In this guide:
1. About this fund
The Innovation Challenge Fund seeks to support new solutions to the UK screen sector’s most critical challenges. Between 2024 and 2026, up to £1.8 million from the BFI’s National Lottery Funding allocation will have been distributed to help not-for-profits to innovate, developing new approaches to persistent problems, whilst gaining insights that benefit the whole screen sector. During 2026 to 2029 we will make available £2,550,000.
Our sixth Innovation Challenge Call explores what is possible when independent filmmakers and creatives can access new technologies to accelerate their work’s progress.
2. Challenge Call 6 – In Our Hands
From generative AI to virtual production, new tools and technologies (‘emerging technologies’) are rapidly transforming the way film is conceived, created, distributed and discovered.
The past few years have seen a massive expansion in the range of technologies available to support cultural content’s development. However, access is often limited to those with the biggest budgets. As well as financial barriers, there is also uncertainty about impacts for the workforce, environment and creative outputs of the sector.
This challenge call is designed to understand and reduce these barriers to access, supporting creatives to make exciting new work and providing the sector with robust insights about the impacts of new technologies on workflows and the process of bringing a film to market.
The call will fund the successful applicant to support independent creatives to access new technologies, enabling them to realise a creative idea or progress an element of their work.
For clarity, by ‘independent creatives’, we mean those working above or below the line in film, animation or immersive, either as a freelancer or as part of an independent studio or production company. This could include writers, directors, producers, VFX artists, heads of departments, sound designers or others.
How this Challenge Call addresses the issues
Despite the availability of an increasing number of new tools and emerging technologies, complex barriers to adoption for independent creatives remain. These could be financial or cultural, related to skills or accessibility and more.
Through this call, the successful awardee will identify these barriers and create a supported environment (through partnership, free access to tools, skills development, guidance on safe use of new technology and more) through which at least 10 creatives can pilot their current or upcoming projects. These pilots should test new technologies that can have tangible impacts for creatives’ work, and also explore how barriers might be overcome.
The successful awardee will:
- identify key barriers to technology adoption;
- develop legal and ethical guidance to support independent creatives working with new technologies to guide their projects;
- create a supported environment in which 10 or more creatives can advance a piece of creative work through use of new technologies;
- share insights from these pilots with BFI and publicly around the impacts of new technologies for creatives (both positive and negative);
- share outcomes from these pilots to provide use-cases for industry;
- share insights with the BFI and publicly around how the identified barriers to adoption might be overcome (e.g. developing a model for ongoing skills development, proposing a suitable price point to make a tool accessible to independent creatives).
Barriers to adoption to be addressed could include (but are not limited to):
- information barriers
- understanding the range of tools available and their capabilities
- understanding which tools best meet different needs
- skills barriers
- accessing training to upskill on new tools
- managing ongoing training as new tools develop
- legal and ethical barriers
- managing copyright concerns
- protecting IP
- ensuring legal protection when using new technologies
- understanding the environmental impacts of different technologies
- financial barriers
- access to test a range of tools on a limited budget
- how to assess value for money in relation to these tools
Pilots could explore, but are not limited to, testing AI-powered tools on an audiovisual work (e.g. a producer using an AI-powered tool to create an insight-led distribution strategy), or the impact of virtual production (e.g. a director using virtual production to create trailers for an entire slate of films with a quick turnaround). Use of new technologies on participating projects can be used at any stage of development or production including pre- or post-production, or on marketing and distribution.
All piloted projects should produce tangible outputs which can be shared or showcased, and learnings must be made public.
We are interested in supporting R&D by enabling a not-for-profit lead organisation to convene innovative partnerships between innovators in the emerging technology space and independent creatives.
At least 10 independent creatives should be supported through this programme.
For this challenge call, the funding available is a maximum of £400,000, and we anticipate making one award. If, however, no single application is sufficiently strong to succeed, we may ask applicants to modify their proposals to enable us to fund two or more applications to deliver separate outcomes (within the same total amount), or we may elect not to make any award.
The total timeline for delivery is 24 months. Your application should include an Activity Plan which gives a detailed timeline of planning and delivery.
Conditions of the programme
The successful applicant to this challenge call will, as a condition of funding, need to issue an open call for participants (creatives) to take part in their programme and conduct outreach to ensure the call reaches its intended beneficiaries. This open application process should ensure that creatives who are entirely new to the lead organisation can take part.
