Application Form - The Ouseley Church Music Trust

Before completing this form, applicants are strongly advised to look at the Trust’s website at www.ouseleytrust.org.uk paying particular attention to the section entitled “Procedure & Guidelines”. Our Procedures & Guidelines have been compiled to help assist you in what we fund, how we ask for the application to be completed and submitted, our closing dates, and other useful information.
If you would like to have an informal conversation in advance of making an application, please do contact our Clerk, Neil Parsons on 07912 696852 clerk@ouseleytrust.org.uk who will be pleased to help you.
Please note that all applications, including those made on behalf of an individual, must be submitted by a church, college, school or other institution.
Please answer all sections as fully as possible, as gaps may delay the processing of your application. Do not leave any lines or boxes blank: if necessary, insert “Nil” or “N/A”.
The parent(s) of children aged under 18 will be required to complete a separate Financial Declaration which should be submitted alongside this Application Form. This form is also available via our website www.ouseleytrust.org.uk

Name of Church, Choral Foundation, School, Choir or other institution making the application

Name of child (if appropriate)

Sex of child (if appropriate)

Name of person making the application

Address (including post code)

Position in organisation

Please give details of the project / purpose for which help is being requested (not more than 500 characters). Leaflets and other attachments, and links to webpages, may not be seen nor accessed by the trustees.

What are the financial requirements?

Please give details of the financial position of the organisation applying for help; and say why this project cannot be funded from its existing resources. Please enclose a copy of the organisation’s most recent audited or independently examined accounts.

Is this a once-only application, or is it anticipated that further help will be requested?

Has an application for assistance with this project been made elsewhere? If so, to whom and when?

What was/were the result(s) of the application(s)?

To what other sources (if any) will application be made?

Do you monitor the diversity of your choir(s)? If so, please attach the most recent report on this.

Please give the names and contact details of two persons to whom the Trust can refer in support of this application.
If your application is on behalf of a specific Chorister for assistance with fees, please automatically send two references with this application.
Person 1

Person 2

Additional information (if any). NB Leaflets and other attachments, and links to webpages, may not be seen nor accessed by the trustees.

The person or persons making this application, or an adult individual on whose behalf this application is made, are aware that the information which it contains may be shared with the Choir Schools’ Association Bursary Trust and other grant-making bodies and have given their consent thereto.

The trustees meet twice in each calendar year - usually in the spring and autumn. Applications will not be considered unless they are received by the last day of the preceding February and June respectively.

The Trust’s Privacy and Safe-guarding policies may be found at www.ouseleytrust.org.uk.

By checking this box, I declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief all the particulars here submitted are true, and that where the application is on behalf of a person aged under 18, written consent to the application has been obtained from the individual’s parent(s) or guardian.