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Welcome!

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Q&A Briefing for Charities Development

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Q&A Briefing for Charities Catalyst and The National Lottery Community Fund COVID-19 Digital Response

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Welcome!

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Introduction

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Introduction

  • CAST team
  • Charities

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Introduction

  • Who is it for?
  • What is it?
  • Why should you apply?

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Introduction

Development

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Who should apply for Development?

  • Organisations that can show they have already been through a Discovery process
  • You need to be incorporated
  • You need to work with communities in England
  • You need to be able to demonstrate how you will share your learning journey with up to 10 other nonprofit organisations

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Who should apply for Development?

  • We are prioritising user-led organisations
  • With a focus on marginalised or under-represented groups

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Who should apply for Development?

Organisations who can demonstrate that they…

  • Understand how to write a digital project brief
  • Have a clear problem to be solved
  • Have conducted user research and testing

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Why should you apply for Development?

  • £5k - £60k funding
  • Mix of grant funding and support from a Digital Agency
  • Develop and deliver a digital project

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Structure: Time

November

February

23rd

TBC

Getting ready

TBC

Wrap up

8 weeks development + 2 weeks holiday!

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What will you achieve?

  • Build organisational capacity
  • Design great services
  • Create new services
  • Deliver better services online

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Questions

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Questions - fit

  • Can you help us understand if we are ready to apply to Development?

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Questions - eligibility

  • How do we demonstrate that we have a good understanding of the problem we are trying to solve?�
  • As a Multi Academy Trust, could we apply centrally for a digital solution across schools?�
  • Does applying for this support precludes an organisation from applying for other funding from the National Lottery Community Fund?�
  • Does the leadership need to have been previous users or beneficiaries?

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Questions - about the programme

  • Could you give a few of example programmes that would be realistic/feasible so we can understand what might be possible to achieve with the funding?�
  • In terms of demonstrating learning will be shared, what would you need to see ie formal partnerships in the bid, or evidence of sharing within our network?�
  • Grants sourced from’ The National Lottery Fund’ won’t attract applicants from mosques/Muslim communities due to religious reasons. Please advise.

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Questions - digital agency

  • Can we use the funding to pay for our current development partner if they are amazing?�
  • Does the grant budget have to include the cost of digital specialists’ support, and who these specialists are?

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Questions - sourced from Slido (during session)

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  • When you say you have to have already been through a Discovery process to apply for Development, do you mean your specific Discovery process, or something else?
  • We have a project in a research stage, but isn’t yet ready as a formal project. We’re talking with potential providers. Is this Discovery or Development?
  • Can you provide some further information or examples of what you mean by urgent issues/solutions - does this have to be directly related to COVID-19 issues?
  • We have applied to NLCF , and inc part funding for our development. This application would be for the main funding (not duplicate). Is that ok?
  • Can several members of a network apply with different projects?

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Questions

  • Any other questions?
  • Contact us at support@wearecast.org.uk

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Reflection

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Next Steps

Apply for Development

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Next steps

  • Check Eligibility
  • Check the application templates
  • Apply before 20th September 2020
  • There’s a separate deadline for organisations on the Discovery programme - September 7th

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Not ready for Development?

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Apply for Discovery

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Links shared during the Q&A

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https://www.thecatalyst.org.uk/covid-digital-fund

support@wearecast.org.uk