Raise Money Without Spending a Penny

Here's a nice idea:


Small charities can offer their supporters an exciting new incentive – the chance to win a new Fiat 500 donated by Zurich Insurance. Find out how you can use the small charity car draw to raise money for your cause without spending a penny. Visit www.thefsi.org/car-draw.html.

Any takers? So far as I can see there are no Powys charities listed yet-it's not too late to register!

New Blog

This is the new home for Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations 's Funding Blog. I've moved it over from Bloglines as I don't believe that it was as accessible there. Hopefully anyone can find this.

Blogs should really be about soapboxes and debate or at least dialogue. I'd be keen to hear from the sector in Powys about how we (PAVO) can improve our service and key it in to your needs. So, please get in contact.

We are currently planning the surgeries and training around funding that we'd like to put on. Let me know your ideas and we can try and respond better.

For now though, fresh in...

Youth Music Fund Announced-Deadline end of June

Youth Music, the UK’s largest children’s music charity has announced that it will be launching their new funding programme on the 30th June 2009. Grants of between £5,000 and £30,000 will be available to support projects that provide structured, regular and progressive music-making activities for children and young people in support of Youth Music’s 3 goals of working with Early Years, Children and Young People in Challenging Circumstances and Encouraging Talent. To be eligible, projects will need to work with children and young people aged 0-18 years (or up to 25 if they have special educational needs, disabilities or are in detention) and children and young people will be at the heart of the decision making for all projects.

http://www.youthmusic.org.uk/news/new-youth-music-fund-launches-30-june.html