The first-stage proposal is intended to help us understand what sort of organisation you are and why you are doing the work you are doing. We do not want a detailed description or full costings of the work you are seeking funding for; we will discuss these areas with you if your application goes through to the second stage. Keeping your options open at this point allows us to work together more creatively if you are invited to develop a full application.

A first-stage proposal must include:

1. An introductory letter, of no more than one side of A4, on your organisation’s letterhead. You can use this letter to set your work in context or to give us information which does not sit comfortably elsewhere.

2. A completed organisation details sheet: click here to download a PDF copy which you can fill in by hand. Alternatively, click here to download a Word version of the organisation details sheet which you can save to you computer, fill in and print out.  

3. Your answers to the following questions, on no more than two sides of A4:

• What difference do you want to make, and how will your organisation achieve this?
• Why are you the right people to do this work?
• Tell us about the people you are working with, and how you know there is a need for your work.
• How would you use funding from Tudor?

Click here for some information on filling in the organisation details sheet and answering these questions.

4. A copy of your most recent annual accounts, and annual report if you produce one. If your organisation is too new to have annual accounts please send a photocopy of a recent bank statement instead. Please don’t send any other supporting documents.

All first-stage proposals go through an initial assessment process which involves both trustees and staff. In some cases we may phone you to discuss your proposal. We aim to let you know within a month whether or not we are inviting you to submit a second-stage application.

Address your proposal to ‘The Trustees’ and send it to us by post; we don’t accept applications by email or fax. Please make sure that you put the correct postage on your envelope – if you are sending your application in an A4 envelope or if it is thicker than 5mm in a smaller envelope it will count as a ‘large letter’ and cost more to post. If your envelope isn’t correctly stamped it will take longer to reach us (and we will have to pay any additional postage needed) so please check before you send.

There are no deadlines for sending us your proposal; they are assessed as part of a rolling programme.