Tag Archives: Think Funding
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 […]
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. […]
Think Funding’s Chris Shaw nominated for Niche Business Magazine Community Impact Award
Think Funding founder, Chris Shaw says “I’m absolutely thrilled to have been nominated for a Niche Magazine Business Award in the category ‘Community Impact Award’. It is really great to be recognised for the work that we do, and helps to confirm my decision to reinstate Think Funding to a full time operation in the autumn of 2019.”
Think Funding hits £250,000 during Covid-19
Think Funding has been working around the clock to support small charities during Covid-19 to help them access funding to either develop new services or simply survive. We are thrilled to announce we’ve just hit the quarter of a million pounds mark in money raised. Much of the funding will go towards helping our clients […]
Think Funding to support Home-Start Horizons
Think Funding is delighted to announce that it will be supporting Leicester based charity Home-Start Horizons (HSH) with its business development and fundraising efforts through into the autumn. Previous work with HSH led to the acquisition of two Reaching Community grants and several small grants from the likes of Henry Smith. HSH provide support to […]
Funding success for Afro Innovation Group
Think Funding is pleased to report that it has helped Leicester based charity, Afro Innovation Group (AIG), secure almost £400k from the National Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities programme. The grant will help AIG to further develop its services aimed at refugees and asylum seekers. Think Funding will be retained by AIG to help it build […]
HQ Familia and Echo Factory recruit Think Funding
Leicester based music projects HQ Familia and Echo Factory have recruited Think Funding to provide bid writing support to assist the development of their growing partnership. Chris Shaw from Think Funding said:We are delighted to be able to support these two exemplar music projects as they look to develop their offer of music training, recording […]
Home Start Horizons score big with help from Think Funding
Leicestershire based family support charity, HomeStart Horizons pulled off a funding coup recently when they secured in excess of £350,000 from the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities programme thanks to the help of Think Funding. Following a highly successful programme evaluation conducted by Think Funding, we were able to undertake further consultations and drafting work […]
Think Funding to conduct evaluation of Home-Start Horizons Reaching Communities Project
Think Funding is delighted to announce it has been commissioned by Home-Start Horizons (HSH) to undertake an evaluation of its current Reaching Communities project. Running from 2013-2017, the programme has offered support to more than 400 families during that time. The evaluation exercise will involve consultation with families, volunteers and referral agencies, as HSH seek to […]
Power to Change success for Think Funding Client
Think Funding client, the Highfields Centre (HC), has secured funding from the Power to Change programme. HC have secured £300,000 towards the refurbishment of an under used community hall which they intend to develop as a music, theatre and conference venue. For what is an exceptionally competitive grant regime, Think Funding provided community consultation support, […]