First stage of the assessment During the first stage of the assessment we will consider the following questions.
Question		More Information
Is your organisation eligible to apply?		See Eligibility,
Is your organisation in reasonable financial health?		See, Your organisation’s finances,
Does your organisation/project meet our general funding policy?		See Organisations outside our general funding policy.
Are you applying for your own organisation or for another organisation?		See Organisations applying on behalf of another
If your organisation currently holds a grant for the project, does the grant have less than a year left to run?		See How often can we apply,
Is your organisation making reasonable use of any free reserves it holds?		See Free reserves,
If your organisation currently holds a grant from us or has had a grant from us before, have you managed the grant and the project satisfactorily?		See Monitoring, and Have you had a grant from us before.
Is your application complete?		See the checklist on the back of the application form.
If you are applying as a consortium, are all of the member organisations eligible to apply, and within the our funding policy?		See Consortium applications.
Does your organisation meet our policy on dependent branches?		See, Branches,
Are you sending us the application or is it being sent for you by a professional fund-raiser?		See, Professional fund-raisers.
If your application involves further or higher education institutions (or both), is it led by an Independent charity or voluntary organisation?		See. Higher and further education.
If the application is for an informal consortia, have all the organisations completed the additional pages required and are they all eligible?		Click here for more...