As a condition of participation, the successful awardee should not take rights (such as copyright) in projects being piloted through the process. Conditions relating to project rights must not be imposed on the selected participants. This includes not:
- taking any Executive Producer (EP) or similar credits on piloted projects. You will be provided with BFI branding guidelines detailing how those projects should acknowledge Innovation Challenge Fund support, which will identify how your organisation and your programme can be credited on the project alongside the BFI National Lottery;
- taking any kind of fee in relation to further development or production (if applicable) of the piloted project; and
- requiring any form of ‘first look’ arrangement in relation to any participating piloted project.
Applicants’ budgets should also show how they will renumerate participants fairly for their participation.
What a successful proposal should include
In your application we will expect to see:
- a delivery plan outlining what you intend to deliver to meet this challenge
- an outline of the current barriers to access for the technology you propose to work with, and how your project will help overcome these
- an outline of how who your intended beneficiaries are, what outreach measures you will undertake and how your proposed programme will impact them
- details of the partnerships you would convene to deliver this work
- evidence that you have considered the ethical, legal and data protection frameworks that your partners and project will operate within
- a plan for legacy, including modelling an approach to continue this work for a minimum of 2 years after this funding award has been spent
- a plan for how the learnings from this work will be documented and shared for maximum impact across the sector
What are the intended outcomes of this challenge call?
The intended outcomes of this challenge call are:
- emerging technologies which currently have barriers to use by independent creatives are made accessible to test
- confidence and capacity of those interested in working with new technologies is increased
- safe and equitable adoption of emerging technologies is better understood in the screen sector
- new creative projects showcasing the potential of emerging technologies for independent film are developed
Deliverables and reporting
In your application you will need to identify the specific activity you will deliver (your ‘deliverables’) using the funding. Your deliverables should include:
- the programme activity and outputs as outlined in your application;
- at least one public sharing of insights gained from developing and delivering this innovation. This could include toolkits, workshops, presentations, blogs or webinars.
To monitor progress and delivery of the challenge you’ll need to submit:
- regular reports summarising:
- progress, learnings, outputs and impacts at the stage of the report, as well as highlighting any instances of the funded innovation having use or impact in the wider sector;
- detail of any changes to plans in comparison to those previously approved by BFI, and an update on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs);
- cost reporting of spend against budget
- a final challenge report due no more than two months after the completion. This should incorporate a final cost report (not to be shared publicly), a narrative report, including details on development and delivery, lessons learned, the legacy of the work and evidenced impacts for the wider sector and confirmation of the deliverables have been met. We will need the right to publish elements of the final challenge report in order to share learnings with the industry and public.
3. Check if you’re eligible
Applicants must be legally constituted, not-for-profit organisations centrally managed in the UK at the time of application. These are:
- community interest companies registered at relevant UK Companies House
- limited companies registered as not-for-profit at relevant UK Companies House
- charities or trusts registered with the relevant UK Charity Commission
- combined or local authorities or statutory bodies
- higher or further education organisations
Collaborations of more than one organisation are eligible to apply, including “for-profit” and “not-for-profit” organisations, so long as the lead organisation is “not-for-profit”. This lead organisation will need to submit the application to the BFI and would be the party to a funding agreement and direct recipient of the award if the application is successful.
Similarly, organisations based outside the UK can partner on applications where the lead partner is UK-based, provided the application is designed to have direct beneficial impacts for the UK screen sector.
Organisations can also support more than one application if they so wish but should ensure they have the capacity to deliver all activity which might be awarded.
To be eligible for funding, you must also submit a letter of support from the lead organisation’s CEO or a Senior Executive member alongside their application, to demonstrate organisational buy-in for this work at a leadership level.
When you’re ineligible
You are not eligible to apply for to this fund if you:
- are an individual
- are not based in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland)
- do not meet the eligibility criteria outlined above
Get in touch with the team if you’re unsure whether you are eligible to apply to this fund by emailing innovationchallengefund@bfi.org.uk.
4. What you can use the funding for
The Innovation Challenge Fund usually offers funding as a grant and is generally expected not to effect competition or investment within the UK or between UK and another territory.
However, if the project is expected to result in a financial gain for the applicant or a competitive advantage to the participating creatives that might have a genuine distortive effect on trade or investment, then to comply with UK subsidy legislation, there may be additional conditions attached to the offer of funding. This may include potentially providing the award as a recoupable grant repayable from any financial gain.
