Cambridge City Council

Homelessness Prevention Grants 2025-26
Additional Activity Application Form

 

Should you need this form in an alternative format please contact grants@cambridge.gov.uk 

Full name of organisation
(as on your governing document)		

Application Information Summary

Closing date: midday on Wednesday 18 September 2024

Complete the Application Form in full before entering the information into the summary table below from the corresponding sections in the form 
                                                                      
Total funding requested 	Q11 Box B	£  	
Full cost of activity/service	Q11 Box A	£	
% of total funding requested	Q11 Box C	        %	

Project / Activity

1.	What specific project/activity do you want funding for? 
It is important you include the detail as specified in the Application Guide (what, how many, when, where, who, how etc) 

	

2.	What partners are involved in helping you deliver this activity? 

Organisation or individual	How are they involved?	

3.	How and where will you promote and publicise your activity? 

	

4.	Why is this activity needed and what evidence do you have to support this need? 

	

5.	If this is an existing project or service, what outcomes has it achieved for the last two years (financial or calendar). Please detail measured outcomes against set targets or put ‘New Project’

	
Outcomes

All applications must demonstrate how the funding will contribute to the primary and strategic outcomes. This is an outcomes focussed grant fund and clear information on outcomes is critical to the assessment process.

Homelessness Prevention Grants - Primary Outcome

Reduce the levels of homelessness and rough sleeping in Cambridge

6.	How will your activity meet our primary outcome (above)?  What evidence do you have to support this need?  

	

7.	How will you be able to evidence that your activity has met our primary outcome?  

	

8.	How will your activity assist the Council with preventing and relieving homelessness under its statutory duties, including for households in temporary accommodation?

9.	Your activity must achieve one or more of our strategic outcomes. 
Please complete the following Strategic Outcomes chart.  It is important to include:
1.	Outcomes with quantifiable measures: amount of reduction or increase, numbers of beneficiaries, businesses, what the difference will be, what changes will have happened
2.	Monitoring – how you will measure, record, and monitor the project activities, participants, and outcomes quantified in 1. above

Strategic Outcomes
Only complete the strategic outcomes A and/or B that are directly relevant to your activity  
We will expect you to report against the outcomes, measures and targets that you set out below in your monitoring reports.	

A. Prevent homelessness and rough sleeping in Cambridge	
Your activity outcome(s):	
	
Monitoring - how will you measure and evidence you have achieved your activity outcomes above? (for example, by providing statistics, quotes from beneficiaries)		

B.  Relieve homelessness and rough sleeping in Cambridge	
Your activity outcome(s):	
	
Monitoring - how will you measure and evidence you have achieved your activity outcomes above? (for example, by providing statistics, quotes from beneficiaries)?		

Finances – Your budget for this activity

This section is to give a broad picture of the finances for the activity you are applying for. 
It is not a substitute for the more detailed whole organisation 2025-26 budget, which you need to submit as a supporting document with your application. 
As part of our monitoring, we may ask for copies of receipts as evidence of expenditure of the activity applied for.  We will expect them to relate to the information detailed below.

10.	Expenditure - outline the main costs of this activity, making sure they match the figures in your whole organisation budget which needs to be submitted with your application.  Insert extra rows as required. 
We want to understand actual costs so please do not include ’in kind’ support/contributions. 

Expense or Cost   e.g. hall hire for 3 days @ £70 a day, the hourly rate of paid staff	2025-26 Amount    £	

		

		
		
Total expenditure for the activity (full cost)	BOX 9A	£	

11.	Income - list all sources of income for this activity, with amounts.   Insert extra rows as required.                 
       Do not include ‘in kind’ support/contributions. 

Funding Source	Decision Date	Confirmed Yes/No	2025-26 Amount  £	
Eligible reserves carried forward from your organisation				
Donations specific to this activity				
Business sponsorship for this activity				
Other funders (insert a row for each)				

				
				
Cambridge City Council - Homelessness Prevention Grant (this bid)	February 2025	No	BOX 10B	£	
Total income for the activity (anticipated)	£	

12.	 How much are you requesting from Cambridge City Council and what percentage is this of the total cost of the activity?  

Box 11A. Full cost of activity 

	Box 11B. Amount requested from Cambridge City Council   
	Box 11C. % of the full cost requested from Cambridge City Council	
Enter figure from Q9 Box 9 A
£	Enter figure from Q10 Box 10 B
£	Box 11B divided by Box 11A x 100
 %	

 Please provide any comments and/or calculations to evidence your activity is good value for money.

	

Impact

13.  We may only be able to make a contribution towards the amount you have applied for.  Please indicate:

The minimum contribution to enable a revised activity to happen	£
	
What is the revised activity – include what would be reduced/deleted/changed for the contribution above.  Please reference any relevant property relationship (for example with City Council)

14.   How will you sustain your organisation and this activity into the future? 

Your organisation	Activity you are applying for 	

  
Declaration

I am the contact named in Question 19 on the main application form and I am authorised to sign this on behalf of the organisation.  I confirm on behalf of the organisation that we:
a)	state that all answers to the questions on this form are correct to the best of our knowledge
b)	have read and agree to be bound by the funding information provided by Cambridge City Council in the application documents and will ensure that all the organisation’s management committee and/or staff and relevant volunteers are aware of their contents
c)	undertake that any funding made available by the Council, or such part of it as the Council may determine, shall be repaid if the organisation:
i.	is found to be in breach of the conditions that apply to the funding 
ii.	does not spend the grant on the purpose allocated
iii.	if the organisation becomes insolvent or closes down
d)	understand that, as the grant comes from public funds, we must inform you of any surplus made from the activity and you reserve the right to require us to pay back all or part of the grant
e)	understand that this grant will not be used in any way to promote a political or religious organisation or to generate private gain. The organisation will also take care to avoid giving the impression that it supports any political party or candidate in an election and will not give publicity to political parties or to individual politicians or candidates in the six week period leading to an election
f)	understand that special conditions may be attached to the award of any funding and that Cambridge City Council will require information for monitoring and evaluation purposes
g)	acknowledge that grants and discretionary rate relief are issued for a twelve month period and there is no commitment by the Council to continue funding after that period is over or to sustain a grant at the same level as that of a previous year
h)	understand that Cambridge City Council will undertake due diligence checks for the prevention and detection of fraud

Full name of Group / Organisation 		
Signed for and on behalf of above Group / Organisation (please add your signature or type your name)		
Name and position in Group / Organisation		
Date		

Submitting your application – important information

Please check that you have:
•	answered all of the questions on this form
•	completed the summary table on the front page
•	signed the form appropriately

Email the completed form to: grants@cambridge.gov.uk

The deadline for submitting applications is midday on Wednesday 18 September 2024

Please note:

•	Applications will not be accepted after this date
•	Incomplete applications will not be eligible
Acknowledgement of application
We do not take responsibility for having received applications until they are acknowledged

If you do not receive an acknowledgement email by Wednesday 2 October 2024, please contact us immediately as your application may not have been received. 
We will confirm in the acknowledgement how many application forms we have received and if this is different to what you intended, please contact us immediately.