Income Generation
I can help you to reduce your dependance on short term funding, and build more mixed and reliable income streams.
With competition for charitable funding becoming more intense by the year, and no sign of the need for your organisation’s vital support declining any time soon, it can sometimes feel like you’re strapped for both cash and time.
Untapped grant sources become ever harder to find, and there’s no guarantee of success even for the most expertly-written application. Within this volatile environment the prospect of needing to make unwanted service cuts is constant- and you may even fear for the very viability of your enterprise.
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The good news is that the future does not have to be so uncertain. This is because the expert help you provide for your direct beneficiaries creates a positive impact which is of tangible value to other teams and organisations, in terms of making or saving them time and/or money. And these bodies may have budgets to draw upon. Just consider:
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• If your youth boxing club is helping the neighbourhood’s kids to stay out of trouble- how much time is that saving the Police?
• If your gardening project is enabling older people to stay healthy for longer- what is the effect on waiting lists at the local GP surgery?
• If your English classes support adults newly-arrived in the UK to get into work- how much less money needs to be paid out in benefits?
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All of these are real-life examples of community-serving organisations who- through probing and structured conversations, focussing on their unique contexts and strengths- I have helped to unearth sources of significant income, enabling their vital services to be sustained. And the even better news? This sort of funding comes with greater long-term reliability than a grant- because as long as your provision continues to deliver those cost-effective ‘bottom-line’ benefits for your paying ‘customers’- it continues to make sense for them to keep paying you!
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As you may have worked out by now- helping leaders of community-serving organisations to refresh their mindsets around ‘traded’ income and reach for a more assured future is something I really love to do! If it sounds like a conversation between us may be worth some of your time (with no obligation, of course!), then please do get in touch! I can’t wait to hear from you!