By Glyncoch Community Regeneration at the Third Sector Funding Conference 2013.

1. Glyncoch Community Centre
Crowd funding

2. Glyncoch
O Glyncoch is a post war council housing estate two
miles north of Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
O Glyncoch 1 is categorised as 39th in the WIMD
O Glyncoch Community Regeneration Ltd
O Several projects
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Community centre
Communities First Programme.
Oxfam project
Community Voice project
Community enterprise project
Partnership with People and work unit –
O Build project
O Chance to learn project

3. Hive of activity

4. At the heart of the
community

5. Community centre
O 2007 – Commissioned design of new
community centre - £1.2 million +

6. Funding applications
O 2010 – secured in
principle funding, 600K
O Aggregates Levy
(advised to redesign)
O Community Facilities
Activities programme
O 2 other funders
(confident £200K)
O Application to lottery –
for £750,000
O Successful at stage 1
application - £54,000

7. Funding
O May 2011
O Gained planning permission – 3 phases
O Phase 1 costs £850,000
O Secured £650,000
O Unsuccessful for £200,000
O Unsuccessful with lottery
O Shortfall of £250,000
O Revisited design - £800,000

8. Funding
O Aggregates Levy Fund – committed
£100,000
O Short fall of £50,000
O Continually worked at identifying
alternative funding pots O Support from Your Square Mile
O Funders dubious – trusts, lottery, WG
funds
O Alternative funding source - Space hive

9. Crowd funding
O Marketing plan
O Local fund raising – demonstrate need
O Social media – constantly campaigning
O Communication
O Space hive
O Your Square Mile
O Contacts opened doors

10. Stephen Fry
O “It seems you can build
a new centre for the
cost of a cucumber
sandwich’.
O #sacrifice a sandwich
O Raised profile of
campaign
O Martha Stewart Lane
O Scott Quinnell
O Attracted media
attention – raised profile

12. Success!
O Commitment & determination to succeed
O Plans in pipeline for many years
O Strong working partnership
O All funders
O Aggregates Levy, CFAP, RCTCBC, RCT
homes
O Local community
O Your Square Mile
O Spacehive

14. Discussions
O Mobilising a fundraising campaign locally –
O What do you need to do?
O Where do you start? Tapping into local
volunteer activity
O Marketing – who, what, where, why?
O Marketing strategy?
O Reviewing existing strategy – flexible,
restraining
O Use of social media – access, policies, limits,
tapping into networks