STAN Tools:
a catalogue of resources for Second Tier organisations developed by LVSC and STAN members & friends to help give advice to fundseekers. Most of the tools are taken from learning materials. Please acknowledge original source of the documents if you decide to use them.

NCVO

Full Circle Arts Funding Toolkits:
Funding toolkits for arts organisations and individual artists including: do's & don'ts, funding bid structures and tips for designing a fundable project.

FULL CIRCLE ARTS

The Charities Information Bureau Website : provides Help & Advice for community groups and voluntary organisations  seeking funding on their  'Fit for Funding' Web Pages. 

CHARITIES INFORMATION BUREAU

Institute of Fundraising - information for fundseekers:
The Institute of Fundraising is the professional membership body for UK fundraisers, working to promote the highest standards in fundraising practice and management.  Their site offers a wealth of infromation and tools for fundraisers in their 'information for fundseekers' section.

INSTITUTE OF FUNDRAISING

CIVICUS writing a Funding proposal toolkit:
This toolkit from CIVICUS deals with planning and researching a funding proposal, how to write the proposal, and the follow-up required once it is written and sent off.

CIVICUS  -World Alliance for Citizen Partnership

A toolkit for black voluntary and community organisations (BVCOs):
Stressing the importance of planning, strategic thinking and working with infrastructure networks this toolkit looks at what strategies black voluntary & community organisations can adopt for sucessful fundraising. The toolkit includes chapters on preparing funding applications, how to make government policy work for you, sources of funding opportunities & the role of infrastructure networks and the structural support available from them.  Not only a must-have for black organisations developing their funding strategies, the toolkit also provides insight for policy-makers and potential funding partners and stake-holders into the nature, experiences and expectations of black voluntary and community organisations.
There is a small fee of £20 for this resource.

NIACE - National Institue of Continuing Education (England & Wales).

Government Office for London - Succession Strategies Toolkit:
This is a practical interactive toolkit intended to help projects to manage an effective succession or exit strategy. The Readiness Assessment Tool focuses on practical forward planning and on which of four possible succession routes – mainstreaming, self-standing enterprise, seeking further funding or project closure – might be most suitable for your project. The Tool is hyperlinked to a complementary ‘How to’ Guide, which gives links to further sources of help and information as well as project examples.

GOL - Government Office for London

Church Urban Fund - The Community Value Toolkit for churches and community groups:
The Churches Community Value Toolkit has been developed by the Church Urban Fund, the Commission on Urban Life and Faith, and the Churches Regional Commission for Yorkshire and the Humber. The Toolkit is a way for churches to show what they contribute to their community in terms of outputs and outcomes. In particular, there are calculations that can demonstrate the financial contribution of a church and ways to identify a church's distinctiveness.
 
The Toolkit is there to be used as people see fit perhaps in support of a grant application or in negotiations with others such as the Local Authority, the Local Strategic Partnership, or the Primary Care Trust. The Toolkit, which can be downloaded below, can also be used over a period of time to identify changes and developments. Different versions have been developed to reflect the different financial arrangements of different denominations. Currently the Church of England, Baptist and Methodist versions are available, with a Roman Catholic version to follow.

CHURCH URBAN FUND