Fourways Partnership
Extended Services for the New Forest
Funding information & support
Your ESCO is able to provide help with informaton about Makng a Difference fundng and the bid process for extended services funding and may also cascade relevant funding opportunities from time to time. ESCOs also have access to funding databases so can help schools to search for funding for specific projects. Please see our downloads for more information:
- December 2010 Funding Update - Funding Information & Support - Fundraising Ideas - Sources of Local Funding - Employers Offering Matched Funding/Community Cashback awards - Where to Apply for Grant Funding
- National Confederation of PTAs (NCPTA) information and advice PTAs and sustaning extended services - Funding Fair Presentation - How PTAs can help with fundraising
- Information from the November 2010 funding fair Developing a Funding Strategy and Process of Writing a Bid
- A guide to writing a successful funding bid (thanks to Grants 4 Schools)
If you have a PTA it is probably a registered charity - this means it can access funding streams which the school may not be able to apply for directly.
If your school has a PTA affiliated to the NCPTA they are able to access a wide range of support services including:
• Access to a searchable database listing over 4,000 charitable trusts and grant-making organisatiions
• Fundraising ideas, resources and advice http://www.ncpta.org.uk/information/100582/fundraising/
The local area representative is caroline.gaskin@ncpta.org.uk 01959 525802
please visit http://www.ncpta.org.uk/homepage/100003/home/
Important factors in successful bids include
- Understand the funder - what is their brief/goal and how can you best demonstrate your bid is contributing to this
- Consultation/demonstration of need/meeting the needs of disadvantaged groups
- Partnership working/sharing facilities, expertise etc
- Community use and involvement
- Extra curricular opportunities (organisations will not fund curriculum activity - this is already centrally funded)
- Match funding - this can be in kind e.g. gratis project management
- Secure governance and accountability arrangements
- Innovation and creativity
If you would like to recieve updates yourself and do your own research then the following may be of interest
Hampshire external funding website including;
- Sign up for email funding bulletins/alerts
- DOs and DON'Ts of bid writing
- How to get more help
- Submit a query to the External Funding Unit
The New Forest National Park Authority offers an advisory service and produces a funding bulletin (available by email - contact details kathryn.boler@npa.org.uk or 01590-646690).
Community First New Forest also offers funding advice.