Helpful Hounds Challenge : MMC was approached by Helpful Hounds Assistance dogs to explore raising funds for core costs to help the Charity continue to provide the services it provides.
Helpful Hounds Assistance Dogs is a registered charity helping people with disabilities and their families live an improved quality of life with the support of an Assistance Dog.
Vision: To change the lives of children and adults, with diagnosed medical requirements including physical, mental, and PTSD support requirements. Striving to help our clients achieve their full potential in the world today: socially, educationally, creatively, travel and in their vocational life such as careers or further education.
Mission: To train Assistance Dogs that help reduce stress and enable people’s ability to cope with most physical and medical disabilities, life-threatening illness including mental health.
MMC was approached by Helpful Hounds Assistance dogs to explore raising funds for core costs to help the Charity continue to provide the services it provides.
Key deliverables:
· A funding pack which included an Evidence of Need Report (identifying external and internal evidence for why the Charity is needed), developing a Case for Support and identifying potential funders to build a funding pipeline.
· Bid writing: Agreed applications / letters / proposals each month, reporting and stewardship.
Achievements include:
· Developing a relationship with National Lottery Awards for All.
· Developing a relationship with local funders.
“As a Charity, working mainly with Volunteers it is difficult to have knowledge of all of the funders that might be supportive of our cause or indeed those that might support the specific type of funding we seek.
By working together with Marsha Miles Consultancy, it has opened up opportunities we would never have found and we have also learned ways of expressing the projects in mind to suit the criteria of each induvial funder.
We have also recognised within the time we have been working with Marsha Miles that the competition for funding has increased dramatically, at the same time that the ability to fund can be reduced due to investment rates /endowments earned by funders. This makes it even more important to ensure that the application is both relevant and sharp.” Peter Rufus, CEO and Trustee (Volunteer), Helpful Hounds Assistance Dogs.
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