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Doesn't look bad, and we're eligible under "Who?" but not under "What?".
In that it has to be a brand new project with a new and distinct deliverable. Just saying "Hey you'll pay for this wonderful site and I can stop begging for donations" probably won't cut it.
If we did something like say, "Hey we'll make an iPhone and Android app and will attract at least n thousand 18-25 year olds to social and recreation rides in and around London"... well it fulfils the new deliverable (the apps), and a new project with a new audience.
But then... that would cost more than the grant.
I'll stew on it, to think of whether there is an angle whereby it could work without the cost from our side exceeding any grant.
Update on last month... we actually ended about £100 over our normal intake. eBay revenues were slashed (they've had tracker issues and have issued apologies and said that they will back-date some earnings in the coming months), and we also had a lumpy outgoing as a few domain names renewed (though not the blindingly expensive .sm one yet).
End result of last months donation drive: £100 more than in the bank at the end of the month, and 84% of the months' cost were exclusively covered by donations.
It should mean that we're ahead slightly this month too.
In celebration of not having to nag... I've been getting on with writing the new front-end in Go. It's a massive job but has to be done as our software is now old (Python + Django versions) and it's so painful tracking those versions and all of the dependencies and Go has been so pain free for the API... that I'm moving the front-end to the same language so that when I can get things done a lot easier.
Oh, and I'll be changing the authentication and sign-in stuff soon too.
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@Velocio, just seen this and wondered if, as a CIC, you could swing it to obtain some grant cash to keep the coffers topped up.