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LHH Recruitment Solutions is delighted to be supporting Impact Funding Partners in the appointment of their new Chair.

Whether designing and managing funding programmes, providing strategic advice or delivering evaluation services, Impact Funding Partners is known for supporting third and public sectors, private business and individual donors to ensure positive societal, environmental and economic impact. As our new Chair, you will play a crucial part in helping the organisation achieve this.

Leading national fund management organisation and charity consultancy, Impact Funding Partners, is the first organisation in the UK to have achieved The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM)’s new validation against their global excellence framework.   

Impact Funding Partners was delighted to welcome 113 funded projects to our Volunteer Support Fund Welcome Workshops last month. A number of virtual sessions were held, and they were a great opportunity for projects from across the country to chat about their work, make contacts to build on partnership working and share best practice.
Read more about VSF 2021-24 Welcome Workshops

Impact Funding Partners has achieved the Paths for All Walk at Work Award

We are delighted to announce that we have recently been awarded the Paths for All Walk at Work Award for its dedication to improving staff health and wellbeing.

Today, Thursday 12th August is International Youth Day. The theme this year is ‘Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health’. The theme aims to highlight that the “success of such a global effort will not be achieved without the meaningful participation of young people”. Read more about BLOG: International Youth Day

Diane Wilson is the Senior Development Officer here at Impact Funding Partners. Her role is to oversee the management of all our funds which involves building relationships with stakeholders, developing new funds, evaluation of services and providing capacity building support to the third sector. In this piece Diane talks about her wealth of experience in the third sector, volunteering and how getting involved in your local community can do the world of good. 

I have volunteered in my local community for as long as I can remember. 

Impact Funding Partners has been tasked with distributing £3.3million of government cash to encourage more people from disadvantaged and minority ethnic backgrounds and with poor mental health to volunteer in their local communities.

Fiona Inglis has been a Development Officer with Impact Funding Partners since 2018 and is one of the lead Development Officers working on the Volunteering Support Fund. She strongly believes in promoting the positive aspects of working in partnership and the huge benefits volunteering can have. Here, she talks about her experiences and what volunteering means to her. 

I’ve been in various job roles over the last eight years now and have learned that ‘to volunteer’ can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. This is perfectly OK.  

Impact Funding Partners has launched a new fund aimed at reducing the vulnerability to hate crime places of worship across Scotland face. 

We are living in a time where there is a precedent set already where populations are restricted, or ‘locked down’ in what they can do based on the poor behaviour of a few in order to disrupt the transmission of COVID from a public health perspective.  Surely, the systemic gender-based violence culture of our nation is also a public health issue. Read more about BLOG: The W̶o̶r̶m̶ Tide That Turned