Welcome to our new summer fundraising news section where you can find weekly bitesize updates to support your fundraising
We know how busy you are and how time consuming it can be to trawl through the latest reports on top of managing the day to day. We hope that our new section will let you know what’s currently happening in the charity sector in bitesize, jargon free and easy to read chunks.
Each week we will be covering different topics to help you to keep up to date with the latest news in the charity sector and give advice on how to improve your fundraising in the current environment. See below for a summary of the topics covered.
- Week 2: The state of the sector in 2024
- Week 3: The state of grant giving in Lewisham
- Week 4: Giving Trends in 2025
- Week 7: Corporate giving in 2024
- Week 8: Top tips for grant fundraising
- Week 9: Climate change and the impact on communities experiencing poverty
- Week 10: Making the most of fundraising events
- Week 11: Involving people with lived experience in your work (part one)
- Week 12: Involving people with lived experience in your work (part two)
Top Tips: To round up our series you can also find our top tips to support you to raise more for your cause by clicking here
We hope that these posts will keep you ahead of the curve, give you ideas about what to include in your fundraising bids, support strategic planning, understand funder priorities and stimulate discussion about how all of this relates to Lewisham.
We will also give some of our fundraising ideas and provide a deep dive into themes and areas that you would like us to focus on to help you and your organisation thrive.
After each weekly topic we will also showcase three featured funders that can support organisations in Lewisham. In addition to this week’s three featured funders we have a special focus on summer funding opportunities for groups, working with older people, women and girls, young people and digital engagement
Although some of these reports reflect the challenges facing the charity sector, which can sometimes seem all doom and gloom, we hope to create some optimism by showing how challenges can be flipped into opportunities!
Summer fundraising opportunities
Please see our special focus on summer funding opportunities for groups working with older people, women and girls, young people and for groups working in digital engagement. If you would like this sent to you as a pdf document please contact us at community.development@ageuklands.org.uk
Our three featured funders this week are
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) – Customer and Community Investment Fund
Provides small to medium sized grants to not-for-profit organisations within 15 miles of the LNER route, which is Kings Cross for London based organisations under the themes of
- Better for people
- Better for places
- Better for the planet
Application window opens on the 30th June 2025. Please visit the website for more information.
The Archer Trust
Provides grants between £1000 to £5000 to charities that support disadvantaged or marginalised people
Please visit the website for more information.
Chapman Charitable Trust
Provides grants for UK registered charities ranging from £1,000 to £3000 which aim to:
- promote physical and mental wellbeing
- conserve our natural environment
- increase the accessibility of the arts
Please visit the website for more information.
Whilst we make every effort to ensure the information is correct, we advise you to check details on funders websites yourself