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There's a growing understanding that hyper-local organisations are #NeverMoreNeeded. This has got me thinking about how they are funded, particularly for core costs, and how people may want to 'give' to their local area without a specific cause or organisation in mind. Well... 
👆The model above is my attempt to visualise some ideas I've been having about this.
My hunch is that this is nothing new at all, so I'd love to learn about any examples that look like this.
The thinking that has led to the picture above goes something like this thread...
My hunch is that this is nothing new at all, so I'd love to learn about any examples that look like this.
The thinking that has led to the picture above goes something like this thread...
1) If we recognise the importance of small voluntary organisations - constituted or otherwise - as part of a local ecosystem that makes society work, why do we repeatedly ask them to justify their existence for each and every piece of funding they require?
I’m ready to sign off for Christmas & Let’s not sugar coat the past 12 months, it really has been tough. Particularly if you have blood cancer.
But we can be proud of how the blood cancer community has come together, and what we've achieved.
A thread: 1/12
But we can be proud of how the blood cancer community has come together, and what we've achieved.
A thread: 1/12
Stating the obvious – 2020 has been an awful year for the country.
It seems a lifetime ago, but since March, our charity's focus has been on doing absolutely everything in our power to support the blood cancer community during the most difficult challenge its ever faced. (2/12)
It seems a lifetime ago, but since March, our charity's focus has been on doing absolutely everything in our power to support the blood cancer community during the most difficult challenge its ever faced. (2/12)
Our support services have worked tirelessly, and the team have given everything to meet the unprecedented demand. I’m so proud to work along side them.
Throughout the year, they've been a calm, reassuring voice to so many people who reached out for support. (3/12)
Throughout the year, they've been a calm, reassuring voice to so many people who reached out for support. (3/12)
‘Ministers must honour promise to invest in youth’ - @BearGrylls in today’s @thetimes calling for the release of the £500m youth investment fund announced over a year ago. #backyouth #PowerOfYouth #nevermoreneeded
Hello everyone. Some of you will have read this morning that we're proposing some changes at @NCVO as we take forward our new strategy. Like pretty much everyone, we're going through tough times. Let me explain. 1/
This year has been challenging for everyone - charities, businesses, government. People's lives disrupted, & worse, everywhere.
Charities & volunteers have mobilised, brilliantly. Adapted. Cared. We've helped those most affected by coronavirus and the consequences of lockdown.
Charities & volunteers have mobilised, brilliantly. Adapted. Cared. We've helped those most affected by coronavirus and the consequences of lockdown.
And @NCVO mobilised quickly too - proving support and advice on what charities could do under the ever shifting rules, how and where they could access funding at the same time as pressing the government for much needed £ support.
Our membership model enabled this. Thank you.
Our membership model enabled this. Thank you.
Charities first started warning Covid-19 would be a financial catastrophe for the sector in March. Reporting across the pandemic & the laissez-faire response of govt has been like watching a slow-motion car crash that is just now starting to hit the wall [THREAD]
#NeverMoreNeeded
#NeverMoreNeeded
Check out this timeline of stories @ThirdSector had to cover in June alone. Note: this is not in any way to bash the charities featured, but to try and showcase the growing fallout in a vital, unsupported sector. Buckle up! #NeverMoreNeeded
3 JUNE
Oxfam GB expects to cut more than 200 jobs with shop closures and the cancellation of fundraising events costing the charity about £5m a month
thirdsector.co.uk/oxfam-gb-expec…
Oxfam GB expects to cut more than 200 jobs with shop closures and the cancellation of fundraising events costing the charity about £5m a month
thirdsector.co.uk/oxfam-gb-expec…
👍@MartynDaySNP for asking @DCMS to support #GiftAidRelief. @JWhittingdale confirmed support for #GiftAid but noted the proposals would break the link to tax paid & impact <20% of charities - the charity sector welcomes this dialogue & is happy to address these concerns 1/
The Minister noted that <20% of charities would benefit from #GiftAidrelief. 73,050 charities claimed #GiftAid in 2018/19 approx 40% of UK charities representing a major part of the sector workforce & beneficiaries. The proposal has widespread support 2/ assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
The response also notes that the main benefit would be to large charities - while true in monetary terms, #GiftAid is a significant and larger proportion of the income for smaller charities (as per @CharityTaxComm) so boosting the value of #GiftAid would make a huge difference 3/
A long thread about funding & tough decisions:
😔 Covid is having a huge impact on our sector. We are #nevermoreneeded but many orgs will shrink or disappear
😢 We aren't going anywhere we promise but that has meant some v.hard decisions.
😢 But #VCS is used to hard decisions
😔 Covid is having a huge impact on our sector. We are #nevermoreneeded but many orgs will shrink or disappear
😢 We aren't going anywhere we promise but that has meant some v.hard decisions.
😢 But #VCS is used to hard decisions
💜 Lots of you won't remember but The Cellar has been at rock bottom lots of times. When I arrived nearly 6 yrs ago we were v.close to closure.
💪🏼 Getting to where we are now: a strong, sustainable, award winning org took a brilliant team working v.hard
💪🏼 Getting to where we are now: a strong, sustainable, award winning org took a brilliant team working v.hard
💪🏼 But we also had to take a lot of hard decisions then too. That has usually meant closing things which lost a lot of £ & threatened the stability of the org.
😔 But closure is NEVER a sign of how much things are valued.
🤔 The thing is that some things are easier to fund...
😔 But closure is NEVER a sign of how much things are valued.
🤔 The thing is that some things are easier to fund...
In the last 99 days, we’ve…
✅Kept face to face services open for the most vulnerable
✅Dealt with 4-fold increase in demand for crisis provision
✅Stayed home (wherever possible)
✅Set up regular Recovery Groups online
✅Completed a merger
✅Kept face to face services open for the most vulnerable
✅Dealt with 4-fold increase in demand for crisis provision
✅Stayed home (wherever possible)
✅Set up regular Recovery Groups online
✅Completed a merger
✅Trained volunteers in group facilitation and counselling online
✅Worked with partners to get food parcels out to the community
✅Supplied isolated people with an internet connection
✅Got back to providing specialist support in 2 busy hospitals
✅Worked with partners to get food parcels out to the community
✅Supplied isolated people with an internet connection
✅Got back to providing specialist support in 2 busy hospitals
✅Hit our digital targets for the entire year
✅Stayed alert
✅Handed out tech to help people we work with to stay connected
✅Raced up Everest on our stairs
✅Started a new employability project for families
✅Acquired a minibus
✅Stayed alert
✅Handed out tech to help people we work with to stay connected
✅Raced up Everest on our stairs
✅Started a new employability project for families
✅Acquired a minibus
