Three small charities win 12 months of free development support
Howard Lake | 20 November 2013 | News
Three small charities have been selected to receive a 12-month tailored programme of free development support, each of them worth £1,800. The charities have been chosen as Affiliates of the FSI, the charity that supports small charities, for 2014.
The charities, which all have a turnover of under £1.5 million, are Help2Read, Spark Inside and Quest4Change.
Over the next three months they will receive:
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- A Life Stage Assessment – an FSI audit across all areas of a charity’s operations and governance, providing recommendations for actions to strengthen an organisation;
- Two days pro bono consultancy support in the area of fundraising strategy, governance/board development or impact measurement/reporting;
- Priority access to FSI events
The Affiliate Programme was set up to support small charities that have the potential to develop their services, programmes or organisation but lack the manpower or resources to make the change without help. It is designed to help them transform their work and impact, perhaps expand into new markets, or simply achieve a greater level of effectiveness.
Pauline Broomhead, CEO and founder of the FSI said:
“Small charities are the organisations at the front line delivering vital services. Yet many of them do not have the capacity or resources to develop their organisations or programmes despite the improved benefit this will bring to those they work with. The Affiliate Programme was therefore designed to offer the intense support a charity needs to make a substantial change within its operation without the price tag usually attached to such activity”.
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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.