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Funding Advice & Appointments

You can discuss your organisation’s funding needs with a Funding Adviser from the Charities Information Bureau, they can do a tailored funding search for your group or project and support you to:

• Make fundraising applications

• Write a fundraising plan

• Develop your organisation’s fundraising skills

• Diversity your funding streams

• Develop a sustainable funding mix

Helping you to raise money with our partners at CIB South & West. Charities Information Bureau South & West offers FREE funding advice to voluntary & community organisations throughout Wiltshire, as well as charity registration and governance support. You can be sure of a professional friendly and useful service.

CIB also has a free database that Wiltshire groups and individuals can access for information on funders.

To book an appointment or talk to an adviser call CIB on 01380 729279 or email enquiries@cibwilts.org.uk quoting “GROW” or visit: .www.cibsouthandwest.org.uk

How to Find Funders

Please find listed below various websites offering information on available funding, funding search facilities and other resources to support your funding needs.

Charities Information Bureau South & West has an excellent free search facility on it’s website including “ready to go” funding packs according to subject area.www.cibsouthandwest.org.uk

GROW & CIB Funding Resource Pack - click here to download

Funding Central is a free smart website for the whole voluntary and community sector, including social enterprise, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs. Visit www.fundingcentral.org.uk

Green Grants Machine is a free, comprehensive source of information on grants, loans and awards available to help your business go green and save on energy bills: purchase hybrid fleet vehicles; install solar panels; introduce a recycling scheme in the workplace; or to invest in green packaging to name just a few. Website:www.greengrantsmachine.co.uk

Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK. The site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK.www.lotteryfunding.org.uk

Open4Community Funding Portal allows you to search 1000's of funders including government, lottery, EU, non government and charitable trust funding opportunities. It also has useful information on locally available funders and how to make good bids. To access the site go to:.www.open4community.info/bathnes

Open 4 Social Enterprise Funding Portal: explore government, Lottery or trust funding which may be relevant to social enterprise:http://www.open4socialenterprise.info/wiltshire/Default.aspx Although Wiltshire focused much of the information on this site is applicable in other areas

GrantNet - Wiltshire & Swindon External Funding Network - Access to the free Grantnet funding search can be obtained through to the Wiltshire & Swindon Intelligence Network site. Click on "Click to search for funds", the window will open up and enable you, once registered, to undertake a search in relation to your project.www.intelligencenetwork.org.uk

LocalGiving.com - The Community Foundation for Swindon and Wiltshire has teamed up with Localgiving.com to offer a new innovative way for voluntary organisations to receive donations, namely, Localgiving.com. Our aim is to empower local charities and provide them with support in ensuring the sustainability of voluntary organisations in light of these economically challenging times

The benefits for organisations include:

At the Community Foundation our role will be to support the groups in designing their web page and exploring other methods of online fundraising and marketing which we will be running workshops on in the near future.

We have also been given funding from Wiltshire County Council to pay the membership fee of £60 plus VAT for the FIRST 200 GROUPS ONLINE!

If you have any queries regarding Localgiving and its benefits to local groups around Wiltshire then please do not hesitate to contact Pav Bains our Online Development Officer at Pav.Bains@wscf.org.uk or on 01380 729284.

The Social Investment Business - for loans, finance and other forms of social investment support. The Social Investment Business is the largest social investor in the UK. It manages the Futurebuilders Fund, the Communitybuilders Fund, the Modernisation Fund and the Social Enterprise Investment Fund. It offers knowledge and expertise, as well as finance, to help third sector organisations thrive – improving infrastructure, increasing capacity, helping them bid for, and win, public service contracts. www.socialinvestmentbusiness.org