Sustainable funding consultancy
As part of the wide-ranging NCVO consultancy service, our expert, friendly consultancy team can help your organisation to identify a range of sustainable income options to suit your needs.
We also work with funders to help them get the most out of the funding relationship.
Developing a sustainable funding strategy
Do you know where your income will come from in the coming years? Having a sustainable income base is essential to delivering and developing the work of your organisation. We can help you navigate the challenging current climate, to identify appropriate income streams and translate these options into new funding.
The type of funding you require as an organisation depends on your specific mission, vision and values to ensure that the appropriate income streams are selected to drive the right developments at the right time. We can work with you to clarify what sustainability means for your organisation through:
- Analysing your existing income streams
- Reviewing opportunities for diversifying your income base
- Assessing the practicalities of different income options
- Translating these options into action to enable you to access new funding.
Getting ready for cuts
Many voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) are potentially facing significant change as a result of the recession and upcoming government spending cuts. Our specially designed Getting Ready for Cuts service will help you prepare for these changes. We'll work with your organisation to identify the scenarios you're likely to face, explore choices and prepare a useful action plan to deal with change successfully.
Find out more about the easy-to-arrange, value-for-money Getting Ready for Cuts package.
Putting personalisation into practice
If you are involved in public service delivery, you’ll know that personalisation is radically changing the design, delivery and funding of many services. Our one-to-one support will help your organisation respond effectively to this need for fast paced change.
Personalisation is the tailoring of public services to meet the individual needs and preferences of users. This involves expanding the delivery market to a greater range of providers, and requires significant changes to the design and delivery of the services that are delivered. NCVO has partnered with Community Catalysts Ltd to help VCOs transform their work to suit this new environment.
We can support your organisation to:
- address the challenges you face in relation to personalisation
- access the tools and knowledge needed to effectively respond to the changes in service design, delivery and funding
- understand the new opportunities personalisation brings for users and providers
- learn from innovative practical examples of how personalisation is being delivered in local communities.
Funding and finance for trustees
Are you concerned that your board may not have up to date knowledge of funding and finance options? We can work with trustees to review and identify new income opportunities, as well as exploring how the board can contribute to leveraging new income for their organisations.
To ensure that collectively as a board, you are up to speed on the current finance and funding issues impacting on your organisation, we can help you:
- review and analyse your current restricted and unrestricted income streams
- capitalise on the role trustees can play in leveraging funding for their organisation
- understand the implications for your organisation in embarking on trading, taking on loan finance or tendering for public services
- identify and tackle organisational risks through contingency planning.
Read more about how NCVO Consultancy can help you or contact us for a chat.
