;

Christmas Puddings to raise funds

Free items

Support For Groups

Four Acres Trust

Big Lottery Fund

Fundraising Roadshow

Morgan Foundation

Fones4Schools Recycling Campaign

This document is also available as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file: fp-2006-08.pdf

This is a premium product that your group can purchase and have labelled for your fundraising event. Basically on every pudding you sell you make a profit of £2 (the minimum order is just 2 dozen). For more information go to the following website www.ultimateplumpudding.co.uk

People from all counties are offering items for free no catches, you can also put out wanted posts for item that you need as well. For more information go to the following website www.regionalfreebies.co.uk/freecycle-in-uk.htm

Need information on funding and fundraising events go to the following website - it will give you advice on information about funding, how to identify the right funders, books and other sources of information about funding and fundraisingetc. www.funderfinder.org.uk/groupsupport

Four Acre Trust supports charities working in the following areas - subsidised holidays for young people, holiday activity schemes, respite for young carers for more information go to the following website www.fouracretrust.org.uk

The Big Lottery Fund are launching new funds between now and April 2009 one that will beneficial to Scouts Groups is the Community Building Funds. For the latest information on new programmes visit their website www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

What to learn about Awards for All, Landfill tax or Gift Aid - don't forget to book your space as numbers are now limited. Three roadshows to go - Manchester, Newcastle and London. For more information contact Carmen at The Scout Association on 0208 433 7227

This foundation will support charities across North Wales, Merseyside, West Cheshire and Shropshire. They provide funding for small to medium organisations. They focus mainly on those who work with children and families. Areas of support to date have included physical and learning disability, physical and mental health plus social challenge and deprivation. Grants will be considered for capital projects, start-up/or ongoing running costs, multi-year revenue grants for core funding. For more information visit www.morganfoundation.co.uk

Earn money for your Scout Group by collecting old mobile phones. You.ll receive £75.00 for every 50 phones plus a prize for every collector. The campaign is completely free to participate in and the phones can be of any age and condition. For more information, please e-mail: enquiries@fones4schools.co.uk or call 01625 665783.

If you have any fundraising ideas that we can make other Groups aware of please contact Carmen at The Scout Association on the following email address carmen.attard@scout.org.uk