We also may request further information at application stage to determine whether subsidy is present and what our approach needs to be to ensure compliance with UK legislation. This might result in a delay in our decision making.
You can use the funding to cover costs including:
- technical resource and expertise
- hiring staff to deliver and/or support the work
- partnership development
- coverage of some overheads to support the project (for example, some coverage of existing staff or organisational core costs as these apply to the project) - we suggest no more than 10% of the overall budget
- outreach and training
- the analysis and sharing of learnings with the sector, government and other not-for-profits
- securing funding for the on-going support of activity (for example hiring a fundraiser)
- accessibility provision for project staff or participants
- delivering your funded activity in a more environmentally sustainable way
- payments to creative participants for their time on the programme (see guidance above)
For travel and subsistence (of the successful awardee or the participating creatives), our contributions would be capped as follows:
- accommodation per night (for London or overseas): £150
- accommodation per night – regional UK: £135
- travel: economy only, no flights and no taxis unless related to an access requirement
- subsistence (food): £40 broken down into the following:
- Breakfast: £10
- Lunch: £10
- Dinner: £20
This aligns with general conditions attaching to the use of public funding and we will not cover costs of first-class travel or accommodation, hospitality or general subsistence. If you’re travelling to a country with higher costs of accommodation or subsistence and you’re worried that the above rates won’t be sufficient, please contact us for advice before completing your application.
If your request for funding includes travel costs that are likely to rise quickly, you can include up to 10% contingency in your budget. You must clearly indicate in your budget notes which lines might rise. Please use the budget template provided and attach it to your application.
What you cannot use the fund for
Ineligible costs include:
- a project management fee that does not reflect costs directly associated with delivery of the programme
- core costs for day-to-day running of your organisation not associated with the activity
- flights within or between England, Scotland and Wales, or international flights
- costs relating to an extension of ongoing work
- capital expenditure (building costs and the purchase of equipment)
- activity that is already specifically supported by another source of funding, including by other BFI funding provided by a different fund or BFI delegate partner – please contact us if you are unsure whether this applies to you
- proposals that focus on other art-forms such as literature, dance on film, poetry film, opera or artists’ moving image
- cost incurred prior to an offer of funding from BFI
- prize funding of any kind
- costs of alcohol, parties or similar events
This list is not exhaustive and we may inform you that other types of activity within your application cannot be supported by a BFI award, or request that you amend specific lines and allocations.
BFI National Lottery funding is project-based, time-limited funding, and as such, there should be no expectation of ongoing support beyond the term of any awards made. Funds are not intended to substitute or replace existing funding or income that would otherwise be available, or to fund activity at the same scale that can go ahead without an award. National Lottery funds can only be awarded to applicants who demonstrate need and a clear public benefit from the activity being funded.
If you are registered for VAT
Your figures should not include VAT that you can claim back.
If you are not registered for VAT, or you are registered for VAT but cannot fully recover the VAT you incur on costs, your figures should include irrecoverable VAT. Grants we make are ‘outside the scope’ of VAT and should be listed in your accounts as a grant and not, for example, as a fee for any services supplied to the BFI. You should get financial advice from your own accountant or the relevant tax office.
Partnership funding
You do not need a minimum level of partnership funding to apply.
As this fund seeks to support innovation that will not attract commercial or other public finance, we understand it will be challenging to raise partnership funding to include in their budgets.
If you have secured, or intend to secure, cash or in-kind resources to contribute to the challenge, you will need to include these in your application budget. Any partnership funding required to meet budgeted costs needs to be secured in advance of payment of any award from BFI and before the proposed delivery start date.
5. What your project needs to achieve
The BFI National Lottery strategy 2023-2033 is underpinned by a series of principles and outcomes, which our funds contribute to achieving.
Critically, applications to the Innovation Challenge Fund must be:
- designed to benefit the intended sector (specifically independent creatives working in film, immersive and animation)
- identifiably for public benefit.
Strategic priorities
Every successful application, irrespective of the challenge, must contribute significantly to one or more of the priorities of our strategic framework listed below.
