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The charity sector has been through a tumultuous few years , having to navigate situations as varied as out-of-control inflation to an unprecedented global health crisis. But throughout those situations, one thing has stayed constant: the importance of fu ndraising.

With costs on the rise, and services more in demand than ever, charitie s are having to find new w ays to m aximise their fundraising , venturing into new revenue streams and testing new channels. But there remain fundraising methods that are tried - and - tested, w ith data supporting their success and informing how we proceed .

In this webinar , sponsored by we share tips on PIR.org, what drives effective fundraising campaigns, exploring the world of digital fundraising from email marketing to social media, and more.

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On-demand webinar: Fundraising tips to boost donations

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In this webinar, we explore tips to optimise your fundraising, from improving email marketing to making the most of awareness days, and much more

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Ready to get a comprehensive view of the current state of nonprofit fundraising in the UK?

The Status of UK Fundraising is back for the seventh year with 40+ pages full of insights and data to benchmark your performance against.

Over 850 nonprofit professionals shared details about their recent fundraising performance and experiences operating in the sector.

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We explore the biggest fundraising trends of the last 12 months, including the main drivers of charity income and the growth of artificial intelligence, with insight from a new report from Blackbaud

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Funding new ideas to make life better

Grants for Social, Medical and Religious innovations

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Grants for Social, Medical and Religious Innovations. Sir Halley Stewart Trust - Funding new ideas to make life better.

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Practical tips and step-by-step guides on how to find the money you need for your community group, organisation or charity

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Practical tips on how to find the money you need for your group or charity

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Fair Funding for the voluntary sector is needed to help charities, voluntary groups, and social enterprises to thrive and provide greater security for our people

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Fair Funding for the voluntary sector is needed to help charities, voluntary groups, and social enterprises to thrive and provide greater security for our people

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DSC has compiled a short guide about how to claim Gift Aid for the first time. Gift Aid can boost your fundraising efforts by 25%.

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HMRC research suggests that 25% of charitable donations that are eligible for Gift Aid are not Gift Aided. This is especially likely to be the case for donations to small charities. So here is a guide for small charities on the advantages of Gift Aiding donations, which donations can be Gift Aided and how to make […]

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The Code of Fundraising Practice sets the standards that apply to fundraising carried out by all charitable institutions and third party fundraisers in the UK.

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The Code of Fundraising Practice sets the standards that apply to fundraising carried out by all charitable institutions and third party fundraisers in the UK. It replaces the previous code, rulebooks and legal appendices.

Recommendations on changes to the code are made by the Fundraising Regulator's standards committee in consultation with our stakeholders. Changes to the code must be approved by the Fundraising Regulator's board.

Use the links below to navigate through the code and make sure you read the 'using the code' section first.

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The Code of Fundraising Practice sets the standards that apply to fundraising carried out by all charitable institutions and third party fundraisers in the UK. It replaces the previous code, rulebooks and legal appendices. Recommendations on changes to the code are made by the Fundraising Regulator's standards committee in consultation with our stakeholders.

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Charity Digital compile 50 ideas for fundraising with animals, with children, virtually, in the workplace, and through sport!

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Nesta spoke with 9 crowdfunding providers about what their services offer and advice to charities and organisations who are considering crowdfunding.

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Crowdfunding presents a real opportunity for organisations and individuals raising money and awareness for good causes. However, as we shared in our recent blog, '5 tips for finding the right crowdfunding platform for your good cause', one of the first challenges organisations face when looking to crowdfund is deciding on which platform to use.

The different fees, funding models, services and sector specialisations offered can make finding the best platform for your project's needs a real struggle. To help you make this decision, we thought: 'who better to tell you about the different platforms than the platforms themselves?'.

We caught up with nine of the main crowdfunding platforms supporting good causes in the UK, to ask them about what motivates them, how they can help you reach your crowdfunding target and what advice they'd give to anyone launching a crowdfunding campaign.

Read the short interviews below with each of the platforms on what they do, what sets them apart and how they can help you crowdfund your next project.

Crowdfunder - a crowdfunding platform for community groups, businesses, charities and social enterprises.

CrowdJustice - crowdfunding legal action and public interest law.

Ethex - making investing into projects with a social purpose easy to understand and do.

GoGetFunding - helping individuals crowdfund for the causes they care about.

Hubbub - crowdfunding university student and alumni projects.

Spacehive - crowdfunding local projects to transform public spaces.

JustGiving Crowdfunding - helping anyone raise money to fund their own good cause.

DigVentures - crowdfunding archaeology and heritage projects.

GlobalGiving UK - crowdfunding for grassroots organisations around the world.

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Crowdfunding presents a real opportunity for organisations and individuals raising money and awareness for good causes. However, as we shared in our recent blog, '5 tips for finding the right crowdfunding platform for your good cause', one of the first challenges organisations face when looking to crowdfund is deciding on which platform to use.

