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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

Bookings now open for SFP Annual Gathering. Attend New Horizons: Funding and Finance for the Future.
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.