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HELP WITH FUNDRAISING

Funds for buildings

Funds for Overseas trips

Funds for Minibus Training

Funds for Camp

Funds for Disability provision

Funds for Equipment Apply to :-

Sources of Gifts in Kind

Sources of Volunteers

This document is also available as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file: fp-2005-06.pdf

We have decided this month to collate the most frequently asked questions for funding. Have a look at the details below and when you have decided what you need funds for, we have listed some possible sources. As always, we are here to help so please feel free to contact us either by telephone or email. Good luck with your fundraising!

Jack Gilbert, Fundraising Manager, Gilwell Park
020 8433 7231/229 or fundraising@scout.org.uk

What do you need?

• Funds for Buildings, Overseas trips, Minibus Training, Camp Fees (UK), Provision for the disabled and Equipment;
• Gifts in Kind;
• Volunteers.

• Gift Aid backdated
• Big Lottery Fund
• Landfill tax credits www.entrust.org.uk
• GM Trusts, National, local and environmental (for asbestos etc.)
• Local authority
• Neighbourhood renewal (Community Chests) Tel. 08450 828383
• Community Foundations go to www.communityfoundations.org.uk
• County / District funds.
• HQ Loans

• Winston Churchill Scholarships http://wcmt.org.uk
• Ralph Reader Memorial Fund
• International Friendship Fund
• Explorer Belt Fund
• Milly Apthorp Fund (N London)
• Grant making Trusts

• Minibus Plus Fund ( via FR Dept )

• Needy Groups Fund, helps individual children with the costs of going to camp (UK) or buying uniform

• Some Grant making Trusts and Treloar Fund

• Awards For All (up to £5k)
• Rotary
• Round Table
• Lions
• Livery Companies
• Masonic Lodges
• Grant Making Trusts . Directories of Social Change (DSC) 020 7209 5151 www.dsc.org.uk Funding Guide Youth (DSC)
• HQ Grants (Fund Raising Dept, Gilwell)
• Sea Scouts - Admiralty Fund, Trinity House. (Fund Raising Dept, Gilwell)
• Air Scouts - W T Taylor Fund (Fund Raising Dept, Gilwell)

• www.communityrepaint.org.uk
• www.inkinddirect.org.uk
• www.goodwillgallery.co.uk
• B&Q, Homebase, Wickes etc.
• Any local company. - Remind them that you are a charity as there may be tax advantages for them to give you goods or materials

• The Probation Service (Community Service)
• The Territorial Army (Royal Engineers)
• Company community schemes e.g. Barclays, BT, RBOS etc.
• University students (some courses require working in a charity for a year ) contact local universities.
• Many companies give extra holidays to staff working with a charity

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