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How to apply

You should only complete one application form for eachyour place of worship or associated faith community centre in each round of the scheme.

If your place of worship and associated faith community centre are located on the same site, you only need to complete one application form.

You will need to provide details about your site including:

• the name,name address and religionaddress of your place of worship or community centre
• the registered charity number of your organisation, or a letter confirming your organisation’s exemption from registering as a charity
• the contact details of a responsible person who will be your site’s point of contact
• a summary of any security concerns or hate crime experienced at your placemosque of worship or community centre, and the impact these have on the people who use it

You can save your application form and come back to it later.

You may need planning permission or other approvals, for example, for listed buildings. Planning restrictions and permissions are not covered by the scheme. If your application is successful, you will need to check if further permissions are needed for the work to be carried out.

Data protection

To find out more about how we process and protect your information, and your rights in relation to this, see the the privacy information notice. for the protective security schemes for places of worship.