THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SURREY – FUNDER PLUS PROGRAMME

from Surrey Business Magazine - issue 59

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The Community Foundation for Surrey brings together local donors and charitable organisations within communities. The Foundation awarded over £4m in grants in 2020-21 to help local communities, the highest amount in the Foundation’s history, but there is still more to be done.

The CFS Funder Plus programme was established in September 2020 to connect charities associated with the Foundation to a resource pool of skilled volunteers with a range of different skills and experience.

The Funder Plus volunteers are essential in helping the organisation reach a more diverse range of charities and the communities they serve, as well as supporting the strategic direction of the Foundation. The Foundation believes in a stronger, fairer Surrey enabling everyone to support organisations who are making a positive difference to local communities so that no one is left behind.

Smaller charities are understandably focused on the needs of their community and are often very local or offer a very niche service. As such, they are uniquely well-placed to identify and support those most in need, are very cost effective in delivering services and can respond very quickly to emergency need.

They are often, however, so preoccupied with simply ‘staying alive’ and continuing to support their clients’ needs that they have no headspace to deal with administration, human resource issues, accounting requirements and may also need some form of strategic support.

That is where the business community can help. As well as recruiting volunteers to work with the Foundation, it is also looking to partner with

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• specific governance or financial accounting issues;

• development of systems and processes;

• solving a specific problem;

• temporarily filling a skills gap;

• developing strategic, organisational, fundraising, communications plans;

• mentoring a chief executive or a team leader

Join the Community Foundation for Surrey at this exciting time to help ensure that everyone in Surrey has hope.

If this might be of interest, please get in touch with Paul Cliff to fi nd out more. recruitment@cfsurrey.org.uk

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Surrey Business Magazine - issue 59