TNIFF Grassroots Facilities Programme - Stream 1

The purpose of this Application Form is to score and prioritise applications to determine which projects will be taken forward for funding.

The Application Form consists of 7 Parts:

Part 1 Applicant Details.

This Part is used to gather information on the applicant and Owner of the facility.

Part 2 Essential Criteria.

This Part is used to establish that applicants meet the Essential Criteria for the Programme.

Part 3 Your Football Club.

This Part is used to gather details of the football club and its facilities.

Part 4 Your Proposed Project.

This Part is used to set out the detail of the proposed project.

Part 5 Delivery of Your Proposed Project.

This Part is concerned with how the proposed project will be delivered.

Part 6 Your Financial Position.

This Part is concerned with the financial aspects of the proposed project.

Part 7 Management of Your Proposed Project.

This Part is concerned with the management of the proposed project.

Not all questions in the Application Form are scored but to comply with the Department's business case approval process, and to ensure a thorough assessment of your proposal, it is important that all questions are answered satisfactorily.

To support this approach, character limits have been introduced across all narrative response fields. Responses to 10‑point questions are limited to 10,000 characters (approximately 1700 - 1900 words), and responses to 5‑point questions are limited to 5,000 characters (approximately 850 - 950 words). Non-scoring questions are limited to 10,000 characters. These limits help ensure that applicants provide focused and relevant information, enabling assessors to apply the scoring criteria in a fair, transparent and consistent manner.

The Department reserves the right to remove applications that have not fully followed this process.

Applicants who do not meet the Essential Criteria will not be eligible to apply.

Please ensure that you refer to the Guidance Document and Scoring Matrix when completing this Application Form and throughout the application process.

A copy of the Guidance Document is available on the Departments website at

https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/publications/northern-ireland-football-fund-stream-1-grassroots-facilities-programme-pilot

A hard copy is also available on request to

tniff.grassrootsandnfc@communities-ni.gov.uk

FUNDING

ALL AWARDS ARE SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDING AND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE FUNDING AGREEMENT.

THE DEPARTMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ALLOCATE NO FUNDING TO THE PROGRAMME.