Friday, February 10th, 2012 at
12:06 pm
What is GiveUsTheFish all about?
Well, the name is taken from the well know adage "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life" What we experience with most of our clients is that they just want the fish! So here it is!
We work with experts in their field to be able to offer our clients the following:
Events
We run Firewalking events for charities and project manage the whole event experience for organisations that have their own ideas.
Trusts
Our expert team can create your fundraising strategy around a targetted list of Trusts that give funding to your particular niche
Bid Writing
A specialist skill- let our team take the strain and headache away.
EU Funding Proposals
Complex, long winded and a mine field – that's EU Funding. Our experts love writing these kinds of applications! (I say they need to get out more!)
Tenders/Contracts
A highly specialised skill which our team relish
Legacies
So many people tell us "we could never make that ask!" Let us show you how to include asking for a legacy as part of your overall strategy, simply and with no fuss
Corporate Donors
Want to find a Corporate Donor but not sure how to move forward? Our Team will show you how to do make the first step, or make that step for you
Major Donors/High Net Worth Individuals
Does your sponsor list include those that could make a bigger than usual donation? Let our Team show you the right approach.
Database Marketing
We so often hear from our clients that they have large lists of contacts and that they simply don't know how to make contact and ask for donations. Our experts make it their business to do this every day.
01789 268105 07986 130810
Sarah@GiveUsTheFish.com
Thursday, August 18th, 2011 at
4:58 pm
This is the final chapter and includes information in the two appendices at the end of the report. I hope you have found this 6 part blog interesting. If you would like to know more about any aspect of this report, please contact me.
The Government will work with leading social investment experts to take forward aspects of this strategy
Ultimately everyone will need to be part of building a dynamic social investment market
- social ventures
- individual citizens
- mainstream financial institutions
- charitable foundations
- social venture intermediaries
- professional bodies and business networks
Success will look like a bigger market…
…that works more efficiently
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011 at
4:50 pm
Big Society Bank
The Bank will have a clear social mission and four operating principles:
- Independence
- Acting as a wholesaler
- transparency
- self-sufficiency
The Bank will be both a wholesale investor and a champion of the market
The Bank could invest in funds for front line social ventures, for intermediaries and for development of new market vehicles and infrastructure.
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011 at
4:27 pm
This is a six-part framework for action, from enabling reforms on public services and localism to setting up the Big Society Bank.
- More open and localised public services will rely on and create opportunities for social ventures
- Social investment benefits from appropriate tax incentives
- The right business environment is vital to social ventures
- Social ventures need support to improve their investment readiness and their business capability
- Better market infrastructure will help social investment to grow
- Financing and Championing
Finally, these actions will help acceleration of the social investment market's development.
Monday, April 11th, 2011 at
9:32 am
This picture shows that Social Enterprises and the Social investment market has been around since early 2001. In fact I can remember back then receiving a first edition of a magazine called 'Social Enterprise'. It came as a free trial with my NewStart Magazine when I worked as an Employment and Training Manager for Groundwork Birmingham. Back then, no-one had a definitive name for a Social Enterprise. Groundwork Birmingham – a registered charity – had what we called then a 'trading arm' which carried out Environmental Business Services and Consultancy. By today's standards that is a Social Enterprise or probably more correctly it should have been a CIC because the "profits" went to support the charity.
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