Before you apply you need to:
- Watch a video briefing or attend an online or in-person briefing event.
- Watch the video briefing
- Attend an online or in-person briefing event
In-person briefing event:
Book a ticket for the in-person event in NICVA, Belfast on 26 April 2024
Online briefing events:
Book a ticket for a virtual briefing session from 4pm to 5pm on 2 May 2024
Book a place to join a virtual briefing session from 11am to 12pm on 7 May 2024
If you cannot watch the video or attend an online or in-person briefing event
You can:
- phone us on 028 9055 1455
- send us an email on enquiries.ni@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk.
For those with a hearing or speech impairment you can contact us on:
- Text relay 18001 plus 028 9055 1431
- SignVideo if you’re a BSL user.
2. Once you’ve watched the video or attended a briefing event, you can apply using an online application form
If it's difficult or impossible for you to complete an online application form
You can contact us if you have any communication support needs. We’re happy to talk about other ways for you to apply.
What happens next
- We'll email you to let you know we got your application.
- Your answers will be passed on to a funding officer, who will check your eligibility. As an organisation that gives out public funds, we carry out checks on the information you provide us. You can find out more about the checks we'll carry out on your information.
- If you’re eligible, we’ll assess your application in detail. We may be in touch to get more information, like a more detailed project plan.
- We’ll be in touch before December 2024 to let you know if you’ve been successful.
We only have a certain amount of funding to award
We get a lot of applications. This means we have to make some tough decisions around what we can fund.
We expect to make around 25 to 30 grants across Northern Ireland. As part of the decision-making process, we’ll make sure there's spread of funding across the different underrepresented community groups.
Check who can and cannot apply before filling out the application form.
What information you need to apply
You can see a full list of questions from the application form.
We ask for contacts for your application
We ask for the contact details, home addresses and dates of birth of two different people from your organisation. We need a different email address for each person.
One person should be someone we can talk to if we have any questions about your project. The other should be a senior member of your organisation, who'll be legally responsible for the funding. Both need to live in the UK. These two people cannot be related.
Related can mean:
- related by marriage
- in a civil partnership with each other
- in a long-term relationship with each other
- related through a long term partner
- living together at the same address
- related by blood.
We ask for the legal name of your organisation - and its address. And what type of organisation it is
Check these details before applying. Also check any registration numbers if you have them – like a charity number or company number. It will slow down your application if these details are not right.
We ask for information about your organisation’s accounts
We want to know the date your accounts end each year and how much income you have.
If you do not have yearly accounts because you’re a new organisation (less than 15 months old), that’s okay. We can still look at your application.
If you’re awarded funding, you’ll need to send us a bank statement
We ask for one bank statement dated within the last three months. So, we can check the account you want us to pay the grant into.
We'll not be able to assess your application if you do not have a bank account and bank statement that meet our requirements below. If you’re not sure you should contact us to check if your bank account and statement are suitable.
We need:
- A bank account that meets our needs in our Financial Controls and Financial Governance Guidance
- A bank statement that meets our needs - like in this picture of the kind of bank statement we’re looking for.
What we need to see on your bank statement
The bank statement (or bank welcome letter if the account was opened within the last 3 months) must be:
- uploaded as one single file
- a file of 12MB or less in size
- a PDF, JPEG or PNG file.
It should show:
- the bank logo
- your organisation's legal name
- the address the statements are sent to
- your bank's name
- the account number and sort code
- the date the letter/statement was issued.
If all these details are on one page, just send us that page.
What else we accept
If you have a new bank account opened within the last three months, we can accept a bank welcome letter instead of a statement. The letter must confirm the date the account was opened and all the account details.
If you’re unable to provide a bank statement, we can accept transaction listings, if they include everything we’d expect to see on a bank statement:
- the bank logo
- your organisation’s legal name
- the address your bank uses for correspondence
- your bank’s name
- the account number and sort code
- date the transaction listing covers.
What we do with your data
To find out how we use the personal data you give us you can read our data protection and privacy notice.