Evidence to support your funding application
Many funders require you to demonstrate evidence of need. Alongside specific knowledge of your own community, these are useful references and research to support your case for funding.
Circularity and Social Need
New Philanthropy Capital, Everyone’s Environment Programme. Two useful briefings
- How will the climate and nature crises impact people living in poverty?
- How will the climate and nature crises impact people experiencing health inequalities.
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
Understanding and communicating about the your community can be useful. The SIMD index gives a relative levels of deprivation within different areas of Scotland.
The Circularity Gap Report Scotland
A report on how circularity has the power to change the Scottish economy. By implementing circular strategies, Scotland can increase its circularity by nine-fold, and nearly halve the resources needed to fulfil its residents’ needs and wants, while cutting emissions by 43%.
Share and Repair
Market Research – Consumer attitudes to share and repair in Scotland
A report that identifies, in reference to the cost of living crisis, how financial savings are the primary motivation for community members to consider using share and repair projects. It also identifies that the majority of people would be willing to borrow and repair items if they were aware of initiatives in their local community.
A report by the Share and Repair network evidencing positive behaviour change, money saving impacts and carbon/ waste reduction.
A useful article detailing the environmental impacts of devices.
The report draws on their impressive dataset of 208,491 repair attempts by 1158 groups in 31 countries. This data is used to make the case for the importance of repair and the right to repair. It demonstrates the role played by community repair in keeping hundreds of thousands of products in use that would otherwise end up in landfill prematurely.