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Crossroads Care Cumbria

Fundraising consultants at Charity Fundraising Ltd are very pleased to be working with Crossroads Care Cumbria.

Crossroads Care is the premier provider of respite care in Cumbria. The team at Crossroads Care Cumbria believes that every carer should be recognized, supported and offered services to help them maintain their own health and well-being. Cumbria Crossroads aims to relieve the stresses experienced by carers and people with physical, mental or sensory impairment within the family home. Service users experience a range of conditions including for example Alzheimer’s/ Dementia, the elderly frail, mental health problems, Cancer, children on the Autistic Spectrum, children with Down's Syndrome and children with Cerebral Palsy.

Crossroads Care Cumbria is based in Carlisle and currently the geographical area covered is North Cumbria. A major focus of the work of funding consultants at Charity Fundraising Ltd will be to research potential funders and draft funding applications in respect of proposed expansion of service delivery into West Cumbria including the towns of; Keswick, Cockermouth, Maryport, Workington and Whitehaven.

Kentmere Hydro Trust

Fundraising Consultants at Charity Fundraising Ltd are pleased to be advising Trustees of Kentmere Hydro trust in relation to Grant Funding opportunities. Kentmere Hydro Trust has been formed for the purpose of establishing a hydro electricity generating scheme on the upper reaches of the River Kent in the valley of Kentmere, situated in the south-east of the Lake District National Park.

Voice of the Child

Voice of the Child is a UK registered charity setup to work with parents, families, schools, community groups & relevant professionals. The charity provides family support services to families in need, primarily families from black & minority ethic backgrounds across the UK. They promote positive outcomes for children & young people and seek to strengthen parental skills & family relationships to minimise the risks of family breakdown, children entering into the care system or into the criminal justice system. Voice of the child has specific expertise in providing culturally competent & sensitive services that meet the complex needs of families from Asian, African and Afro Caribbean backgrounds.

Fundraising consultants at Charity Fundraising Ltd will be working with Voice of the Child to research potential funding opportunities and draft a number of funding applications for services they provide for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) families.

Fundraiser Vacancy

Charity Fundraising Ltd have a vacancy for a Fundraising Officer or Fundraising Consultant to join our team at our head office in Woodbridge, Suffolk. We are seeking candidates preferably with experience of grants and tenders, however we are also open to consider a more junior role for someone with good academic achievement and/or job experience in a similar area such as marketing.

The salary level is flexible, subject to experience.

Please see additional details on our vacancies page and then send a cv in the first instance to Graham Parker via post or email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Researching potential funders for a Riding for Disabled group

Fundraising Consultants at Charity Fundraising Ltd are delighted to welcome a new client Tradissar  RDA  (Riding for Disabled) based at Stubbington, Fareham, Hampshire. This Riding For Disabled group is, we understand, unique in that it is the only RDA group world wide to offer side saddle training, including dressage for disabled riders. Tradissar  was setup and is run by a disabled lady (Rayna Matthews.) Funding consultants at Charity Fundraising Ltd will be researching potential funders for this RDA group.

Golden Grove Mansion Appeal (Healing the Wounds)

Finding Funding Training 15th September - Places still available

There are still some places available on on our next Finding Funding Training Day which will take place on  Wednesday 15th September at the Co-op Education Centre, 11 Fore Street, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Aimed at smaller charities or projects in larger organisations, this workshop is for those with some experience of management in the charity and community sector, but who may not necessarily have undertaken any formal learning. Delivered to small groups, this one-day workshop is interactive and will encourage participants to consider their own projects and ideas as case studies. Learn how to identify potential funders, how to make better applications for funding and acquire knowledge and techniques that can be used in running your project or charity.

The price is £145 per delegate, inclusive of lunch, refreshments, course materials and VAT. For further information and to book your place, please see our Finding Funding page or contact Peter See

Autism Sussex

Charity Fundraising Ltd is delighted to welcome Autism Sussex as a new client. For many years Autism Sussex has provided a wide range of services for adults with autism, and operates an extensive training programme for its own staff and professionals from other agencies and organisations. A recent exciting development has been the opening in 2009 of the Café des Arts in Hastings, a social enterprise offering volunteer work and training opportunities to service users and a public exhibition facility for art works created by people with autism. More recently the charity has expanded its service provision to include children and young people with autism.

Autism Sussex plans to expand and extend its services over the next few years including: more supported living accommodation, two further Café des Arts, additional resource centres, and family support and training facilities, for children, young people and adults with autism in both East and West Sussex. Charity Fundraising Ltd has initially been commissioned for a twelve month period to help raise funds for a number of these developments.

Over £330,000 funding for Commonweal Housing

Further to our recent news item, two further successful grant applications for Commonweal Housing have achieved over £100,000. Fundraising Consultants at Charity Fundraising Ltd have now helped to achieve in excess of £330,000 for Re-Unite South London, a programme that offers women leaving prison the accommodation and support services to enable them to regain custody of their children and rebuild their engagement with the wider community.