Why community engagement is key to getting grant funding 🫶🏼
You need a community to be a successful community interest company. Sounds obvious. You would think. Way too many people are setting up...
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Kelly Thorne
Mar 4, 20232 min read
How running a CIC can improve your happiness and well-being 🫶🏼
'If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune...if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.' Chinese's saying. It's been...
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Kelly Thorne
Feb 27, 20232 min read
Top CIC income tips
It's tough working out how you're going to fund all your amazing ideas! In the beginning £10k grants seem like a ton of money, until the...
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Kelly Thorne
Feb 17, 20232 min read
It’s not perfect but it’s something.
If you want to achieve success with your CIC, then don't wait for perfection. It is much more important you just get started. So get...
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Kelly Thorne
Feb 12, 20232 min read
How having a CIC can help you travel or live aboard.
Now this is an incredible positive of owning a CIC. You can design your own work schedule that could incorporate spending or even living...
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Kelly Thorne
Feb 7, 20232 min read
Flighting with imposter syndrome
It took me years to get to grips with my imposter syndrome. It's more than just some negative self talk. It comes from something much...
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Kelly Thorne
Jan 11, 20232 min read
Why who’s in your inner circle matters
Over the ten years I've been running my CIC I've sadly had to distance myself from many of my old friends. On a positive, I now have many...
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Kelly Thorne
Nov 14, 20221 min read
So you know it possible! My first student gets 10k lottery funding in less that 3 months!
How amazing is this! I am so pleased for Develop thru sport CIC. This lottery grant will help them do incredible work engaging kids...
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Kelly Thorne
Nov 5, 20221 min read
Funding application rejections
Nothing worst than getting that email telling you your application has been rejected. Do not be disheartened it's totally standard. Good...
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Kelly Thorne
Nov 5, 20222 min read
Community activities tips and ideas
Your CIC will be focused on benefitting the community and your projects will need to run some kind of activity that brings your community...
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Kelly Thorne
Oct 25, 20221 min read
What good can you do with just a small grant of funding?
You can do a lot of good with a small grant. Even just a £10k pot will give you the financial means to work on a short project and get...
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Kelly Thorne
Oct 25, 20221 min read
How to come up with a great project idea.
Having an idea for a project is one thing but planning a project that will get funded fast is another. If you get it wrong you could be...
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Kelly Thorne
Oct 25, 20222 min read
Top 5 tips to starting a CIC and keeping it simple
When setting up a CIC you can get over whelmed and it is easy to over complicate it. I tell my clients all the time keep it very simple....
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