Asset Based Community Development Grant Funding — Round 1. 2022–2023 Application Form

It has been decided to extend the ABCD grants application window. All applications must be submitted by Friday 30th December 2022. 5pm

We have tak­en this deci­sion in recog­ni­tion that many projects have increas­ing­ly busy sched­ules in the run up to the Christ­mas Break, we do not wish you to miss this oppor­tu­ni­ty due to capac­i­ty; thank you to all those projects that have already sub­mit­ted applications. 

The VCS Alliance wish­es you all a peace­ful and relax­ing break and we look for­ward to being a small part of the fan­tas­tic work you all do in the New Year. 

7 Com­mu­ni­ty Part­ner­ships are tak­ing part in the round of ABCD Grant fund­ing, they are:

Each Com­mu­ni­ty Part­ner­ship has a Lead­er­ship Team that looks at health issues and con­cerns in their part­ner­ship area. All Com­mu­ni­ty Part­ner­ship Lead­er­ship Teams have a num­ber of health pro­fes­sion­als that are mem­bers of the Lead­er­ship Teams as well as vol­un­tary sec­tor and com­mu­ni­ty rep­re­sen­ta­tives. The Lead­er­ship Teams com­bine their sec­tor exper­tise and knowl­edge to try and under­stand the kind of health prob­lems peo­ple are expe­ri­enc­ing and build respons­es to that called health priorities.

The health pri­or­i­ties take a wider view of health that just clin­i­cal issues such as dis­ease and ill­ness and also take into account the under­ly­ing caus­es that can lead to clin­i­cal health prob­lems such as lone­li­ness and iso­la­tion, poor diet caused by finan­cial pres­sures, etc…

The health pri­or­i­ties for each part­ner­ship run­ning in this round of ABCD are below.

Gen­er­al Infor­ma­tion
All grant awards are sub­ject to report­ing, this means both a Progress Update and a Final Eval­u­a­tion unless your project is run­ning for less than 3 months.
If you have been fund­ed for less than 3 months, you Progress Update will be a vis­it from the Grants Man­ag­er.
The pur­pose of this vis­it is both to offer sup­port, but to check on your progress. In all cir­cum­stances projects award­ed grant fund­ing will be asked to com­plete a case study, this is includ­ed in the Final Eval­u­a­tion form. It is a chance for the project to high­light any prob­lems they have been hav­ing, seek advice and of course to show­case the great work you will be undertaking. 

On occa­sions projects have sub­mit­ted reports late (with­out pri­or con­sent) and very occa­sion­al­ly failed to sub­mit reports despite being remind­ed. There­fore, we have been forced to bring in more strin­gent penal­ties for late and/ or miss­ing report­ing, this is detailed on the appli­ca­tion form. Please ensure you read and under­stand this as you will be asked to con­firm this in the form and that you agree with the poten­tial sanc­tions.

Report­ing time frame
Progress Update will be due at the mid-point of your deliv­ery.
Final Eval­u­a­tion has to be sub­mit­ted with­in 2 weeks of the fin­ish of your project

As per nor­mal all appli­ca­tions and will be com­plet­ed and sub­mit­ted through Sur­vey Mon­key, along with the Progress Update and Final Eval­u­a­tion forms. It is impor­tant to read through all forms to ensure you are aware of what you will be asked to report on/ against. Though there are no spe­cif­ic out­comes or KPI’s you will be asked for spe­cif­ic demo­graph­ic infor­ma­tion and projects must ensure they keep track of these demo­graph­ics.

Please note: It is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of projects to ensure they are aware of report­ing dates, you will be informed of your report­ing dates when you are noti­fied if you have been suc­cess­ful.

The blue but­tons below will take you to Sur­vey Mon­key where you can com­plete and sub­mit your appli­ca­tion form.