Running a CIC2 pages, free PDF
The CIC Funding Readiness Checklist
What UK grant funders check before they say yes, on one page.
What's inside
- Pass the gates first: the bank signatories, eligibility and safeguarding checks that reject you before anyone reads your idea
- Make your case: who benefits and how many, evidenced need, outcomes rather than activities, and the community that shaped it
- Your CIC's funding edge: the asset lock, the community interest statement and the CIC34 as evidence
- The application itself: the three questions every small-grant bid asks, a budget that adds up, and what happens after the grant
- The three reasons CICs get turned down most
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