Funding News Subscriptions
Subscribing to the funding news website
New articles will be published on this website most days. To stay updated, you don’t need to remember to come and look at the website each day - you can subscribe to receive updates by email or RSS instead.
Here’s a guide to receiving our Funding News emails, it also includes details of how you can search for funders that we’ve written about previously.
Email updates
To get funding news updates from this site by email, just enter your details in this form and click ’subscribe’. You will then get an email from “SYFAB” (fundingnews@syfab.org.uk). When you click the link in this message to verify your email address, you’ll then start getting a daily or weekly email with all the new funding news articles added since the last email. If for some reason, you don’t get a verification email, please email us and we’ll sort it out for you.
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication
Subscribe in a reader
If you already know about RSS, you can subscribe to the news feed for this site using the above icon/link. If you want to know more about what this RSS is all about, read on:
RSS is a way of keeping track of new updates to a website by subscribing to the site’s news feed. You set up a news feed reader, and then subscribe to the news feeds of websites you want updates from. Then, when new items are added, they will by delivered (or syndicated) to your feed reader. This means that you just have to go to your feed reader to see if there is anything new you need to know about, rather than having to visit a whole load of individual websites.
Here’s a few bits of further reading and resources to explain this far better than I can, and give some proper guidance on getting started with RSS:
- The BBC produce a good basic guide to news feeds.
- The ICT Hub Knowledgebase also has a good introduction.
- Common Craft have put together a video to explain in a more visual way.
- Problogger have an introductory article – ‘What is RSS’
- An article from Lifehacker on the pros and cons of desktop vs online feed readers
- And Techsoup’s article’ Why non-profit managers must use RSS – and how to start
- A ‘What is RSS’ article from the EdVibes blog
