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5 years ago Have started a new application.
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joereddington
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5 years ago Have started a new application.
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5 years ago A good next thing to do is: https://github.com/eQualityTime/Public/issues/80
It's got a Sept 2nd Deadline (This Monday) so needs to be done in a hurry. Ideally we'd find a reviewer as well.
I've been through the dropbox and pulled out any files that might be useful to us, they are in downloads I've also produced the 'pretty print' of the document that we need to put questions in. I've reviewed previous budgets - all too high, we need a £10,000 one.
The text from old applications has been dumpertrucked in.
What do we think we're looking at in terms of time remaining? 30 minute to read though all the documentation to make sure we have the language right 2 hours to write the rest of the answers in and rewrite the others 1 hour to do the final submission - find all the numbers and so on.
Also needs a review in the middle of all this - Have asked Kat, she is willing (does need a trustee review as well at some point. Ideally I'd get as much of this in as possible today.
Let's map out the next actions:
Here's the current document: BBC Children in Need September 2019.docx
and the last applications budget, that needs to be scaled down a fair amount. Budget.xlsx
joereddington
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5 years ago Reading though the documents.
Children in Need has seven 'Building Blocks', the ones that we can pick at are:
… is when children have a positive sense of who they are and what they can achieve. Self-belief can be a combination of factors including self-esteem, confidence, pride in accomplishments, a sense of identity and having positive expectations for your future life.
… is when children have strong, positive and affirming relationships – starting with their family, carers and friends. Having trusted peers and adults in their lives also helps overcome loneliness and provide alternatives to disruptive and harmful pathways or activities. Children also benefit from having positive relationships with social and community groups relevant to them.
… is when children have a wide range of personal and practical skills. Alongside various social, life, communication and creative skills, such as imagination and personal expression, we include children’s willingness and ability to engage with and achieve in education, training and employment.
… is when children and young people can direct or manage their lives, or aspects of them. They make independent decisions, display appropriate behaviour, are motivated, express themselves and engage with activities and matters that affect them.
...and we should make sure we use those words.
Use the language of change in your descriptions, e.g., improving life skills, increasing self-esteem, reducing distress.
You only need to talk about the specific difference you will make, for example, ‘improving family relationships’, and not the building block(s) they strengthen, in this case, ‘positive relationships’.
"You can now apply for up to £10,000 per year for up to 3 years – a total request of £30,000"
That's new!
Projects achieve these differences by either working directly with children or seeking to improve their social and physical environments.
Safeguarding training for all staff, volunteers, who have face-to-face contact with Children and Young people:
DBS Checks must be refreshed regularlySafeguarding Children policy includes clear steps to take in the event of an incident or disclosure,
"focused on outcomes"
Core safeguarding policy, procedure, training and the organisations Code of Conduct should be updated to present a unified approach which reflects the real and virtual worlds which children, staff and volunteers move back and forth between. Where a project uses some form of interactive technology to communicate with young people this should have privacy controls enabled, password protection and appropriate moderation.
joereddington
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5 years ago New version: BBC Children in Need September 2019.docx
joereddington
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5 years ago This is an excellent page: http://www.betterbilingual.co.uk/2018/03/16/eal-funding-updates/
joereddington
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5 years ago BBC Children in Need September 2019.docx
Latest version.
joereddington
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5 years ago This project is to relaunch the Supertitle project, correcting mistakes made during the prototype (that's what the prototype is for!) and creating a critical mass of content that would allow us to move the project into a self-funding model. The budget (and project plan) is based on a larger project that was previously rejected. It is a three year project with an overall goal to set up supertitle clubs in 60 schools.
Some notes:
Children in Need funds direct project costs rather than core ones. This, coupled with the stripping down of the budget to fit under £10k per year means that eQuality Time will bit subsidising the project in terms of many unavoidable costs (accounting, overhead, media). This will be offset by the COO taking on the Project Manager role and reducing his COO hours to fit within the working week. The charities bottom line would improve if this grant was awarded, but mostly due to the avoidance of other costs.
No provision has been made for income from the project, either from sponsorship or charging schools. This project has been designed to move the Intervention to that stage. Should this project achieve it's aims early we can transfer over.
Children in Need allows organisations to apply for £10k per year for three years, as opposed to "£30k over three years". The budgeting reflects that.
The budget headings shown below are equality time categories, they might be translated into different categories for o
I've removed the £3k software engineering from the budget. If there is any additional setup/bugs/issues then fixing them will come out of eQuality Time's funds or the COO's time.
| Spend | Year 1 | Year 1 | Year 1 | Justification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transport | £900.00 | £800.00 | £700.00 | 60 schools, four visits each, £10 assumed average round trip divided equaly over three years |
| Facilitator costs 0.3FT (0.75 of year) | £4,893.08 | £4,893.08 | £4,893.08 | Median Training Facilitator Salary (United Kingdom) is £21,747 http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Training_Facilitator/Salary |
| Project manager 0.1FT (0.75) | £3,366.22 | £3,366.22 | £3,366.22 | Median Nonprofit Project Manager Salary (United Kingdom) £29,923 http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Program_Manager,_Non-Profit_Organization/Salary |
| Insurance, subscriptions and resources such as books | £540.00 | £440.00 | £440.00 | Based on prototype project |
| Office costs; phone, internet, printing, sundries, admin services | £300.00 | £500.00 | £500.00 | Based on prototype project |
| Totals | £9,999.30 | £9,999.30 | £9,899.30 |
joereddington
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5 years ago Newer version: BBC Children in Need September 2019.docx
joereddington
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5 years ago Blog post I wrote: http://wp.me/p7oizE-1EM
Even newer version after Kat (and Sarah) had a look:
Children in Need's next small grant (<£10,000 per year) deadline is 2 September 2019, 23:59 so midnight Monday (for decision November 2019). Trustees have approved an applicaiton with Supertitle.
Here's the project I'd like funded.
The issues we want to attack are:
(supertitle has more, but Children in Need are most interested in Children)
Resources
We've applied to Children in Need before with a slightly different project here
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