DSC to launch new journal 'Funding for Change'

Howard Lake | 24 January 2003 | News

The Directory of Social Change (DSC) has discontinued their ‘Trust Monitor’ and ‘Corporate Citizen’ journals and will replaced them with a new journal ‘Funding For Change’.

Funding for Change will, say DSC, “keep you up to date with funding sources across the board.” The quarterly journal will combine information and discussion about support for voluntary activity from all potential sources, including grant-making trusts, companies, government, and the Lottery.

It will track funding for voluntary and community organisations and also cover how social enterprises/community businesses can resource their activities.

The journal will be edited by Susan Forrester with former Society Guardian journalist Nicola Hill as Deputy Editor. Information from DSC researchers will be supplemented by contributions from leading funders and fundraisers.

Each issue of Funding for Change will feature a special section on newly identified sources of support and the policy changes of top funders.

Published in January, April, July and October, the journal will consist of 32 pages in A4 format. Issue one will be launched at Charityfair 2003 in April 2003.

Annual subscriptions will cost £40 to voluntary and community organisations and £50 to statutory and commercial organisations. Existing subscribers to either publication will be eligible for four issues of Funding for Change for the price of three, but will need to contact the Directory of Social Change for details.

Charities are now facing a growing number of funding information services, many of them covering similar news items. As well as new online services such as access-funds.co.uk, there have been recent paper publications such as ‘Funding Report’ from Caritasdata and ‘External Funding Bulletin.’ If they cover different information, then such a multitude of sources are welcome. Duplication of mterial though will simply take up fundraisers’ time unnecessarily. In DSC’s favour, they are rationalising their journals and reducing the total number in the marketplace by one.

UK Fundraising looks forward to covering a story where two commercial funding information providers collaborate or merge to provide a better service for fundraisers and grantseekers.

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.