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Getting Started
Before you start to fundraise, you will have a need or a problem which you want to address, and you probably have ideas about how you intend to do this.
General Advice
Fundraising can be fun. It often isn't. The sheets gives general advice on fundraising.
Funding Advice Session
If you have the opportunity to meet with a potential funder, you need to make sure that you use the allotted time wisely.
Application Outline
Many funders have their own application form, but some ask you to write to them. The following outline can help you to include the information required in an easy-to-read format.
Application Outline for Community Buildings
Many funders have their own application form, but some ask you to write to them. The following outline, particularly for community buildings, can help you to include the information required in an easy-to-read format
Revenue Fundraising
The purpose of your fund raising efforts is to get the money you need to cover the costs of your activities. Most of your costs will probably be day to day running costs like rent, photocopying, telephone and perhaps wages : i.e. revenue costs.
Application Checklist
This information sheet contains a checklist of questions and points to remember. use it to check that your application is as strong as you can make it.
Fundraising Strategy
A fundraising strategy sets out what a group's funding needs are likely to be, over a future period (say a year or three years) and outlines how the group intends to raise the money to meet those needs.
What Makes a Good Application?
There is no magic formula. What you say will depend on who you are, who they are, how much you want and what you want the money for. But a good way of working out what to say is to put yourself in their shoes.
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