Police Fund

The purpose of the Fund is to provide school shoes and/or coats for children of school age who attend a City of Edinburgh Council administration area school. Outerwear bearing a school logo is not eligible

Applications must be submitted via a post holder in a local authority or third sector organisation. Suitable post holders include social workers, housing officers, pupil support officers, employment advisers, community link workers, head teachers, family support workers.

Due to high demand, the maximum number of applications per school or oganisation is 5 per term and an annual cap of 10 will apply.

Applications will not be accepted directly from members of the public, applications from members of the public will be automatically rejected.

Only one application on behalf of an individual, family or household will be considered in a rolling twelve-month period.

This funding stream is restricted for school shoes and/or a coat. It is not permitted to purchase any other type of school clothing or items e.g. trousers, shirts, materials

1. When you submit this application an email acknowledgement will be sent to you. The email contains a unique identifier for the application e.g. EPFC1234. Please quote this reference in any future correspondence. The email will also include a copy of your application form.
2. Applications are processed on a continuous basis, with a turnaround of approximately four weeks. 
3. If the application is approved, a confirmation email will be sent to you and copied to your organisation's finance contact.
4. If the application is unsuccessful, the Trust Administrator will email you, explaining why it was unsuccessful.

Please note that you can use your logon to view your application using the My Submissions tab. Please do this first before phoning or emailing.

If the application is successful:

1. The payment will be issued by BACS to your organisations nominated bank account. Payments will not be made directly to an individual.
2. The grant should be used within four weeks of being issued, you have discretion to decide if a supervised spend is appropriate or not.
3. Once the funding has been used you need to logon and use the grant acknowledgement form to confirm that the grant has been spent. The software will send a reminder if you forget!
4. Once you have confirmed that the grant has been used, there is the option to provide feedback on how the grant has made a difference. You are encouraged to do this as we want to learn from your experience. It will help us to understand what you need from us.
5. Any unused part or the full grant amount must be returned within eight weeks of receipt. If money is to be returned you will be able to logon and access the grant acknowledgement form to advise if all or some funding is due to be returned.

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Please ensure that the beneficiary, you are applying for funding on behalf of, is aware of this information prior to commencing and submitting the application.

Before proceeding, please confirm the following:

• you have read and understood the funding eligibility and application process
• you have read and understood the use of funding guidelines
• you have advised the grant beneficiary of our privacy statement and that their data will be shared with us.