We are spending more time looking at other funding streams (that's what I do, I search funding databases). We now have some funding from some very diverse places, e.g. small donations from a charity that supports refugee women improve their English, spoken and written. They now divert some of their money to us. They shouldn't have to, we previously covered all of that via mainstream funders. But now they do divert some of their funding to us, taking away from their core spaces.
That and we are making connections with other organisations that offer similar services tour our to men and transwomen.
We have to be careful though, as we can't partner with them, our client base doesn't want or need that to happen. So we have to find other ways of working in partnership, that satisfy the funding stream demands.
We have got better at this over the last few years. But it still pains me that a service less than 20 miles away provides a far less robust service (fewer associated support links for when to move on) than we do and gets hundreds of thousands a year, because they serve "all women, those who identify as women and non binary people alike". We have almost double their user numbers and get less than £5K from the same funder.
This is why posts like Blueberry annoy me. They have little care for the damage their misunderstanding, spreading of disinformation does to women in need.
Longer term I think the Lottery etc will lose their importance to a large swathe of organisations like ours. There always was an inherent danger to having single donor support. We will have to go back to our grass roots supporters.