NFP WORKSHOPS Affordable Training Courses For Charities And Public Sector Organisations
This email has been sent to haproxy@formilux.org CLICK TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM LIST Alternatively send a blank e-mail to unsubscr...@nfpmail1902.co.uk quoting haproxy@formilux.org in the subject line. Unsubscribe requests will take effect within seven days at the latest. CLICK TO MAKE A SPAM COMPLAINT Bid Writing: The Basics START 09.00 FINISH 11.30 COST £95.00 TOPICS COVERED Do you know the most common reasons for rejection? Are you gathering the right evidence? Are you making the right arguments? Are you using the right terminology? Are your numbers right? Are you learning from rejections? Are you assembling the right documents? Do you know how to create a clear and concise standard funding bid? Are you communicating with people or just excluding them? Do you know your own organisation well enough? Are you thinking through your projects carefully enough? Do you know enough about your competitors? Are you answering the questions funders will ask themselves about your application? Are you submitting applications correctly? ATTENDEES Staff members, volunteers, trustees or board members of charities, schools or public sector organisations who intend to submit grant funding applications to charitable grant making trusts and foundations. People who provide advice to these organisations are also welcome. TRAVEL INFORMATION All our venues are within walking distance of major railway stations. None of our venues have on site car parking but commercial car parks are available within walking distance. The booking pages have links to maps, travel and car parking information. BOOKING DETAILS £95 including booking fees. Refreshments provided. Attendees receive full notes and sample bids by e-mail after the workshop. The workshop consists of talk, questions and answers. There are no power points or audio visuals used. All places must be booked through the online booking system using a debit or credit card. We do not issue invoices or accept bank or cheque payments. If you do not have a debit card from your organisation please use a personal one and claim reimbursement using the booking confirmation e-mail as proof of purchase. BOOKING TERMS Workshop bookings are non cancellable, non refundable and non transferable between dates unless the event is cancelled. If you are unable to attend on the date booked you may send someone else in your place. There is no need to contact us to let us know that there will be a different attendee. Events may occasionally be cancelled due to insufficient bookings, illness, travel difficulties or venue problems in which case refunds will be made. The organisers do not accept any liability for travel or accommodation costs relating to cancelled events. If you wish to make travel or accommodation bookings relating to an event you are welcome to contact us regarding the level of bookings currently held for that event. QUESTIONS If you have a question please e-mail questi...@nfpmail1902.co.uk You will usually receive a response within 24 hours. Due to our training and travel commitments we are unable to accept questions by phone. Bid Writing: Advanced START 12.00 FINISH 14.30 COST £95.00 TOPICS COVERED Are you applying to the right trusts? Are you applying to enough trusts? Are you asking for the right amount of money? Are you applying in the right ways? Are your projects the most fundable projects? Are you carrying out trust fundraising in a professional way? Are you delegating enough work? Are you highly productive or just very busy? Are you looking for trusts in all the right places? How do you compare with your competitors for funding? Is the rest of your fundraising hampering your bids to trusts? Do you understand what trusts are ideally looking for? ATTENDEES Staff members, volunteers, trustees or board members of charities, schools or public sector organisations who intend to submit grant funding applications to charitable grant making trusts and foundations. People who provide advice to these organisations are also welcome. Around half of all attendees do both Basics and Advanced workshops on the same day but there is no discount for doing so. TRAVEL INFORMATION All our venues are within walking distance of major railway stations. None of our venues have on site car parking but commercial car parks are available within walking distance. The booking pages have links to maps, travel and car parking information. BOOKING DETAILS £95 including booking fees. Refreshments provided. Attendees receive full notes and sample bids by e-mail after the workshop. The workshop consists of talk, questions and answers. There are no power points or audio visuals used. All places must be booked through the online booking system using a debit or credit card. We do not issue invoices or accept bank or cheque payments. If you do not have a debit card from your organisation please use a personal one and claim reimbursement using the booking confirmation e-mail as proof of purchase. BOOKING TERMS Workshop bookings are non cancellable, non refundable and non transferable between dates unless the event is cancelled. If you are unable to attend on the date booked you may send someone else in your place. There is no need to contact us to let us know that there will be a different attendee. Events may occasionally be cancelled due to insufficient bookings, illness, travel difficulties or venue problems in which case refunds will be made. The organisers do not accept any liability for travel or accommodation costs relating to cancelled events. If you wish to make travel or accommodation bookings relating to an event you are welcome to contact us regarding the level of bookings currently held for that event. QUESTIONS If you have a question please e-mail questi...