Eligibility Criteria & Application Guidance

This guidance aims to help you complete your application. If you have any further questions, please contact us at b2bsupport@selbytrust.co.uk 
 
Section 1:  About your Organisation 
Name of your Organisation 
Provide the name of your organisation as it appears on any governing documents. If you are known by another name, or are a sole trader, please tell us here. 
 
Address of your Organisation 
This should be the address of the organisation. If the organisation doesn't have an independent location, you can use the contact details of the primary contact. 
 
Main Contact Person 
The contact person should be someone who has a good knowledge of the application as this is the person we will contact if we have any queries. 
 
Telephone Number 
The telephone number should be one at which the organisation is easily contacted, especially during office hours. 
 
Email Address 
The email address should be one which is regularly checked. 
 
Do you have a website? 
Yes (Please provide address) or no. 
 
Social Media Accounts 
Please include details of all your social media sites if you have them. 
 
Organisation Start Date 
Please enter the date when your organisation was formally established or alternatively the date you started trading. 
 
What type of organisation are you? 
•    Company Limited by Guarantee 
•    Community Interest Company 
•    Registered Charity 
•    Not For Profit Company 
•    Sole Trader 
•    Other (please give details) 
 
What is the total number of staff (full & part time) that your organisation has? 
Please classify a part time staff member as an individual staff member. For example, if your organisation has 2 part-time and 1 full-time staff member you would select 3 members of staff on the form. 
 
What is the total number of volunteers that your organisation has? 
Please put the total number of all people who work as volunteers.  
 
Section 2: About your grant application 
 
What is the title of your project? 
If the project or idea has a name, put it here. If not, please enter the name of your Organisation. 
 
Please tell us about what you hope to achieve with this funding? (500 words maximum) 
This is your opportunity to sell your idea to us.  
We would like to know how this funding will help your business to grow and what the outcomes will be. If your business will be working towards offering new services or products, please tell us about this. If you hope to attract new customers or operate in new markets, please tell us about how you will do this. If you think the funding will help your business become more resilient in the future, please tell us about it.  
If you are a new business, please tell us what makes your idea special, what you are hoping to achieve in the future, and how this money will help you get there.  
 
Section 3: Project budget and Declaration
 
What is the total amount of funding you are applying to us for? 
Please provide the total grant amount applied for. The maximum is £2,000  
 
How will you spend the money? 
Please give a line-by-line breakdown of what the budget will be spent on and the total cost at the bottom. No more than 30% can be spent on physical assets/equipment.   
 
For example: 

• Company registration costs £500

• List all Equipment costs £600

• List Staff Costs £600

• Volunteer expenses £300 

Total Budget £2,000 

Provide a timeline of when you will spend the money? 
Please provide a line-by-line breakdown of what you will deliver month by month. You must spend the grant by 31 December 2025.

• A job will be created as a result of the funding. 

• A job will be safeguarded as a result of the funding. 

• A new enterprise will be created as a result of the funding. 

• Your business will be able to engage in a new market. 

• Your business will adopt or improve a product or service. 

• You're seeking funding for a project that'll allow you to create or protect jobs, launch a new business, expand into a new market, or improve your existing product(s) or service(s)​​