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Easyfundraising suggest some tried and tested methods for community fundraising and developing community fundraising strategy. This includes sponsored challenges, fetes and fairs, auctions, and sales.

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For many charities, non-profits, faith-based organisations (link to faith-based comprehensive guide), PTAs (link to PTA fundraising ideas article), animal sanctuaries (link to animal shelters article) and more, community fundraising forms the bedrock of their existence. Without an engaged community that's willing to support with their time and money, these organisations wouldn't be able to do the fantastic work they do.

So, how do you make the most of your community fundraising? You need a strategic approach with some great fundraising ideas. You need the people to make it happen and you should always follow best practice. Here we'll run through each in turn and help get your community fundraising performing well in no time.

Understanding Community Fundraising

Community fundraising is one of the oldest, best known and most resilient forms of fundraising. It involves a charity or non-profit running events and campaigns to engage with its local community, or asking the community itself to hold events and raise funds themselves on behalf of the organisation. When done well, it can mobilise large numbers of supporters, raise substantial sums and increase awareness of and engagement with a charitable cause.

Central to community fundraising is an engaged, knowledgeable and passionate community that needs to be mobilised by your fundraising managers and coordinators. It's their job to set your community fundraising strategy, engage with your community and build successful community fundraising teams. Here we'll explore each of those points in detail and offer practical advice to boost the success of your community fundraising.

Community Fundraising Strategies

Your fundraising strategy (link to community fundraising strategy article) will be the plan that sets out your organisation's funding needs over a specific period. It provides an overview of the actions, timescales (link to timeline article), and possible funding resources/approaches that you need to put in place to achieve the plan.

In your strategy, you can focus on what has been successful in the past and include recommendations for the future. You should also make sure it's closely aligned to your organisation's business plan. Your strategy should help you implement your fundraising campaigns and events, but remember it shouldn't be completely rigid - you still want to be able to respond to funding opportunities that come up unexpectedly.

In your fundraising strategy, you should focus on:

Setting your fundraising goals: This could be to raise a certain amount, reach a number of people in your community or engage with specific community groups.

Identifying your target audience: You will likely have more than one, whether parents within the community, businesses or other organisations.

Communicating with your target audience: You will need to tailor your communications in line with the needs of your different audiences.

Establishing your fundraising methods: This could include online methods like crowdfunding (link to crowdfunding guide) and social media challenges or offline methods like community fairs, talent shows or coffee mornings.

Before developing your fundraising strategy, it's important to look back. Focus on your past successes. Where did your income come from previously? You can't implement measurable goals to improve things if you don't have an initial starting point. Also think about where you get your best donors or community heroes? Which sources of community fundraising offer the best ROI? Do you need to diversify your efforts?

It's also important to do a SWOT analysis. This helps you understand your existing fundraising position as well as the current climate. A SWOT analysis focuses on the following:

Strengths: What are you good at? Do you have an existing engaged community base that want to get involved in your community fundraising initiatives?

Weaknesses: Which areas need improvement? Has your online promotion not been up to scratch in the past?

Opportunities: What's coming up? Is there an upcoming date in the calendar you can hang your fundraising efforts on?

Threats: What could prevent you from achieving your goals? Is there increased competition? Will the cost of living crisis impact your potential fundraising?

Analysing each of these areas in turn will help you to build a strategy that's tailored around the needs of your organisation and your community.

So, what are good examples of community fundraising strategies?

Macmillan Cancer Support Coffee Mornings provide a fantastic model of a well-executed community fundraising strategy. First and foremost, it's a cause that a lot of people care about and have been touched by in some way. The charity is dealing with an engaged community that want to do their bit. The onus of running and hosting each coffee morning is placed on the community. The charity simply provides a fundraising pack and the functionality for community fundraisers to create their own online page. Within the pack are recipes, a collection box, event posters and games for the event. Having done the hard work establishing and promoting the event in the first place, the charity leaves a lot of the heavy lifting to its community of supporters. In 2022, this initiative raised more than £12 million.

With a simple idea, easy execution and plenty of buzz online, social media challenges have proved successful strategies to engage with a worldwide community and grow donations. The most well-known of these in recent years has been the Ice Bucket Challenge on behalf of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. This simple online challenge of pouring a bucket of icy water over your head captured the world's imagination and raised over £90 million.

Matched giving and online crowdfunding are also often successful community fundraising strategies. In Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health organisation Beyond Blue successfully raised AUS $870,000 through matched giving campaigns at a time when its services were so incredibly necessary.

Integrating easyfundraising into your Strategy

At easyfundraising, we offer a simple and effective online method of raising funds for your organisation. You can register your non-profit as one of our charitable causes and create a dedicated fundraising page detailing your cause, goals and story. You can then collect donations from your community as they shop online.

