Help and advice

We welcome people contacting us to find out more about our community activities. You can telephone, e-mail or write to us. We know how useful early guidance can be to a potential applicant - whether they decide eventually to complete a formal application, or to look elsewhere for funding.

Our Grants Manager, Lucy Bardner deliberately spends a good deal of time away from her desk. She is visiting projects, talking to potential applicants at their own offices or attending meetings with complementary agencies.

So, if you telephone and Lucy is not in the office, please do leave a message and she will try to contact you as soon as she can.

Initial enquiries should be addressed to our Administration Manager Sandra McMallan on 01234 369532.

Other organisations

If you are looking for funding advice, you might think about contacting:

Funding Advisor, Mid and North Beds CVS
43 Bromham Road, BEDFORD MK40 2AA.
Telephone: (01234) 354366
Email: maxine@cvsmidandnorthbeds.org.uk
Website: www.cvsmidandnorthbeds.org.uk

The Bureau provides funding advice and information to local voluntary and community groups. They can provide information on trusts and foundations, lottery funding, european funding, local statutory agencies, national government funding and fundraising. They can help groups by giving one-to-one support through the whole funding process; advice on running fundraising events; training courses, workshops and leaflets; secretarial support to help complete application forms and a regular newsletter updating groups on new funding developments.


For information on the Bedfordshire County Council and the Bedford Borough Council funding programmes, visit their websites:

Bedfordshire County Council
www.bedfordshire.gov.uk

Bedford Borough Council
www.bedford.gov.uk


Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
For information and advice on seeking funding from other Trusts and Foundations, take a look at the Association of Charitable Foundations website:
www.acf.org.uk

The Directory of Social Change (DSC)

The Directory of Social Change is an internationally recognised independent source of information and support to voluntary and community sectors worldwide. DSC enable the community and voluntary sectors to achieve their aims through the provision of training and information. They produce a number of excellent publications detailing grant making bodies such as 'A Guide to Grants For Individuals in Need', The Directory of Grant Making Trusts' and 'The Educational Grants Directory'. Check out their website for more information:

www.dsc.org.uk