Accessibility in funding - creating a culture shift
SCVO
Booking for this event is restricted - please sign up for a My SCVO account or sign in to access the booking form if you are eligible
- Day
- Wednesday 5 February
- Time slot
- 15:00-16:00
- Room
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Moorfoot suite
Wheelchair accessible - Contact
- Kirsty Hernon
- Topic
- Finance, funding and fundraising
- Overall aim
Start a conversation through panel discussion to explore how to create a culture shift within funding to make applying for funding more accessible. Reflecting on how applications and monitoring forms for funding could be delivered differently to make the processes more accessible and, in turn, make funding more accessible.
- Description
At SCVO, we want our grant management practices to be as good as they possibly can be and aligned to Fair Funding. To meet this, our funding must be accessible. We are constantly learning and adapting our practice to ensure that it’s equitable for all groups making applications and completing monitoring. We've focused on making our forms simpler and more consistent, providing clear guidance and gathering impact data through forms and face-to-face. We try to be as flexible as possible, but we need to do more and embed accessibility into all our systems and processes so that it becomes the norm, not the exception.
Accessibility helps everyone. Accessibility matters.
Our Panel will consist of voluntary organisations and funders who have explored different methods of applying for funds and monitoring grants. We will be talking about:
- How accessible funding can benefit all of us
- Practical changes funders have made to make their funds more accessible for everyone
- The experience of voluntary organisations applying for funds- when it works and when it doesn’t
- How do the power dynamics within funding influence how comfortable people feel about approaching funders to apply in different ways?
- What are the next steps to make funding more accessible? How do we share our learning and experience? What do we need to do to gain that culture shift?
- Who is the event aimed at?
Funders who are interested in making funding as accessible as possible. Applicants who have accessibility needs that have been met well when applying for funds... or not!
- Who is speaking at this event?
- Robbie Crow - BBC Strategic Disability Lead. Social Model of Disability advocate & speaker.
Kirsty Hernon - Grants Development Officer, SCVO
