We’re carrying out all the work you’ve read about here on a core income of just £6.6m from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), topped up to £7.6m by special project funding. To put things in perspective, that’s as much as the Department of Transport spends to buy about 300 speed cameras.
How do we do it? We’ve realised that the way to get the most out of a relatively small budget is to seed ideas and initiatives that other people will pay for. They find them so attractive that they’re prepared to invest their own money in seeing them through.
Designs of the time (Dott) and the Designing Demand business support programme are good examples. Both involve Design Council thinking made real by like-minded partners. Right now, our partners include organisations and agencies across the UK, including all the Regional Development Agencies.
By leveraging resources, we manage to punch well above our weight. For instance, for every pound we spend on Dott, our partners will spend £4.70.
Despite a challenging climate, we will keep working in innovative ways to diversify our income and maximise national design investment.
| Expenditure 2005/06 |
Spent £ |
| Design Policy |
2,439,000 |
| Design Innovation |
1,251,000 |
| Design for Business |
2,665,000 |
| Design for the Public |
610,000 |
| Design Knowledge |
2,061,000 |
Total |
9,026,000 |