Please enter your preferred first name, the name you’d like us to call you when we contact you.

Please tell us the pronouns you would like us to use when we contact you.

Please provide your residential address.

Please provide at least one contact number, preferably your mobile if you have one.

We ask for your date of birth to ensure eligibility; we cannot accept applications from people under the age of 16.

We ask for this so that we can correctly link records in case you have a number of applications with us.

If your application progresses and you are invited to an online panel meeting, we will ask you if you require adjustments to make the panel meeting accessible for you.

We can only accept applications from individuals who have the right to live and work in the UK.

So we can monitor the success of our communications and work with our partners, please tell us how you found out about UnLtd.

Your response could include:

• How you have developed an understanding of the social or environmental issue
• Why you are motivated to address this issue There is no need to share anything that may be upsetting for you, or of a sensitive nature. Any information you choose to share will be treated sensitively.

Examples of direct experience:

• Someone who has been homeless and is working to improve homelessness services
• A disabled person who has set up and is running a support service for other disabled people

Examples of indirect experience:

• The parent of a disabled child providing services for disabled people 
• The carer of someone with dementia selling products to support people with dementia to live independently

Examples of professional experience: 

• A former teacher setting up a service for young people not in employment, education, or training
• Someone who works in climate science who is setting up a social venture to reduce carbon emissions

Select up to a maximum of three types of experience that most closely fit.

Forming: I have an idea You have an idea, and it is in the early stages of development. You can apply for up to £8,000 which can be used for organisational costs. This cannot include living costs, paying yourself, or staff on payroll.

I've been trading for less than one year Your social venture is already operating but has been trading for less than a year. By trading, we mean selling goods or services (not including grants).

You can apply for up to £8,000 which can be used for organisational costs. This cannot include living costs, paying yourself, or staff on payroll.

I've been trading for one year or more Your social venture is already operating and has been trading for between one and four years. By trading, we mean selling goods or services (not including grants).

Your social venture must have earned a minimum of £18,000 in traded income in the last 12 months to meet our eligibility requirements.

You can apply for up to £18,000 which can be used for organisational costs, living costs, paying yourself or staff on your payroll, or a combination.

If you select this stage, you must complete a financial workbook (the template can be found on our financial data webpage) which includes:

• 12 months financial history (month by month)
• 12 months financial forecast (month by month)
• Assumptions/narrative to accompany your forecast
• Your most recent full accounts (if you have them)

More detail can be found on our financial data webpage. If you think you might need support to provide this data, you can get in touch with us via the Awards page of our website.

If you are interested in or have been advised to apply for a specific Award programme you can tell us here.

When we assess your application, we may decide that it is better suited to one of our other Award programmes. If you are not sure, you can leave this question blank. You can read more about our programmes on the Awards page of our website.

If you haven’t named your social venture yet, you can leave this blank.

If you don’t have a website, you can leave this blank.

We’d like to know where your venture operates, i.e. where are the people your social venture focuses on based? This could be in your local community, borough, city, or county. It could be in several locations or UK wide.

Select up to a maximum of three groups that most closely fit.

Select up to a maximum of three areas of focus that most closely fit.

We don’t require your social venture to have a specific legal structure. If you have not yet incorporated your social venture, you can select ‘no legal structure’.

If you have more than one legal structure (e.g. a charitable foundation with a trading arm), please select the option from which your venture receives most of its traded income.

Please enter the date that you incorporated your social venture, found on your certificate of incorporation, or on Companies House/Charity Commission website.

If you are currently operating as a sole trader, or have not yet incorporated, please enter the date you started your social venture.

Enter your company or charity number, found on your certificate of incorporation or on Companies House/Charity Commission website.

If you are currently operating as a sole trader, or have not yet incorporated, you can leave this blank.

Your response could include:

• Your understanding of the issue
• Who it affects and how (e.g. the number of people and/or demographics)
• The scale of the issue (e.g. is it a local or national issue?)
• The impact of the issue in the short-term and long-term

It would help to include some data. This could be evidence from your own research or testing.

Your response could include:

• The services or products you offer or plan to offer
• A timeline of key activities
• The people or partners you involve in your work (e.g. a local authority, NHS provider or community organisation)
• Your team (e.g. your staff, volunteers, or your governance structure)

We would like to understand the positive changes your work creates for people or the environment. Your response could include:

• Both short term and the long-term impact of your work
• How frequently and for how long you work with people
• Information or insights that show your work is making an impact and how you collect this data

We would like to understand how many people your social venture has impacted directly in the last 12 months. By individual people we mean that if a person has, for example, attended three workshops they should only count once in your total.

This number should not include wider audiences such as social media followers, unless you are providing a material and direct benefit to each. If your venture has not benefitted anyone yet, please enter ‘0’.

