8 fundraising networks receive funding

Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy has announced eight networks for fundraisers that have received funding from its Networks Funding programme.

Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy state that:

“We believe that collaboration is powerful and that sharing ideas, building knowledge and developing new skills is key to the long-term resilience of our sector.”

As such they have been providing funding for different networks each year since August 2015.

The networks funded are at various stages of development. This year’s recipients are:

• Aakash Odedra – who will use this funding to form new network to begin a dialogue around the issues neurodivergent and dyslexic artists and artist led groups have with fundraising.
  
• Art with Heart – who will use this funding to run a day long crash course in arts fundraising session for under-represented emerging to mid career artists within the UK in August 2021
  
• Brighton & Hove Cultural Recovery – who will use these funds as part of their mission to support Brighton & Hove’s arts and creative industries to offer a sustainable future. 
  
• Lean On, Platform Thirty1 – who will use this funding to build on the existing leading women’s workforce development project Lean On, which supports women in arts and culture to thrive. 
  
• New Earth – who will use this funding to run an afternoon session for the New Earth network and invited emerging, ethnically diverse fundraisers.
  
• Ryan Gilmartin – who will use this funding to build an inter-generational community of local artists, and support those artists to learn how to use fundraising to support themselves. 
  
• Share Museums East – who will use this funding to hold the first three events for the newly formed museums Fundraising Network in the East of England. 
  
• Sporting Heritage – who will use this funding to add in an extra element specifically focusing on fundraising and income diversification for their yearly Sporting Heritage conference.

Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy’s Network Funding offers financial support “to groups or networks across England to help them grow and thrive. This has been through helping them to build robust partnerships, strengthen fundraising skills, or bringing together a group with the aim of developing a new discussion.”

from UK Fundraising https://ift.tt/3i6iezh