Get Funding
Spend It is the Guild’s way of distributing grant funding to its societies. Alongside the overall principles and values of participatory budgeting, the Guild wants to ensure that societies who want to organise good events or activities, or buy items, for their society have access to funding to support them to do so.
Spend It is split in to two different formats, depending on how much your society needs and what for, called Mini Spend It & Big Spend It.
Big Spend It
All society committee members are invited to four meetings per year, where bids will be presented to them by other society committee members. Attendees can make amendments to the bids by consensus, and all attendees can then vote on the bids. The bids with the most votes, will be funded up to £4,000 in total.
We invite bids that are for:
- More than £350, up to £4,000
- Large items/events/activities
- Projects that include collaboration between societies
- Projects that are likely to have a longer lead-in time
- Projects that have a benefit to the wider society/student community
2022/23 Big Spend it dates:
Round 1- Application deadline – Wednesday 12th October – 9am
- Round 1 Wednesday 26th October. Rescheduled to Monday 7th November (5-7pm) in the Harold Wilson Room.
Round 2 Application deadline- Wednesday 16th November- 9am
- Round 2 Wednesday 30th November – 5:30-8:30pm
Round 3 Application deadline – Monday 6th February- 9am
- Round 3 Saturday 18th February 10-1pm
Round 4 Application deadline – Monday 17th April – 9am
- Round 4 – Wednesday 26th April – 2-5pm
Dates for Big Spend It 2023/24 will be released in the new academic year
Mini Spend It
A panel of recruited and trained society members meet once per month, six times a year, to approve small bids from societies.
We invite bids that are:
- Up to £350
- For small items/events/activities
- Likely to only impact one society
- Likely to have a short lead-in times
2022/23 Mini Spend it dates:
- Wednesday 19th October- Mini Spend it R1
- Wednesday 9th November- Mini Spend it R2
Round 3 Application deadline – Wednesday 30th November
- Wednesday 7th December- Mini Spend it R3
Round 4 Application deadline – Wednesday 25th January
- Wednesday 8th February – Mini Spend it R4
Round 5 Application deadline – Wednesday 22nd February
- Wednesday 8th March- Mini Spend it R5
Round 6 Application deadline – Wednesday 26th April
- Wednesday 10th May- Mini Spend it R6
Dates for Mini Spend It 2023/24 will be released in the new academic year
For both Spend Its
Money will not be awarded for the following activities:
- Affiliations that do not directly benefit students as students
- Party political affiliations
- Donations to organisations
- Expenses for attendance to a political rally/demo for non-student related issues
- Donations to other charities
- Other projects that contravene the Guild’s mission or values, its legal obligations or any Guild guidance, policy or procedures
Repeated bids
Societies cannot apply to both Big and Mini Spend It for different elements of one event, activity or item.
Societies cannot apply more than once to Big or Mini Spend It for different elements of one event, activity or item.
If a society is successful in Big Spend It, they cannot normally submit another bid that semester. Consideration will be given to whether societies have already been awarded money in that academic year.
Another bid could be submitted to Mini Spend It, but would need to be for a different event, activity or item.
Any questions?
You can always get in touch to ask about Spend It at saadmin@liverpool.ac.uk
