Meet the Funders 2025
Our online Meet the Funders event, on 24 April, brought together funders and 119 Sussex organisations
Meet the Funders 2025 brought together 11 national, regional and local funders and welcomed 139 attendees from 119 organisations from across Brighton, Hove, Adur and Worthing areas, as well as from wider East and West Sussex.
Thank you to all the funders (listed below) and Lucy Stone, from fundraising consultancy No Stone Unturned for giving up their time and expertise.
For further fundraising support, contact your local Council for Voluntary Service (CVS): Community People, Community Works, Crawley Community Action, Horsham District Council Voluntary Sector Support and Voluntary Action Arun and Chichester.
Session Recording
See it here.
Fundraising Resources
- Free fundraising training – scroll to bottom of the page to see the whole list of upcoming training
- ‘The List’ – changes to Trust and Foundations in the UK. Shares the funders who are spending out, restructuring, closing, paused, moved to no unsolicited
- LarkOwl Benchmarking
- IVAR Open and Trusting Grantmaking
Presentations
Funders, Deadlines and Contacts summary table (80.61 KB PDF)
Arts Council England - National Lottery Project Grants - Claire Soper and Sherry Neyhus (569.54 KB PDF)
Links to Arts Council Guidance (25.57 KB DOCX)
The National Lottery Community Fund - Claire Webley and Wren Everley (999.91 KB PDF)
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) - Rob Whitehead (1.38 MB PDF)
The Pearce Foundation - Jane Robbie (316.38 KB PDF)
South Downs National Park - Miriam Swan (1.56 MB PDF)
Adur and Worthing Councils - CIL Neighbourhood Fund - David Attmore (87.28 KB PDF)