Love Outdoors CIC Request (SAC highly recommended)

Love Outdoors CIC Request (SAC highly recommended)

Organisation Description

Our aim is to enable people to get outdoors to improve health and wellbeing and reduce social isolation. We are working with the NHS to create community gardens in clinical settings which people can self refer or be referred in to. This is proving to be very successful and we are continuing to create new gardens. We also access grant funding to deliver projects that encourage people to take the first steps to being active and outdoors by breaking down barriers and embedding ourselves in communities through asset-based community development. We have a website to disseminate information and we want to develop this to create a google for the outdoors. We want to develop our work with young people and families, in gardens, in nature and in schools. Our website is www.loveoutdoors.org.uk and the projects page details our work.

What are they looking for?

We really need help with growth- how to develop operationally (this is something that was mentioned in feedback as to how we would maintain this as we grow).
Our main requirement for help though is to help us decide which revenue streams we pursue first and help us to create an options appraisal/analysis. We are keen not to rely on grant funding for any longer that needed, and we have lots of ideas of different revenue streams we could develop but we are not sure what to do first and how we should strategise this. We need to ensure that money continues to come in to the organisation to cover overheads and then look to employ a part time admin/marketing person to help us develop this side of the business. Our board of Directors agree that we need help with business planning/options appraisals and sales. If there is someone who could help with this it would be greatly appreciated.