Black History Month 2025

Applications are via an online form. A link to the form can be found at the end of the guidance. 

The application form will ask for information on:

• Your organisation
• Contact details
• Your proposed event date
• Your proposed event location
• Your proposed budget
• ‘Protected Characteristics’ covered by the Equality Act 2010.

In addition, the form asks the following questions regarding your event proposal:

• What you plan to do for your event?
• What you plan to achieve by holding your event?
• What previous experience does your organisation have hosting similar events? 

You can provide answers to these questions as written statements or as a video. The form will prompt you to select your preferred method – both will not be accepted. The quality of video production will not be considered as part of the panel assessment.

If you choose to submit a video statement, please ensure you provide sufficient information on the three questions above. Whichever statement method you provide: if you do not provide us with enough information to assess each of the assessment areas, this will result in a lower score for your application overall and lower your chances of being awarded funding. The assessment panel can only assess information in the submitted application. They cannot consider supporting statements etc.

‘Protected Characteristics’ covered by the Equality Act 2010.

• We ask you to estimate the number of your Organisation’s Board/ Management Committee that fall into each category. If you do not have the information or prefer not to answer any question, please enter '0'.  
• This information is being collected for equalities monitoring purposes and will NOT affect the outcome of your application. We ask for this information in order to understand who is represented on the Boards/ Management Committees of organisations funded by the council and so determine how representative they are of the communities they serve.  
• Your responses will be kept confidential and any information published will be made anonymous. The information will be used in a statistical format only. This will help the Council implement its equality, diversity and inclusion commitments, including promoting equality, tackling inequalities, valuing diversity; to be a borough where all feel included, treated fairly and able to access a range of services which meet diverse needs.  
• For a definition of the different Protected Characteristics, please see the Equality and Human Rights Commission website.