Lottery Funding and Community
Partnerships: The Bethnal Green
Disaster Memorial Project
Dr Toby Butler and Dr Amy Tooth Murphy
School of Arts and Digital Industries
Bethnal Green Tube Station
Aftermath
Architect’s Visualisation of the
Completed Memorial
70th Anniversary (3rd March 2013)
Stairway to Heaven Memorial
Trust
Project outcomes
Run a volunteer programme to meet project objectives
Produce an online archive/phone-friendly website
Produce two professional quality audio trails at the memorial site
Digitise historical records, including those in the Trust archive
Interview 20+ survivors and memorial activists, transcribe and
archive interviews
Produce teaching pack/school learning materials
Produce 128 page memorial guidebook
Deliver 30 talks, school visits or guided memorial events
Organise rota for memorial inspection/maintenance
Produce a pop-up exhibition on the memorial at 12 locations
Effective Partnership Working
Managing
Expectatio
n
Treading
on toes
(or not!)
Communicatio
n
?
Differing
capacitie
s
“Public
Engagemen
t”
Utilising
skill sets
Working with Volunteers
Motivations
Support
Development
Successful
Volunteering
Peer-led
approach
Management
Training
Capacity /
Skill sets
Fundraising from grant making
trusts: advantages
• Lots to choose from: about 8,800 in the UK
• Give around £3 billion a year
• Often have better chance than research
council bids
• great for kick starting new projects
• requires little resources beyond time to work
up the application – very efficient in
fundraising terms
• University can offer something distinctive –
expertise and access to students
Fundraising from grant making
trusts: disadvantages
• Funding tends to be short term; may need to think
early about how the activity might be extended
(‘exit strategy’)
• Funders have specific priorities for activities – may
not correspond with what you want to do
• Usually over-subscribed, so competitive
• Usually do not accept FEC budget calculations
which may limit time you are given by university to
work on the project
• Applications take effort and time – it will take
several weeks/months to write an application and
usually you must wait two to six months for
decision
What are trusts and foundations?
• Non-profit organisations; similar to charities with board
of unpaid trustees and sometimes staff to run them
• They don’t deliver charitable work – they give money
to others to do the work: professional donors
• Most invest money, eg property, stocks and shares in
perpetuity and ONLY distribute profit/interest. Some
VERY old eg City Bridge Trust goes back to 1097 to
repair London Bridge
• NB recession = less profits annually = less to distribute
= more competition; so upturn = better chances
Types of trusts and foundations
• Family trusts like Sainsburys
• Company foundations: Santander, Shell – distribute
proportion of company profits
• Community foundations: collect funds from
community and set up endowment funds
• Private individuals (living - eg Bill Gates Foundation
– or dead)
• Livery company funds
• Quangos eg Heritage Lottery Fund organisationally
slightly different; tend to have aims aligned with
government policy; but for applicants, same process
• AIMS will often depend on their type
Finding funding sources:
foundations and grant making trusts
1. Give outline of your idea to the REDS team (location, theme, scale of
budget) – they can search subscription databases
2. Look in RECENT directories: Directory of Grant Making Trusts (Charities
Aid Foundation) and The guide to the major trusts, vol 1 and 2 these come out
annually: latest copies are in the Docklands Library reference
collection 361.7632 DIR
3.
Use online databases:
– Cabinet Office for Civil Society: http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk/ (can
search 4,000 funds/tenders for keywords and register for funding
news/deadlines)
– Directory of Social Change library – specialist fundraising reference
library, including free access to Governmentfunding.org.uk
grantsforindividuals.org.uk, trustfunding.org.uk, Companygiving.org.uk I just saved you £1,368! OK to drop in, open M-F 9 to 5pm, 24
Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2DP (nr Kings X)
http://www.dsc.org.uk/
A typical grant making trust
application form will ask for:
• Description of project
• Expected outcomes
• Your team’s experience/credibility to run the
project
• How much you need
• Who else is funding you
• Timescale, start date, location
• Unlikely to require lengthy academic justification:
focus on clearly stating the problem and how the
project will address it
It’s not just a form:
• Drafting the budget – what will they cover?
Matched funding? Volunteer hours? Getting
estimates, signing it off
• May need job descriptions/specs – HR?
• Letters of support (MUST be specific and
demonstrate need or key support)
• photographs
• Annual report, financial report, governance
structure
All this takes time beyond drafting the application
Heritage Lottery Fund
• Heritage Lottery funding has gone UP post Olympics plus good
ticket sales – budget 2011-12 £255m; budget 2012-13 £375m – 47
per cent increase
• Chances of success are currently excellent – depending on the time
of year, some months there is a 50 per cent chance some months
assuming application meets key requirements. In comparison Research Councils on average fund one in six applications (16 per
cent chance)
Usually a two stage process: pre-application (letter feedback or
meeting for larger grants)
• If you proceed, officer can then only comment on budget only, but
you can ask general questions on work for final application. Takes
8 weeks for decision.
HLF 2013: new open (rolling deadline)
funding programmes
Our Heritage
The Our Heritage programme supports all types of heritage
projects. For example, smaller parks and green spaces,
community buildings, museum collections and archives as well
as activity projects exploring languages, cultures and memories.
• Transition funding will be available to organisations who have
previously received HLF investment, to review their strategies
and business plans and, where necessary with mentor
support, identify ways of achieving greater sustainability.
• Grants: £10,000 - £100,000
Apply from: Feb 2013
Deadline: None
Decision: 8 weeks
Rounds: 1
HLF: new open (rolling deadline)
funding programmes
Sharing Heritage
Sharing Heritage is for any not-for-profit group wanting to explore,
share and celebrate their community’s heritage. Activities we can
support include events, exhibitions, festivals and celebrations, or
producing local history publications, conservation of individual heritage
items, volunteer training and support.
• Start-up grants will also be available to community groups taking
responsibility for heritage, to create the right constitutional
framework and assess options in arriving at a strategy for managing
the heritage. They may then make a further application for a grant
for a project focused on their heritage.
• Grants: £3,000 - £10,000
Apply from: Feb 2013
Deadline: None
Decision: 8 weeks
Rounds: 1
HLF: new open (rolling deadline)
funding programmes
Young Roots
Young Roots is designed to engage young people aged 11-25
with their heritage. Young Roots projects stem directly from the
interest and ideas of young people, who are supported by youth
and heritage organisations to develop skills, build confidence,
and connect with their local communities.
Projects are able to run for up to two years.
• Grants: £10,000 to £50,000
Apply from: Feb 2013
Deadline: None
Decision: 8 weeks
Rounds: 1
HLF: new open (rolling deadline)
funding programmes
Places of Worship programme
HLF will continue to support the urgent repair needs of faith
buildings as before (including cathedrals in Scotland and
Northern Ireland), but will also extend the scope of the
programme to help make these buildings more sustainable in the
future, by providing funding for engaging people and for
facilities that will enable increased community use and
involvement.
• Grants: £10,000 - £250,000
Apply from: Dec 2012
Deadline: Quarterly
Decision: Quarterly
Rounds: 2
Volunteering Support
• UEL Employability and Enterprise
Volunteering Scheme: eet@uel.ac.uk
• Local Volunteering Centres
– www.london.gov.uk
– www.greatlondonvolunteering.org.uk
– www.csv.org.uk
Contact Us
Amy: a.t.murphy@uel.ac.uk
Toby: tobybutler1@gmail.com
Websites:
www.bgmemorial.org.uk (under construction)
www.stairwaytoheavenmemorial.org
www.raphael-samuel.org.uk
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