FUNDED UPDATE


THE STORY SO FAR... A lot has happened since we launched FundEd in March! Find out what we’ve been up to and what plans we’re hatching.


OUT AND ABOUT


Paul Kent, the brains behind FundEd; Natalie Keeler and Nikki Burch, the FundEd Magazine editorial dream team!


FEEDBACK FROM MEMBERS


‘What a brilliant resource FundEd is! For the first time in one place, you


can access numerous different ideas on how to gain extra resources for your school. The guide to


crowdfunding is excellent. No need to go on a course to learn how to do it – just follow the step-by-step instructions. I also found it really inspiring to read about what other


schools have fundraised for and how they achieved their goals. And what a great idea to ask a local business to fund your school’s FundEd


membership! My life in these times of school funding austerity just got a


whole lot easier – thank you FundEd!’ Jo Marchant, Strategic Business Leader, Meadowfield School, Kent and Fellow of NASBM


‘FundEd provides lots of useful and relevant funding information.


The website is very accessible, and reading the printed publication is a good investment of my time. I’ve found some interesting solutions to


my additional funding dilemmas! As a Business Manager for a large school, the pull on our finances is huge and


I need to be creative in finding extra funding. FundEd stimulates that creative thinking by showcasing a


variety of initiatives and by sharing innovative practice from schools in similar situations. It’s a wonderful


resource both for busy fundraisers and for those approaching fundraising for the first time.’


Robbie Garner, Business Manager, Mark Rutherford School, Bedford


In March and April, we joined our YPO sponsors at The Education Show in Birmingham and The Academies Show in London. Speaking to school staff about the nancial pressures they’re facing conrmed just how urgently a solution is needed. When we explained that FundEd brings together a network of fundraising experts, businesses and school leaders to share advice and examples of what’s already working, the response was overwhelming. Explaining how schools are


already working with businesses to achieve their goals really opened people’s eyes to ideas they’d never previously considered. (Turn to p41).


Come and meet us! Seek us out at the following events and pick our brains: we’re delivering a seminar on income generation at the NASBM Regional Conference in Wolverhampton on 5 July, and again at the NASBM National Conference in Birmingham on 8/9 November. We will also be joining our YPO partners again at The Academies Show in Birmingham on 23 November, at The Education Show in March 2017 and The Academies Show in London next April.


IN THE PRESS


We enjoyed press coverage in NASBM’s membership magazine, The Voice, in which Paul Smith, YPO’s Executive Director, said, ‘There will be some grants that are specific and must be spent on certain things, but there is money out there for more general projects, and crowdfunding could work well for this – for example, by getting parents and local businesses to chip in. Something we hear repeatedly is that businesses want to do more with their communities. I am sure businesses will get right behind this new scheme and support schools by funding projects.’


WHAT’S NEXT? We still have more to come, including:  Online webinars from the autumn term, on topics such as bid-writing and creating successful business partnerships, Regional training seminars led by a member of The Institute of Fundraising, scheduled to start spring 2017, Working with the British Chambers of Commerce to run a pilot scheme to bring education and business closer together, Cultivating relationships with philanthopists to build a match-funding pot dedicated for FundEd members.


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