@nfpmail1902.co.uk You will usually receive a response within 24 hours. Due to our training and travel commitments we are unable to accept questions by phone. Booking Links LONDON VAI 200A Pentonville Road Kings Cross, London N1 9JP 16 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 23 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 27 Apr 2020BasicsAdvanced 08 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced 15 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced SOUTHAMPTON Jurys Inn Charlotte Place Southampton SO14 0TB 17 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 09 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced BRISTOL The Waterfront Meeting Rooms Welsh Back Bristol BS1 4SB 18 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 10 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced EDINBURGH Courtyard 1-3 Baxter's Place Edinburgh EH1 3AF 19 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 11 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced NEWCASTLE Jurys Inn Scotswood Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4AD 20 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 12 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced NOTTINGHAM Jurys Inn Station Street Nottingham NG2 3BJ 24 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 16 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced BIRMINGHAM Jurys Inn 245 Broad Street Birmingham B1 2HQ 25 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 17 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced MANCHESTER Jurys Inn 56 Great Bridgewater Street Manchester M1 5LE 26 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 18 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced LEEDS Jurys Inn Brewery Wharf, Brewery Place Leeds LS10 1NE 27 Mar 2020 Basics Advanced 19 Jun 2020BasicsAdvanced Bid Writing: Interactive Here is how the day works. You bring 11 copies of your standard funding bid or a recent bid. Print them out triple spaced in Arial 16 point font. We will provide a big table, pens, a trainer and up to 9 other attendees. We will all review your bid. Word by word. Line by line. We will test out your jargon and your acronyms to see how well understood they really are. We will ask “What are you actually trying to say here?”. Once your bid is revised you will have the chance to review up to 9 other bids to learn from other people’s bids and how they go about things. By the end of the day you should have a better written, clearer, more effective bid than you arrived with. If it is perfect already then at least you will have had that confirmed by up to 10 other people. We will send you a questionnaire in advance about your trust and foundation fundraising statistics and strategy. We will all then review that strategy to see how you are doing now, what you should be aiming to achieve in the future and the practical steps to bring that about. Finally we will review your organisation as a whole. Which aspects should you be telling more people more about. Which aspects should you be trying to improve in the years ahead to increase your success rate with trusts and foundations. LONDON VAI 200A Pentonville Road Kings Cross, London N1 9JP 13 Mar 2020Booking Details Recruitment: The Basics A step by step introduction to all the most important things to consider when recruiting new staff. Writing job descriptions. Writing candidate specifications. Writing job adverts. Where to advertise. Using a recruitment agency. Selecting candidates to interview. Interview questions. Interview styles. Final selection. Contracts of employment. Inductions for new staff. Payroll and expenses. An overview of employment legislation. Employment record keeping. Attracting the best staff through improving your public profile. LONDON VAI 200A Pentonville Road Kings Cross, London N1 9JP 09 Mar 2020Booking Details Purchasing: The Basics How to buy cheaper. How to buy better. How to buy smarter. How to shop around. How to negotiate. How to motivate suppliers. How to improve relationships with existing suppliers. How to encourage new suppliers. Reducing IT, broadband and telephone costs. Reducing energy costs. Saving on premises costs. Saving on staff costs. Top tips for saving money on business travel and accommodation. How to reshape your organisation into a lower cost operation. LONDON VAI 200A Pentonville Road Kings Cross, London N1 9JP 10 Mar 2020Booking Details Coaching: The Basics What is coaching? What is mentoring? What is the difference between the two? Coaching styles. Listening. Goal setting. Follow up. Feedback. Coaching sessions. The benefits of coaching. Avoiding the pitfalls of coaching. Ensuring objectivity. Asking questions. Being challenging. Being truthful. Developing people skills. Evaluation. LONDON VAI 200A Pentonville Road Kings Cross, London N1 9JP 11 Mar 2020Booking Details Training For Trainers: The Basics Assessing training needs. Venues considerations. Room layouts. Presentation styles. What not to do. How to turn people who don’t want to learn into people who do. How to make people relax. How serious to be. How funny to be. How to gauge attention spans. When to invite questions. How to invite questions. How to handle unhappy delegates. How to invite attendees from other organisations. Accelerated Learning - What is it? Does it work? How to do it? Learning from mistakes. Learning from feedback. Making your next course better. LONDON VAI 200A Pentonville Road Kings Cross, London N1 9JP 12 Mar 2020Booking Details FEEDBACK FROM PAST ATTENDEES I must say I was really impressed with the course and the content. My knowledge and confidence has increased hugely. I got a lot from your course and a lot of pointers! I can say after years of fundraising I learnt so much from your bid writing course. It was a very informative day and for someone who has not written bids before I am definitely more confident to get involved with them. I found the workshops very helpful. It is a whole new area for me but the information you imparted has given me a lot of confidence with the direction I need to take and for that I am very grateful. I found the day very informative and it gave me confidence to take on this aspect of work that I had been apprehensive of. I enjoyed the session and found it valuable. So much relevant, practical information all passed on in a way which I was able to follow. All greatly enhanced by your sense of humour. It was a useful course and your examples real or otherwise helped to make it practical. Many thanks. The morning just flew by - always a good sign! I enjoyed the course and learnt a lot. I will begin putting this into practice. NFP WORKSHOPS, 18 Blake Street, York YO1 8QG
