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Since lockdown started we have brought you blogs on the Top 5 Places To Look For Third Sector Funding and Top 5 Training & Learning Opportunities. In this most recent blog post in the series published during the Covid 19 lockdown, we outline some of the support available for third sector organisations. Read more about Top 5 Support Available For Third Sector Organisations During Covid 19

Recently we brought you an insightful blog on the Top 5 Places To Look For Third Sector Funding During Covid-19. In the latest blog in the series, we take a look at some of the great training and learning opportunities available to help increase your skills as well as learn new ways to operate your business during the lockdown.

Impact Funding Partners is delighted to be supporting the Scottish Government COVID19 Wellbeing Fund, managed by SCVO.  It was our pleasure to be able to offer pro-bono support with the assessment of the applications which were received in the first round of the fund.  Over the last week, several of our staff volunteered to use their skills and experience to assist with the quick turnaround required, to get funding out to those organisations supporting at risk groups with new needs arising from the pandemic. 

Impact Funding Partners is pleased to offer organisations funded through the Equally Safe Violence against Women Fund and the Rape Crisis Specific Fund additional support during lockdown. 

Within the confines of the current situation, women and children stuck at home experiencing domestic abuse are more exposed than ever, and the support of skilled organisations a lifeline for them.  Workers are adapting traditional methods of support to ensure women still have somewhere to turn.

We know that many third sector organisations will be anxious about funding due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Here we have set out 5 places where charities can access for additional funding or information to help support them through this pandemic.

The inaugural Impact Funding Partners Photo Competition is over and a huge congratulations to all the winners. If you missed our live award show on social media, here is a roundup of all the winners and the highly commended entries that the judges felt were worth a mention…

Volunteering For All

The first category of the day was Volunteering For All which was duly awarded to Good Morning Service from Glasgow for their ‘What’s In A Hug?’ photograph. 

Nature Unlimited’s beautiful photograph of children on the banks of a loch has won the final category at the 2020 Impact Funding Partners Photo Competition.  
 
Jan Barr, Project Coordinator at Nature Unlimited, said everybody was “chuffed, surprised and excited” that the judges had chosen their ‘Selkirk Silhouettes’ photograph as the winner of the Getting It Right category. The judges said what they loved most about the picture was the idea of the young people getting to explore the natural world. 

Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Company’s incredibly striking picture of former Scots Guard, Gary Jamieson working heavy machinery has rightfully won the Let’s Create A Fairer Future category.

The judges of the 2020 Impact Funding Partners Photo Competition were blown away by the imagery of the photograph and felt it was a very powerful image of the relationship between person and machine.

“We are so excited that we have won”, was the reaction from Clare McBrien, Manager of Givin’ It Laldie who the judges picked as the winner of the Connected Scotland category at the Impact Funding Partners 2020 Photo Competition.  
 
Taken by Karen Gordon, the judges loved how the photograph captured the amount of joy that the subject, Stephen, brought to the room.  

Congratulations to Good Morning Service, winner of the Volunteering For All category for the Impact Funding Partner’s 2020 Photo Competition! Nicky Thompson, CEO of the organisation, gives Impact Funding Partners an insight into the inspiration and the story behind the winning photograph.