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We don’t just find you funding. We build community enterprises that last.

Fund My Community works alongside community organisations to win funding and use it well: building self-sustaining enterprises that generate their own income, employ local people, develop young talent, and outlast the money that built them. For some, that means a one-off capital build. For others, it means securing the running costs to keep doing what already works. Either way, we manage the application, the funder relationships, and the delivery.

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How FMC works
From need to self-sustaining enterprise
SIX STAGES
1
Identify
NeedAsset
2
Design
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3
Fund
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4
Deliver
Vetted contractorsProgrammes running
5
Sustain
Commercial revenueCommunity access
6
Measure
Impact frameworkFrom day one
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Live
Active funder database
£87k
First project delivered
Liverpool
Launch market
UK
National rollout
The structural gap

The funding isn’t the problem. What happens after is.

Billions in grant funding sits unclaimed every year — not because the need isn’t there, but because community organisations lack the time, expertise, and confidence to unlock it. The deeper problem is what happens when the money arrives: a project gets completed, the funding stops, and nothing has fundamentally changed. No new jobs, no lasting skills, no enterprise that stands on its own. This is the gap FMC was built to close — not with better grant applications, but with a fundamentally different model.

What FMC is — and isn’t

Not a grant service. An enterprise builder.

We are NOT
  • A grant application service
  • A building contractor
  • A technology platform selling subscriptions
  • A short-term funder relationship
  • A consultant who leaves when the money runs out
We ARE
  • A community enterprise builder
  • A long-term partner invested in outcomes
  • A jobs and skills creator for local communities
  • A youth development platform built on sport and education
  • An engine for social mobility that outlasts the funding
The FMC process

Six stages. One partner. From need to self-sustaining enterprise.

FMC takes a community need and turns it into an enterprise that funds itself. Grant capital is the mechanism, not the product. The result is a business designed from day one to operate independently once built.

1
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Identify

A community need, an underused asset, or an opportunity the market won’t serve on its own.

2
🧭

Design

valantAI builds a full enterprise plan before a single application is written.

3
💷

Fund

Community Gold matches the enterprise to the right funders; we write, manage, and own delivery.

4
🏗️

Deliver

We deliver the work the funding pays for: capital builds run by vetted contractors, programmes run by your team.

5
♻️

Sustain

Commercial revenue and ongoing income cover running costs, generating surplus that funds community access.

6
📊

Measure

Every enterprise reports against a published impact framework from day one.

The intelligence layer

valantAI.
Every enterprise is designed before it’s funded.

Community Gold — the funder matching tool — is one of four tools powered by valantAI. Together they take a community need from first conversation to a fully-designed, funded, measurable enterprise.

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Community Gold

Funder matching at speed. The right funding for the right enterprise in minutes, not months.

🔍

Discovery Engine

The questions that change everything. Lived knowledge plus postcode data, asset mapping, and funding landscape.

📋

Enterprise Generator

Investor-grade plans. Commercial model, cross-subsidy structure, impact framework, P&L, staffing.

📊

Impact Dashboard

Measurable from day one. Automated reporting across the five impact pillars.

This is the capability no competitor can replicate. Not the matching technology — that will be commoditised within 24 months. It’s the ability to turn a community need into a fully designed, fundable, sustainable enterprise.

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Community Gold by FMC
Find the right funding for your community project, powered by FMC
We need to replace our heating system at our Liverpool community centre...
Liverpool
£45,000
Building work
Energy saving
Youth activities
Community group
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What’s moving in the community world.

Funding windows, new initiatives and best practice from the UK and beyond — tracked daily by the same intelligence layer that designs FMC enterprises. See all →

Proof of delivery · Liverpool

Kirkdale Community Centre.
Funded. Delivered. Reopened.

In November 2024, Kirkdale Neighbourhood Community Centre's boiler broke down. With no heating and no hot water, the building closed. The centre won a grant from the VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme. FMC's Damien McKay sourced quotes from specified contractors against a tight deadline, advised throughout, and saw the works through end to end: new boiler, loft insulation, solar panels and LED lighting.

Kirkdale proves we can find the funding and deliver the works. The enterprises we’re building next take the same delivery capability and apply it to businesses designed to sustain themselves — starting with sport.

Heating
Full central heating replacement
Solar
Solar PV installation
Lighting
LED lighting refit
Fabric
Loft insulation across building
“Without the help and support from Damien it would have been an uphill struggle, if not impossible, to obtain quotes from specified contractors within the tight timescale.”

Irene Poole · Kirkdale Neighbourhood Community Centre · February 2026

Kirkdale Community Centre

Liverpool · Delivered by FMC / MCM Energy

“The Centre has had a new lease of life since the works have been completed thanks to Damien.”

Irene Poole · Kirkdale Neighbourhood Community Centre · February 2026

Works deliveredMulti-trade
Energy savings & outcomesTo be verified
The commitment

Communities first. Always.

Where FMC helps build a community enterprise, the model is designed so the commercial side covers the cost of community access. Adult or commercial users pay, community users benefit. We will not build something that prices out the community it was built to serve.

FMC's funder universe

The right funders, approached on your behalf.

