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Step By Step > Step 2: Build a Network
Fundraising is all about asking people for support. Your contacts in your family, workplace, social circles and local community are key to making your fundraising easier and successful. You’ll be amazed at how many contacts you have, who you could involve and all the possible ways they can help. Raising funds from companies and trustsVSO has enjoyed regular support from companies, unions, professional organisations and charitable trusts, some of which have been giving for 45 years. Our aim is to secure major grants that fund volunteer placements or other VSO activities that meet the donors’ charitable objectives.If you are planning to approach a company, union, professional organisation or trust that you think might already be a VSO supporter or if you have a contact at a company or charitable trust and feel you could secure major funding from them, please contact us first. Further informationYour local library should be able to help you find details of charitable trusts that may support local people. The following books are usually available in larger local libraries:- The Directory of Grant Making Trusts
- The Directory of Voluntary Organisations
- Directory of Social Change, Guide to Major Trusts – Volumes 1, 2 and 3
- Directory of Social Change, Guide to UK Companies Sponsorship and
- Donations Year Book – Hollis
- ‘Grants for Individuals in Need’ – Directory of Social Change
- Directory of British Associations – CBD Research
You should also be able to find a comprehensive list of local charities in your Yellow Pages.
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Michael Barker set up a Justgiving page and received donations from family, friends and companies that he worked with and would probably want to work with again on return from his placement as a VSO volunteer. Michael raised over £6000!
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