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Here are a selection of useful websites to support your fundraising in different ways:
Co-operative Futures
Co-operative Futures provides impartial and relevant advice to existing and emerging social enterprises. With extensive experience, Co-operative Futures has a team of specialist advisors working across Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Swindon.
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The Wiltshire Compact
The Wiltshire Compact aims to improve the quality of life for people in Wiltshire. It will do this by improving partnership working arrangements and developing the understanding between the statutory and voluntary sector.
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Business Community Connections
Business Community Connections aims to help charities obtain more support from business. Business support ranges from cash donations and sponsorship to employee volunteering and gifts-in-kind. BCConnections provide a free on-line resource centre of information and advice, to assist in the practical development of business community partnerships, organise local brokering events to facilitate face-to-face contact between potential community and business partners and offer training courses to improve knowledge and skills within charities to develop effective business community partnerships.
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Grants Online
Provides access to the latest information on grants and funding opportunities for regeneration education and community and economic development. Coverage includes the European Union, UK Government, National Lottery, Regional Development Agencies (RDA) grants and UK grantmaking trusts. Subscription membership needed for part of the site.
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UK Fundraising
Contains information on a wide variety of fundraising issues, including books, consultants, e-mail discussion lists, events, funding, grants, magazines, non-profit resources, products, professional organisations, research papers, services, software, and vacancies. A free website.
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Regional Co-ordination Unit
Provides funding information on government Area Based Initiatives (ABI), including a searchable database.
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Swindon & Wiltshire Intelligence Network
SWIN (Swindon & Wiltshire Intelligence Network) - a 'one stop shop' providing access to key local data and publications.
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Wiltshire Council Central Bidding Unit
The WC Central Bidding Unit (CBU) specialises in attracting external funding into Wiltshire, providing pro-active support across the Council to partnerships and partner organisations, ensuring that bidding opportunities are identified and successfully pursued.
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The BIG Lottery Fund
Every year BIG invests money from the National Lottery to a number of good causes. Their mission is to bring real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need. Their remit covers health, education, environment and charitable purposes.
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Lottery Good Causes
Contains a quick guide to National Lottery Funders
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Awards for All
Awards for All funds small groups involved in arts, sports, heritage and voluntary and community activities.
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Heritage Lottery Fund
Heritage Lottery Fund aims to support a heritage project in every local community across the UK.
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Sport England
Sport England funds sports projects throughout England.
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The Arts Lottery Fund
The Arts Lottery Fund aims to support high quality arts projects.
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CIB works together with these agencies who encourage local voluntary action by supporting and developing voluntary organisations and community groups. They offer information, advice and support on the wide range of skills and knowledge needed to run a successful group. They also have a representative role for the voluntary sector in various settings.
Bridge House Community Trust
West Wiltshire
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Community First
Wiltshire and Swindon
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Develop
North Wiltshire and Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES)
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Voluntary Action Kennet
Kennet
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Voluntary Action North Somerset (VANS)
Voluntary Action North Somerset is the CVS for the whole of North Somerset.
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Voluntary Action Swindon
Swindon
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Volunteer Centre Swindon
Volunteer Centre Swindon provides free guidance for anyone looking for volunteering opportunities. We also give free support and good practice advice to volunteer-involving organisations.
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Wessex Community Action
Salisbury
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Empower Swindon
Empower Swindon consists of six member organisations who are working together to provide support, advice and information to voluntary organisations and community groups all over Swindon.
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Wiltshire Infrastructure Consortium (WIC)
Wiltshire Infrastructure Consortium (WIC) consists of nine member organisations who are working together to provide support, advice and information to voluntary organisations and community groups all over Wiltshire. Together WIC aims to create a stronger sector, where all groups can achieve their aims and are able to influence local decision making.
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BBC Wiltshire
Your gateway to local news, sport, entertainment and more.
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BBC Radio Swindon's Action Desk
BBC Radio Swindon's Action Desk publicises campaigns.
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The Charity Commission
The Charity Commission's site contains searchable database of all registered charities in England and Wales, as well as guidance on a wide range of topics
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Neighbourhood Statistics Service
The Neighbourhood Statistics Service is a new service being developed by the Office for National Statistics in partnership with central and local Government and many others. It will eventually offer users ready access to a vast range of social and economic data on a particular geographic area and will be supported by a range of powerful analytical tools with which to turn the raw data into relevant and comprehensible information.
Its users will include local communities who want to draw attention to an issue, or to look at ways their local services might be improved, and other agencies and voluntary bodies which provide services to communities or groups within them.
Data from this site can be used to demonstrate need in a funding application.
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This Is Wiltshire
The Communigate part of this site helps charities and community organisations to get on-line and also acts as a directory of local organisations. You can build your own website free of charge with their easy-to-use service.
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Buy Once Give Twice
BuyOnceGiveTwice is a unique and upmarket charity auction website. We act as agent to sell (or re-sell) lifestyle goods and sometimes one-off opportunities, whilst enabling the proceeds to go to charity. We are already linked with 50 Founder Charities and further Partner Charities who use the site to raise incremental funds.
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Wiltshire Community Web
Wiltshire Community Web has been set up by the Wiltshire Customer First Partnership to allow local groups, businesses and individuals the chance to build and maintain websites for free and provide a single place in which a range of community sites can link and be easily found.
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