2014 Annual Meet the Funder Event - Wednesday 12th November The Bethel Centre – Oldbury.
With Presentations and Workshops including:
- Heritage Lottery Fund – Small Grants, Big Ones & WW1
- Children in need
- BIG Lottery Fund - Reaching Communities Programme
- Small & Large Grants
- Sports England
- Barrow Cadbury
- Black Country Near Neighbours
- Gift Aid Workshop
- Social Media Workshop with Podnosh
- Creative Black Country
- Legacies Workshop
Following on from last year’s hugely successful Meet the Funder Event, SCVO & Sandwell Council’s External Funding Team are making this year’s event even bigger and better with more Local & National Funders, more workshops, a bigger and more interactive market place and Key Note Speakers.
As part of our 5th annual event, we will be having presentations by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Big Lottery, Children in Need, Barrow Cadbury and many others including new workshops around On-Line Giving , Capital funding and European Funding.
This year we will also be running a number practical workshops for groups who may be considering applying to the Reaching Communities Programme or Children in Need, going through the relative application forms in detail to give groups the best opportunity to make successful applications
The cost of the event will be £15 if your organisational income is under £15,000 per year, however; we do have a number of free places, these are initially limited to the first 100 small organisations that book through Eventbrite. (These places are funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, SMBC & Walsall Council, we are looking to attract groups who may not normally attend this kind of event.). If your organisation income is over £15,000 per year the cost is £25 (This is an advance booking discount for any reservations made before the event).
If you wish to book on this event, please use Eventbrite for all bookings, if for any reason you cannot book through Eventbrite, please send your details to
This year’s highlights:
We are delighted to offera Social Media Surgery with Podnosh:
Do you have any burning questions about social media? Don't know your tweets from your Facebook or how they even apply to you? bring your questions to the Social Media learning zone and ask the Surgeons at our Social Media Surgery (
Interested in applying to reaching Communities?
Thinking about applying to Reaching Communities but have no idea where to start? Have you previously applied and were turned down? This year we are concentrating on the First Stage of application form, going through the questions and detailing the kind of information you need to be putting in your application form. (
European Funding - haven’t got a clue?
Zoey West - External Funding Team Lead from Walsall Council will be talking about the Social Inclusion Strand and what opportunities this will bring to the local area.
Is Heritage just about old buildings?
Catherine Kemp and the team from the Heritage Lottery Fund WM ( will be talking about all of the Heritage programmes currently running, encouraging people to think about local heritage, detailing grants small and large. The team will also be on hand during the day to answer any questions you may have.
Looking for a change of job?
CV out of date? Bored with your current Job? Eden Brown ( the specialist public & third sector recruitment consultants will be running a CV workshop and will be in the market place all day to help with your job hunting queries.
Unsure about on line giving?
For the first time,GoldenGiving ( will be presenting in the Midlands, they provide a donation and fundraising website, free to use for charities, donors and fundraisers and are the only independent free fundraising and donating site in the world that helps worldwide charities and good causes
Interested in Arts Funding?
Find out about Creative Black Country and how you can get involved. Creative Black country supports activities that build audiences and promote artistic excellence in the Walsall, Sandwell and Wolverhampton. Grants range from £100 to £5000 and are open to Individuals, groups and organisation in Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Creative Black Country can support the seed of a great idea through to the growth of a great project. If it builds audiences, connects local people with professional artists and brings great creative activities and arts to the Black Country. Then come and speak to us
Further workshops are still being booked, please keep a look out for further details. Follow us in the run up to the event and on the day: @SCVOSandwell #MTF2014
This year’s programme is proudly supported by: