Young Carers Can…
Full list of questions – FOR REFERENCE ONLY
Please find below a list of the questions you will find on the online application
form for the Young Carers Can… programme. This document is supplied for
your reference only. Please DO NOT submit this as a completed application.
All information must be submitted via our online application process, which
can be found at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/youngcarerscan . All
applications must be received by the closing date, 12pm on 3 August 2012.
Your organisation
1. About your organisation
Your name:
Company:
Address 1:
Address 2:
City/Town:
County:
Post Code:
Website:
Email Address:
Phone Number:
2. Legal status of your organisation
Registered charity number:
Registered housing association number:
Scottish or Northern Irish charity number:
Limited Company number:
Location
3. Where will the work take place? (please select one of the following)
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
England
UK Wide
4. If you are based in England, please indicate the appropriate region (please
select one of the following)
North West
North East
South West
South East
Eastern
London
West Midlands
East Midlands
Yorkshire/Humberside
Management
5. Do you have a Management Committee or Board of Trustees? (please select
one of the following)
Yes
No
6. How many people are on the Committee or Board of Trustees?
7. How do people become Committee members? (please select one of the
following)
Elected
Appointed
8. How many are have had a caring role?
Your organisation
9. Tell us about your organisation and your experience of working with young
carers
Your Proposed Project
This is your chance to tell us about your project. Firstly, please tell us your project title,
incorporating the fund's name. For example, 'Young Carers Can... Dance!' or 'Young Carers
Can... Jump!'
10. What is your project title?
11. How much are you applying for (Maximum £2,500)?
In this section we would like to hear the details of your proposed project. Tell us, in 150
words or less, an overview of your project's activities, remembering to answer the important
who, why, what, when, where and how questions.
12. Tell us, in 150 words or less, about your project.
Key milestones
Please list the key steps or milestones for the project, remembering all of the stages needed
to successfully deliver your project on time. For example:
Week commencing 2 October 2012 - Book venue and produce flyer
Week commencing 9 October 2012 - Distribute flyer and advise current users of event by email notification
Week commencing 30 October 2012 - Event
Week commencing 2 November 2012 - Undertake monitoring and evaluation
13. What are the key milestones of this project?
Service delivery
14. How many days of planning will you assign to this project?
15. How many days will the event take place over?
About the young carers
Please make sure when answering the following questions that you are referring to this
particular project, and NOT the overall work of your organisation.
16. How many young carers will directly benefit from the event/activity?
17. How many of these do you anticipate will not have had contact with your
organisation before?
18. How many young people will you work with from the following age groups?
5-7 years
8-12 years
13-15 years
16-18 years
19-24 years
19. Are you planning on targeting a particular community? If so, how many of
your young carers will come from the following target groups? Please
remember that some young carers may identify themselves with more than
one equalities group.
Young carers from rural communities
Young carers caring for someone experiencing mental health problems
Young carers caring for someone with learning disabilities
Young carers from refugee/asylum seeking communities
Young carers from lesbian, gay or bisexual communities
Young carers from transgender communities
Young carers from ethnic minority communities
Young carers caring for someone experiencing substance misuse
Young carers caring for someone with a physical disability or illness
Young carers from travelling communities
Young carers from other communities
20. If you have selected 'Young carers from other communities' please specify which
communities you are targeting
Evaluation
21. How will your organisation evaluate the project? What methods will you
use to find out if your project made a difference? For example – young carer
satisfaction survey, facilitator’s report.
Budget
22. If the project budget exceeds £2,500, please explain how you will cover the
difference
Additional questions
We would like to ask a few questions about the application process. We strive to make this
process as user-friendly as possible and we would welcome all your comments. As we are
trialling online application submissions it would be particularly useful to hear about how you
found completing your application this way.
Please be assured that your comments will NOT affect the assessment of your application.
23. Please tell us how you found out about this funding
24. Did you find this application easy to complete?
Yes
No
25. If you have answered 'no', please explain why.
26. Please provide any additional comments you would like us to consider
when devising future application procedures.