Fundraising Advice Services

Use the Funding Advice Service for help to find and apply for funding.

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NICVA's Fundraising advice services aim to make the sector more sustainable by providing fundraising information, advice, capacity building and advocacy.

We help many organisations each year with their fundraising needs - this often starts as a consultation - normally in NICVA's office's, or more frequently by phone or email.

We seek to achieve the following outcomes in our work:

  • The voluntary and community sector is more aware and takes advantage of the diversity of funding opportunities open to it.
  • People working in the sector are better skilled and resourced to fundraise.
  • More funding is coming into the sector in Northern Ireland and funds are raised and administered more effectively.

More about our services

Enquiry handling: You can contact our fundraising advice team by email, telephone or arrange an appointment to discuss your fundraising query. Contact members of the team via the contact details below..

Information Provision: The information team provide guidance resources on a large range of fundraising issues. We also work with funding organisations to disseminate information on their funding policies and procedures. Our library stocks a wide selection of fundraising publications. Publications on www.grant-tracker.org

Representation: The fundraising advice team seeks to respond on funding policy issues and to represent the sector to government and other funders.

Training: The fundraising advice team provides training through a series of training events and on a consultancy basis. More information on training..

Grant Tracker: NICVA funding advice team manage and develop the website www.grant-tracker.org which is a one stop resource for fundraising.

We can help organisations understand the funding environment, guide in the preparation of 'fundable' projects and recommend sources of funding. We can also review applications prior to them being submitted to funders to add our expert opinion.

Typical issues the fundraising team can help with range from;

  • Guidance on project planning,
  • Helping to identify funding sources and making approaches to grant-makers
  • Speaking on fundraising and facilitating workshops at conferences and seminars
  • Representing the sector on grant-making initiatives
  • Managing the www.grant-tracker.org website

Contact details

To contact NICVA's member services team for funding advice contact:

Neil Irwin or James Laverty
Icon of a telephone 028 9087 7777
Icon of an envelope neil.irwin@nicva.org
Icon of an envelope james.laverty@nicva.org.