FUNDING SUPPORT SKylight’s Funding Officer can support with: X Setting up a group – help with a constitution or other documents
X “Critical Friend” – reading over your bid before you submit it.
X Searching for funding
X Opportunities to meet funders – large “Funding the Future” event and smaller “Coffee Table” events.
X Writing your first funding bid – advice and examples of bids
Before you make a grant bid, you will need: X A group of people with ideas. Funders tend to fund groups, not individuals
X A constitution (written rules of your group) – including a “dissolution clause”
X A bank account in the name of the group with two signatories
X At least three people who will play the roles chair, treasurer and secretary
SINCE 2012
THE FUNDING OFFICER HAS HELPED STOCKPORT GROUPS
MAKE 827 GRANT BIDS,
WINNING £5,965,128 WORTH OF GRANTS