IHBC Members who are involved in finding funding for work to historic properties, and community heritage work will be interested to learn of new guidance from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation on their Funding Strategy and its priorities on key areas of funding (Arts, Children and Young People, Environment, Social Change, and Food.)
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation writes:
In March 2015 we published our new five year Funding Strategy. You can read or download the full document on our publications page.
This is the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Funding Strategy for 2015 to 2019. We have developed it with Trustees, staff, stakeholders and grantees and informed it by external research and analysis. It sets out the following:
- Our understanding of the external environment in which we will be working and funding over the next five years.
- The long term goals that we have for our funding and the values that underpin them.
- An explanatory framework for our funding priorities and opportunities for positive change that we will prioritise in the next five years.
- Plans to monitor our impact and effectiveness so that we keep our funding relevant. This includes changes to the way we fund programmes and activities.
The operating environment for foundations has changed dramatically in the last five years. We expect that the following factors will continue to influence our work for the life of this strategic plan.
- Crisis Funding
- Uncertainty and Risk
- Political uncertainty
- Innovation and Change
View the strategic funding guidance summary
