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
2023/24 Big Spend it dates:
Round 1 Application deadline Wednesday 11th October 9am
- Round 1 Meeting: Wednesday 1st November 2-5pm
Round 2 Application deadline Wednesday 22nd November 9am
Round 3 Application deadline Monday 5th February 9am
Round 4 Application deadline Wednesday 3rd April
Big Spend it Application Form
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
2023/24 Mini Spend it dates:
Round 1 Application deadline Wednesday 27th September 9am
- Round 1 - Wednesday 18th October
Round 2 Application deadline Wednesday 18th October 9am
- Round 2 - Wednesday 8th November
Round 3 Application deadline Wednesday 15th November
- Round 3- Wednesday 6th December
Round 4 Application deadline Wednesday 17th January 9am
- Round 4 - Wednesday 7th February
Round 5 Application deadline Wednesday 14th February 9am
- Round 5 - Wednesday 6th March
Round 6 Application deadline Wednesday 17th April 9am
- Round 6 -Wednesday 8th May
Mini Spend It Application Form
For both Spend Its
- Only societies registered with the Liverpool Guild of Students 2023/2024 are invited to apply
- Money will not be given for anything that the Guild can provide for free e.g., room hire, websites
- Money will not be given retrospectively
- Money must be spent on Guild activity
- Money will not be given for recurrent items
- Items bought with Spend It money belong to the Guild and must be stored in the Guild
- Items bought with Spend It money must be shared, where requested, with other societies
- Money will not be given for trophies, awards, or gifts
- Money will not normally be given for purely social events or for food and drink. However, an event or activity that focuses on community building, networking, or has educational benefits can be considered.
- Money will not be given for purely alcohol-based events
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