Creativity and storytelling
Anyone can create original screen work, from first-time creators to world-class professionals:
- creative talent is supported and nurtured, as they emerge and throughout their careers
- people are better enabled to innovate and experiment creatively
Success in a changing landscape
Independents and cultural organisations can adapt and thrive in a changing landscape:
- better support available for small and medium-sized enterprises and independents to develop their businesses
- evidence-based insight and analysis of the screen sector is readily available to all, supporting organisations and driving policymaking
- screen organisations have significantly reduced their carbon footprint
National Lottery funding principles
In addition, all of the activity this fund supports must contribute towards delivering the BFI’s three principles for National Lottery funding.
Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
We champion everyday inclusion at the BFI. Applicants to this fund will be asked to consider how their proposal meaningfully tackles under-representation in relation to disability, gender, race, age, sexual orientation and socio-economic status, while also considering the interactions of these identities and any other barriers to opportunity. Your project will contribute towards achieving our inclusion targets
UK-wide
Applications to the fund are sought from applicants based across the UK. The nature of each challenge will indicate whether project proposals can offer UK-wide benefit in terms of their intended impact, or whether on occasion their impact may be more specialised or localised in scope. Some challenges, for example, may be specifically designed to benefit parts of the UK screen sector outside of London and the South East of England. Across the life of the fund we aim to make awards to organisations based, and with benefit reaching, across the UK.
Environmental sustainability
You’ll need to consider how you’ll apply environmental sustainability (ES) principles to the funded activity or your organisation more generally. This could include:
- implementing good environmental practice for the project e.g. travel and events
- embedding sustainability within your organisation more broadly
- exploring environmental themes as part of the work e.g. programming, training or skills development
Due to the range of organisations and activity that we fund, we’re not prescriptive about what you should focus on. You can explore resources provided by our designated partner, Julie’s Bicycle, particularly through the Sustainable Screen Hub which outlines good environmental practices.
If funded, you are required to submit requested environmental impact data and report how you have applied the ES principle. If your project involves production-related activities, we may connect you with BAFTA albert for specialist support.
Awardees will be sent further information once the award is confirmed.
Key Performance Indicators
KPIs help us measure the success of funded innovations. They will be specific to the challenge, and set in collaboration with you, if you are successful. There are also Innovation Challenge Fund-level KPIs that all awardees will need to meet, as follows:
- demonstrate the development, user testing and launch of an innovative new process or output (for example a new application of technology, process methodology, delivery model, network or tool). As with all innovation funding, we anticipate that there may be unexpected outcomes as part of this process, which should be captured and shared with the sector. In the case that negative outcomes during development lead to the innovation being unable to launch, then the learning around this must be published to the sector in lieu of the original output;
- produce one or more outputs which disseminate learnings and insight for the benefit of the wider sector (for example a report, webinar, workshop or presentation at an industry event);
- contribute to an evidence base around ‘what works’ and ‘what doesn’t’ in terms of innovation design and processes in the screen sector;
- support BFI in identifying a ‘results chain’ for at least three awards, where the wider sector is seen to be using or benefitting from the results of innovation or insight.
Specific KPIs relating to this Challenge could include:
- evidence of independent creatives being better able to realise creative projects due to improved access to new technologies to support their work
- evidence of case studies being shared and used to develop new initiatives for independent creatives
- evidence of additional investment as a result of insights generated by this work
- number of new creative projects utilising emerging technologies being brought to market
6. How to apply
Information you’ll need to provide
As part of the application form, we will ask you for:
- organisation and contact details including verification of eligibility
- detail of any project partners
- a project overview including the proposed innovation in response to the challenge call
- an outline of the lead applicant and if applicable other proposed delivery partners’ relevant experience, skills and network to deliver this proposal
- a dissemination plan for learnings from your project, including any resources to be developed
- the anticipated benefits of the innovation
- a description of the risks you foresee relating to your activity and how you will mitigate these
- a plan for the legacy of the work – how will its benefits be sustained after BFI National Lottery funding has ended?
- how your project meets our principle of equity, diversity and inclusion through responding to the BFI Diversity Standards
- how your project meets our other principles of UK-wide and environmental sustainability.
You should write your application in the future tense; tell us what you are going to do, and what the project will be, if funding is secured.