Once your supporters have created a personal easyfundraising account with us they can choose you as their cause to support. After they do, they can shop with more than 7,500 online retailers that partner with us. Think major retailers like John Lewis, Lakeland and M&S as well as independents, insurers and loads more. When each supporter spends with one of our partner retailers, that retailer will make a donation on their behalf from the money they spent. It doesn't cost your supporters anything to donate on top of the cash they spend with the retailer, and it doesn't cost your organisation anything to receive the funds.

You can use easyfundraising as your sole method of community fundraising or to supplement your existing fundraising efforts. You just need to make your supporters aware of this approach, how to use it and the benefits it brings to them and you. Your promotion is therefore key. When you sign up with us you can access our ToolKit, which provides you with plenty of tools for promotion including templates for email, social media and WhatsApp.

Top Community Fundraising Ideas

So, what ideas can you incorporate into your strategy? The following community fundraising ideas (link to community fundraising ideas article) should help with a little inspiration:

Community fairs and fetes

Sponsored walks and runs

Jumble sales

Bake sales

Coffee mornings

Concerts and festivals

Charitable auctions

Community sports events

Community service projects, like neighbourhood cleanups, tree planting initiatives or food drives

Business partnerships

Online crowdfunding

Fundraising via social media

Social media challenges

Digital product and merchandising sales

The fundraising ideas you choose will depend on your specific community and target audience. When a PTA is attempting to raise funds from its community of parents, a community fair or fete is a traditional and expected method of fundraising. Parents will be happy to attend and part with their cash for a cause that directly impacts their children. As mentioned before, coffee mornings can be successful with an already engaged community that are well aware of the cause and want to do what they can to help.

If your cause isn't as well-known as an organisation like Macmillan, you will need to focus heavily on your promotion before you execute your idea. This could be digital promotion for a cause like Beyond Blue mentioned above, at a time when it's in the spotlight due to an immediate need for its services. Or it could be a combination of offline and online promotion for a charitable auction held by an animal sanctuary for example.

It all comes down to understanding your goals, your target audience and how best to engage with them. When planning and mapping out your fundraising ideas, always refer back to your strategy.

Building a Successful Community Fundraising Team

To set an effective strategy, promote your organisation and your cause, execute events and campaigns and evaluate their effectiveness, you'll need a dedicated fundraising team in place (link to fundraising team article). Depending on the size of your organisation, you may be able to employ people full-time or you may have to rely on volunteers. Either way, you'll need everyone pulling in the same direction.

Key roles within the team will include:

Team leader: To set the strategy, oversee project management, liaise with the team and monitor and measure progress.

Community fundraising manager: This will be one of the most important roles within your team. They will need to engage directly with your community and will be the main point of contact for all your fundraising initiatives. They will work alongside the team leader.

Event coordinator: To execute your community events, whether offline or online.

Marketer/Social media manager/PR manager: Whether you employ someone with a wide range of skillsets or individual people for each role, this is vital to get the word out about your events and campaigns.

Finance manager: To help set your goals in the first place and manage all aspects of the budget and fundraising coffers.

When it comes to recruitment strategies, you can speak to potential volunteers at any events you're hosting and also post volunteer jobs on websites like Reach Volunteering. You can also head to volunteer fairs to engage with an audience that's already sold on volunteering - you just need to sell them on your organisation and the work you do.

For paid employees, start by creating job postings on dedicated websites like CharityJob and Third Sector Jobs. You'll want to promote these listings on social media and create job ads on LinkedIn. Also consider heading to industry-specific events in your local area. If you want a good marketer, attend local marketing events and get ready with your 30-second elevator pitch. You'll be surprised by how many people may want to pivot their careers into the charity sector, or will be happy to lend their skills to a good cause on a voluntary basis.

Once you have your team in place, motivation is crucial. Try to host regular team building events to build a spirit of camaraderie. In work, make sure you have consistent huddles and catch ups to check on progress but also to foster a culture of collaboration between your team members. Training is vital too. Encourage team members to run training sessions for the rest of the team about their own area of expertise. This will help with increasing the skillset of team members so they can help out in different areas as and when it's needed, but it will also assist with communication and presentation skills - important attributes for community fundraising.

Best Practices for Community Fundraising

When it comes to implementing your community fundraising ideas, try to:

Make it accessible: Ensure your community fundraising initiative is open to all. Macmillan coffee mornings are a great example of this. With such a simple concept - and resources to help people run their own morning - it's so easy for anyone to get involved.

Choose the right fundraising tool: If you're asking people to make online donations, you need a tool that's easy for them to use and simple for you to promote. This could be crowdfunding on a website like GoFundMe or collecting donations through easyfundraising.

Practice two-way communication: If you're asking people to run their own community events on your behalf and become advocates for your organisation, you need to provide them with the resources to help make it happen. But it's also important to listen to your community and their ideas as to how you can improve your initiatives.

