Download Types of Need - (CAG) Oxfordshire

How to achieve funding
success
What are funders looking for?
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Who you are – clear, concise, specific = confidence
Experience / Credibility
Benefits / Needs
Measures of success
Cost – realistic
Why would it interest funders?
Sustainability
Types of need
• What types of need might be used to illustrate an
application?
• What types of need might an individual have?
Think laterally
Think obliquely
Think of an angle
• Think of the multiple barriers that an individual might face
Types of need
• Poverty
• Unemployment
• Social Isolation
• Equalities
• Lack of skills
• Environmental
What would happen if you don’t do anything?
Types of Need
• All these types of need might be built into an application to support a
case for funding
• Match the need to the priorities of a funder…
Tudor Trust
■ Organisations working directly with people who are at the margins of
society
■ A focus on building stronger communities by overcoming isolation and
fragmentation and encouraging inclusion, connection and integration
■ Organisations which are embedded in their community and which can
identify and channel the potential within that community – whether the
local area or a ‘community of interest’
■ Organisations which can demonstrate that they listen to and are
responsive to their users
■ Organisations which are thoughtful in their use of resources and which
foster community resilience in the face of environmental, economic or social
change
Children in Need
Have you consulted with the children and young people
themselves?
It is a very good idea to get them involved in the planning - ask
them what they need, what kind of services they want to see,
when they would like them to run, which kinds of equipment
would be most used and valued.
Wherever possible, you should also involve children in the
running, development and management of projects. In this way
you will be able to plan a project that children and young people
want and will be likely to feel ownership of. This will increase its
effectiveness.
Big Lottery Reaching Communities
Involving people in your project.
We will only fund projects where the people who will benefit will
also be involved in planning and running the project. This is
because evidence shows engagement with users is a key success
factor in projects that make a real difference to their
beneficiaries.
Geographic data
• http://insight.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/
• http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/
• http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html
• https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics
• http://www.data4nr.net/introduction/
Locally held data and research
• Oxfordshire County and the District Councils – some councils are very good at
producing locally focussed data and research
• Do local policies support your projects? Do local priorities or locally commissioned
research support your work?
• https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/plans-performance-and-policies
• https://www.oxford.gov.uk/districtdata/site/scripts/home_info.php?homepageID=7
• http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/about-us/how-we-work/policy-and-performance
• http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/about-us/how-we-work/policy-and-performance
• http://www.cherwell.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=5462
• http://www.westoxon.gov.uk/about-the-council/plans-policies/policies-strategies/
Internal Organisational Evidence
■ Organisations which are embedded in their community and which
can identify and channel the potential within that community –
whether the local area or a ‘community of interest’
■ Organisations which can demonstrate that they listen to and are
responsive to their users
■ Organisations which are thoughtful in their use of resources and
which foster community resilience in the face of environmental,
economic or social change
Internal Organisational Evidence
• What kinds of evidence could you keep or use to support an
application?
Design, delivery and management
• Funders are increasingly looking for a level of involvement by service
users
• Design – If service users are involved in identifying needs and
designing a project you have evidence both of locally identified need
and the most appropriate way of meeting that need
• Delivery – Shows involvement by the service user and hints at future
sustainability, skilling up service users to support the project and
learn skills that might help them in the future
• Management – Demonstrates that the project is under local not
external control
Structuring an Application
• It’s all about the narrative
• The story behind the project
• The need – identified by both external and internal evidence and the
method by which you meet that need
• Realistic budget including added value
• Design, Delivery and Management
• If Design, Deliver and Management are included, then structuring and
creating a credible narrative becomes that much easier.
Are you fit for funding?
Constitution
Policies
Management
Committee
Track record /
References
Evidence
Finances - uptodate
What to avoid
 Show that you are familiar with the subject – don’t just say it is a problem,
focus on what you can do about it
 Be specific – don’t generalise
 Using jargon and/or acronyms
 Realistic budget and accurate financial information
 Avoid cookie cutting / cut and paste especially from funders website
 Read the criteria thoroughly
 Time
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