BAMER HUB Impact Report 2021: One Year On

Overview:

With the COVID-19 crisis that began in early 2020 disproportionately affecting Black, Asian, Multi-Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) communities, it quickly became clear that BAMER-led nonprofits were also under disproportionate strain. With increasing demand for their services, fundraising expertise and capacity became increasingly stretched, to the point that 9 in 10 BAMER-led nonprofits were at risk of closing permanently within three months of April 2020 according to the Ubele Initiative.

At Money4YOU, we quickly realised that our flagship AVOCADO+ Accelerator Programme was even more oversubscribed than usual following the COVID-19 crisis, and that high-quality, online educational resources were desperately needed to ensure that small, community-led organisations in BAMER communities could survive and thrive. In September 2020, we launched BAMERHUB.com at our annual Dragons’ Den event.

The platform offers a variety of resources that are open to all BAMER-led nonprofits and is modelled on four years of highly successful development and learning from our AVOCADO+ Accelerator Programme.

BAMER HUB users have spent over 389 hours browsing content, watching videos, and sending us feedback since our launch in September 2020.

BAMER civil society community is talking about BAMER HUB

The online-first format of BAMER HUB makes it accessible to a huge range of organisations. In particular, it is radically more accessible to organisations which are relatively new and/or are struggling to fundraise than traditional training methods, and allows us to reach even those who cannot commit to the scale and intensity of the AVOCADO+ programme with high-quality educational content.

71% of BAMER HUB member organisations have an annual turnover of less than £50k. This popularity amongst smaller charities shows us that our resources are both valuable and accessible to small, grassroots BAMERled nonprofits.

BAMER HUB is modelled on the AVOCADO+ Accelerator Programme, Training BootCamps are at the heart of AVOCADO+ Accelerator Programme, so we’ve opened and expanded them for BAMER HUB Full Members with incredible results, delivering over 250 hours of training from expert speakers in 2021 alone.

User-responsiveness

We take an evidence-based approach, informed by both qualitative and quantitative feedback from our users, which we collect through regular dialogue and surveys:

Types of Online Content Most Useful to Organisations

Challenge Areas Amongst Member Organisations

The need for better fundraising, and better resources around fundraising, stands out clearly; so we launched a variety of new tools on BAMER HUB

Accessibility

Question: In which region is your organisation based?

are based in the UK and outside London representing an average of 3.4 staff and 21.5 volunteers per organisation

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£3k Grant Giveaway Programme

BAMER HUB member organisations can regularly apply to win £3,000 following a video application, an internal shortlisting process and then a public vote.

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applications over 2 grant rounds

Resource Categories on BAMER HUB

Research by the Charities Aid Foundation has found that charities need six key characteristics in order to be resilient. Each resource on BAMER HUB is categorised into one of these areas and presented to each organisation in the order of their self-selected priorities, so that member organisations understand the broader context of building resilience.

Purpose