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MEET THE FUNDERS SPRING EVENT 2021 Resource Document VISION AND TASK, THE HOPE OF THE WORLD, IN THIS GREAT COMMISSION WE SHARE: TO SERVE AND WORK AND PRAY, UNTIL THE KINGDOM OF LOVE IS EVERYWHERE. Dr Kathy Lang 2014 CONTENTS 01 ABOUT MtF ADDITIONAL FUNDERS 05 & RESOURCES 02 EVENT FOCUS 06 2021 PROGRAMME 03 EVENT HOSTS & 06 ATTENDEE LIST SPEAKERS 04 EXPERTS THROUGH 07 WHAT'S NEXT? EXPERIENCE Programme 25th May 10:00 AM WELCOME 10:15 AM HOUSEKEEPING 10:20 AM OPENING PRAYER 10:30 AM ALLCHURCHES TRUST LTD 10:50 AM CORNWALL HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST 11:10 AM NATIONAL LOTTERY COMMUNITY FUND 11:30 AM BREAK 11:45 AM THE JOSEPH RANK TRUST 12:05 AM WORKSHOPS 12:40 AM NEXT STEPS & CLOSE Programme 26th May 10:00 AM WELCOME & OPENING PRAYER 10:20 AM CORNWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 10:40 AM SOUTH WEST WATER 11:00 AM EXPERTS THROUGH EXPERIENCE 11:20 AM BREAK 11:30 AM NATIONAL CHURCHES TRUST 11:50 AM GROUNDWORK SOUTH 12:10 PM WORKSHOPS 12:45 PM NEXT STEPS & CLOSE ABOUT THE EVENT About The Event Meet the Funders (MtF) is an innovative year-long programme that strengthens community work in Cornwall. We support projects that address poverty, exclusion, 1 isolation, and rurality. Spring Event We believe that the best people to develop flourishing communities are the communities themselves and that faith groups in Cornwall are often at the very heart of that! MtF begins this year on the 25th and 26th of May with our 6 Spring Event. These days are an opportunity for Cornish Community projects seeking funding to meet and network with a large number of local and national funders. Workshops The days will be hosted by the Bishop of St Germans, the Rt Revd Hugh Nelson, and Donna Birrell, Vice-Chair of Churches Together in Cornwall. The event is supported by a series of smaller community workshops. The workshops take participants through the key stages of developing, funding, and sustaining a community social action project. Meet the Funders is open to people and projects of all faiths and none. The programme is run as a partnership between Transformation Cornwall and the Diocese of Truro. EVENT FOCUS Event Focus Last year the focus for Meet the funders was ‘Climate Emergency’ and this year we expand the thinking with the theme ‘Living Today with Tomorrow in Mind’. This year we are asking from the very core of who we are; ‘how will we live in the now, in such a way that enables the flourishing of all creation – both now and in the future? The Diocese of Truro has published its Cherish Creation vision and strategy for creation care with the key aims of: Cherish Creation: We will encourage the diocese and all people of goodwill at every level to care for those parts of God’s good creation for which we have responsibility, stewarding them for the benefit of plants, animals, biodiversity and all creation. Cut Carbon Cut Carbon: We will cut our carbon footprint year on year and to net zero by 2030. Speak Up: At every level of the diocese and our extended communities, we will speak up and act boldly to promote the Speak Up! enjoyment, cherishing and sharing of God’s good creation and, where possible and resources allow, we will work in partnership with others who share the same aims. EVENT FOCUS This new strategy will seek to develop local leaders by together growing our knowledge and understanding, empowering local champions to be vision carriers and local change agents, develop resources for church and wider communities, develop the theological thinking around environment & creation care and provide routes for personal, community and organisational change. This is a faith-filled expression of living today with tomorrow in mind! ‘Living today with tomorrow in mind’ is very much a part of the lived experience of those who look to Jesus as their guide, friend, rabbi, and saviour. We attempt (however falteringly!) to live today as people who are loved and who love others, as people of compassion, as people who will stand with and speak up for the downtrodden, as people who will stand against injustice…and we often mess up! But we live this way… always looking to tomorrow… always holding the light of hope, because we trust and know (sometimes falteringly) that Jesus has not only won the day, but has also won the future! As people of Jesus, as people of all faiths and none, as people of goodwill we are called into action to care for creation with hope, purpose and tenacity. We might do this by engaging with the Climate Emergency toolkit. We might do this by purposefully increasing biodiverse habitats in our gardens and communities. We might do this by buying local, organic, animal friendly, fairly traded, in season produce (LOAF) . We might do this through advocacy and Speaking Up to our local leaders, councillors and MP’s. We might do this through entrepreneurship and creating a pioneering organisation, company or