Documents you’ll need to provide
At the end of the application form you will be asked to attach the below:
Documents about your project
At the end of the application form you will be asked to attach the below:
Documents about your project
- a detailed project budget (an Excel template for this is provided on the application form)
- an activity plan outlining the delivery phases of your project, including dates for user testing, demonstration of the innovation to key stakeholders, and public launch
- a cashflow document showing when funding will be spent
- a letter of support from the CEO or a Senior Executive member of the lead applicant’s organisation
- if your application has multiple partners, an in-principle partnership agreement signed by each partner
Financial documents
- the lead applicant’s last set of independently certified or audited accounts
- if more than 12 months has passed since the year-end covered in these accounts, you may be asked to provide draft accounts for the intervening auditable period as approved by your board (including both income and expenditure reporting and a balance sheet). If this is not possible for your organisation, please contact innovationchallengefund@bfi.org.uk to discuss with the team.
- If your organisation is less than 12 months old and has not yet filed accounts, please provide evidence of a bank account
- your most recent budget and management accounts for the current financial year as approved by your board (including both income and expenditure reporting and a balance sheet)
- your organisational risk register
If you have questions about any of these documents, please contact innovationchallengefund@bfi.org.uk to discuss with the team.
Equality monitoring
You may be asked to provide equality monitoring data relating to your organisation’s leadership or project staff at the point of application or during your project. The data you submit on this form will be confidential, anonymous and not seen by the fund staff.
If you have any questions when completing the application form email us at innovationchallengefund@bfi.org.uk.
Diversity standards form
Before you can submit your application, you’ll need to complete and submit the Diversity Standards – Innovation Challenge form. You’ll need to register an account to do this.
This form will give you a unique diversity standards reference number, which you’ll need to fill in your application form. You’ll need to submit both forms 16 weeks ahead of your start date for your application be eligible.
Application forms received without a completed and submitted diversity standards form will be considered incomplete and therefore ineligible.
Submitting your application
To apply, you’ll need to create an account or have an existing account to make your application online. You’ll then need to complete and submit the online application form. You can save your application and return to it when you need to.
Make sure you complete all the sections as incomplete forms will be automatically ineligible.
You can view guidance about how to use our new BFI applicant portal.
You can view a PDF preview of the application form to see the questions you will be asked in full below.
If you have any questions when completing the application form, please contact us at innovationchallengefund@bfi.org.uk. We welcome your feedback on the application process and how we might improve it.
7. What happens after you apply
Following the closing date for applications:
- You will get confirmation we received your application within 1-2 working days.
- If your application is ineligible, we will email to tell you we will not be able to consider it. We may enable you to fix a mistake if this is the only reason the application is ineligible.
- We will review your application and request any additional information we may need within 6 weeks.
- Interviews will be held for selected applicant(s) within 10 weeks
- You’ll get a decision within 12 weeks.
During assessment, we may write to you or request to meet with you to obtain more information about your application. If we need additional information from you, it may take us longer than the timeframes shown above to reach a decision on your application.
How your application is assessed
Your application will be assessed by the Innovation Challenge Fund Manager in consultation with colleagues from the wider BFI Research and Insight team or other departments. We may also share your application with one or more external consultants to help us assess it. External consultants will be required to maintain confidentiality regarding the contents of your application and agree not to retain application materials after their review.
When assessing applications, we consider the extent to which they demonstrate:
- a clear approach to tackle the challenge outlined
- that they are appropriate for innovation funding (this fund will not support any activity that could be seen as business-as-usual)
- a well-designed proposal which is robustly evidenced
- a high potential for impact
- the potential to generate significant learning and insight which will be of use to the UK screen and moving image archive sector
- a clear legacy plan for this work
- that the applicant and partners have the relevant experience, skills and network to deliver the proposal
- a clear understanding of potential risks and plans to mitigate these
- a clear plan for working with the BFI on your innovation
- a clear and feasible delivery plan
- a realistic budget which represents good value for money
- the extent to which the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion and environmental sustainability are reflected within delivery plans
- where your activity will be carried out and where geographically the benefits of the project are likely to occur – applications will be strengthened if they can demonstrate that their partnerships and beneficiaries will be UK-wide
- the need for National Lottery funding
We will also take into account how you and/or any named partners or contributors have managed any previous BFI awards (if applicable).
Identity checks
We undertake due diligence assessments of the applications we are recommending to our decision-making committee for funding. As part of this, before applying to the committee, we may request the bank details of the lead applicant.
We will request the personal address and date of birth of the CEO or Managing Director of the organisation applying. We will use this data to run an identity check. Please note that our request for this information is not an indication or confirmation of funding and you will be informed separately of the funding decision on your application. Please note that this is not a credit check. We will be unable to submit your application to our decision-making committee until we have received your completed form.
