Forth Valley Climate Action Hub Women's Leadership Training Fund

Timescale

The fund will stop accepting applications at 9am on 9th December 2024. You can send in your application at any time before that date. If your application is approved, you need to use the funding and finish your project by 31st October 2025. You will also need to provide an interim report in April 2025.

Thank you.

To be uploaded to Jotform. Before you continue, have these documents ready:

a) The rules or guidelines that govern your organisation, like a constitution.

b) Your financial records for the year, which could be your signed financial statements or a summary of your income and expenses.

c) Your most recent bank statement.If you don't have these documents, please get in touch with FEL for help, at info@felscotland.org.

Tell us (in a max 500 words or a max 4-minute voice-note or video) what training you would like to undertake.

Please briefly state:

What it is, who will provide it, and how long it will take to complete?  
What need it will meet your community? 
What difference do you believe climate leadership training will make for you, personally, and how it will benefit your community

Signatures & Declaration:

Review and sign the declaration confirming the accuracy of your application. FEL will use your data in compliance with data protection laws and for grant administration. Scanned signatures are accepted. 

FEL is the fund administrator for the Forth Valley and The Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Climate Hub grant and is referred to in this declaration as ‘’we’’ or ‘’us’’ or ‘’our’’ and the applicant is referred to as ‘’I’’ or ‘’my’’ or ‘’you’’.  FEL is registered with OSCR with the Scottish charity number SC019 276.

I declare that the information given on this application form and in any other documentation that supports this application is complete and true. The original wording and structure of this application form as it was provided has not been altered, deleted or added to in any way.

I understand that, where any misleading statements (whether deliberate or accidental) are given at any stage during the application process, or where any information is knowingly withheld, this could render my grant application invalid and any grant funds received will be liable for repayment.

The grant proposal already falls within my organisation’s governing document (e.g., constitution, set of rules, trust deed, or memorandum and articles of association) or will do so before any award can be accepted.

My organisation has the power to accept a grant subject to conditions, and to repay the grant in the event of the grant conditions not being met, in the opinion of FEL as administrator of the Fund.

My organisation will take all reasonable precautions to ensure that grant funds received will not be misused or misappropriated in any way.  In the event of fraud or other misuse, I understand that FEL take whatever action it considers appropriate to recover misappropriated funds.

I confirm that my organisation is not insolvent, facing insolvency or unable to trade or operate. I confirm that I will let FEL know if this situation changes during the implementation of the project.

Forth Environment Link and its agents will use the information you have supplied under the terms of Data Protection Laws. We are required to disclose certain information to the Scottish Government and its agencies and partners, including the following:

Corporate information in respect of your grant application, grant agreement and outcomes of any awarded grant;
Data in respect of your employees, agents or sub-contractors, including personal data as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998 (as amended or varied), or as might otherwise be defined as personal data by any other data protection law.  Specifically, this information may include an individual’s name, contact information, salary, payslips, job status, hiring date, National Insurance number and benefits, and any other items which may be requested and can be defined as personal data; and
Any other information which the Scottish Government, its agencies and partners, may require for us to meet our funding obligations.
FEL and the Forth Valley and The Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Climate Hub will use the information you give us on the application form and during the life of a grant (if awarded) to administer and analyse grants.  We may give copies of all or some of this information to individuals and organisations we consult when assessing applications and monitoring grants.  These organisations may include external assessors, accountants, and other organisations involved in providing the grant programme.  We might also share information with government departments, organisations providing matched funding and other organisations and individuals with a legitimate interest.  To help us meet the needs of voluntary organisations, we might use the data provided for our own research purposes.  Some of the applications we receive may be from organisations that work with people who may need their privacy protected.  We recognise the need to maintain the confidentiality of these organisations’ staff and clients, therefore their details will not be made public in any way, except as required by law.  If you think your application falls within this category, please let us know.

Either your chairperson or other authorised person MUST sign this declaration on behalf of the organisation. This should be the Authorised Contact given in Applicant detail section. Scanned signatures will be accepted.