Title: the sustainable funding project
1 the sustainable funding project funding in the
round Welcome! Sustaining yourselves to
sustain others!
2An Introduction to Sustainable Funding The
Sustainable Funding Project, NCVO
3The 3 Ss of sustainable funding
- Stable a diverse mix of funding sources
- Suitable appropriate for the organisation
- Sufficient costs are understood and covered
- Planning underpins and strengthens
- an organisations sustainability
4Why sustainable funding? Context
- Decreasing local authority funding advocacy role
difficult to fund
- Funds increasingly directed to frontline
- One-to-one support expensive to deliver
- Lack of clarity about who when to support
- The limitations of short-term project funding
5Why sustainable funding? Opportunity
- Opportunity to develop user-focused services
- Hunting for hidden assets
- Increased contract delivery opportunities
- Loans available for asset development
6 Funding streams and relationships
Donor Funder Purchaser
Consumer
7Money is just one piece of the puzzle
8An Introduction to Trading The Sustainable
Funding Project, NCVO
9The More than Profit Sector!
Source UK Voluntary Sector Almanac 2007
10Why trade?
- Traded income is unrestricted
- Trading builds new skills
- Charging promotes appreciation of quality
- Trading can reconnect us with our users
11Merging mission money
12- How?
- Product - producing goods and services where
they didnt exist before (childcare, recycling) - Process - ways of working which prioritise a
social element (worker co-operatives, social
firms, fair trade) - Profit - trading in order to cross-subsidise
social or environmental goods or services
13What? - product options
existing market
existing product
new product
new market
14- How to sell - approaches to trading
- Four Ways to Earn theres more to trading than
profit! - Mission Related Trading
- Contracting
- Social Firms
- Unrelated Trading
15Products and Competencies
food
consistency
logistics
parcels
hope
cosmetics
Source Jerr Boschee
16Think about
- Product and Market
- Mission and Money
- Hunting for Hidden Assets
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- Why do we want to trade
- What have we got
- Who might buy it
17Needs analysis Sustainable Sun Tool The
Sustainable Funding Project, NCVO
18Where are you now?
19 the sustainable funding project funding in the
round www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/sfp 020 7520
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