Aid does NOT mean that
your project idea or organisation is not worthy of funding.
• The fund was heavily oversubscribed for this year. We
have received at least double the usual number of
applications.
• The quality of the applications was the highest in many
years.
• 65 groups applied asking for a total of £277,810. We have
awarded £102,622.
• We were initially only supposed to allocate £84,000 but
because of the overwhelming demand we reprofiled
budgets and allocated an extra £20,000 into the fund.
• This still left us in a position of having to turn down some
excellent projects for funding.
Scrutinising the Results Sheet.
(You are in good company!)
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Total number of applications:
Funded Projects:
Funded Core Groups:
Projects not funded:
Core Groups not funded:
Applications under ‘threshold’:
Number of Ineligible groups:
65
17
6
33
9
7
4
• ‘Threshold’ is 43 marks on projects and 82 marks on core.
• If we had more money, technically everything above the ‘threshold’ is a
good CR project that is ‘fundable’.
• There were some good projects under the threshold too but the
application forms were filled in weakly in comparison with others.
Common areas for improvement.
• Refer to the ‘Assessment Form’ when
filling in your application form. Imagine
you are us. (See handout)
• Read the ‘NB’ guidance note under each
question. (see your application)
• Use your word allocation – very short
answers are rarely so succinct that they
score highly.
• Don’t leave any blanks.
• Tell us the obvious – assume we know
nothing! We can only score what is in
the box.
GrantNET
• On www.derrycity.gov.uk/grantaid
there is a ‘GrantNET’ link on the
bottom left hand corner or homepage.
• This is a free search engine funded
through Derry City Council which
allows you to search funders across
UK, Ireland and Europe.
• You input basic information on your
group and what you want funding for
and it provides a list of suggestions
and websites.
DCC Support Grants
(Useful if you only need £1000 and don’t need it until December)
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Derry City Council Support Grants (£1000) for
2013/14
www.derrycity.gov.uk/grantaid
Round 3: 1st December 2013 – 31st March 2014
Opens on: 09/09/2013
Closes on: 20/09/2013 - 3:00pm
Community Development:
Arts and Culture
Womens’ Development
Festivals and Events
Sports Development
These clash with DCC Main Grant and SLA
2-3 month turnaround process
Also competitive / over-subscribed (about 4:1)
John Moores Foundation
(Useful if you can wait 6 months and if your application was more Community
Development than Community Relations or includes some running costs)
• [email protected] www.jmf.org.uk
• Tel: 02828886161
• Usually up to £5000 per year (6 months application process)
• Can include project and running costs and equipment.
• Priorities: Local Community Groups; Black and Minority Ethnic
Organisations; Promotion of Equal Opportunities; Women
including girls; Second chance learning; Advice and
information to alleviate poverty and mitigate debt; grassroots
social health initiatives; support & training for voluntary
organisations.
• Excludes: Religion, Uniformed Organisations, Networking
groups, NI wide groups.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
(Broadly comparable with our GR project funding –
perhaps try if you are not successful with CRC?)
• Information on the funds, including eligibility criteria and
application forms, can be found on the website.
• Reconciliation Fund
http://www.dfat.ie/home/index.aspx?id=345
• Anti-Sectarianism Fund
http://www.dfat.ie/home/index.aspx?id=42931
• Funding is open to groups in Northern Ireland
(as well as all Ireland basis)
• 2013 funding deadline:
Round 2: Friday 27th September 2013.
Big Lottery Funding.
(Useful if your application is either cultural or
more broadly community development based)
• http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/ is the
generic Big Lottery Fund site which you can
search for relevant funding opportunities.
• Awards for All Funds projects £500 - £10,000
• Culture For All Funds projects £500 - £10,000
and only funds projects within N.Ireland with
some link to the UK City of Culture 2013 year.
Application Deadline 30/8/2013
Making sure your your application is clearly focused on Good Relations.
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A small number of applications still confuse Community
Development with Good Relations.
If the only Good Relations content in your application is that
people taking part are from different backgrounds, or your
project is ‘open to all’ then you may need to apply to
community development funding streams instead.
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Derry City Council’s Good Relations Strategy 2011/12 –
2013/14 www.derrycity.gov.uk/goodrelations
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Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 is the legal
context of Good Relations. It places
a statutory obligation on public authorities to:
“Have regard to the desirability of promoting good relations
between persons of different religious belief, political opinion,
and racial group.”
What is Good Relations?
Your application must show a clear focus on Good Relations.
• The Equality Commission (2008):
“The growth of relationships and structures for
Northern Ireland that acknowledge the
religious, political and racial context of this
society, and that seek to promote respect,
equity and trust, and embrace diversity in all its
forms.”
• (2008) The vision statement for Derry City
Council’s Good Relations Strategy 2011/12 –
2013/14 is:
“Making a meaningful difference locally to
attitudes and actions, policies and places in a
society in transition from conflict to lasting
peace.”
Any concerns about our
Assessment Process?
• Scored initially by an Officers Panel – 2 CRO’s and 1
other officer (3 in total)
• Random sampling (2 Core and 2 Project)
• Selection Panel – 3 Members, 1 external
independent observer, 1 internal observer.
- All ineligible applications are presented
- Random Sample is presented
- If scoring is accurate and consistent on sample then
programme is passed.
- If there are issues all applications are presented.
- All decisions ratified by Development Committee / full council.
Next phase of today:
• Focused Feedback
(15 mins per group)
• Agreeing ‘next steps’ /
applications
• Drafting applications to
CRC or other funders.