Who are we?...Crowdfunder.co.uk Some of the funded Groups Questions? 01566 779333 Cornwall Community...
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Juliet Williams
Regional Officer
South West
Who are we?
Children in Need SW
Region
BBC West - Bristol
BBC South West –
Plymouth
BBC South - Southampton
The projects
that we fund…
…help us achieve our three ambitions.
That every child in the UK has a childhood that is :
Safe
happy and secure
allows them the chance to reach their potential
• Illness, distress, abuse or neglect
• Any kind of disability
• Behavioural or psychological problems
• Severe poverty and deprivation
Projects should make a
difference to
disadvantaged children
and young people,
aged 18 and under.
Our grant
programmes
Emergency Essentials
� www.buttleuk.org
Small Grants
� any amount up to and including £10,000
for one year at a time
Main Grants
� over £10,000 for up to three years
SMALL GRANTS
5 deadlines a year, quicker turnaround
1st April early June
1st June early August
1st September early November
1st December early February
1st February early April
� £10,000 or under for 1
year only
� Online application
� 9 week turnaround
MAIN GRANTS
3 deadlines a year
15th May mid October
15th September mid February
15th January mid June
� Over £10,000, up to 3 years
� Initial Application – online
� Invited to full application
stage
For further help…
bbc.co.uk/pudsey
helpdesk on 0345 609 0015
or Juliet Williams
Plymouth Office 01752 234 588
Big Lottery Fund
Jenny FishFebruary 2014
Big Lottery Fund - Mission
“The Big Lottery Fund is committed to bringing real
improvements to communities and to the lives of people
most in need”
Big Lottery Fund - outcomes
Outcome 1: People having better chances in life, with better access to training and development to improve
their life skills
Outcome 2: Stronger communities, with more active
citizens, working together to tackle their problems
Outcome 3: Improved rural and urban environments,
which communities are better able to access and enjoy
Outcome 4: Healthier and more active people
and communities
Investing in Projects (big and small)
Awards for All
• £300 - £10, 000
•C ornwall 141 applications,
awarded just under £1m
Reaching Communities
Revenue
• better, simpler, quicker
•£10k upwards•Cornwall 52 applications,
awarded just under £800k
Where to get help
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
www.biglearningzone.org.uk
Big Advice line: 0845 4 10 20 30
www.bigblog.org.uk
Make A Difference - BIG Lottery
The Cornwall Community Foundation
We’re only as vibrant as the
communities we live in.
Cornwall Community
Foundation
• Originally Cornwall Independent Trust Fund (1998)
• Became a Community Foundation in 2003
• Registered Charity & Company Limited by Guarantee
• Exclusively for the benefit of Cornwall & Isles of
Scilly
What we do
• We are a charity committed to supporting local projects
in Cornwall & Isles of Scilly that engage local people in
making their communities better places to live
• CCF helps by awarding small grants to organisations to
improve the lives of others in Cornwall, those who are:
isolated, disadvantaged and vulnerable
How we do it
• Individuals, families, companies and public bodies
donate and set up funds with us
• We fulfil their aims and objectives by ensuring the right
projects that really need support are helped in their bid
for funding
• Ultimately, long term grant making for our county
• We distribute targeted and effective grants
All money raised by the CCF
is spent in Cornwall
• CCF has awarded £5.5m to the community over the last
10 years, over 2000 local projects have benefited
• CCF supported 596 grass-roots charities and community
groups and awarded £592,307 in 2013
Supporting Communities
• Charities
• Clubs / Associations
• Community Groups
• Resident Associations
• Community Centres
• Community Interest Companies
• Credit Unions
Care 2 Create
Sunshine Cafe Mullion Age Concern bus trip
Application process
• Our aim is always to deliver a speedy, effective, accessible,
thorough and fair grants process
• Every eligible application is assessed and the applications are
presented to a volunteer grants panel with a combined
experience of Cornwall, community and voluntary groups
CCF grant process
• Published deadlines
• Simple assessment
• Acknowledgement letter
• Full assessment
• Panel
• Outcome letter
• Payment & follow up reporting
• Other options are available e.g. donor directed, virtual
panels.
