Guidelines
The guidelines below are intended to help you complete the form found at the bottom of this page.
In selecting strategic partners to work with over a 3–5-year period, we hope to work closely with organisations which display:
• Excellent leadership with high ambition and entrepreneurialism.
• An openness to collaborate with others as needed to maximise impact.
• Strong user engagement in service design/improvement, particularly locally developed solutions to meet local challenges.
• Evidence that mental health and well-being have been fully considered in development of solutions.
• A commitment to Fair Work First.
• A commitment to building sustainability into your organisation.
• An understanding of local connectivity and maximise use of community skills/assets.
• Plans for leveraging our support over the period of partnership.
In addition, Trustees will be particularly keen to consider proposals which:
• Develop further a program which has already been established internally and has the potential to scale/replicate.
• Extend existing programs to reach different priority groups.
• Explore international solutions, and potentially ‘import’ models to Scotland which have been shown to be effective elsewhere.
• Forge new partnerships/mergers with a view to providing more efficient/comprehensive solutions.
• Align closely with the Scottish Government Best Start, Bright Futures: Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022-26, and in particular deliver for those shown statistically to be in greatest need.
To be considered, your organisation must be registered with the Scottish Charity Regulator to UK Charity Commission, this will include charities, CIOs and SCIOs
Tell Us About It!
Each year we undertake a comprehensive process to identify new partners. Depending on the needs of a partner, annual grants in the range of £60-100,000 are typical, normally for a period 3-5 years.
The first stage for an eligible organisation is simply to ‘tell us about it’, by completing the following form, those received by 15th August each year will be carefully reviewed, with a number then invited to submit a full application.
By mid-September each year we will be in touch to confirm whether a full application is invited or not, it is likely that we will invite less than 10 full applications. Sadly, due to the high volumes anticipated we cannot provide feedback at ‘outline stage’ – we do however provide detailed feedback to those not gaining support after a full submission.
We look forward to receiving your outline for consideration.