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POLICY - putting a proposal for funding to the infant trust

We aim to keep the process as simple as possible but ask that the following be incorporated:

Outline proposal of the project - keep it easy and brief, we can always ask questions. Please include background including the identified need, and expand on this as much as you can incorporating:

the project aims,
whether it might be a pilot project for future extended work,
the proposed target group,
the facilitator / project leader[s],
probable dates and length of project,
if training - the course outline and structure plus any outside or expert involvement,
the likely venues [where relevant],

Regrettably, unless your proposed projects fit into one of our four categories for funding, we will not consider it; the categories are:

  1. Assistance for abused and/or vulnerable children through supporting volunteers and staff working in the community, crisis centres, in protection services, in children’s centres and/or setting up and running diversion schemes
  2. Provision of more safe places for defenceless and abused children – particularly orphans and vulnerable infants/children
  3. Developing and funding training programmes to enable people to understand, identify and deal with suspected abuse; to protect children and/or to prevent new or further abuse. Training could be for:
    • volunteer workers,
    • community and outreach workers,
    • nursery and crèche workers,
    • traditional healers and home workers
    • young men/boys at risk of abuse or becoming abusers
  4. Raising awareness through research and publicity campaigns

 

Please tell us:

On agreement to go ahead we then draw up a service level agreement {SLA} for us both to sign and when agreed, off we go - the SLA includes the responsibilities of the infant trust and the provider, including money flow and reporting arrangements. It is expected that a representative of the infant trust will visit the project at least once, if not more times

Remember, we do not pay for:

Permanent salaries
Medication
Infrastructure costs or overhead costs or equipment

And everything must be focused on the protection and safety of small children, and how this project will help.

Guidance for reporting back on projects

These reports are not just an assessment of where the money has gone, but how we can learn and how we can develop projects to have more and better impact on protecting small children.  It is our intention to work in partnership with you and support your work; as such it is much more positive to be open about what worked and what didn’t work so we can work together to get it better, and improve it/make it more relevant next time.  Therefore each report should include:

  1. Dates, times and venues of activity
  2. Expenditure breakdown
  3. Whether the project worked out in the way it was planned, and if not, what happened to change things – be honest, it might have been a local strike or heavy rains!
  4. Whether all the planned participants got involved and, again, if not, why not? Can we make it more appropriate next time?
  5. An evaluation of the status of trainees [if a training] or the local situation at the beginning of the project
  6. Some personal stories of participants and any noted changes during the progression of the project
  7. Comments from the participants
  8. One particular personal story
  9. Some quotes from participants’ - these might be negative, positive or ambivalent – we all have to learn
  10. What has happened as a result of the project?
  11. Any likely impact on children/families
  12. Any potential next steps
  13. Anything else you wish to add

This policy was reviewed and agreed at a meeting of the Board in June 2009. It will be reviewed again in 2010.

Lesley Rudd
Chief Executive