How to apply
Contact us for a conversation about your idea
Email us at: i.willfund@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk.
We’ll put you in contact with someone from our team within 10 days of contacting us.
We’ll ask you how you’ll:
- help young people take part in place-based youth social action
- test, deliver and develop your project
- involve young people
- encourage local partnerships, so organisations can make bigger change in their communities than if they worked alone
- do this by March 2027
We’ll want to know more about:
- the young people taking part, including their age range and their communities
- the location of your project
- how long the project will run for
- the benefits to both young people and the community
- how you’ll measure the success of the project
- how you’ll share your learning with others
If you’re eligible to apply for the funding, we’ll send you an expression of interest form.
If it's difficult or impossible for you to complete an expression of interest form
You can contact us if you have any communication support needs. We’re happy to talk about other ways for you to tell us about your idea.
What information you need to apply
We ask for the contact details, home addresses and dates of birth of 2 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 2 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 you have, like a charity number or company number. It will slow down your application if these details are not right.
We ask for details about your organisation’s accounts
We’ll ask for details about your organisation’s finances.
We also ask you to read and agree to our terms and conditions
We’ll send you these to read and agree when we send you an expression of interest form.
What happens after you send us your expression of interest
- We’ll consider your expression of interest
We’ll look at your idea and carry out checks on the information you provide us. You can find out more about the checks we'll carry out on your information.
We’ll contact you to talk about your form and get more information if we need it. - We’ll let you know if we want to take your application to the next stage
We’ll aim to tell you our decision in 6 weeks.
If you’re eligible to apply for funding, we’ll send you an application form.
If we do not take your application further, we’ll tell you why. - We’ll make our final decision
We’ll aim to tell you our final decision within 6 weeks of you sending us your completed application form.
We’ll contact you to let you know if we’re going to fund your project or not. If you’re successful, we’ll tell you what you need to do next. - You can start your project
As soon as you’ve:
- signed and returned the funding contract
- provided us with a bank statement from the last 3 months (so we can pay your funding)
- had an induction call with a funding officer
You should spend the funding the way you said you would in your application (unless we’ve agreed to something different first). We’ll check in from time to time to see how things are going. Find out more about how to manage your funding.
How we use your personal data
To find out how we use your personal data you can read our Data Protection Statement.
We do checks on the information you give us
As an organisation that gives out public funds, we carry out some checks on the information you give to us. Learn more about our checks.