Promote, promote, promote: A good idea is essential, but it won't work without adequate promotion. The Ice Bucket Challenge was a great idea, but it was the online buzz that made it fly.

Showcase your story: People want to build an emotional connection with your organisation, and they also want to understand the real importance of the work you do. Beyond Blue gift matching is a great illustration of this. They were able to showcase the real need at that exact time for their services - it got the wider community to buy into their cause and donate to support it.

Keep things time sensitive: A community fundraising initiative with a short timeframe can create a sense of urgency and get people donating now.

Recognise fundraisers' hard work and put them in the spotlight: If people in your community, business leaders or community groups have gone above and beyond in their fundraising efforts or donations shout about it. Share the news on social media, emails, annual reports and internal communications.

Always connect to your cause when you engage with your community: Whether speaking to people at events, encouraging individuals or businesses to take on fundraising initiatives or communicating online, always bring it back to your cause. Your story and the good you're doing is what will encourage people to make an emotional connection.

Analyse your successes and failures: If you're running digital fundraising campaigns you'll have data on your donors, and your social media analytics will help you understand your audience. Even for offline events you can look at total funds raised, donations per donor, available donations and retention rates. All of this information should be used to feed back into your ongoing strategy and to tweak it where appropriate.

Making the Most of your Community

When done well, community fundraising can be a huge source of funds for your non-profit, charity or organisation. An engaged community can take on fundraising events themselves, become advocates for your charity or donate big sums.

But an engaged community is just the start. Effective community fundraising comes down to the right strategy, innovative ideas, a great team and plenty of best practice. We know you can do it!

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Third Sector editor Emily Burt and senior multimedia reporter Lucinda Rouse are joined by Mary Rose Gunn, founder and chief executive of the small charity funder The Fore, to discuss the challenging funding environment facing small charities. (03 May 2024) https://shows.acast.com/61517939d72d490013a1158c/662b71277c82d00012c66ff3

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Lucinda and Emily are joined by Mary Rose Gunn, founder and chief executive of the small charity funder The Fore, to discuss the challenging funding environment facing small charities.

They start by listening to an account by Jane Evans, chief executive of West Norfolk Carers, about the growing difficulty of securing enough funding to keep the charity afloat.

Mary Rose explains why trusts and foundations have historically erred towards supporting specific projects rather than offering unrestricted funding to small charities.

She describes how this is shifting with the emergence of a new generation of largely self-made philanthropists and provides tips for small charities seeking to strengthen their funding applications.

Also in the episode, Debra Allcock Tyler, chief executive of the Directory of Social Change, outlines some of the common pitfalls associated with appointing corporate chairs to charity boards and provides suggestions for overcoming them.

Hear more from Jane Evans in Third Sector's podcast documentary, The End of Charity: What is a world without charity?

Read Debra Allcock Tyler's column: Corporate chairs - a blessing or a curse?

Do you have stories of people whose lives have been transformed for the better thanks to your charity? If so, we'd like to hear them! All it takes is a short voice message to be featured on this podcast. Email lucinda.rouse@haymarket.com for further information.

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Donations, fundraising and event registration tech puts your charity centre stage, letting you focus on your campaigns, supporters, and beneficiaries.

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Enthuse: Branded fundraising for charities

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Welcome to Funding Wales the new funding search platform created by Third Sector Support Wales. Find funding for your charity, community group or social enterprise using our free online search engine.

You can search hundreds of grant and loan finance opportunities from local, national and international sources. From small grants to large capital projects we can help you find the funding you need.

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How to apply

Apply online Continue online application

We can fund projects that'll do at least one of these things:

bring people together to build strong relationships in and across communities

improve places and spaces that matter to communities

help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest stage

support people, communities and organisations facing more demands and challenges because of the cost-of-living crisis.

If you currently have National Lottery Awards For All Northern Ireland funding, you'll have to wait until your current grant finishes before you can reapply. Groups can apply for up to £20,000 at a time, to spend over 2 years.

If it's difficult or impossible for you to complete an application form

You can contact us if you have any communication support needs. We're happy to talk about other ways for you to tell us about your idea. For example, EasyRead or accessible PDF.

Apply 12 weeks before you need the funding

We'll tell you our decision as soon as we can. This usually takes us around 12 weeks.

If you're successful, it normally takes us 2 weeks to pay the money to you.

You can only have one Awards for All grant at a time

You can only hold one grant, for each different country in the UK, at a time.

If you want to apply for a new grant - you'll need to wait until your last grant with us is closed. You will not be eligible if you've already sent an application for National Lottery Awards for All funding and are waiting for a decision.

If you want to reapply for more money, we can only fund your organisation for a maximum of £20,000 within a 12-month period.

We only have a certain amount of funding to award

We get a lot of applications, and many of them are for really worthwhile projects. This means we have to make some tough decisions around which projects we can fund, when reading all the applications we've received. So there are often lots of projects we cannot fund, even the good ones.

