If you applied

How to contact the You Decide team

You can contact us by email: youdecide@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk.

What happens after you send us your expression of interest

1. We’ll review your expression of interest against our priorities. We’re expecting to get a lot of expressions of interest.
2. We’ll tell you if you’re invited to the next stage by the end of February 2025.
3. If we invite you to the next stage, we’ll ask you for some additional information and complete some checks. Learn more about our checks. We’ll do this by phone or email.
4. We’ll use this additional information to make a decision.
5. We’ll aim to tell you our decision by the end of May 2025. But some applications may take longer if they are complex. For example if they involve onward granting, or new approaches.
6. If your application is successful – we'll contact you with the good news. If your application is unsuccessful, we’ll give you feedback.

It may take us longer to pay out some types of funding

Depending on what you want to do, and how you want to do it.

For example, we should be able to pay out funding for overheads or running costs quite quickly. But it may take us longer to pay out funding that you’ll use for onward granting to communities. Or to try things that are very different from how we’ve worked before.

We may need a different kind of legal agreement with you than normal. And this takes time. We’ll discuss this with you when you apply, and keep you involved.

What happens if you get funding

We’ll get in touch with you to discuss what happens next.

Before we can pay your funding you’ll need to:

• send us a bank statement dated within the last 3 months. So we can check the account you want us to pay the funding into.
• sign an agreement with us and return a copy

We may formally evaluate the work that happens with this funding. We’ll let you know in advance if we need you to take part.

See how we use the personal data you give us

By reading our data protection statement.