What happens next

Your application is dated and numbered for tracking purposes.

All the details on the form are checked to ensure that it is completed correctly, and the details meet the Foundation’s criteria.

In the 10days leading to the Trustee meeting the Grants Officer prepares a report on each application. These along with application are then inspected by the Trustees, and each treated on its own merit. After discussion the Trustees make their decisions

They can offer full grant, part grant, reject the application or ask for more details.

If a grant is offered to an applicant, the grants officer will contact the applicant with in 5 working days of the meeting date. He will asked them to write to the Foundation confirming their circumstances on the application have not changed, also to include two postcard size photographs of the child taking part in their sport .

When all confirmation letters have been received, the Foundation will decide if they are going to make a formal presentation. If this is the case each grant recipient will be informed of the time, date and place of this.

In the case of no formal presentation, a letter along with a cheque for the amount awarded will be sent to the person named on the application form.

The Foundation issues a press release on each of the grant recipients; these are sent to the press in their area. A copy of the press release will be included in the letter to the recipients, for them to give to the local press in their area if they so wish.

If you have not heard from the Foundation 10 days after the meeting date, you can consider the application unsuccessful. No comment or correspondence will be entered into regarding these applications.