Sources of Funding
Some useful websites
The internet is now the shop window to the world. It is important that you develop a donations page on your own website as well as using some of the new websites that have been developed to help charities raise funds from wealthy donors. Recent research has shown that donors are more loyal to a charity if there it has a good fundraising page that makes donating easy. Keep your text interesting and simple. If you need help with the wording then ask BCP for a marketing specialist's time.
These websites can help you publicise your need for funding.
The Big Give is the idea of Alec Reed, founder of Reed Recruitment Group. The Big Give is fully funded by the Reed Foundation. It is free to users, and any registered UK charity may register and post their projects on the site.
The Guidestar website has been in the news recently. It copies over information from the Charities Commission website but you can register and put in more info, much like The Big Give, to enable potential donors to donate to you.
http://community.brighton.co.uk/funding
Info about local and national sources of funding.
A toolkit that gives advice on fundraising at the National Finance Hub.
Published by Brighton and Hove ImpetusFunders On-line
Offers access to a range of European funding and grantmaking resources. A project of the European Foundation Centre and other international partners, this Funders Online Directory offers access to profiles of foundations and corporate funders' web sites. The directory is also searchable by funder's areas of interest, indexed by subject focus, geographic focus, population focus and types of support.
Published by Working Together ProjectNational Government Funding Website Portals
http://www.governmentfunding.org.uk/Default.aspx
This site is your online portal to
grants for the voluntary and community sector from the following funders:
Department for Communities and Local Government
Department for Education and Skills
Government Offices for the Regions
West Sussex Funding Finder
West Sussex County Council offers a free service to businesses, voluntary organisations, charities and community groups, and social enterprises to search for sources of funding for any venture or project.
See the following links to enter the 3 areas of funding:
Enter West Sussex 4 Community
Enter West Sussex 4 Business
Information about funders
Brighton and Hove City Council provides lots of information on grant programmes it runs and those available elsewhere.
The Resource Centre Favourite Funders directory provides basic details of selected funders that have proved useful to local community groups in Brighton & Hove. These sheets are also available in a reference file at the Resource Centre or on their website.
We also have two Information Sheets with information about funders.
- Fundraising from local businesses gives advice and a list of local businesses that may be useful if you want to raise a small amount of money or raffle prizes for Christmas Parties, Fun Days, outings, or other small projects.
- Fundraising from Local Trusts gives advice and a list of Grant Making Trusts that give grants to groups in Sussex.
You can access the subscription trustfunding.org website in the centre which is a searchable database of thousands of trustfunds. Contact us to book a time.
Our website has links to useful fundraising websites with information about sources of funding plus how to fundraise effectively.
Our library has a wide range of books on both sources of funding and all other aspects of fundraising.
Published by Brighton Resource CentreSustainable support and resources from local businesses
Brighton and Hove Business Community Partnership (BCP) assists third sector organisations to attract sustainable support and resources from local businesses such as: A range of free services including:
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Business advice, web design, PR, architectural advice
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Volunteer support
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Business mentoring
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Office space and equipment
BCP supports developing social enterprises by matching them with specific support from businesses and other partners, running workshops and development sessions, managing a network of local social enterprises and connecting social enterprises with learning institutions and business advisers.
This rich source of in-kind support raises the capacity of organisations and can be used as match funding.
Contact Daniella Scott
01273 770075
The relationships and projects resulting from partnerships with business can be very sustainable and of high value. Such support generally comes in the form of new skills and capacity.
Social enterprise / trading
Social enterprise journal is available free on-line for those developing trading : www.sel.org.uk/knowledge/aspx
