10 results for tag: Heritage


Abbotsford Trust – Endowment Fundraising

The Abbotsford Trust were awarded a HLF Catalyst Endowment Award in 2012 and have been able to use this award to attract individuals and charitable trusts to give.

Planning to Progress Evening Course

Resourcing Scotland's Heritage delivered the strategy development course 'Planning to Progress' over two evening sessions for the first time recently. The course took place in Glasgow and was delivered with one of our partner organisations greenspace scotland. It was attended by a wide variety of organisations including the Friends of the TS Queen Mary, the Scottish Civic Trust, Glen Art and the Firth of Clyde Forum.  All of the participants took part in a 'pitch your project' exercise to practice putting across their project ideas to funders such as companies, major donors and charitable trusts. The next Planning to Progress courses are ...

Every Heritage Organisation Needs a Fundraising Strategy

We were in Glasgow last week for the last of the summer's training events - 'Planning to Progress: Glasgow'. We had a fantastic time at the Albany Leaning and Conference Centre with participants from Sustrans, greenspace scotland, DigIt 2015!, Logie Old Graveyard Group, Wildside Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland.  Thanks to all who took part. The course includes an overview of why a fundraising strategy is so important and where it fits into an organisation's overall plan.  The most popular parts of the course involve a walk through analysis tools to help heritage groups and organisations to prioritise which fundriasing methods to focus ...

Planning to Progress in Aberdeen

We delivered the 'Planning to Progress' course in Aberdeen recently, where seven organisations took up the opportunity to learn about developing an effective fundraising strategy. The day consisted of looking at the various types of funding available and what the most sustainable sources are for each organisation.  The participants also took part in a 'pitch your project' exercise which was a great success.  The participants came from organisations such as Braemar Community Ltd, Aberdeen performing Arts, Aberdeen Inspired and the Garthdee Fields Allotments Association. We will be delivering 'Planning to Progress' in Glasgow on 22nd July, for ...

Twilight Training

Resourcing Scotland's Heritage is delivering the 'Make it Happen' training course in two evening sessions for the first time in Edinburgh. The first evening session took place at the fantastic Glasite Meeting House on Tuesday 9th June with participants from groups and organisations such as the SS Explorer, Newhaven Heritage, the Garden History Society and the Friends of Figgate Park. The group will be meeting again on 23rd June to share more #InspiringFundraising ideas and to develop more skills in fundraising from private sources. If you would like to take part in the Resourcing Scotland's Heritage training visit the Training & Events ...