FMC maintains a live database of UK community grant funders: regional foundations, national philanthropic bodies, local authority funds and corporate community grants. We track open windows daily, identify the funders worth approaching for your project, and run the applications through to funding.

Regional
Community foundations covering Merseyside and wider regional grant-makers
National
Philanthropic foundations, trusts and central government programmes
Local
Council and ward-level neighbourhood funds, energy-efficiency schemes
Corporate
Major retailer and energy company community foundations

Specific funders are not listed publicly. FMC approaches the right ones for your project on your behalf.

Who FMC works with

Every community organisation.
Every project type.

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Community Centres

Heating replacements to full energy retrofits. FMC funds and delivers infrastructure upgrades that cut bills and protect services.

  • Heating and M&E upgrades
  • Solar PV and battery storage
  • Insulation and building fabric
  • Roof and structural works
  • Accessibility improvements
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Sports Clubs & Pitches

Community sports facilities have funding streams most clubs don't know exist. FMC finds them, applies for them, and builds the infrastructure.

  • Pitch improvements and drainage
  • Changing facilities and clubhouses
  • LED floodlighting upgrades
  • Youth facility development
  • Equipment and fitness assets
🌱

Charities & Social Enterprises

Organisations managing physical assets that need capital investment. FMC handles the complexity so your team can focus on delivery.

  • Building condition surveys
  • Energy efficiency assessments
  • Multi-fund coordination
  • Contractor procurement
  • Compliance and reporting
The flagship vertical

Sport is the most powerful community intervention available. It’s also the most underfunded.

Football and padel are FMC’s first verticals — not because sport is the only answer, but because the commercial model is clear and the social return is unmatched: discipline, aspiration, identity, community.

The facility

Grant-funded to professional standard.

Two 3G football pitches. Four padel courts to WPT specification. Community coaching hub. Changing rooms. Café. And a free outdoor MUGA anyone can use without booking or paying — the daily visible proof of the enterprise’s values.

The business

Self-sustaining from Month 20.

Adults pay commercial rates at peak times. Padel memberships, corporate bookings, paid coaching. The revenue covers the facility and funds free youth access off-peak. No ongoing grant dependency once the asset is built.

The pipeline

A development pathway, not a community space.

150+ young people accessing subsidised sport each month. FA and NGB qualifications funded for coaches. Structured progression pathways to clubs, academies, and professional environments for those with talent.

Our goal
£1.35m
Capital requirement (Liverpool Phase 1)
Our goal
Month 20
Projected break-even from opening
Our goal
£520k+
Year 3 revenue, sport vertical
Our goal
150+
Young people each month, subsidised
Impact framework

Intentional. Measurable. Built in from day one.

Every FMC enterprise is designed against five impact pillars before the first grant application is written. Not retrofitted after the works. Not measured at the end. Reported automatically from day one.

01
🌱

Youth Development

Structured access to sport, education and skills for young people who couldn’t otherwise reach them.

02
💼

Employment

Real local jobs, measured by quality and wage level, going to people from the communities served.

03
🎓

Education & Skills

Formal qualifications, coaching licences, life skills, entrepreneurship. The facility is the classroom.

04
🤝

Community Cohesion

Enterprises designed to bring different groups together — integration and belonging as intended outcomes.

05
♻️

Sustainability

Financial self-sufficiency as impact metric. An enterprise that folds in three years hasn’t served its community.

For contractors

Pipeline. Structured bids. Paid on schedule.

FMC routes funded community work to vetted contractors. When a centre’s grant covers the work, the request goes to you. You bid through the portal: scope, price, payment schedule, drawings. We handle the funder, the application, and the centre relationship.

  • → Live quote requests matched to your trade and area
  • → Bid through the platform with drawings, RAMS, full payment terms
  • → Funded work, the grant pays. No chasing centres for cashflow
  • → Disclosed PM fee to FMC, scheduled against your milestones
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How approval works
SELF-SERVE
1
Apply online
Company, services, coverage, PLI, two references
2
References auto-emailed
Your referees get a secure link, no chasing
3
FMC reviews and approves
One-click approval once references and PLI check out
4
Log in. Start bidding.
Magic-link login. Open quote requests on your dashboard.
The FMC founding team

Community expertise.
End-to-end delivery.

Two founders. Delivery on the ground in Merseyside, and the commercial scaffolding to scale FMC nationally.

Damien McKay
Damien McKay
Co-Founder & CEO

Born and raised in Liverpool. Founder of MCM Energy, with deep funder and contractor relationships built over years working with community centres across Merseyside. FMC’s front-facing lead: the person who walks centres through the funding process and sees the works through to completion.

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Our goal

The children of today are our future. Everything we build is in service of that.

Liverpool is the proof of concept. The model scales city by city — same delivery capability, same intelligence layer, same impact framework, applied to each community’s specific needs and assets.

Our goal
50+

Community enterprises across the UK by Year 5

Our goal
5,000+

Young people accessing subsidised sport, education and skills each year

Our goal
£0

The cost to a young person who cannot afford to pay

Ready to start?

Your community came in wanting a grant.
Leave with a vision that outlasts the funding.

FMC turns the conversation about what your community needs into a designed, funded, sustainable enterprise. Start with discovery, or go straight to funding.

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