startup that sets creation care as its foundation stone. We are all called to Cherish Creation, Cut Carbon and Speak Up... How will you live today, with tomorrow in mind? Ben Lillie Diocesan Environment Officer SPEAKERS Event Hosts & Speakers Our event hosts. Rt Revd Hugh Nelson is the Bishop of St Germans, the Donna Birrell is a journalist and suffragan bishop of the Diocese broadcaster with a passion for of Truro. He is a Trustee at Cornwall. She is the Vice-Chair of Transformation Cornwall. Churches Together in Cornwall. These are our event speakers, listed in order of presentation. Allchurches Trust Ltd Cornwall Historic National Lottery Allchurches Trust provides Churches Trust (CHCT) Community Fund grant funding, advice and The Cornwall Historic Churches The National Lottery resources to support churches Trust assists in the restoration Community Fund distributes and charities to meet and repair of Cornish churches over £600m a year to community needs and protect which have architectural or communities across the UK. heritage buildings and skills. It historic merit. Whilst the Trust This money is raised by players is one of the largest grant- has limited capital and of The National Lottery. The making trusts in the UK resources available, churches Community Fund aims to welcoming applications from all and chapels of all support projects which help parts of the UK and Ireland, denominations are eligible to communities and people in particularly from areas of social apply for assistance. need. and economic deprivation. SPEAKERS The Joseph Rank Trust Cornwall Community South West Water They are an independent Foundation (CCF) South West Water is the water Christian grant-maker working Cornwall Community Foundation and wastewater service provider with all Christian denominations helps to build stronger for a population of c. 1.7 million in the UK. The principal object of communities by encouraging in Cornwall, Devon, and parts of the Trust is "to advance the local giving. All the money they Somerset and Dorset. The Christian Faith" - to further the raise supports volunteer-led, Neighbourhood Fund is all about Kingdom of God. Today the grassroots community groups supporting our local community. Trustees of the Trust seek to across Cornwall and the Isles of They can fund neighbourhood continue the work and Scilly. Their mission is to make community groups which inspire generosity of Joseph Rank by sustainable funding available to physical activities, education, pursuing specific areas of address disadvantage and health and wellbeing, and deliver interest. strengthen communities. positive environmental outcomes. National Churches Trust The National Churches Trust are dedicated to supporting places of worship of historic, architectural and community value used by Christian denominations throughout the UK. They do this by providing grants for urgent repairs and community facilities and helping places of worship keep their buildings in good repair. SPEAKERS Our Experts Through Experience Debbie Read Debbie Read is the treasurer for St Mellanus Church in Mullion, a former councillor and has sat on several outside bodies dealing with funding in the community. This experience has enabled her to apply for funding for many organisations in the community, over the years raising £58,000 for local projects. Most of the funding has been for our church either directly or, whilst their secretary, through The Friends of St Mellanus Church our charity that was established to maintain the church building. Michael Thorn Michael Thorn is a chartered civil engineer with a career in research and project studies for rivers, estuaries and coasts. He is a member of the PCC of St Michael’s, Helston where he has been the Planned Giving and Gift Aid Secretary for 9 years. He has successfully secured grants for the re-roofing of the church in 2011 and the replacement of the floor of the church in 2020. FUNDERS Additional Funders Additional Grant-making Organisations Covering Cornwall. Clare Milne Trust The Claire Milne Trust funds small registered charities working with people with disabilities and located in the South West, mainly Devon and Cornwall. Grants are awarded four times a year. www.claremilnetrust.com Cornwall Council Community Grants Each Cornwall Councillor has a small grant allocation to assist projects run by voluntary and community groups in the area they represent. The grants can be used for a wide range of groups and activities including helping vulnerable children or adults, helping young people, providing facilities for older people, supporting community facilities, local environment projects and helping projects to tackle community safety issues. Full Guidelines are available in the Community Grant Guidance Notes on the Council website. Cornwall Heritage Trust Cornwall Heritage Trust is a Charity which protects some of the most iconic sites in Cornwall, such as Castle an Dinas and Sancreed Beacon.