How to...fund community organisations well, at scale

📅 Tuesday 15 September | 11:00–12:00 | Online

Councils, housing associations, developers, utilities and corporates keep the freedom to define social value more broadly, and NT16, the TOM System measure for donations to voluntary and community organisations, is unchanged.

Support for the third sector sits alongside employment, local supply chains, health and net zero. And the new model needs it. Its Talent Pipeline measure asks suppliers to find potential in communities with multiple indices of deprivation and co-design opportunities that address barriers to entry. Named cohorts are NEETs, care leavers and disabled people. Reaching them is what community organisations do.

But the community organisations delivering that work are under real strain. Nearly half of small charities say they are at risk of closure within a year. They need corporate funding more than ever.

So how do you find them? How do you evidence what changed, while it's still there to capture? And how do you run community funding at scale without adding to the workload of an already stretched team?

Join our panel:

• Mark Shearer, CEO and Co-Founder of ActionFunder, on why community funding matters more now, not less.
• Guy Battle, CEO of Social Value Portal, on why the components of social value work together rather than in a hierarchy (tbc exact angle)
• A community organisation on what corporate funding made possible, and how that work builds the confidence and skills the new model does score.
• Sarah Ottaway, Sustainability and Social Value Lead at SUEZ, on running community funding in partnership with local authorities, and how local needs analysis shapes both where the money goes and the strength of their bids 

Who should join

• Anyone choosing to fund community organisations.

• Corporate social value and ESG teams,

• Developers

• Contractors working to local authority requirements, 

• Council officers running their own funds. 

Register below!