The Firefly Project takes a unique, five-pronged approach to supporting small charities to thrive and change the lives of London’s young people facing disadvantage.
For each of our charity partners, we offer £50,000 a year in core, unrestricted funding. In fact, 71% of all our funding is unrestricted. Unlike many other funders, we provide this level of unrestricted funding because we believe our charity partners, the experts in their areas of work, know how to best spend our money to make the most impact.
Traditional donors often prefer their donations to go directly towards frontline activities, ensuring an immediate and tangible benefit to young people. However, charities can’t deliver life-changing services without strong internal structures, skilled leadership and growing capacity.
That’s why we offer additional development funding beyond our £50,000 unrestricted grants to our charity partners. These grants target areas often overlooked or deemed ‘non-essential’ by traditional funders, but vital for sustainable growth, such as technology, leadership training and strategic planning.
We go beyond financial support, embedding ourselves within our charity partners to help them build long-term capacity. We don’t just advise; we work alongside them and become extensions of their team, ensuring they have the structure, resources, expertise and training to sustain their impact long after our support ends.
True impact goes beyond grants, which is why we actively connect our charity partners with a broader network of foundations and donors. When they transition out of our programme, they leave with stronger financial sustainability and new, long-term funding relationships.
This ensures our charities aren’t left with financial gaps but instead have multiple income streams, making them more resilient and less dependent on any single source of support.
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We don’t just take an innovative approach to supporting charities – we’re transforming the way donors can give too.
We offer the opportunity for donors to become involved in every level of our work through our Patrons Programme. From finding high-potential charities to support, to philanthropic site visits and providing transformational hands-on support to our charity partners, our Patrons are deeply embedded in everything we do and critical to the impact we make.
WE LOVE WORKING WITH QUINTESSENTIALLY FOUNDATION
“The support and guidance we have received from Quintessentially Foundation and The Firefly Project has been targeted and valuable. I am very satisfied with the support we have received, especially financial support for specific projects such as website and video/marketing development, the training on many skills for all our staff, and the strategic and positioning discussions Quintessentially Foundation have facilitated.”
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Our Firefly Project’s unique approach to philanthropy has been extremely successful since its inception.
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