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Capital Grant FundingIntroduction

Funding &

Grant Making TrustsAn Introduction

Eleanor Stead

National Legacy & Funding Officer

Capital Campaigns Explored

Your Project

• Building / Fabric

• Repairs and Maintenance

• Reordering of the Church

• New facilities or improved access

• Project based

Capital Grant Funding


“The most amount of money

from the fewest possible sources

in the shortest possible time.”

What is a Capital Campaign?



20% of donors

provide

80% of funding

What is the Scale of our Challenge?


Six Steps to Success

Six Steps to Success


1. Vision

‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’Proverbs 29.18

Six Steps to Success Capital Grant Funding

Jesus was a great leader.

2. Leadership


3. Need

‘An urgent need

and a visible need.’


4. Be Prepared

‘Give me six hours to chop down a tree...’


5. Generosity

• The Gospel inspires Generosity

• Never more like God, than when we give

• Pray the money in?


6. Community

• One God created One People

• Church belongs to the Community

• Involve everyone


Decision Time

Vision

Leadership

A real need

Preparation

Generosity

Community benefit


What is Fundraising?

“ Fundraising is the inspiration business, and however much we try to elevate and

complicate it; at its heart it is little more than telling stories. ”

Ken Burnett

Relationship Fundraising

Case for Support Capital Grant Funding

Your Case for Support

1. Identify the Need

2. Explain your Solution

3. What will the Outcome be?

Case for Support Capital Grant Funding

Funding Sources

Capital Grant FundingFunding Sources

Congregation and Community

Legacies

Grants

Major Donors

Friends Of

Top Funders

• Garfield Weston Foundation

• The Landfill Communities Fund

• Listed Places of Worship Grants Scheme (VAT)

• National Lottery Heritage Fund

• All Churches Trust

• National Churches Trust

Fundraising Capital Grant Funding

National Lottery Heritage Fund


New Strategic Funding Framework

• Grants for Heritage: 3 Funding Streams

• £3,000 - £10,000, £10,000 - £250,000 (Initial Enquiry)

• Over £250,000 (Expression of Interest)

All Churches Trust

New Funding Focus

Building communities, helping people in need to flourish, and growing churches spiritually and numerically.

• 3 Funding Streams

• Small £15,000, Large £100,000, Strategy Over £100,000


National Churches Trust

New Grant Programmes

Cornerstone Grants – urgent structural repairs

• £10,000 - £50,000

Gateway Grants – project development

• £3,000 - £10,000

Foundation Grants – urgent maintenance / small repairs

• £500 - £3,000


Plenty More Fish in the Sea

1. Funding Central www.fundingcentral.org

2. Funds for Historic Buildings www.ffhb.org.uk

3. Heritage Funding Directory www.theheritagealliance.org.uk/funding

4. Recent Church / Local Projects

5. DAC


http://www.fundingcentral.org/http://www.ffhb.org.uk/http://www.theheritagealliance.org.uk/funding

Finding the Funders

National Grants List

Bid Writing Workshop

Finding the Funders

Research the Funders


Finding the Funders Capital Grant Funding

The World Wide Web

Charity Commission

Capital Grant FundingFinding the Funders

• Average size of grant

• Number of applications they receive

• Example projects previously funded

• How much they’ve given to a similar project before

• How well you meet their criteria

Research helps to establish

Bid Writing Bid Writing Workshop

In Summary

Remember Successful Campaigns have

• An Urgent Need

• Strong leadership

• Clear vision and an inspiring project

• Generosity at their heart

• A holistic Church & Community approach

• Prayer


• Questions

• Thoughts

• Comments

Email: [email protected] Call: 020 7898 1564


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