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Big Lottery 'Investing in Ideas' funding extended until March 2010.
Do you have an idea that could help benefit your local community but do not know if it would work? The Big Lottery Fund has money to invest and we want to use it to turn your ideas into reality. We want to invest in Scotland’s communities – and we want you to come to us with ideas we can invest in.
The Scotland Committee is keen to continue funding the development of ideas, so Investing in Ideas will be open for applications using the current form and guidance materials until March 2010.
We have an additional £1.3 million to invest in the development of project ideas. So, would you like to start up a new activity for older people in your area but do not know if people would back it and make it viable? Investing In Ideas could help you carry out a survey and see if there is support for your idea.
Or maybe you want to bring an existing building into community ownership and need to explore the feasability of the project? Investing in Ideas could pay for a feasability study to help you find out if the idea would work.
Investing in Ideas can award grants of £500 to £10,000 to test and develop ideas that could eventually become fully-fledged projects. Investing in Ideas could pay for the things that can turn your basic idea into a well-planned project including:
- market research
- feasibility studies
- business planning
- training for your committee
- exchange visits in the UK to see how other projects work
- community consultation
- professional advice
- technical reports and scheme design studies
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Forth Sector Development can help you with your Investing in Ideas application, and the development of your ideas. Visit our funding
support page for more information.
Launch of the SROI Project
Many
organisations can claim to make a difference but struggle to find
a method of demonstrating their impact clearly. In an effort to address
this, Forth Sector Development is pleased to announce the launch of
the Scottish Governments SROI Project. The aim is to develop, promote
and support the use of a standard form of measuring social return on
investment (SROI) and will be run in conjunction with the SROI Network
UK. more>>
