The document provides information about a workshop on application support for voluntary and community sector grants in Hackney. The workshop agenda covers an overview of Hackney grants, introducing the evidence base requirements, safeguarding expectations, understanding outcome requirements, and a question and answer session. The document also provides details about the "A Place for Everyone Small Grants 2018/19" program, including eligibility criteria, priority areas, funding amounts, project timelines, and outcome requirements. Finally, it discusses using evidence to demonstrate community needs and how to access Hackney's shared evidence base sources.

1. Application Support Workshop
Hackney Voluntary & Community
Sector Grants
A Place for Everyone Small Grants
2018/19
Time: 10:30am to 13:30pm
by Hackney CVS
Thursday 19 April 2018

2. Todays Agenda
10.30 - 13.30
10:30 to 11:00 – Overview Hackney grants
11:00 to 11:30 - Introduction to Evidence Base
11:30 to 12:30 - Safeguarding Expectations
Meet the Adults and Children’s sector grant holders
requirements
12:30 to 12:55 - Understand and meet LBH Outcomes Requirements
12:55 to 13:25 - Question & Answer
Feedback and close

3. House Keeping
 Sign our sign in sheet
 Mobile phones on silent
 Fire alarm – Sainsbury’s Car park
 Appreciate clearing cups from table
 Toilets
 Feedback form

4. Hackney CVS is Hackney’s leading voluntary and community
sector support agency and local Council for Voluntary Service.
 We support people to run successful voluntary and community
sector organisations by giving them access to the key skills,
knowledge and resources necessary to respond to the needs of
local people, especially those most in need.
Our Values Statement
 As a responsive charity Hackney CVS believes that the voluntary and
community sector plays a critical role in tackling poverty and
disadvantage by working with key stakeholders to address local
inequalities.
 We strive to challenge oppression and prejudice, to promote
diversity and to work towards a society where full equality for all is
a reality.

5. A place for Everyone Grants
2018/19 Prospectus

6. A Place for Everyone Grants
Programme 2018-19
Small grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 for projects
that contribute to one or both of the two Hackney Grants
Programme Priorities:
1. To promote social inclusion, encourage independence
and develop personal resilience
2. To build positive relations between different groups
and communities that will maintain the high levels of
community cohesion
The Hackney VCS Grants Programme 2018/19 prospectus is
available through the Hackney Council website
www.hackney.gov.uk/community-grants.

7. A Place for Everyone Grants
Programme 2018-19
 Small grants are specifically for small scale individual
projects and should not be used as a contribution towards
a larger service or project.
 Must have an annual income of less than £250,000 to be
eligible to apply.
 An organisation cannot apply for a Small Grant if it has
received a Small Grant for 3 consecutive years, unless the
application is for a play scheme. In this situation an
organisation can still apply for another funding stream,
such as the Main Grant or Community Chest, and will be
eligible for another Small Grant in the next financial year.
 Only available for projects starting from 1st September
2018 to 31st March 2019.

8. A Place for Everyone Grants Programme
Holiday Play Schemes
Delivered between 1st September 2018 and 31st March
2019. The maximum grant you can apply for is £5,000 for a
play scheme.
Community Chest Grants
To deliver short term or one-off activities. Organisations
can apply for up to £1,000 to deliver projects which
contribute to the Hackney Equality Objective:
‘To foster good relations by building a strong sense of
community, neighbourliness and pride’.

9. Hackney Grants 2018-19
All applications for grant funding are required to identify up to three
of the following equality aims that your project will help to address:
1. The lives of people living in difficult circumstances are improved
2. People with complex needs are supported and enabled
3. People with the worst health are supported to improve their
wellbeing
4. The impacts of poverty are alleviated
5. The lives of disabled people and or older people are improved
6. Inequality is addressed
7. People are supported to identify harmful patterns and take steps
to change
8. Those least likely to be heard are engaged and have an active voice

10. A Place for Everyone Grants
Programme 2018-19
Equality objective and aims
The score is weighted and will be multiplied by 2. Total points available
after weighting = 6 points
How is your project going to improve outcomes for one or more
disadvantaged groups?
How will you ensure that your project is accessed by the widest
possible range of people who face disadvantage?
If your project is targeted at a particular community, we would still
expect you to ensure it reaches the diverse strands within that
community – how will you do this?
If your project is about fostering good relations, how will you
genuinely help to build an inclusive sense of community,
neighbourliness and pride, which is not just among those who feel it
already?
If your project would help Hackney Council listen to residents better,
how will this be achieved in an effective and truly representative way?