We would like to understand how many people your social venture will impact directly in the next 12 months. By individual people we mean that if a person will, for example, attend three workshops they should only count once in your total.

This number should not include wider audiences such as social media followers, unless you are providing a material and direct benefit to each.

Your response could include:

• How you reach the people who are most affected by the social or environmental issue you are addressing
• How you involve the people who are most affected in the design or planning of your social venture or decision-making processes
• How your hiring processes are inclusive and the diversity of your team and/or Board

We want to understand your business model, by which we mean what products or services you are planning to sell or how you plan to make money. Your response could include:

• Who your customers are
• What you sell
• How you know there is a demand, and that people will continue to pay
• How you cover the costs of your activities
• Any other ways you are planning to bring money in

Tell us the amount of money your social venture made in the last 12 months. This figure should include grants as well as income from trading (selling goods or services).

This figure should match your financial data submission.

By ‘traded income’ we mean the money your social venture makes through sales of goods, or services. We use this information to assess how sustainable your venture is and how it avoids relying on grants or donations. Traded income can include:

• Direct sales, such as the sale of food, clothing, tickets, classes, and workshops
• Rental income or housing benefit
• Sales of donated goods
• Contracts for the delivery of services to other organisations (this includes contracts delivered through local authorities or public bodies)
• Service Level Agreements or similar arrangements with public authorities, for the delivery of specific projects

Tell us the amount of money you expect your social venture will make in the next 12 months. This figure should include grants as well as income from trading (selling goods or services).

This figure should match your financial data submission.

Your response could include:

• New geographies or beneficiary groups
• New business opportunities
• Products or services you want to develop or expand
• Any other goals/growth plans

You must use our template to include:

• 12 months financial history (month by month)
• 12 months financial forecast (month by month)
• Assumptions/narrative to accompany your forecast
• If you have them, please also upload your most recent full accounts Please note that we cannot progress your application unless we have all this information. If you think you might need support to provide this data, you can get in touch with us via the Awards page of our website.

You can apply for up to £18,000. £500 of this must be allocated to enable participation in UnLtd events and workshops. Please note that the amount you apply for does not affect the outcome of your application.

We would like to understand your social venture costs. When planning your budget please bear in mind that an UnLtd Award can only be used to cover costs after the approval date. Any costs you incur before this date cannot count towards Award expenditure. We may ask you for more detail if your application progresses. UnLtd Awards can be used primarily for running costs, but we will consider reasonable requests for capital items (fixed assets such as equipment). Conditions will apply to any individual items that cost over £1,000.*

£500 of your budget must be allocated to enable participation in UnLtd events and workshops.

Examples of the types of costs you could use an UnLtd Award to pay for:

• Personal living costs, paying yourself or staff on payroll
• Company formation and registration fees
• Insurance
• Enhanced disclosures and safeguarding costs
• IT costs (conditions will apply to IT hardware items over £1,000)
• Printing, advertising, and publicity
• Venue and equipment hire
• Materials
• Travel and subsistence
• Volunteer expenses
• Mentoring and support
• Sessional and freelance costs
• Minor repairs, decoration, or the installation of minor fixes

This type of UnLtd Award cannot be used to pay for:

• Capital works; such as the acquisition, development, or structural improvement of land or buildings (including semi-permanent structures)
• The purchase of vehicles such as a car or van (we will consider the purchase of a bicycle(s) which is not for personal use)
• Loans or interest payments
• Contingency funds or amounts for general expenses where the intended use of funds is not clear
• Funding activities outside the law, against public policy or anything that fosters ethnic, religious, or commercial disharmony
• Funding to undertake formal qualifications (but can be used to provide short-term training if critical to the success of the venture)
• Funding to employ others to undertake the bulk of the award activity
• Costs incurred prior to receiving an Award approval from us

Value for money and transparency:

We expect Award Winners to ensure they are getting value for money; this may mean obtaining more than one quote for the supply of goods and services, using price comparisons, or considering alternatives where feasible. When using funds to pay others (such as sessional or freelance workers) Award Winners must avoid conflicts of interest, such as paying members of immediate family or household. Approval must be sought if you think a conflict of interest exists. We may ask you for more detail on your costs if your application progresses.

*In relation to assets costing £1,000 or more they will remain UnLtd’s property unless we agree otherwise, and at the end of your venture you must dispose of them as required by UnLtd. If disposal of assets gives rise to any income, we may seek repayment of the whole, or any portion of that income. Assets must only be used for the purposes of the venture. Unless we request disposal, at the end of your venture you will undertake to ensure that any assets will only be used for charitable purposes. If we end our agreement before completion of your venture, we may keep any of the assets.