What information you need to apply

You can see a full list of questions from the application form.

We ask for the contact details, home addresses and dates of birth of two different people from your organisation. We need a different email address for each person.

One person should be someone we can talk to if we have any questions about your project. The other should be a senior member of your organisation. Both need to live in the UK.

These two people cannot be related. Related can mean:

related by marriage

in a civil partnership with each other

in a long-term relationship with each other

related through a long term partner

living together at the same address

related by blood.

We ask for the legal name of your organisation. And its address. And what type of organisation it is

Check these details before applying. Also check any registration numbers if you have them - like a charity number or company number. It will slow down your application if these details are not right.

We ask for information about your organisation's accounts

We want to know the date your accounts wrap up each year and how much income you have.

If you do not have yearly accounts because you're a new organisation (less than 15 months old) that's okay. We can still look at your application.

We ask you for information about what sort of project you'd like to do

And how your project will help and involve your community.

We also ask you to read and agree to our terms and conditions

You can have a look at the terms and conditions.

If you're not sure about the sort of things we ask for when you apply

Contact us to talk about the things we ask for when you apply.

Send us your bank statement

What we need

One bank statement dated within the last three months. So, we can check the account you want us to pay the grant into.

We'll not be able to assess your application if you do not have a bank account and bank statement that meet our requirements below and you'll need to reapply once you have these set up. If you're not sure contact us to check if your bank account and statement are suitable.

We need:

A bank account that meets our needs in our Financial Controls and Financial Governance Guidance

A bank statement that meets our needs - like in this picture of the kind of bank statement we're looking for.

Our bank statement needs

It should show:

the bank logo

your organisation's legal name

address the statements are sent to

your bank's name

the account number and sort code

date the statement was issued.

Here's a picture of the kind of bank statement we're looking for.

What happens after you apply?

You send us your application - we'll get back to you with a decision in around 12 weeks. During these 12 weeks we look at your idea and do our security checks. You can find out more about the checks we do. We might give you a call within those 12 weeks, to talk a little more about your idea, or ask for more information.

If your application is successful - we'll send you an email with the good news! You can start your project as soon as you get this email, if you want to. And we'll put the funding in your bank account within 14 days (or sooner, if possible).

You can start spending the funding on your project - you should spend the funding the way you said you would in your application (unless we've agreed to something different first). We might check in from time to time - to see how things are going. Find out more about how to manage your funding.

Share your story - you can tell your local community, share your good news on social media, or get in touch with local newspapers. There's some information about how to promote your project. We'll make a press announcement and share your story too.

Reducing your environmental impact

We all have a responsibility to protect the environment for future generations. This includes the communities and projects we support.

We'll expect all applicant organisations to consider their environmental impact and to have relevant policies and procedures in place.

For more on the environment considerations you could consider when developing your project idea see the environmental impact section on 'The projects we fund' page.

You can also access some links to local guidance on our page about reducing your environmental footprint.

British Sign Language (BSL) video - how to apply

Watch BSL interpretation of how to apply to National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland (YouTube):

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National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland | The National Lottery Community Fund

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The National Lottery Community Fund gives grants to organisations in the UK to help improve their communities. The money awarded comes from the UK National Lottery.

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Global search portal for grants, scholarships and fellowships.

Helping you find the right funding opportunities

Free for everyone - no hidden costs or subscription fees

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www.befriending.co.uk/training-events We have events such as Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting Impact which may be beneficial.

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We would love to know how beneficial our Funding Padlet is. Please like posts if they are useful to you, or feedback to our team. For example, if you apply for funding due to a resource here, please let us know the outcome of your application.

To keep staff updated, to provide feedback, or to make requests, please see our contact page for options www.befriending.co.uk/contact

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We run a range of different grants programmes throughout the year. Each programme has its own themes and priorities, so please read the full criteria and make sure you are eligible before making an application. You can apply for, and hold, grants from different programmes at the same time. We encourage applications from underserved and underrepresented communities across all our funding opportunities.

https://www.leedscf.org.uk/open-grants/

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We prioritise:

Work that is unattractive to the general public or unpopular with other funders

Services that help to improve the lives of marginalised, disadvantaged or isolated people

Applicants that can demonstrate an effective use of volunteers

Applicants that can demonstrate (where feasible) an element of self
sustainability by charging subscriptions/fees to service users

We will only fund work that focuses on one of our priority groups:

Elderly people

Children and young people

People with physical impairments, learning difficulties or mental health challenges

Social welfare – people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending)

Education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children)

We only make grants for ongoing core funding. We define core funding as the costs associated with regular activities or services that have been ongoing for at least a year. We do not fund new work or projects.

