Wednesday 20th April, 10am – 12pm – The Florence Institute, 377 Mill Street, L8 4RF
Places are limited so to book your place, contact Rachel on:
T: 0151 702 0156
Grants from the public sector now make up only 5.5% of charity sector income, a decline of over 60% since 2004. At the current rate of decline, grants could all but disappear by 2020, having been largely replaced by short-term, inflexible and bureaucratic contracts.
The death of public sector grants will damage people and communities. Earlier this year the Grants for Good campaign was launched by the Directory for Social Change, Charity Finance Group, Children England and Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, with the aim to reverse this trend.
Following the great success of the first #GrantsSummit in London, Directory of Social Change are calling on more charitable organisations to come and share their experiences with grants at their next event in Liverpool. Hearing your experiences will help the campaign with creating an evidence base of solid case studies for the campaign and with building a case for commissioners to choose to give grants instead of contracts.
They want to hear:
- Why a grant you’ve had (or have) is good or if it did not turn out as you hoped?
- How a grant helped your service users and organisation – did it nurture innovation? Empower your community? Save time and money? Invest in the local economy?
- Your experiences of contracts (if you’ve ever had one)?
- If you’ve ever been hoping for a grant and got a contract instead?
- If you’ve made a grant yourself to another organisation that’s doing great work?
Further information can be found on the campaign website www.dsc.org.uk/grantsforgood and by following the campaign twitter account @Grants4Good