CCF grant panel members
• Terms of Reference
• Volunteers
• Private, public & voluntary sectors
• Across the county
• Various ages
• Experience & knowledge
• Decision makers
Ways to help
www.cornwallfoundation.com
Ways to help
Additional grant themes
The Cornwall 100 Club awarded a total of £40,300 in 2013
•Improving community spaces
•Providing a service the whole community can benefit from
•Business and communities working together
Fredericksfoundation.org/cornwall
Crowdfunder.co.uk
Some of the funded Groups
Questions?
www.cornwallfoundation.com
01566 779333
Cornwall Community Foundation
Suite 1 Sheers Barton
Lawhitton
Launceston
PL15 9NJ
About Us
The UK’s leading
crowdfunding network
Working with local
communities all over the UK
to make great ideas happen
Helping Businesses,
Charities, Community
Projects, Schools and
Individuals looking to raise
money
Raised over £1.3m for
1000s of projects all over
the UK
What is crowdfunding?
Crowdfunding is a way of
raising money and
support for a project or
idea from a group of
individuals …
… The crowd!
There are 4 types of crowdfunding models:
LendingInvestors are repaid for
their investment over a
period of time.
RewardsInvestors receive a
tangible item or service
in return for their
funds.
EquityInvestors receive a
stake in the company.
DonationContributions go
towards a charitable
cause.
Funding
Benefits of Crowdfunding
Validation
Marketing Advocates
We work with project owners to create
campaigns that will work
Video
Rewards
Descriptions
Marketing
We give tools to help
promote
We directly work with press
We deal with all financial
transaction
We help project owners
communicate with pledgers
Someone has a good idea
Sets up a project
on Crowdfunder
Ask for pledges
from friends and
networks
Get Local Press
and spread the
word
Project is successful
and the great idea
happens
Pledgers get a
suitable and exciting
reward for their
support
The Crowdfunder Process
•Status Updates
•Deliver rewards
•Relax and celebrate
Running a successful campaign
•Promote to your network
•Social media
•Word of mouth
•Newpapers, radio, blogs
•Updates to your backers
•Describe your project
•Set your target
•Define your rewards
•Make your video
•Build a team
CAPACITY BUILDING
SUPPORT FROM
SPORTEDHannah Colston
South West Regional Manager
WHO ARE WE
• Leading national ‘Sport for Development’ charity
• Support clubs and not-for-profit organisations that are using sport as a
tool to help disadvantaged young people
• The focus is 11 – 25 year olds
• FREE membership organisation providing a range of services and funding
• Services to help our members become more robust and sustainable
• www.sported.org.uk/getinvolved
WHAT IS SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT
• ‘Sport for social change’ or ‘youth engagement’ or ‘sport for good’
• Does your organisation fit into two of these themes?
• Building strong communities
• Reducing crime and anti-social behaviour
• Removing barriers to regular participation for marginalised groups
• Developing young people by providing them with skills for the workplace
and life
• Education in health and well being
SPORTED SERVICES
• Members of Sported can potentially access….
• Support from a volunteer business mentor
• Grant funding
• Impact Measurement tool- Sportworks
• Ask the Experts
• Online tools and templates
• Insurance scheme
• Bitesize
EXAMPLE
• Cornwall Cougars Wheelchair Basketball Club
• A new club in Truro that was initially set up
with support from Cornwall Sports Partnership
• Increasing participation for marginalised
groups
• Accessed small grant of £2,000 from Sported
• Accessed capacity building support from
Sported to apply to Sport England ‘Get
Equipped’ for development of outreach clubs
SPORTWORKS
• An impact measurement tool to prove the value
of your work against prolific social change
outcomes
£4000FREE ACCESS TO SPORTED MEMBERS
WWW.SPORTED.ORG.UK/WHAT-WE-DO/SPORTWORKS
SUMMARY
Contact details:
Hannah Colston
South West Regional Manager
M: 07901 339 335
www.sported.org.uk
www.facebook.com/sported
Follow me on Twitter @sportedSW
Next Steps….
To access any of the capacity building
services available from Sported your
club or organisation will need to be a
member.
Its free!
