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Aesop, standing for ‘Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose’, is an arts charity and social enterprise that runs a series of initiatives, including a National Arts and Health Conference and Showcase and the Dance to Health programme, which responds to the issue of older people’s falls, which cost the NHS £2.3 billion a year.
Aesop was seeking support to expand to raise £2.1 million for expansion of Dance to Health
How Cause4 helped a leading arts charity and social enterprise expand a transformational dance programme.
The challenge
Aesop, standing for ‘Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose’, is an arts charity and social enterprise that runs a series of initiatives, including a National Arts and Health Conference and Showcase and the Dance to Health programme, which responds to the issue of older people’s falls, which cost the NHS £2.3 billion a year.
Aesop was seeking support to expand to raise £2.1 million for expansion of Dance to Health.
How Cause4 helped a leading arts charity and social enterprise expand a transformational dance programme.
Fundraising Strategy developed
Case for Support created
Cause4 supported the charity to raise initial seed funding from a Foundation which supported them to go on to leverage multi-million funding from other sources
Cause4 provided strategic advice for the charity in setting up its Pioneer Philanthropy Group bringing a number of influential funders and donors close to the organisation
Results
Dance to Health Pilot launched in 2015 with a budget of £350,000.
£2.1 million raised for Dance to Health expansion programme (2017-19) involving over 800 older people and 800 volunteers.
Funding secured for the 2016 and 2018 National Arts and Health Conference and Showcase.
Successful Pioneer Philanthropy Group launched with high-level partners involved.
Vital support received from the Peter Sowerby Foundation.