We only offer grants to registered charities that have been formally established for a minimum of three years. Newly registered charities may apply but the organisation must have appointed a management committee and adopted a governing document at least 3 years ago.

https://yappcharitabletrust.org.uk/what-we-fund/

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We will only fund work that focuses on one of our priority groups:

Elderly people

Children and young people aged 5 - 25

People with physical impairments, learning difficulties or mental health challenges

Social welfare - people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending)

Education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children)

We only make grants for ongoing core funding. We define core funding as the costs associated with regular activities or services that have been ongoing for at least a year. We can not fund new projects, extra services or additional delivery costs. This includes creating a paid post for work that is currently undertaken on a voluntary basis or rent for premises that are currently cost free.

We can only offer grants to registered charities that have been formally
established for a minimum of three years. Newly registered charities may
apply but the organisation must have appointed a management committee
and adopted a governing document at least 3 years ago.

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WHAT WE FUND - The YAPP Charitable Trust

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We will only fund work that focuses on one of our priority groups: Elderly people Children and young people aged 5 - 25 People with physical impairments, learning difficulties or mental health challenges Social welfare - people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending) Education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children) We only make grants for ongoing core funding.

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Our Small Grants Scheme is designed to support charities registered and operating in the United Kingdom, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities.

Applications can be accepted from charities that have an annual turnover of less than £150,000.  Larger or national charities will normally not be considered under this scheme.

Our priority will be to support local charities still active in their communities which are currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community.

Find out more here: https://foylefoundation.org.uk/how-to-apply/

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The Foyle Foundation will complete its grant giving programme in 2025, marking 25 years of giving to the fields of the Arts, Learning, Community Small Grants, State Schools Libraries and formerly Health. Please also note that we can only consider applications for projects (and funding periods) which will be completed before the end of 2025. For full details, including timings of the application process and cut off dates, please see the relevant guidelines pages of our current grantmaking schemes.

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Applicants must be a registered charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator or the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. This does not include Community Interest Companies (CICs).

Charities must have been established for more than one financial year and able to provide a full set of their most recent Annual Report and Accounts, or the equivalent financial information if their annual income is under £25,000.

Areas funded include:

Arts and heritage

Education and training

Environmental causes and animal welfare

Healthcare

Social welfare

https://www.marshcharitabletrust.org/grants/

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OPEN PROGRAMME

This programme aims to support and strengthen small to medium sized charities, and the wider ‘eco-system’, in our priority areas.

We usually fund single focus organisations working solely in our priority areas. For these organisations, we generally give unrestricted grants.

Our Grants Committee meets four times a year to decide upon grant applications.

https://abcharitabletrust.org.uk/apply

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The A B Charitable Trust, an independent grant-making organisation

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An independent charitable grant-making organisation that provides money to UK registered charities and to organisations with charitable status, mainly operating in England, Scotland and Wales

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The Allen Lane Foundation funds small registered charities, voluntary groups, and charitable organisations.

We DO NOT make grants to individuals.

We make grants for work across the UK – BUT NOT within Greater London.

Over a typical year, we make around 130-150 grants, to a total value of between £720,000 and £800,000. The total amount we can offer is upto £15,000.  This can be over three years, two years, or a single grant. However, most grants we make are for much less than this amount, with the average grant size being £5,000-£6,000. Our key funding beneficiary groups are:

Young People

Asylum seekers and refugees

Gypsies and travellers

Offenders and ex-offenders

Older people

People experiencing mental health problems

People experiencing violence or abuse.

https://allenlane.org.uk/our-funding-1/

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We offer grants to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disabilities.

General grant programme >£9000

Small Grant Programme <£9000

Funding is available only to organisations within and projects based in the UK. Grants are not awarded to individuals.

https://www.bailythomas.org.uk/

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The Morrisons Foundation supports registered charities making a positive difference in local communities across England, Scotland, and Wales.

Grants are available for up to £10,000 for capital spend or direct project delivery.

The Morrisons Foundation prioritises applications from small charities, those with an income of less than £1m, but applications from larger charities are welcome.

Before submitting an application, please read our Grant Funding Policy in full. If you are still unsure whether your application is what we’re looking for, please get in touch.

https://www.morrisonsfoundation.com/grant-funding-request/

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Improving Lives

Grants for small and medium sized organisations in the UK to support projects and the running costs of organisations.

Strengthening Communities

Running costs grants for small, grass roots, community based organisations working in the most deprived areas of the UK.

County Grants

Small grants for small organisations working with disadvantaged people and communities in two English counties.

Holiday Grants

Grants towards recreational trips and holidays for groups of children aged 13 and under who are disabled or disadvantaged.

Christian Projects

Grants for projects that support Anglican Clergy Wellbeing.

https://www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk/recently-awarded-grants/

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Northern Ireland based funding resources

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Northern Ireland based funding resources

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We have a diverse range of funding programmes benefitting communities across Scotland. Some of our funds are available on a Scotland-wide basis, and others are aimed at specific geographical areas or themes. You’ll find grant size and criteria information on each fund’s page, together with any unique criteria.