-Premium
-Network
-Standard
Sport England Investment
£1billion 2013-2017
£490m WSP £510m Other Programmes
£316m Participation
£40m Capital
£84m Talent
£40m Incentive / Reward
Small Grants
Inclusive SportGet Equipped
Active Colleges/Universities
Community Sport Activation FundSportivate
InspiredImprovement
Strategic Facilities FundPrimary Spaces
Protecting Playing Fields
Supporting both our large national partners and smaller community sports groups
•Longer term commitment to our delivery partners such as county sports partnerships and
governing bodies
•Providing a variety of funding streams which help meet the needs of smaller projects or
clubs
The pursuit of excellence and better outcomes
•Providing a range of grants which help us meet our key objectives
•Taking a competitive approach to selecting the best bids to receive funding
•Supporting innovation, in order to make a step change
A flexible approach that meets the needs of applicants
•Our funding programmes have been developed based on feedback from the sporting world
to ensure that projects can access the investment that they need
•A mix of capital and revenue funding streams ranging from £300 - millions of pounds
Minimising bureaucracy while ensuring accountability
•Making application criteria more transparent
•We are constantly using feedback from applicants to streamline the application process
•Providing an application process that focuses on the ability of applicants to deliver
•Providing the highest quality guidance for funding applicants
Our funding principles
Small Grants
• Open all year round
• 10-12 week assessment period
• Threshold - £300 – £10,000
• Revenue / No capital - Funds coaching fees, facility hire,
non-personal and non-fixed equipment
• Project cost less than £50k
• No partnership funding required
• Pre Application checklist
Community Sport
Activation Fund
Round 3 Round 4 Round 5
Open 11 November 2013 May 2014 April 2015
Closes 13 January 2014 June 2014 June 2015
Decision
Making
10-12 week
assessment period
10-12 week
assessment period
10-12 week
assessment period
Funding
Thresholds
£50k – no maximum
1/3rd match funding
£50k – no maximum
1/3rd match funding
£50k – no maximum
1/3rd match funding
• Activities reflecting a broad range of sports
• Informal opportunities which could lead to regular participation
• Multi-sport activities which provide people with a range of
choices and opportunities to suit them
• Family orientated activities with a focus on the 14 plus age
group
• Local activator roles that focus on directly organising and
delivering new opportunities for participation
Protecting
Playing Fields
• Round 6 open 3rd February – 24th March 2014
• Threshold - £10,000 - £50,000
• Purchase of land (for playing fields) / purchase of playing
fields / Improvements
• Partnership funding – vol org £nil / LA £-£ / Educ 30%
• Eligibility – type of Organisation / aims and details of project
Sportivate
• £56m
• 11-25 year-olds who are not particularly sporty access to
six weeks' of free or subsidised coaching in a range of sports.
• 6 - 8 weeks those taking part can work towards an event and when the free or low-cost coaching has finished they
will be supported to continue playing sport.
• Administered through CSPs
Questions ?
Rounds by Facts and Figures
37£1,788,015£3,599,604Total
5 - 21st Oct to 16th
Dec 2013
11£512,013£801,464
4 - 4th March to 29th
April 2013
12£580,044£1,234,071
3 - 23rd July to 17th
Sept 2012
9£439,142£982,104
2 - 1st Feb to 2nd Apr
2012
5£256,816£581,965
1 – 1st Aug to 28th Sept
2011
Number of
Projects
Amount
InvestedTotal AmountRound
What will the programme fund?
YES
•Upgrades and improvements
•Works to bring non sports buildings into sporting use
•Indoor lighting and flooring
•Outdoor floodlights
•Sports equipment (non personal)
•Items that help reduce running costs – rain harvesting, solar panels, windmills
•Social areas and car parks – just make the case!
NO
•Revenue items i.e. staffing, coaching, travel etc
•Small routine maintenance & repairs i.e. painting, broken windows
•Personal sports equipment
but our partner Thomas Cook Children’s Charity can - if your project involves disadvantaged young people
•Retrospective funding (reimbursement of costs incurred)
Improvement
Fund
• 5 Rounds - £9m
• EOI request – not open to all
• Threshold - £150,000 - £500,000
• Medium sized capital projects
• Partnership funding – min 25%
• Themed rounds: R1 - AGP’s / Swimming Pool Changing rooms
R2 - Energy saving sustainable initiatives
R3 – CYP aged 14-25 (closes today!)
• Prospectus issued each round
The importance…..
• Sport England Key Objectives
• The Need
• Being Sustainable
• Having a Sports Development Plan
• Website: www.sportengland.org
• Guidance and help is available on the online application form
• Funding Helpline on 08458 508508
• Email at [email protected]
• Hours of opening Mon 8am to 9pm, Tue-Thu
8am to 6pm and Fri 8am to 5pm
Support
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