Thrive Together Fund

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Information About You
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Welcome to the application form for the Thrive Together Fund. 

The fund provides a funding package of loan (75%) and grant (25%) to eligible voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, who are based in and delivering social impact in England.

The fund is managed by Social Investment Business, and delivered in partnership with The Architectural Heritage Fund, Co-operative and Community Finance, Fredericks Foundation, Groundwork and Homeless Link.

This application form should take approximately 15 minutes to complete if you have all of the information to hand.
At the end of the application form, we will ask you to attach the following information:
• Last 2 sets of approved financial accounts (showing figures for 3 years, if available)
• Latest set of management accounts
• 12 month cashflow forecast for the current financial year 

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Information about the fund and; eligibility criteria can be found here.

If you have further questions, please contact SIB at loans@sibgroup.org.uk or one of the Fund Partners here. 

We have listed the Fund eligibility criteria below. If you are unable to tick to confirm that your organisation meets each of the eligibility criteria, you will not be eligible for the fund so please do not continue with the application.

Eligibility Checker
Yes
Eligible organisations must: have a formal company structure/ be incorporated and be a registered UK Charity, Community Interest Company or Community Benefit Society, or, if another legal structure, have a social object, asset lock and restriction on profit distribution written into its governing document. Please see here for further guidance on the eligibility criteria.

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Organisational Details

I.e. The exact name registered at Companies House/ other regulator.




If you have a company or charity number that is shorter than the required characters, please add 0’s at the start to meet the required character count.

Note: eligibility criteria – must have been actively operating for at least 2 years.




Note: eligibility criteria - must be based in England.

The postcode must be in uppercase and the correct format, for example, M2 1BB, CB2 1QA or BS32 0BQ.




Note: eligibility criteria - must be delivering services in England.




Note: eligibility criteria - eligible organisations must have a formal company structure/ be incorporated and be a registered UK Charity, Community Interest Company or Community Benefit Society, or, if another legal structure, have a social object, asset lock and restriction on profit distribution written into its governing document. Please see here for further guidance on the eligibility criteria.

You will not be eligible for this fund



Group = when one or more companies are owned/ controlled (directly or indirectly) by a single parent company. If your organisation is part of a group structure, please answer yes.



Note: you must have had a turnover of at least £100k. Please just enter the turnover as a number (no commas or symbols).

Please just enter a whole number (no commas or symbols). Please enter 0 if the answer is none.

Please just enter a whole number (no commas or symbols). Please enter 0 if the answer is none.

Please just enter a whole number (no commas or symbols). Enter 0 if you do not have volunteers.





Trading income = income from the provision of goods and services i.e. income from sales, fees, contracts, and service level agreements. It does not include pure grant awards, gifts, or donations (and gift aid), unless this income is in direct return for a good or service. See guidance (linked on page one of this form) for a list of eligible/ineligible items.



How diverse is your organisation's board and senior management team?

We are collecting data on equalities to better understand the make-up of the organisations this fund will support. 

We have a commitment to ensuring that we fully represent the diversity of the sector in our funding. The data will also feed into wider on-going Programme reporting and learning.

What percentage of your board and senior management team are:




Completion of these questions is encouraged but voluntary.

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Partner Details

The partner you select will assess your application and decide whether to recommend it to the Funds Investment Committee
Funding Request

Please just enter whole numbers, without £, or other symbols







We understand that the money can be spent on different things. Please choose where the majority of money will be spent.





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Supporting Information 
Please upload the last 2 sets of financial accounts (showing figures for 3 years, if available)






Submit your application 
By submitting this form, you are confirming that the information contained within it is true and correct. You are also confirming that you have the authority to submit this application on behalf of the organisation.

By applying to the fund, you consent to the sharing of your details (including name, contact information and organisation details – including organisational financial information, loan details) amongst the Fund partners for the purposes of managing the fund; the Fund Partners are Social Investment Business, The Architectural Heritage Fund, Co-operative and Community Finance, Fredericks Foundation, Groundwork and Homeless Link. Your details will also be shared with the investors of the Fund, Access - The Foundation for Social Investment and their advisors, agents, contractors, and auditors. Each organisation’s data policy can be reviewed on their respective websites. 

Your data will not be shared with any other third parties and will only be used for administrative purposes in relation to the fund and for its duration.

All data sharing will be in accordance with current data protection regulations.

 

The full privacy policy for The Social Investment Business can be found at

https://www.sibgroup.org.uk/data-privacy-policy


As you were unable to confirm that your organisation meets each of the eligibility criteria on page one of this form you will not be eligible for the fund. Please do not continue with the application.
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