5. Before you apply
5.1. Capacity
Operational capacity
All applying organisations must possess the necessary professional competencies and be able to allocate appropriate resources and staffing, proportionate to the scale of their Taith project.
Organisations must have appropriate governance arrangements for managing grant funded projects and appropriate policies and procedures in place to carry out the proposed activity including but not limited to:
- Safeguarding and Child Protection
- Data protection
- Confidentiality
- Insurance
Financial capacity
All applying organisations must demonstrate they have a stable and sufficient source of income to maintain eligible activities throughout the period during which the Taith project is being carried out.
Taith may carry out financial capacity checks, including but not limited to:
- A review of latest accounts on Companies House or the Charity Commission, where relevant.
- A review of the organisation’s most recent management accounts.
- A review of the organisation’s governing documents to confirm that the organisation can receive the funding, the name on bank account matches and other checks, where relevant.
- A check of credit reference agency records where appropriate.
- A review of the organisation’s current bank statements showing the closing balance.
Taith has a zero tolerance approach to fraud. Applying organisations must have appropriate financial procedures in place which protect the organisation and Taith from bribery, fraud, and other financial criminal acts.
5.2. Completing the application
To apply for funding from the Taith programme, applying organisations must use the relevant Pathway application form accessed via the Taith website.
The application process includes:
- A pre-application check to ensure applying organisations can proceed to the application form
- Pathway application form
- Pathway Grant Calculator
- Eligibility checklist
The pre-application check asks a number of questions related to the applying organisations and any consortium partners’ eligibility to the sector they intend to apply for.
The application form asks for narrative responses on a range of questions including a project overview, details about planned project activities, project and financial management, and alignment to the Taith programme objectives, all related to the specific Taith Pathway.
Alongside the application form, applying organisations will be required to complete a Grant Calculator, which will calculate the total grant requested based on the various activities applied for. Information on the grant rates for all Pathways can be found in the relevant Pathway guides.
Alongside the application form and Grant Calculator, you must complete and submit an eligibility checklist which checks your organisations status, operational capacity and financial capacity.
We recommend downloading the available resources designed and created to support organisations with their application. These can be found on the and include pre-recorded information on completing the application form and project budget. All applicants are encouraged to complete the qualitative application sections offline, and then copy and paste them into the online application form. This will enable applicants to work through the sections of their application in their own time, without any of the risks associated with working online.
Organisations can only submit one application per sector for each Pathway funding call. If an applying organisation submits more than one application to the same sector pathway in the same call, it will not be possible to combine multiple applications and Taith will ask the applying organisation to select which of the applications they wish to proceed with.
The deadlines for Pathway funding calls can be found on the Taith website, or on the current, relevant version of each Pathway Guide.