Search our funds here: https://www.foundationscotland.org.uk/apply-for-funding/funding-available

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Who can apply?

Not-for-profit organisations working with children and young people aged 18 or under

Organisations that work with children and young people who live in the UK, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands

We will only consider applications for over £15,000 per year from organisations who have registered with the appropriate regulatory body

These include the Charity Commission for England and Wales, Charity Commission for Northern Ireland and the Scottish Charity Register

If you are a Company limited by Guarantee, you must have registered with Companies House

You can only apply for and hold one grant at any time.

https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/grants/apply/core-costs/

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The Foundation awards unrestricted core funding to grassroots charitable organisations, who have people over 65 at the heart of their work.

Unrestricted funding is only available to registered charities and community groups. We do not fund unrestricted to Community Interest Companies.

https://mccarthystonefoundation.org/our-grant-programmes/

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Our grants programme is open to:

Registered Charities (including those constituted as charitable trusts, charitable unincorporated associations, charitable incorporated organisations and charitable companies limited by guarantee), Charitable Incorporated Organisations, Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee, or Community Benefit Societies.

We currently only fund social enterprises that are charitable companies limited by guarantee or CICs limited by guarantee (see above).

Your annual revenue should be less than £500k

Applicants in any location or sector, but you need to be registered in the UK

https://thefore.org/who-we-fund/

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Social connections and community activities are at the heart of creating healthier, happier lives and a flourishing society. That’s why we support amazing community-led projects.

https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/national-lottery-awards-for-all-scotland

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Funders can come in a wide range of sizes, objectives and locations. Here are a number of databases and examples to support you locate a funder suitable for your project.

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This section provides a mixture of resources offering top tips and additional support for all things funding!

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We are aware that bid writing can be a challenge. To ensure you are presenting information to improve your chances of a successful application, check out the resources below.

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Welcome to Befriending Networks collated resources for all things funding.

This padlet contains a series of resources - from top tips, and signposting databases, to highlighting possible funding pots for your project.

Befriending Networks created this in the hopes of providing support to your sustainability, staff capacity and locating of resources.

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Funds Online - Directory of Social Change

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Funds Online - Directory of Social Change

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https://fundsonline.org.uk/

We’ve made tens of thousands of charities stronger over 40 plus years of delivering a wide range of services.

As well as our flagship Funds Online database, we run training courses, organise events and provide publications covering a wide variety of voluntary sector subjects.

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This page covers: Before you start; Classic mistakes to avoid; Telling your story; No application form; Next steps

Access here: https://www.ncvo.org.uk/help-and-guidance/funding-income/all-about-grants/writing-your-application/

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12 top tips from Charity Fundraising Ltd. on top bid writing tips for successful grant fundraising https://charitydigital.org.uk/topics/topics/how-to-write-a-winning-funding-bid-11042

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This is an article written in 2023 by Charity Digital

https://charitydigital.org.uk/topics/topics/how-to-write-a-winning-funding-bid-11042

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As part of our Application Review Service, Get Grants Funding Experts will review your funding application or draft to give your application the best chance of success.

We know that fundraisers of all levels of experience put a huge amount of their valuable time into preparing funding applications. Too often, fundraisers spend hours rewording applications, delay submitting because they are unsure, or have their time and effort wasted by having applications rejected on an avoidable error.

We offer an expert pair of eyes so that you can be confident your application has the best chance of success.

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360Giving is a charity that helps organisations to publish open, standardized grant data, and supports people to use it to improve charitable giving. You can access it here: https://www.threesixtygiving.org/

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The Trust funds charities and voluntary organisations working in the areas of health, lifelong learning, community development and social care, and encourages applications from organisations where our grants of up to £10,000 can make the biggest impact.

Q3 - Application window is open between 1-28 February 2024. The trustee board meeting will take place in April 2024.

Q4 - Application window is open between 1-31 May 2024. The trustee board meeting will take place in July 2024.

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Supporting local communities across the UK

Boots Charitable Trust is an independent registered charity wholly funded by Boots UK Limited. We want to be there to care for people, customers and communities everywhere and that's why in 2023, we expanded the Trust's reach to support projects across the UK, as well as in our home county of Nottinghamshire.

The Trust funds charities and voluntary organisations working in the areas of health, lifelong learning, community development and social care, and encourages applications from organisations where our grants of up to £10,000 can make the biggest impact.

Applications for funding are made using our new Boots Charitable Trust application portal.

Please ensure you review our charitable giving policy before beginning an application.

To access an application you've already made, click here.