11. Eligible to apply
Small Grants: Organisations wishing to apply for Small
Grants must have an annual income of less than
£250,000. Open: 5th April 2018 – Closing: 14th May 2018
Community Chest: Organisations must have an annual
income of less than £250,000 to be eligible to apply for a
Community Chest grant. 50% of the grant funding
available is reserved for organisations with an income of
less than £50,000.
A Place for Everyone Grants
Programme 2018-19

12. A Place for Everyone Grants
Programme 2017-18
In order to be eligible for funding from this programme, at
least 80% of the people benefiting from the project must
be Hackney residents.
Social Enterprises and Community Interest Companies
(CICs) are only eligible to apply for a grant if they operate
on a wholly not-for-profit basis. Meeting the following
criteria:
100% of surplus funds are re-invested into the
organisation
executive directors operate in a voluntary capacity and
not as paid shareholders
there is no ‘profit distribution’ clause in the governing
documentation.

13. Introduction to
Hackney
evidence base
Mohammed
Mansour
Hackney CVS

14. Overview
 Introduce you to Hackney profile – “population
and demography”
 Share information about our progress story
against the 6 SCS priorities
 Share information about key issues and
challenges
 Discuss how we use evidence intelligently and
addressing gaps in the data?
 Explain where you can go for more information
about evidence

15. Progress story
Hackney’s Single Equality Scheme gives
information on our progress around:
 Employment
 Education
 Health and well being
 Safer Hackney
 Housing
 Sustainable communities

16. Issues and Challenges
 State of the Borough work: “Hackney: The next Chapter” Sets
out key trends and challenges for the partnership in five
chapters:
 Section 1 - Encourage economic participation and reduce
long term unemployment
 Section 2 - Reduce child poverty and improve family
wellbeing
 Section 3 - Improve quality of life and promote safety and
cohesion
 Section 4 - Enable sustainable growth
 Section 5 - Help residents who most need support, improve
their capacity for independence

18. Evidence of Need

19. Evidence of Need Sources

20. Each time your organisation goes
Through the process it gains new
Skills and knowledge for the future
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4
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5
7
9 3
10 2
1
First step Outline the
project idea
Develop the detail
Talk to
people/initial
funder research
Research need
Strategic doc
Identify values and track
record
Identify resources
Write a Budget
Identify
funding
Research
funders
in detail
Final step
Complete
application

21. Key Points
Planning is everything; before you begin the
application, plan your project!
Use the 5 W’s.
 Who
 What
 Why
 Where
 When

22. Who: Is your project for, who are the beneficiaries
e.g. Kurdish & Turkish speaking Minority ethnic older people
living in 2 wards of Hackney.
What: Activities you will be delivering
 e.g. Older people receive, one visit from a befriending volunteer
a week
 Hold weekly lunch club for at least 30 beneficiaries
 20 beneficiaries attend weekly exercise and computing classes
 Recruitment, training and development of 15 volunteers,
speaking a relevant additional language
 Hold 4 cultural awareness workshops for service providers
Example

23. Why: is there a need for your project, what needs will you be
addressing
e.g. Minority ethnic older people in the borough need more
accessible, local and affordable daytime opportunities for social
integration to address problems of isolation.
Where: Be specific about where your project will be delivered
e.g. We will deliver the sessions from the Kingfisher Estate
Community Centre E8 and will also deliver outreach surgeries
at various Community Centres in N16 and E5
When: Be specific about the timeframe for your project and
realistic about the time it will take you to realistically deliver
your project.
! Remember that your project should ONLY begin when the
grant has been successfully awarded.
Example

24. Smart approaches to evidence (1)
 What is the objective need and what contribution can
my organisation make?
 What are the wider priorities and strategies that are
relevant to my work? How can my organisation fit in to
this? Or is there something the strategies and priorities
are missing? How do I explain this?
 Who are we reaching and how does this fit with
Hackney’s profile overall? Are there any new groups
we need to target?
 What is already being delivered? What is the gap I am
trying to fill?

25. Smart approaches to evidence (2)
 If you can’t find all the evidence:
 What is the profile of our clients and what are there
needs? How does this information help “fill in the
blanks”?
 What is the demand? Are we meeting an objective need?
Or have people got used to a service? Could they be
supported in a different way or through a different
organisation?
 What do other local organisations and partners say about
our work? Why do they tell clients to use our services
 What feedback have we got from clients about what
works and what they would like to see delivered?

26. Shared evidence base
 http://www.hackney.gov.uk/statistics-evidence-p
 Facts and figures - Hackney and ward profiles
 Population including households and
diversity profiles
 City and Hackney Joint Needs assessments
 Strategies
 Link to Equality &Diversity pages- including
our Single Equality Scheme

27. Contact Hackney CVS
Hackney CVS
32-34 Dalston Lane
London
E8 3AZ
Tel: 020 7923 1962
Email: advice@hcvs.org.uk
Web: www.hcvs.org.uk
Follow us! hackney CVS on facebook and hackneycvs on twitter

28. Questions
Thank You