Sustainable Funding Project
The Sustainable Funding Project encourages and enables voluntary and community organisations to explore and exploit a full range of funding and financing options to develop a sustainable funding mix.
What's New - April 2008
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Bookings now open for SFP Annual Gathering. Attend New Horizons: Funding and Finance for the Future.
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Explore how Birmingham City Council worked with their local voluntary and community sector to develop a commissioning framework. Download the case study.
New to the idea of sustainable funding?
Read our first steps page and try out some introductory tools.
Funding and financing options
We introduce the diverse range of income sources: from donations and grants through to earning income from trading or public service delivery. Also explore how loans could assist your organisation.
Planning and financial management
Taking a sustainable funding approach requires thorough planning to determine which income streams might be suitable. It also requires an understanding of full costs and ensuring that robust financial management mechanisms are in place.
Learn more
- Subscribe to our mailing list to receive our monthly e-newsletter and other updates.
- Gain ideas and inspiration from our publications and real-life tales of organisations implementing sustainable funding.
- Bust through the jargon with our glossary of phrases commonly used in voluntary sector funding and social enterprise.
Get involved
- Attend one of our events.
- Visit an organisation already trading through our Only Connect Visit Scheme.
- Join t he Public Service Delivery Network - for those working in and with the voluntary and community sector with responsibility for negotiating and managing public service contracts.
Funding advisors
Explore our section containing resources and tools for those within infrastructure agencies working with organisations on sustainable funding issues.
Contact Us
Contact us with your feedback or to find out more.








Overview of Funding Trends 2007