Non X Funding - the story so farBirimingham March 28

The Background drivers:

Reduced Funding - Defra and Local Authorities

A paradigm shift from public to private delivery

Regulation and incentives out of favour - Markets for Ecosystem services the future?

Adapt or die? / Revolution or evolution?

NAAONB NX Funding Workshops 2010 -2012 have:

Held a mirror up to AONB responses across the UK

Adaptation plans

Belt tightening

Efficiency savings

New Sources of Non Exchequer funds

Explored so far:

Selling products ( leaflets, walks, books to expertise)

Friends Groups

Lessons from Landscape Partnerships /HLF

The Charitable Trust route

Community Foundations as mechanism for holding funds for AONB project delivery

Community Interest Companies

NX funding into AONBs

Source: 2MD Report Dec 2011 with data from 26 AONBs

A Broader View?

Focus to date has been on sharing AONB experience and practice in response to reducing budgets,

To-day we look to broaden our perspective - What can we learn from how others access NX from national to local?

To-day:Presentation of NAAONB Research funded by Defra

looking at national/local models for funding in related worlds: Rivers and Canal Trust, Royal Society for Wildlife Trusts, Groundwork, Community Foundations (CFs)

Looking again at Social Enterprises and CFs as mechanisms for delivering AONB objectives,

Looking at where we are nationally (NAAONB M&A) and critically where we want to be in the future to ensure we are best placed to secure the necessary NX support!!

What sort of funding vehicle(s) do we need?