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What happens to your application to the Main Investment Fund? |
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We look at
applications on a rolling basis.
Once you’ve
submitted your application to us we will do two things:
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check that you
meet our criteria.
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assess your
proposal.
If we think that we
might be able to invest, we’ll begin the Investment Pathway, a
formal assessment process which will include visiting you, testing
your ideas and looking at your whole organisation. You may need to
refine your plans or submit extra information, but we’ll help you
do this. The final stage of this process is a presentation to our
investment committee – if you get this far we’ll help you prepare
for it.
All Main Investment
Fund decisions are made by an investment committee (whose members are
drawn from our board of trustees) which meets up to ten times a year.
We expect to receive
more applications than we can support, and regrettably, there will be
organisations that we cannot help. In this case, we will endeavour to
let you know as soon as possible and may be able to direct you to
other means of help.
If we think you have
potential but are not yet investment ready, we may contact you to
discuss some early stage support. We may be able to provide a
Business Development Grant to help you to
become investment ready.
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