Hi, I’m Daniel Hale and I lead on the
research for the Funding Commission.
It’s been a busy time. We’ve sounded out all the Commissioners and some key people around the sector to arrive at a suite of proposals around the Commission’s key themes for their third meeting.
Where next? Well, before they go out to a formal consultation, we’re going to do some more work on the proposals the Commissioners thought would best meet the needs they identified. These proposals can be found in more detail in the note of the third meeting, download the pdf here.
For those of you with less time, here's a list...
Boosting local effectiveness of local voluntary action:
Grow locally held and accessed endowments
Increase local ownership or management of community assets
Develop co-operative models within the sector
Develop giving in-kind from the private sector
Resolve issues around the sharing of back-office functions and liabilities
Develop protocols for rationalisation and/or insolvency
Develop hybrid housing associations as enterprise/social developers
Develop a new pricing model for VCOs
Identify key principles for public sector funding
Capitalising the sector:
Develop models for social investment
Provide financial advice and build skills
Develop rigorous methods for demonstrating social impact
Pursue mission-related investment
Underscore the principles of good grantmaking
Modernising giving:
Widen participation in and support for giving circles
Establish lifetime legacies
Promote salary sacrifice; payroll giving and Gift Aid
Build giving into life events
Establish gifting accounts
Maximise the benefits of technology
Reduce the cost of fundraising
But what do you think?
These proposals are no secret, and waiting for the formal consultations to start isn’t really necessary. A bit of road testing would be really welcome, so
(A) choose a proposal that made the cut and tell us your views; or
(B) suggest your own proposal if you think we’ve forgotten something.
We’ll be checking back regularly to see where things are going and guide discussion.
Daniel
It’s been a busy time. We’ve sounded out all the Commissioners and some key people around the sector to arrive at a suite of proposals around the Commission’s key themes for their third meeting.
Where next? Well, before they go out to a formal consultation, we’re going to do some more work on the proposals the Commissioners thought would best meet the needs they identified. These proposals can be found in more detail in the note of the third meeting, download the pdf here.
For those of you with less time, here's a list...
Boosting local effectiveness of local voluntary action:
Capitalising the sector:
Modernising giving:
But what do you think?
These proposals are no secret, and waiting for the formal consultations to start isn’t really necessary. A bit of road testing would be really welcome, so
We’ll be checking back regularly to see where things are going and guide discussion.