The League of Fan Funds

Name:	The League of Fan Funds
Date(s):	2000 - present
Profit/Nonprofit:
Country based in:	UK
Focus:	science fiction fan funds
External Links:	https://lff.ansible.uk/
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The League of Fan Funds is an organization for United Kingdom fan funds. It succeeded United Fan Funds.

The League of Fan Funds (LFF) is the unofficial umbrella organisation for fan funds operating in the UK. It was formed to help co-ordinate fundraising for individual fan funds at UK SF conventions rather than having separate, perhaps competing, events.

Since 2000 LFF’s fundraising has gone beyond the fan funds themselves and from time to time has included support for other fan-run non-profitmaking endeavours – including the Memory Hole fanzine archive, the Memory Hole Annexe for convention records, the Science Fiction Foundation (SFF) and the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA).

LFF works with the administrators of the specific funds and other organisations involved to co-ordinate and support joint fundraising activities and general awareness-raising, as needed. The extent of LFF’s involvement at any given time depends on the help and support wanted by individual fan fund administrators. It remains an unofficial organisation, not least due to the separate responsibility of each elected fan fund administrator for their own funds and to the relatively small scale of money raised.

LFF has its own separate bank account; this helps with collection and disbursement of funds raised, as well as temporarily holding sums on behalf of the good causes that don’t have their own UK bank accounts. It is not a registered charity, and neither are most of the funds and organisations supported.