Funding Advice & Development
The OCVA Development Team is available to help you with your fundraising and project planning. Phone 01865 251946 or email funding@ocva.org.uk to make an appointment.
Where can I find potential funding opportunities?
Download the ‘Funding Newsletter’ and ‘Bidding Diary’ from the top of this page. (contact the Development Team to be added to our mailing list).
OCVA also has a subscription to two programmes, FunderFinder (Groups In Need) and the Directory of Social Change trustfunding website. These programmes enable your organisation to obtain a list of trusts that give grants to organisations and projects
How can I access the funding programmes?
Contact OCVA to book an appointment at our Resource Centre or one of the countywide Information Points. If you have not used FunderFinder before, our Development Team can show you how the programme works.
How much does it cost to use?
FunderFinder (Groups In Need) and the Directory of Social Change website are free of charge to OCVA members; you just need to book a session. Non-members are charged £5 for each session.
What else can OCVA offer?
Our Resource Centre holds many publications about fundraising eg. Writing a better fundraising application, community fundraising strategies, and corporate fundraising strategies.
Two useful programmes are also available (at our Resource Centre, Information Points, and directly from the FunderFinder website):
Apply Yourselves helps voluntary and community groups write effective funding applications. Use it to draft a letter or proposal to funders. As you write, click on buttons and text to get advice about what should be included. Look up jargon, or print a questionnaire to help you be self-critical.
Budget Yourselves helps voluntary and community groups write effective budgets. It provides lots of advice about the process of making a budget, things that might need to go in it, and how to work out accurate costs. Use it to link budgets and to compare actual income and expenditure with your budget figures. It does the calculating, so if you change any of the figures, your budget will still add up.
Full Cost Recovery
A workshop took place during Compact Week in November 2008 looking at Full Cost Recovery, organised jointly by OCVA and Oxfordshire County Council.
Documents from that workshop are available to voluntary sector groups to download below:
A Funders Guide to Full Cost Recovery (Big Lottery Fund)
There are some example spreadsheets that are used by the Big Lottery and some others that were developed by the trainer Peter Grey:
Guidance notes for the FCR and Salary spreadsheet (Big Lottery Fund)
FCR and Salary spreadsheet (Excel)
