Becoming Sustainable: A Festival
November 13
Becoming Sustainable: DCA’s Annual Funding Festival 2024
13th November 2024
Charlton Down Village Hall
Cost: £5, of which £3 goes into the prize pot (the remaining £2 will go to DCA as an admin fee)
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How to use your community space to bring sustainable economic benefit to the local community
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Raising money together – Community fundraising, crowd-funding and how to do it reliably over time
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Building for the future; big capital fundraising projects
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Sustainably green – Getting money for green initiatives and improvements
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Increasing your chances; how diversification really works
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Funding in action: Delegates should bring a pitch for a small piece of work that your organisation would like to do. The best one will walk away with a prize pot of money raised on the day.*
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Making an effective pitch: As part of the funding festival, we are inviting everyone who comes on the day to pitch for a pot of money. Whoever is voted the winner, gets the whole amount raised. It can be hard to know what to say to attract funding; how exactly to sell yourselves, so here are four practical suggestions:
- Talk about the difference you make not what you do; for instance we help lonely older people to get out and make friends rather than we run lunch clubs. Tell your story in a way that we can relate to – maybe use your service-users’ own voices to show what you do.
- Talk about what makes you unique as an organisation, as a project or as an idea. Why is your idea the one we need to support rather than the community centre down the road? You know what’s special about your organisation, now shout it out!
- Be specific; what will you do with this money and how will this money help you to make a difference?
- A picture tells the best stories; happy children, laughing older people, snoozy rescued kittens – well worth making space for.
It is always worth getting your pitch critiqued by others – both those who know about what you do and then try practicing the pitch to a friend who doesn’t.
Is it clear, does it tug at the heart strings – and the purse strings…? Have a go and you’ll be in with a chance!