Community Funding Toolkit

1. Clear summary of what your project will achieve
2. Clear links with identified needs, and wider policies and strategies
3. Good support from a wide range of people and organisations (evidenced)
4. Clear aims, objectives, outputs and outcomes
5. Clearly thought through project delivery plan and realistic timescales
6. Clear capital costs, including professional fees, contingency and VAT
7. Financial tables to show projected income and expenditure
8. Evidence of risk awareness and good management
9. Relevant marketing to the right people
10. Realistic and well thought out funding strategy

All delivered by a strong organisation with good governance and clear policies and procedures.
Each one of these points is covered briefly in the following pages, with more information provided in links.