1. Are you confident that your CF’s grant - making matches the needs of your communities?
Emma Woods-Bolger

2. Review of grants awarded
34% Strong Communities
21% Health
17% Arts and Culture
13% Tackling Disadvantage
9% Work
3% Environment
3% Housing and Homelessness

3. Sunday afternoon grant making?
Conversation
Sunday afternoon grant making?
Does our grant making match the needs of
our community?
Are we for filling our role as a community
Leader?
Should we be strategic with or general flow through grant making?
Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand-Jatte

4. Vital Signs Work C Housing & Homelessness D Skills & Qualifications C
Housing & Homelessness D
Skills & Qualifications C
Arts, Culture & Heritage C
Strong Communities C
Safety C
Tackling Disadvantage & Exclusion D
Local Economy B
Environment C
Health & Wellbeing D

5. Reviewed our position
3 strategic grants/commissions to be made, £20k per organisation per year for 3 years
3 Tier Grant Making – 30% of all grants made to be addressing the chosen priority themes
Vital Signs would be used as a strategic guide to giving
Existing donors would be asked to support our three priority themes
Applications to grant making bodies would be submitted to match fund our contribution
Development would focus on the three priority areas as when engaging new donors
Use Vital Signs to increase our presence with the Local Authority
Give the finding to organisations to use in their funding bids and track if they were successful in attracting new money.
New Priority Funding Themes
Housing and Homelessness
Strong Communities
Tackling Disadvantage and Exclusion