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This is doing the rounds, it might be useful to some of you. Thanks for this Maggie.

Craig Atkins

Orbit South - Community Investment Officer

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Mobile: 07770 944 633

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From: Maggie Taylor [mailto:maggie...@shgroup.org.uk]
Sent: 03 August 2010 10:59
To: Craig Atkins
Subject: FW: Community Foundations
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Long circulation list so not sure if you have already seen this.

Regards,

Maggie

Maggie Taylor

Community Regeneration Officer

Spire Court

Albion Way

Horsham

West Sussex, RH12 1JW

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From: Palma Black
Sent: 02 August 2010 22:28
To: Earl Newman; Susannah Morcowitz; James Rogers; Andrew Parry; Maggie Taylor; Bhavnita Tejura; Paul Formosa
Subject: Fw: Community Foundations
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FYI

Kind Regards,

Palma Black
Community Regeneration Manager
Southern Housing Group
DL:020 7324 1270
M: 07900165748

Dear All

Potential Funding Available to Double your Community Grant Offer !

Following a meeting held in June with senior officers of the Community Foundation Network an article appeared in the July edition of the Federation’s Bulletin magazine highlighting the availability of some key community grant funds administered by Community Foundations in your area.

The Federations Funding & Partnership team is contacting you now to inform you about the work of community foundations and to make you aware of this window of opportunity that your HA may still have

to leverage substantial additional community funds through the Grassroots Grants Match Challenge programme.

What are Community Foundations?

Community foundations are charities dedicated to strengthening local communities. There are 58 community foundations across the UK collectively covering 96% of the population. Community foundations are local experts that connect donors with causes, and enable clients to achieve far more than they ever could by themselves, they target grants that make a genuine different to the lives of local people.

Importantly, community foundations are independent and cause neutral, providing expert advice and thorough local knowledge whatever the brief.

Their umbrella body is the Community Foundation Network (CFN). CFN is the UK’s largest independent community charitable grant-maker. CFN’s aim is simple - to help clients create lasting value from their local giving through the network of community foundations.

CFN offers unrivalled access to c 120,000 community groups across the UK, through a local reach of 58 members and their partners. With 20 years of experience as effective grant makers, CFN have managed over £1/4 billion of giving over the last decade by creating bespoke programmes for private individuals, companies, independent trusts and government.

What is the Grassroots Grants Match Challenge?

The Grassroots Grants programme is a 3 year Government initiative which will bring up to £150 million to the voluntary and community sectors across England. This is made up of an £80 million small grants programme and a £50 million endowment match challenge where the Government will match up to £50 million to create a permanent fund for local communities.

With the Match Challenge now in its final 3rd year there remains up to £20 million of funds available to match for the final year. Some Housing Associations across England have already taken advantage of this

once in a lifetime opportunity to match up their grant making pots in order to create a much larger – in some cases double-sized – community fund, creating ongoing funds for their residents and working effectively in partnership with community foundations.

Why should housing associations work with community foundations?

· Community foundations are already supporting resident community groups across the UK

· The network has assessed over 120,000 voluntary and community groups in the last 3 years

· Joined up working can have more impact for residents

· Access to expert local knowledge and the potential to design and manage nationwide projects

· Experience of involving communities in grant making decisions

· Offer tried and trusted grant making service to RSL’s – cost efficient and time saving

· Once only opportunity for RSL’s to benefit from the Grassroots Grants Endowment Match Challenge and create lasting sources of funding for their residents

· Help address the areas of interest of RSL’s, supporting people, crime prevention, young people, community cohesion, community involvement, financial inclusion, environment, employment and skills

· Closely match the objectives of IN business for neighborhoods

A number of Case Study examples of HA’s already working with Community Foundations around the country are attached on the appendix sheet.

If you would be interested in learning more about working with community foundations and the opportunity to match funds through this once only Government initiative please contact Melanie Molloy, Programme Manager for the Community Foundation Network for more information. Melanie’s contact details are: email mmo...@communityfoundations.org.uk ; Direct Dial tel: 020 7841 4378.

If there is sufficient interest we would like to run some regional seminars with CFN to put you in contact with your local community foundations and inform you further of the partnership work that is already happening nationally.

Kind Regards

Gordon Keenan

Appendix 1. Some Case Study Examples:

How are community foundations already working with housing associations?

Staffordshire Community Foundation & Aspire Housing Group

Staffordshire Community Foundation manages a grant initiative and a £100,000 endowment fund on behalf of Aspire Housing Group. The Realise Foundation - Supporting Lifelong Learning Fund is a dual purpose fund; one part focusing on building up a lasting endowment in order to facilitate the second part, the distribution of grants to help people in further and higher education who are at risk of having to give up their studies due to financial hardship in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Northamptonshire Community Foundation & Genesis Housing Group

Genesis Housing group have set up a fund of £100,000 with Northamptonshire Community Foundation. Half of the fund has been matched by the Grassroots Match Challenge and the other half will be used to make grants through a fund over 7 seven years in an areas where new housing developments are being built. The foundation will research the need in the areas that are affected by the housing developments to make sure that the grants are directed in the best possible way. This could include targeting projects that address environmental issues, health eating initiatives, and projects designed to cut crime and bring communities closer together.

Community Foundation for Greater Manchester and Manchester & District Housing Association

The Community Foundation has worked collaboratively with Irwell Valley Housing Association to help realise the organisation’s aspiration to create a community investment programme that would deliver sustainable, accessible and measurable grant funding to benefit individuals and communities in their local neighbourhoods.

The neighbourhoods are spread across Greater Manchester and a key aim of the programme is to ensure the programme is inclusive so that groups and individuals can apply for grants for projects they think will enhance both their individual lives and neighbourhoods and to ensure residents in less populated Irwell Valley areas receive their fair share of funding.

The Irwell Valley Golden Foundation was established with a £1million donation which was then match funded to £2million to provide the sustainable funding to support this initiative.

Norfolk Community Foundation & Victory Housing Trust

Norfolk Community Foundation is working with several local housing associations. They are in their third year of working with Victory Housing Trust managing grant funds on behalf of the housing association that have now taken advantage of the Grassroots Grants match and set up endowed funds for their communities. Victory Housing wanted this approach and is understanding of the limitations of the endowment in the current market, but the benefit of the match funding from the grassroots programme has outweighed any real concerns over that endowment of their portfolio.

Chris Galley

Fundraising and Partnerships Officer

Direct Line: 02070671105

Email: chr...@housing.org.uk

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