Social Responsibility: some slides from corporate social responsibility event organised by Mary Seacole Housing Association

1. Funding & Benefits for the
Community
Michael Patterson:
Support Solutions
March 2014

2. Key Questions
Support Solutions & Social
Responsibility
Changes to Funding Streams for
Social Organisations
Proving Your Worth
Changing Your Game

3. Support Solutions & Social
Responsibility
We’re a private company working with social
organisations, how do we fulfill social
responsibility?
We write and publish lots of valuable free
information: www.supportsolutions.co.uk
/services/the_briefing.html &
http://www.supportsolutions.co.uk/blog/
blog.html

4. Support Solutions & Social
Responsibility
We run learning & development events at
very low cost
We undertake our housing revenue work on
a “no increase, no fee” basis
We collaborate with other people/companies
that complement what we do & share our
values
We “sell” through rapport

5. Support Solutions & Social
Responsibility
We sponsor some nonprofit organisations
We assist with voluntary governance
We consider the social impact of what we do

6. Changes to Funding Streams for
Social Organisations
Public/State funding is reducing as a
percentage of total organisational revenue
We are moving to a “mixed market” of
funding for social organisations
Funding streams are typically for specific
projects
Social Investment?

7. Changes to Funding Streams for
Social Organisations
“Payment by Results”
Outcomes focused
Funders are more risk-averse
Collaboration & Consortium arrangements
to share skills and overhead functions and
to reduce costs
The cost:quality ratio is shifting

8. Proving Your Worth
Focus on value, not cost
What “added value” can you bring to a funding bid?
Identify what is strategically relevant
“Prevention is better than cure”
Do you have a methodology for demonstrating both a
social and financial return on investment (SFROI)?
Can you collaborate more than compete?
If you can’t afford a fundraising post, can you contract
that function out?

9. Changing Your Game
Keep block funding if you have it already and
bid for it if it’s available; however, accept that
block funding is increasingly not the norm
Widen the number of funding/commissioning
relationships
Larger number of smaller pots
“Funding Finder” services

10. Changing Your Game
Broaden and deepen the services you provide
Evolve, remodel, diversify
Be proactive in seeking out funding opportunities
and relationships
Focus on the cost/benefit relationship
Explore opportunities for collaboration & cost-sharing
Be socially enterprising

11. Changing Your Game
Measure your social and financial value
Social Value Act: Think about how you
provide social value as part of a bid for
public fundingwww.socialenterprise.org.uk
/uploads/files/2012/03/public_services_act_2012_a_brief
_guide_web_version_final.pdf

12. Questions?

13. Our Contact Details
Media House
3 Drayton Road
Birmingham B14 7LP
0845 271 3080
www.supportsolutions.co.uk
info@supportsolutions.co.uk
Twitter @suppsolutions
www.facebook.com/SupportSolutionsLtd?
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