FUNDING
Many voluntary and community groups are largely dependent on the receipt of grants from a range of agencies in order for them to continue to run services or develop projects. The funding world is very large, varied, inconsistent and sometimes complex.

The aim of PAVS funding services is to help groups to wade through the complexities as easily and efficiently as possible and to share the funding knowledge and experience gained.

PAVS is resourced to provide a range of funding services to voluntary and community groups in Pembrokeshire.
The funding web pages give information on:

• The Pembrokeshire Impact Fund - £270,000 to distribute until March 2011
• The Sustainable Pembrokeshire Small Grants Scheme & the Keyfund grant scheme - now closed

• The range of grants schemes available on a local, regional and national level with website links to some of the main funders. The spotlight on funders is updated regularly with details of new funders or the changing priorities of funders
• The support available from PAVS staff to identify funders who are likely to support the work that groups need funding for
• The support available to make funding applications
• The support available to understand how voluntary and community groups might access the Objective 1 programme in Pembrokeshire
• The range of information sheets available to support groups with finding and getting money
• The support available to develop a fundraising strategy

Funding Deadlines

Archbishop of Wales Fund for Children – 31st August 2008

Arts Funding for Organisations – Arts Council of Wales – 19th September 2008

Tesco Charity Trust - Community Award Scheme Second 2008

Deadline for Elderly and Disability Projects 30th September 2008

GlaxoSmithKline's IMPACT Awards - designed to recognise and reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people's health.

Deadline - 5pm 26th September 2008.  More details here...

Funding News

Consultation - Dormant Accounts Funding

On the 8th August the Big Lottery Fund launched a public consultation into the Dormant Accounts funding.  This UK-wide scheme will allow for monies which have lain unclaimed in bank accounts for 15 years to be distributed through a grant process.

The Big Lottery Fund has been identified, across the UK, as the most suitable body to distribute this funding.

The Welsh Assembly Government has identified two areas for investment of this funding in Wales:-

- Young people

- Climate change

The consultation will run until the 14th November 2008 and then responses will be collated and analysed by the Big Lottery Fund.  An announcement is expected in summer 2009 about the rollout of these monies.

PAVS will be collating a sector response from Pembrokeshire - if you would like to feed into this then please contact Lorna Unwin on development@pavs.org.uk or you are welcome to make an individual response.

The consultation document is available here - http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/dormant_accounts_wales.pdf

A press release is linked here -

http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/pr_080808_wal_sleeping_money?regioncode=-wal

August 2008

Communities and Culture Committee - scrutiny inquiry into Funding for the Voluntary sector in Wales.

An Assembly Committee is a group of Assembly Members who meet regularly to scrutinise policy and legislation. Committees are generally 'party-balanced' reflecting the number of Assembly Members representing each party within the Assembly. Most committees meet in public.  Committees in the Assembly carry out many functions: some scrutinise the policies of the Welsh Assembly Government and hold Ministers to account; some examine proposed legislation; and others have specific functions allocated to them by the Assembly or its Standing Orders.

Scrutiny committees have the power to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Assembly Government and associated public bodies.  

In January 2008 PAVS gave evidence to the Welsh Assembly Government Communities and Culture Committee at the Senedd as part of an Inquiry into funding of the voluntary sector in Wales. 

A copy of the paper submitted by PAVS is here...

The Committee gathered spoken evidence from 23 organisations to complement the written evidence received from 58 different groups across Wales.

The final report has now been issued and the next step in the process is for the Welsh Assembly Government to make a response to the recommendations.  A copy of the final report is here...

Details of the response will be posted here once it is announced.

Posted May '08

PAVS Funding Fair 18th November 2008...

Following a very successful event in 2006 and 2007, we will be running a Funding Fair on the 18th November 2008. 

Bigger and better than ever before!!  Building on previously successful events the Funding Fair this year will also include a series of workshops, contributed by the WCVA, in the morning to help groups look at sustainability and will broaden the theme of the event beyond grants.

Further details will be published here on the PAVS web-site and in the PAVS quarterly newsletter. 

If you would like to go onto an e-mail list to receive this information then please contact us on development@pavs.org.uk.

Posted August '08

Sustainable Funding Cymru delivers a comprehensive training, advice and information programme, part of a joint funding advice service in Wales.

• A dedicated website and monthly newsletter providing comprehensive information tailored to Wales
• A modular training programme directly delivered by WCVA and cascaded through CVCs and other umbrella organisations. Providing participants with an understanding of sustainable funding and how it can be implemented

Every organisation, whether from the private, public or voluntary sector, needs to manage their finances successfully in order to achieve long-term sustainability.   Voluntary and community organisations can normally locate funds to kick start projects, but often find it difficult to secure funding for ongoing work.  Many organisations find themselves ‘trapped' in the funding cycle and rely on grants or other funding sources.

With funding from the Big Lottery Fund Sustainable Funding Cymru works to support voluntary and community organisations in Wales to consider how they can achieve long-term financial sustainability.

Working in partnership with CVC's (such as PAVS) across Wales the initiative will equip organisations with the skills and information to secure and maintain the resources they require in the long-term through diversifying their ‘funding mix'.

To find out more about Sustainable Funding Cymru, please click here...

PAVS Sustainable Funding Project

As a result of this project PAVS developed some lasting resources for the sector which will continue to be available to groups.

One of the highlights of this project was the Funding Beyond Grants workshops which covered a variety of topics to encourage groups to look at the potential for funding besides grants. 

The development of the How to...Develop a Fundraising Strategy guide was a detailed piece of work pulling together a series of exercises for committees, staff and volunteers to work through in order to gather some of the useful information for a fundraising strategy.

To accompany this process PAVS developed a facilitated workshop which supported a committee to work through this guide enabling the whole group to take part in the discussions.  This workshop received very positive feedback from the recent Estyn Inspection of Adult and Community Education in Pembrokeshire.

If you would like any further information about Sustainable Funding then please contact us.