Funding - Funding and Development Work

Each Local Infrastructure Partner organisation will be given £3,500 a year for developing their funding and development work, submitting plans before the start of each year as to how the money will be spent.

In the second year (2010/11) the following work will be undertaken:

Babergh Communities Together

• TBA

Ipswich and District Council for Voluntary Service

• An event to be held in September 2010 to include exhibitions, public access and workshops. Specialist funders will be invited
• 3 Volunteer network events - To enable individuals with volunteer recruitment support responsibilities to meet, share best practice, and raise knowledge re specific issues, e.g. refugee, supported volunteering
• 3 ICVS Network Events - As above, providing an opportunity to highlight relevant issues that will impact on the Third Sector of Ipswich
• 2 Diversity Workshops / Events / Forums - To raise awareness of the diverse needs of the Ipswich community.

Mid Suffolk Action in Partnership

• TBA.

Suffolk Coastal Resource Network

• Workshops in Coastal for Parish Councils and community groups on ‘taking parish plans to the next steps’
• Two half days sessions on specific funding and development for village halls
• One half day Introduction to Finance course
• Two courses in Completing Application Forms
• One course in Managing Risk
• Additional one-to-one support for issues arising on capacity building of Third Sector groups.

Waveney Community Forum

• 2 x Procurement & commissioning workshop with information packs
• Personalisation Agenda training workshop
• Social Enterprise / CIC workshop
• Specialist 1-1 support to VCOs to write fundraising strategies and business plans.

West Suffolk Consortium for Voluntary Organisations

• Training for Third Sector groups on funding skills and development to embed learning and improve quality of bids being submitted (Forest Heath, and St Edmundsbury)
• Specialist 1-1 support to Third Sector organisations to assist with project development and inward investment (Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury)
• Resources for fundraising i.e. Directory of Grant Making Trusts, Voluntary not Amateur, licences for Funderfinder, etc.
• Accredited training for 10 Third Sector groups on governance and training needs for their organisations, (Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury)
• Promotion of toolkits to voluntary and community organisations by workshops, seminars, e-mail briefings and 1:1 funding and development surgeries (Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury)
• Identification of 2 funding mentors.

Young Suffolk

• 3 x introductory training sessions for frontline organisations in association with the Local Infrastructure Partnerships, focussing on the Young Suffolk Lite Quality Standards
• Provide mentoring support for two Local Infrastructure Partners in order that a member of their staff can be trained to support an organisation through the Lite Quality Standard.

This project is managed by the Infrastructure Network Suffolk (formerly known as One Voice Suffolk), and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund