Fundraising

Fundraising is exciting and it can even be fun but it often isn’t. It is hard work and time consuming and there is a lot of competition out there. However, success is sweet especially when you see the finished article - your project up and running and meeting the needs of your community or your newly refurbished building lovingly reordered and being used to its full potential.

Fundraising is an essential part of any project. Getting the money to do what you want to do can take a lot of time and hard work but with planning and effort the chances are that you will be able to carry out successful fundraising allowing you to get on with the work you want to do.

It was Henry Nouwen who said “Fundraising is proclaiming what you believe in and proclaiming it in such a way as to offer others the opportunity to participate in your vision”.

To assist you in considering fundraising or finding funds for your project there are some Funding Information Sheets to guide you through as well as some useful websites. As encouragement you can read about a project which is successfully up and running or read how a church actually did it - the nuts and bolts, highs and lows of fundraising http://www.thisischurch.com/getyourmoney.htm

The Lottery Fund is a good source of funding but if you have any qualms whether churches should be applying for this read: