Overview of where we have got to - by Dave Dixon. Non-Exchequer Funding Research Outcomes and Next Steps Workshop - held in Birmingham - 28th March 2012

1. Non X Funding - the story
so far
Birimingham March 28

2. The Background drivers:
Reduced Funding - Defra and Local Authorities
A paradigm shift from public to private delivery
Regulation and incentives out of favour - Markets for
Ecosystem services the future?
Adapt or die? / Revolution or evolution?

3. NAAONB NX Funding
Workshops 2010 -2012 have:
Held a mirror up to AONB responses across the UK
Adaptation plans
Belt tightening
Efficiency savings
New Sources of Non Exchequer funds

4. Explored so far:
Selling products ( leaflets, walks, books to expertise)
Friends Groups
Lessons from Landscape Partnerships /HLF
The Charitable Trust route
Community Foundations as mechanism for holding
funds for AONB project delivery
Community Interest Companies

5. NX funding into AONBs
Source: 2MD Report Dec 2011 with data from 26 AONBs

6. A Broader View?
Focus to date has been on sharing AONB experience
and practice in response to reducing budgets,
To-day we look to broaden our perspective - What can
we learn from how others access NX from national to
local?

7. To-day:
Presentation of NAAONB Research funded by Defra
looking at national/local models for funding in related
worlds: Rivers and Canal Trust, Royal Society for Wildlife
Trusts, Groundwork, Community Foundations (CFs)
Looking again at Social Enterprises and CFs as
mechanisms for delivering AONB objectives,
Looking at where we are nationally (NAAONB M&A) and
critically where we want to be in the future to ensure we
are best placed to secure the necessary NX support!!

8. What sort of funding vehicle(s)
do we need?