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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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1. What is a URN? |
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2. What is a VCO? |
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3. Details of my voluntary/community group are not accessible on the web site? |
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4. I have forgotten my password to access the web site? |
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5. How do I apply for funding? |
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6. What defines a voluntary/community organisation? |
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7. What information will be required in support of an application? |
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1. What is a URN? |
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The URN is a “Unique Reference Number” assigned to organisations for facilitating the administration of grant applications. A census of the sector was completed in autumn 2002 to validate the details of voluntary and community organisations. URNs have now been assigned to all voluntary and community organisations. If information was not validated during the census, it will be necessary to validate this information before the relevant department can process your grant application. You can also use the URN, with a password, to retrieve information on your organisation and make amendments as required. |
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2. What is a VCO? |
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A VCO is a voluntary/community organisation. Click here to find out what defines a VCO. |
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3. Details of my voluntary/community group are not accessible on the web site? |
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This may be for a number of reasons: |
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a. you completed a census form in autumn 2002 but requested your organisational details not to be posted on the web-site – if these details can be made public please update your details using the on-line registration form. |
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b. you did not participate in the census of the sector – please complete the on-line registration form or download a registration form and return to VCD or contact VCD. |
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c. you are a new organisation - please complete the on-line registration or download a registration form and return to VCD or contact VCD. |
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4. I have forgotten my password to access the web site? |
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Click here to receive a copy of your password via email. Your VCO's email address and URN are required.
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5. How do I apply for funding? |
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Information is available on the web-site. Please contact the named contact point for details of application procedures if sufficient information is not available on the web-site.
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6. What defines a voluntary/community organisation? |
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- Independence: an organisation must be constitutionally independent and not directly controlled by a for-profit organisation or the State. An organisation is recognised as being independent of the State where there is a majority of non-statutory bodies, appointees or representatives on its “board of trustees” and a majority of non-statutory members;
- Self-governing: an organisation must have its own internal decision making processes;
- Non profit distributing and primarily non-business: an organisation must make no payments (other than for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses or other payments allowed by the governing document e.g. for occasional professional services or for grants) to its members or trustees;
- Voluntarism: an organisation must benefit from a meaningful degree of philanthropy such as gifts in kind or of time, including volunteers and non-paid trustees/committee members. For example, any organisation that has at least three trustees/committee members who give their time is considered to benefit to a meaningful level;
- Public benefit: an organisation must be able to demonstrate that its objects and activities benefit the wider public and/or that it makes it benefits available to as wide a group of people as possible within its remit. Also, that it operates in ways that are open and inclusive rather than elitist and exclusive. Where a governing document exists, it should have a clause to this effect.
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7. What information will be required in support of an application? |
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This may vary for different funding programmes but the guidance notes will detail the required supporting information. Some examples are given below:
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- Copy of organisation’s constitution;
- Copy of annual audited accounts;
- Copy of organisation’s last annual report;
- Progress on the past years objectives (if previously funded);
- Most recent bank statement
- Organisation staffing structure
- List of office bearers; and
- Copies of funding provided by other bodies where appropriate.
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