While we look at nominations from all different charities, our main focus is on the following areas that are very close to our hearts and heritage:

Health: Community healthcare, such as homecare or support for sufferers of medical conditions, and health education and prevention

Lifelong learning: Local literacy and numeracy projects

Community development: For example, supporting councils in providing voluntary services

Social care: Personal, social or community activities or schemes.

Additionally, a particular focus within each of these priorities is how the projects demonstrate a commitment to improving diversity, equality and inclusion within the community.

Here is some guidance on those projects we do not supply funding for:

Individuals

Organisations that are not registered charities and which have income or expenditure of more than £5,000 per year

Charities seeking funds to redistribute to other charities

Projects for which there is a legal statutory obligation

Capital projects, large building or construction

Projects with ongoing maintenance costs that would be dependent on Boots Charitable Trust funding for delivery to continue.

Nominations are reviewed quarterly by a board of Trustees. Timescales for applications are outlined below:

Q1 - Application window is open between 1-31 August 2023. The trustee board meeting will take place in October 2023.

Q2 - Application window is open between 1-30 November 2023. The trustee board meeting will take place in January 2024.

Q3 - Application window is open between 1-28 February 2024. The trustee board meeting will take place in April 2024.

Q4 - Application window is open between 1-31 May 2024. The trustee board meeting will take place in July 2024.

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Boots Charitable Trust is an independent registered charity wholly funded by Boots UK Limited. We want to be there to care for people, customers and communities everywhere and that's why in 2023, we expanded the Trust's reach to support projects across the UK, as well as in our home county of Nottinghamshire.

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How we support Organisations:

Organisations that have been awarded grant funding and associated development support have note that they benefit from:

Improved reporting and accountability

More effective financial and project management

Increased knowledge and skills

Participation in networks, greater collaboration, peer learning

This model aims to deliver positive, sustainable benefits to organisations, communities and individuals.

How we support Organisations:

We can support organisations through:

Strategic Advice

With 40 years' experience and an unparalleled network, we're able to bring market intelligence and current industry knowledge to organisations developing their approach to promoting social change, equality and human rights. This includes advising statutory, third sector and corporate clients to advance their strategic thinking. Our experience in helping organisations build sustainable futures, means means Impact Funding Partners is ideally placed to help clients to review their governance structure, meet procurement demands or to facilitate the development of their fundraising, marketing and systems change strategies. It can also resource the implementation of their plans.

Social Impact and Evaluation

Knowing you've made a difference isn't enough, quantifying what impact looks like is difficult. By building systems that capture information that matters, we're able to create evaluation tools that definitively - and credibly - measure social impact and identify areas for improvement. We can come alongside you at any stage in your project journey as a learning, monitoring and evaluation partner.

"We engaged Impact Funding Partners to carry out a major evaluation piece for our charity. This involved surveying clients, staff and volunteers. IFP staff were immensely helpful in providing information and support that helped to shape our project. The final report was comprehensive and fulfilled our requirements. A lovely team to work with that I have no hesitation in recommending."

- Sally Cameron, Fundraising Manager, seescape

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Service to Organisations - Impact Funding Partners

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Organisations that have been awarded grant funding and associated development support have note that they benefit from: Improved reporting and accountability More effective financial and project management Increased knowledge and skills Participation in networks, greater collaboration, peer learning This model aims to deliver positive, sustainable benefits to organisations, communities and individuals.

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Welcome to Funding Wales the new funding search platform created by Third Sector Support Wales. Find funding for your charity, community group or social enterprise using our free online search engine.

You can search hundreds of grant and loan finance opportunities from local, national and international sources. From small grants to large capital projects we can help you find the funding you need.

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Funding Eye blog on all things fundraising; news on trust and foundations and funding opportunities

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The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery

Funds available under 20,000 and funds available over £20001

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The National Lottery Community Fund gives grants to organisations in the UK to help improve their communities. The money awarded comes from the UK National Lottery.

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Free UK Charity AI Grant Funding Bid Application Writing Service

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We provide free AI funding bid writing for charities, using our ChatGPT grant application writer. Our ChatGPT charity fundraising bid writer was built mainly for small UK charities that cannot afford a bid writer but works for any nonprofit. It's quick and simple and you don't need to have been on a grant writing course to use it.  It doesn't replace the breadth of knowledge of a good bid writer but will save them time by collecting the information they need from staff teams/groups and creating a draft funding bid for them to use in writing a charitable grant application. Access here.

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The Funding Finder database isn’t just another trust and foundations directory, it also has links to 100s of other free grant funding databases and online funder lists, giving you click through to more funding than any other directory.

Improve your fundraising and find new opportunities online in 30 mins, using the fundraising health check, with access to a huge range of free resources and help, including 50+ downloadable trust and foundation grant funding lists.

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Alternative Funding: Knowing Your Options

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Alternative Funding: Knowing Your Options

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This resource was designed as part of our national conference 2022, providing advice on funding and alternative options. This resource was shared post-training and networking event as additional reading.