Lottery Finance Committee Consideration
Following assessment of each application, funding recommendations will be made to the BFI Lottery Finance Committee. This is the final stage of the funding decision process. All applicants will be informed in writing of the decision on their application. If your application is declined, all supporting materials will be deleted from your submission in line with our record retention policy
All applicants will be informed in writing of the decision on their application. If your application is declined, all supporting materials will be deleted from your submission in line with our record retention policy.
8. Getting a decision
If you’re unsuccessful
We may have turned down your application because we determined that the proposal:
- did not closely meet the challenge for this funding round
- did not fit our funding objectives and outcomes
- did not demonstrate a strong enough commitment to one or more of the following principles: equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI); environmental sustainability; UK-wide
- was too ambitious for the budget, or did not demonstrate strong value for money
- was under-developed or lacking in detail around project content, staffing, risk management etc.
- did not demonstrate enough relevant experience
- did not demonstrate sufficient need for National Lottery support and could be financed by other means
- did not sufficiently respond to the BFI Diversity Standards
It is not possible to resubmit an application to the Innovation Challenge Fund.
Feedback on an unsuccessful application
If requested, we will endeavour to provide feedback either in writing or via a phone or video call. As a small team we will prioritise those organisations where we asked for additional information or an interview during the assessment process.
If you’re successful
You’ll receive a written offer of funding, and you will need to sign this and return it to the BFI within 28 days.
Your offer of funding will set out details of how you will receive the funding, how to use it and how we expect you to report to us. Read section nine below to find out what you will have to do if you are offered an award.
9. Conditions of funding
If you are offered an award from us, in addition to the General Conditions of National Lottery Funding, you will be required to deliver the funded project in accordance with the requirements set out in these guidelines and with the contents of your application (in its final form approved by the BFI) including as follows:
- The duration or term of the funding agreement will be based on the requirements of your application but will be no more than 24 months from the date of issue. Progress will be measured based on submission by you of 8 weekly reports as outlined in these guidelines. The dates for the receipt of these will be matched to cashflow of instalments of the award.
- You will be required to work collaboratively with relevant BFI departments and partners and maintain an open dialogue during the term of your award, updating the BFI of any changes to your project in comparison with your plans at application stage. We may ask you for a meeting at any point during delivery to review progress and, if we request it, you will be required to facilitate access for a BFI representative to observe or where appropriate take part in the funded activity.
- You will be required to write and agree to the publication by BFI of a final challenge report (see deliverables above). This should be written in the spirit of the greatest transparency possible, to enable other organisations to utilise and further develop your work.
- Any outputs produced by the project (for example a digital database, toolkit or online platform) will be owned and managed by you. Once launched, these must be maintained for at least the remaining award term, and legacy planning should ensure their continued use and availability for an additional 24 months beyond the expiry of the term and for no further funding from BFI. If you are unable to sustain this, the ownership of or a licence in all such digital or other tangible assets will be transferred to BFI so that it can explore measures to ensure future public availability.
- You will be asked to submit environmental impact data, via Julie’s Bicycle’s Creative Climate Tools (or an equivalent tool). You will also be asked to report on how you have applied the environmental sustainability principle by the end of your funding period, by completing the ‘Beyond Carbon’ feature of Julie’s Bicycle’s Creative Climate Tools.
- You will be required to take part in evaluation of the Fund, carried out by a third-party contractor appointed by the BFI. This is likely to take place between 2026-29 and may be revisited during later years so you should ensure to retain all data relating to your programme, its participants and its impact until the end of the BFI Screen Culture Strategy in March 2033.
- Where you have included unsecured partnership funding within your budget, you will need to provide updates on securing this finance to the BFI (normally as part of your performance reporting but, where such partnership funding is intrinsic to delivery of the project, as a pre-condition to the funding agreement). The BFI may elect to withhold or withdraw your award if you are unable to secure a level of partnership funding required to deliver the project as planned, or require that you submit revised plans and budget showing how the project could be delivered without the planned partnership funding.
- You will be required to gain BFI approval for any marketing or related materials for your activity, in line with branding guidelines that the BFI will provide you with.
- Where applicable, you will need to adopt safeguarding provisions for protecting children and vulnerable adults and ensure that data on all participants in and beneficiaries of the Innovation Challenge Fund can be shared with BFI in compliance with data protection legislation.