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MEET OUR EXPERTS Summer 2022


Summer is the season of school trips and outdoor adventures but, with costs rising and many families facing financial hardship, funding is a challenge. That’s why we’ve devoted our cover feature to helping schools ensure these valuable experiences can go ahead.


As well as rounding up potential grants and free activities, we look at how you can create a funding strategy that draws on multiple local and community sources to cover the costs of school trips, both this year and moving forwards.


In our Partnerships section, school development director Jo Ballantine reveals how encouraging businesses to invest in education can transform school fundraising and careers provision. Jo also writes this issue’s Diary of a fundraiser, sharing her strategies for building a powerful school alumni network.


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The support of headteachers is crucial to fundraising success, as the IDPE’s Louise Bennett demonstrates in her article on leadership. And with energy costs a growing concern, school funding expert Tim Warneford shares how you can cut costs by taking a long, hard look at your energy contracts.


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As always, do get in touch if you have a story to tell – and good luck with your summer fundraising plans!


Jane Hughes, editor


JO BALLANTINE is director of development at the Royal Latin School,


Buckingham. An award-winning fundraiser, Jo created a capital fundraising campaign which has generated more than £9 million for the school since 2012.


LOUISE BENNETT is CEO of the Institute of Development Professionals


in Education (IDPE), which supports schools to develop fundraising and engagement programmes through training, guidance, benchmarking and partnership work. She has more than 20 years of experience in the fundraising sector.


TIM WARNEFORD is a school funding and energy consultant, with extensive CIF bid


writing experience. A SEND governor at Wootton Academy Trust, his podcast series Welcome To Developing The Trust: Joining The Dots explores how schools can secure funding and maximise their assets.


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SARAH EVERSON is FundEd’s grants expert, and is in charge of our online grants database. In


this issue, she rounds up the grants available for school trips, as well as grants for rural shools.


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


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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