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Whether your voluntary or community group needs just a few hundred pounds or thousands of pounds, this is the best place to start!
Raising funds can be one of the most daunting tasks that any voluntary or community organisation undertakes. It can take a lot of time and usually involves locating more than one source of funding.
CVS can help you find your way through the funding maze. Here are some of the services we provide:
Specialist Funding and Development Advice
This is provided by Linda Candita, Jane Owen and Mark Smith, our Funding and Development Officers. Please phone to make an appointment on 01234 354366 or email linda@yourcvs.org, jane@yourcvs.org or mark@yourcvs.org respectively.
Fundraising Workshops
Whether you are new to fundraising or an old hand, CVS would recommend that you attend one of our innovative 2 hour workshops that cover the following:
Fit for Funding
This workshop will cover all the basics to get you to the stage where your organisation will be able to apply for funding. We will go through all the documentation you will need, including your governing document, policies, budgeting, and explain the basics of outcomes and demonstrating need. There will also be the opportunity to go through examples of funding applications and guidance on the use of our resources area.
Demonstrating Need and Understanding Outcomes
This workshop will build on the skills you gained from the Fit for Funding workshop and will explain how to identify and explain the need for your work, plus define aims, outcomes, targets and milestones. Through using practical examples and an interactive workshop we aim to make sense of some of the most common problems groups have when making funding applications.
To learn more about these workshops and upcoming dates visit our Fit for Funding Web Page or our Training Pages for other fundraising courses.
Resources Library
Our Resources Library can be booked by any local voluntary or community group free of charge. It is available on weekdays between 9am and 5pm and can be accessed at other times by special arrangement.
Using the Resources Library you can:
- search for funders using the subscription databases FunderFinder and TrustFunding.org
- Research funders in copies of the major funding directories
- Access a wealth of other funding and development-related
information in our books, guides and toolkits.
To book an appointment to use the Resources library, please call Mark Smith on 01234 354366 or email mark@yourcvs.org
Beds-Spread
We like to keep our members up-to-date with what is happening in the voluntary sector and so we produce Beds-Spread, our newsletter, every eight weeks. There is always useful funding information including any new funding streams opening. You can download Beds-Spread from our Beds-Spread Web Page on this website, where you will find that you can also download past copies
Don't put all your eggs in one basket! - Bedfordshire's Sustainable Funding Guide
CVS would recommend that your organisation adopts a Sustainable Funding Approach. This is an approach developed by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations’ (NCVO) Sustainable Funding Project and has been set up to promote an approach that encourages voluntary and community organisations across the UK to explore opportunities to diversify their income streams, so that they are not solely reliant on one income stream, be it from donors, funders, purchasers or consumers. Truly a case of ‘not putting all your eggs in one basket’!
In conjunction with NCVO, CVS have produced the 'Bedfordshire's Sustainable Funding Guide', which can be downloaded below:
The aim of this guide is to give a Bedfordshire perspective to the spectrum of income streams available to voluntary and community groups locally, as well as nationally Please also explore the following pages, that outline in more detail how your organisation benefit by diversifying your funding streams to include from:
- Donations
- Grants
- Contracts
- Trading
Fundraising Toolkit
This CVS toolkit has been produced for use by local voluntary and community groups and it provides useful information on sources of funding from both local and national sources, information sheets on a variety of different subjects including how to make a good application, budgeting, a jargon buster, A – Z of fundraising ideas, and a guide to useful resources. We hope that this toolkit will help your group to improve their fundraising.
Visit our Fundraising Toolkit Page and associated pages to download the toolkit and find out more.
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