We developed this toolkit with Justin Smith, a school business specialist and Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL) fellow with expertise in marketing and income development.
Step 1: understand your trust's financial position
Work with other trust leaders to understand your financial position, including your:
- Long-term financial projections
- Key financial risks
- Trust investment priorities
- Trust or school-level projects for which fundraising may be necessary
This will help you identify the role that income generation and fundraising will need to play in achieving balanced budgets or financial stability. Use this information to set your trust's income generation vision (see below).
Step 2: set your trust's income generation vision
Setting a clear vision for your income generation helps you to develop a strategy that is:
- Focused
- Achievable
Download our template and use the prompts and questions in it to help you write your vision statement.