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Foodbank funding secured from the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust
Think Funding has helped Wesley Hall Communuity Centre to secure funding from the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust to help the Highfields based organisation to sustain its foodbank. The five figure sum will help the Centre build on this essential service to help more families in the local community. Think Funding owner, Chris Shaw, commented “One […]
Think Funding completes Leicester Hospitals Charity Programme Interim Evaluation
Think Funding has recently completed an interim evaluation of the Leiceter Hospitals Charity NHS Charities Together grant programme. Under the NHS Charities Together banner, a partnership between the three local NHS Charities, Leicester Hospitals Charity, Raising Health (Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust) and East Midlands Ambulance Charitable Fund, awarded seven grants totalling £490,000 in 2021 to […]
More funding success for Think Funding
Think Funding is pleased to report it has achieved more fundraising success during the latter part of 2022. The following clients have all benefitted from Think Funding support and assistance to achieve their income goals: Emmaus Leicestershire & Rutland, Caribbean Court and Wesley Hall Community Centre. Grants received takes Think Funding’s total for 2022/23 to […]
Great end of year return for Think Funding
We have finally been able to crunch the data and can now report on Think Funding‘s income return for 2021/22. Miraculously it has doubled in just 12 months, meaning that last year we helped clients raise the not insiginficant sum of £1,501,000. We have also made a decent start to 2022/23 too, with £300,000 raised thus far […]
Hat-trick of successes for Think Funding
Think Funding recently scored a blinding hat trick of funding successes realising more than £1m for three clients. First up was a £300k Reaching Communities grant for a communuity organisation to deliver a family support project in a deprived area of Leicester. Second was nearly £1/4M for a domestic abuse charity supporting women in Leicester […]
B-Global recruits Think Funding
Think Funding is delighted to have been asked by Nottingham based, B-Global, to assist it with strategy development and forward planning. B-Global is a pioneering black led business network set up to support start-ups, established and scale up businesses of African heritage and the wider BAME business community in Nottingham City to reach their full […]
Ministry of Justice funding success
Think Funding is delighted to have client Women’s Aid Leicestershire to secure funding from the Ministry of Justice via the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner, to help establish a community outreach project aimed at refugees and migrants. Working in partnership with Afro Innovation Group, the project aims to support women and men in the target […]
Think Funding into Niche Business Awards Semi-Final
Think Funding has been nominated for the Community Impact category in this year’s Niche Magazine Business Awards, and we’re through to the semi-final! Our nomination is based on the support and assistance we’ve provided to voluntary organisations during the past year and by helping to achieve £1m+ in grant income. It’s fair to say we’re […]
Funding Success for Transitions UK
Think Funding has been working with national charity, Transitions UK, to help it create a presence in Leicestershire. The establishment of the Three Towns project is focused on Coalville, Hinckley and Loughborough has already helped it to secure five figure support via two grants from the Leicetershire and Rutland Community Foundation and Leicestershire County Council. […]
Community Renewal Fund consortia reach out to Think Funding
We were delighted to assist Bangladesh Youth and Cultural Shomiti (BYCS) and the Leicester Social Economy Consortium (LSEC) with two applications to Leicester City Council’s recent Community Fund Programme. The process of consortia formation and development can be a difficult and protracted one, but this time around we were able to help both organisations to […]