Welcome Spring 2022


With spring in the air, it seems fitting to focus on playgrounds – and how to turn your ambitious plans into reality. Our cover story provides a step-by-step guide on how to shape your fundraising strategy, including a round-up of grant opportunities and a case study of how one primary school involved its pupils in making things happen.


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In this issue, you can also find out how one poorly funded secondary school raised the £3million needed to deliver a new sports campus, plus how to develop a narrative for that all-important case for support. To be successful in grant applications, you’ll also need clear budgets and targets for your project and Sharon Noble’s template offers invaluable tips.


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Finally, this issue is a little slimmer as we’ve streamlined our content to zoom in on the things that matter most to you: securing the funding to ensure your school delivers an enriching education for all.


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To inspire you, Kevin Yardley shares his strategy of building relationships to increase lettings income. We also profile the incredible success of Lakefield CofE Primary School in securing eight times its fundraising target with one event.


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Good luck! Jane Hughes, editor


MEET OUR EXPERTS


SHARON NOBLE is development manager at Chestnut Grove Academy in London. She


previously worked in community fundraising as manager of Sutton Ecology Centre, and then director of Vauxhall City Farm.


JUSTIN SMITH is managing director of Chameleon Training and Consultancy


providing specialist marketing and income generation support to the education sector.


KEVIN YARDLEY is director of income generation at The Generations Multi Academy Trust in


Hertfordshire. His entrepreneurial background in the leisure industry has enabled him to develop transformative funding streams and facilities at his school.


HELEN BURGE is deputy chief operations officer at The Priory Learning Trust. She is a fellow


of the ISBL and school resource management adviser with Cotswold Beacon Academy Trust.


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KEVIN PARKER is SBM at Ann Edwards CofE Primary School. His aim is to make


a positive difference to every pupil at his school – and to the wider community.


GRANTS AND MEMBERSHIP Sarah Everson sarah.everson@communityinspired.co.uk


RESOURCES Emma Griffin emma.griffin@communityinspired.co.uk


ART DIRECTOR Carol Rogerson DESIGNER Joanna Bettles SUB EDITOR Zoë Hill


ADVERTISING AND SALES Richard Manville richard.manville@funded.org.uk Tel: 01342 821332


LYNNE MOORE is head of operations and business development at


Furze Platt Senior School in Maidenhead. Lynne has worked in school business management for 16 years, with a strong focus on income generation.


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