Follow up to “Sustainable Funding Event” on 17th Sept

[September 18, 2009] Thanks to all who attended and contributed to our Third Sector Forum, “Sustainable Funding Event” on 17th Sept at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre. Lots of information was shared in a short period of time, so all notes, details, presentations, links and follow up information are online here. Read the full article for more information. Presentation The [...]

Thanks to all who attended and contributed to our Third Sector Forum, “Sustainable Funding Event” on 17th Sept at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre. Lots of information was shared in a short period of time, so all notes, details, presentations, links and follow up information are online here. Read the full article for more information.

Presentation

The Powerpoint presentation at the event contained a number of names and useful links. You can view the presentation online here (without the need for Powerpoint software). (This is powered through Slideshare.)

Sustainable Funding event 17th Sept 2009 – Third Sector Forum

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What we covered…

We spoke about…

Working Neighbourhoods Fund – current status
CommunityBuilders Fund – new fund
Fundraising Plus initiative – introducing Helen Howard
Moneymatters Plus initiative – introduced Ian & Brian from CERT
GRANTnet – tool for finding grants
Grassroots Grants – at update from VANEL
Targeted Support Fund – closed now but an update
Hardship Fund – open now
Ward Concilor Funding
FairShare Youth Fund Grant
Awards for All
the LEADER programme

We then concluded with a short development session tackling funding by looking at how organisations could/should work in partnership to develop funding opportunities properly.

Click on the items above to find out more about each option.

Who was involved?

Karl Elliott, Third Sector Hub Manager, VANEL
Richard Wendel-Jones, Third Sector Contracts Manager, VANEL
Helen Howard, Funding Advice Development Worker at VANEL
Ian Oxley and Brian Howell from CERT – Moneymatters Plus project
Helen Atkinson, Grimsby Central Hall, spoke about her Awards for All application
Paul Crompton, the Northern Lincolnshire LEADER Programme

Thanks too to Paul Taylor and the team at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre for hosting us.

Useful links

The Third Sector Hub is www.thirdsectorhub.org.uk
The Sustainable Finance workstream from the Hub is at www.thirdsectorhub.org.uk/finance
VANEL is at www.vanel.org.uk
HANA (leading on Fundraising Plus) is www.hanaonline.org.uk
GRANTnet is provided through the Third Sector Hub at www.thirdsectorhub.org.uk/grantnet or go direct here.

Where next?

Start reading through articles related to Sustainabe Finance here.
GRANTnet training is on 13th October – call Charlotte on 01472 231123 to book your place
similarly, “First Steps to Sustainability” is on 13th October (am) – more details soon or contact Charlotte