HOW WE ARE FUNDED
At the moment, the entire service runs on about £8000 per year. This covers room rental, phone advertising, training, postage, printing and stock. We have no paid workers and as we have always had to struggle for funding, we have grown accustomed to using our funds efficiently.
Our funding comes from three main areas:
- Our own fundraising efforts
- Fundraising/donations by organisations within the lesbian/gay community
- Donations and grants from statutory or charitable organisations/bodies
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Fundraising by the Switchboard
This consists of: -
- Eliciting monthly standing orders from supporters (FRONGS)
- Lecture/training fees
- Miscellaneous activities such as sponsored events, collection tins etc
- Money for resources provided e.g. from our History Project
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Fundraising within the lesbian/gay community
In recent times this has come from: -
Fundraising by
- NG1 (www.ng1club.co.uk)
- the Lord Roberts
- @D2 (formerly the Admiral Duncan),
- Central (now Niche)
Donations from
- the Pavilion Trust
- the Edward Carpenter Trust
- Something Social
- Breakout (www.breakoutnottm.org.uk)
- The Gay Bikers group
- Nottingham LGCM
- Castle College LGBT group
- Nottingham Metropolitan Community Church
- The North Notts LGB Development Group (www.nottslgb.org.uk)
- Reflections Sauna
- Nottingham Ball Bois
- Zeus Sauna
- NTU Pride
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Other grants and donations
We have received support from: -
- The Nottingham Health Authority
- Rushcliffe PCT
- Nottinghamshire Teaching PCT
- Nottinghamshire County Council
- Nottingham City Council
- Nottinghamshire Police
- Nottinghamshire Community Foundation
- Nottingham Community Chest
- Mansfield Community Chest
- The National Lottery
- Nottinghamshire Living History Archives
- Boots Charitable Trust
- Lloyds TSB Foundation
- Unison
- Amicus
- The University and College Union
- BT Kaleidoscope
- The Allen Lane Foundation
- The Partnership Development Team
- Nottingham Students Karnival (on about 20 occasions)
- Broadway Cinema
- The Lace Market Theatre
- The Co-operative Group Community Fund
Our stall at Nottingham Pride runs a Tombola competition. Prizes for the Tombola have been donated by: Sainsbury's, Boots, Starbucks, Broadway Cinema, Oxfam, Nottingham Playhouse
There have also been several small one-off donations from a variety of sources.
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