The Role of Community Foundations in Raising Funds to Provide Relief for Flood Victims Andy Beeforth OBE 8 th June 2016
Why work with communities? Peter Clarkson Kendal
Community Foundation UK wide response to flooding Key messages Content Fundraising techniques Grants for relief of hardship and community recovery
Community Foundation Response Winter 15/16
About Cumbria Community Foundation Established 1999 Awarded more than 30m in grants Long term funds of 13m. More than 60 active grant making funds Dec 2015 was 4 th major disaster response National Grant Making Award 2015 Neighbourhood Care Independence Programme
Awarded 4.2m Cumbria Appeal in numbers June 2016 Processed 3,765 applications 3.4m to 2,391 households 813,999 to 73 organisations
About community foundations A community foundation is a vehicle for charitable giving. Community foundations work with individuals, families and companies to design bespoke grant making strategies that target particular issues or focus on particular geographical areas. There are 48 accredited community foundations in the UK.
Community foundations have mobilised significant financial resources not readily accessible by the public sector Key messages The capacity within the general public, charitable trusts and businesses to give financially and in kind is very significant
Key messages Community foundations provide coordinated and strategic investments into the community Community foundations are natural partners in disaster response and should be part of all multi-agency disaster response
Charitable appeals appeal document Fundraising techniques Online presence Just Giving, BT MyDonate, etc Social media National and local press
Speed of response and track record Local knowledge and credibility Fundraising techniques success factors Links to community foundation donors Providing a conduit for national donors Ability to communicate impact on the ground
Individuals Companies Fundraising techniques - donors National and local charitable trusts Community Fundraising and events Local and national government
Fundraising techniques social media
Fundraising techniques individual giving to Cumbria
Fundraising techniques companies 709K to CCF appeal Calderdale Watermark future fundraising linked to product sales
Friday, Jun 3rd 2016 4PM 14 C 7PM 13 C 5-Day Forecast Fundraising techniques individual giving to Cumbria Daily Mail +99 NEW ARTICLESTop 1MILLION! Generous Mail readers' reach huge figure to help flood victims in just 17 days Christmas was cancelled for hundreds of families whose homes flooded Mail started campaign to raise money for victims and donations came in Money will go to Cumbria Community Foundation and the Community Foundation for Lancashire By SAM GREENHILL FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 23:16, 25 December 2015 UPDATED: 01:25, 26 December 2015 The Daily Mail s Christmas Flood Appeal has broken the 1million barrier thanks to the outstanding generosity of our caring readers. The total was achieved in just 17 days, and the money keeps rolling in. Every penny will go towards helping households and businesses devastated by Storm Desmond and the continuing dire weather. For hundreds of families, Christmas was cancelled when flood waters swept through their homes destroying furniture, white goods and festive presents under the tree.
Fundraising techniques national and local charitable trusts The Cumbria Appeal received 704K from national and local charitable trusts Comic Relief, Francis C Scott Trust, Laing Charitable Trusts, Sir John Fisher Foundation.
Fundraising techniques events raised 471K for the Cumbria Appeal
Fundraising techniques local and national government Cumbria total: 4,889,834 All community foundations have received government funding in support of flood response. Government match and local authority donations.
Fundraising techniques role of UKCF UKCF, the national membership organisation for community foundations provided a clearing house role for a number of national donors wishing to direct support to multiple communities.
INDIVIDUALS/FAMILIES: Cumbria Flood Recovery Fund: GROUPS: Hardship Grants Resistance & Resilience Top- Up Grants Grant Making Flood Damage Advice & Guidance Flood Action Groups Community Rebuilding Community Resilience Community Emergency Planning
Grants for relief of hardship and community recovery In Cumbria we devised a framework of services and activities that should be present in each community to enable coordinated recovery. This was adopted by the Community Recovery Group and informed a gap analysis in each area.
Grants for relief of hardship individuals In Cumbria
Grants for relief of hardship individuals In Cumbria
Grants for relief of hardship groups LDSAMRA 2009 grant
Grants for relief of hardship groups Eden Flood Volunteers
Grants for household recovery - Carlisle Ambassadors, Give a day the City.
Grants for community recovery Fitz Park Keswick
Ongoing hardship awards Flood resilience top up grants Future grant making Support for emotional wellbeing Support for Flood Action Groups Community Resilience - community warning systems and Neighbourhood Schemes
Community foundations have mobilised significant financial resources not readily accessible by the public sector Key messages The capacity within the general public, charitable trusts and businesses to give financially and in kind is very significant
Key messages Community foundations provide coordinated and strategic investments into the community Community foundations are natural partners in disaster response and should be part of all multi-agency disaster response