These workshops have been have been designed and developed to help build your skills and understanding on how to become a more sustainable organisation.
The workshops are very participatory so please be ready to get involved.
Writing Your Fundraising Plan
This workshop will look at how to write a fundraising plan for a year, different income streams and putting SMART objectives in place for your fundraising. If you are managing an organisation and want to put a plan in place for generating income, this is the course for you.
Starting Your Fundraising Journey
This workshop is aimed at those who are brand new to fundraising (it’s a snapshot of the Race for Investment). It takes you through a typical funding application and general top tips for writing one. If you are brand new to fundraising, or have not been successful with funding applications then this is the course for you.
Small Grants
Focusing on the Sport England funding pots that are currently open, we will go through the questions asked and recommend how best to answer them. This is a great course if you are looking to go for one of the open Sport England grant programmes.
Race for Investment
This course is designed to offer sports clubs and community organisations (with little or no bid writing experience) hands-on support, advice and guidance. The aim is that each organisation writes a funding bid and submits with support. If you are brand new to fundraising or have not been successful with funding applications this is the course for you.
Monitoring and Evaluation
This workshop provides an understanding of the process of monitoring and evaluation and how to build this into a funding application. You will be provided some ideas and practical tools to help you monitor and evaluate your projects effectively and demonstrate the impact of your work. If you are responsible for collecting data and/or completing the evaluation, book this course!
Housing Associations – Community Investment
This workshop will support you to feel confident in applying for funding from a housing association. We will look at the community investment priorities of housing associations and how to put together a strong funding bid. If you are looking for funding from housing associations, this is the course for you!
Demonstrating the Need
Are you unsure of the best way to demonstrate the need for your project? This will take you through when, what and how to use statistics and demonstrate the need within funding applications. If this is an area of the funding application that you struggle with then book on to learn more!
Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising
This workshop goes through where to start when you would like to develop corporate partnerships to gain investment from them. If you are looking to diversify your income, this is a great way to do so; we can help you with where to start.
Budget Plan and Terminology
This workshop focuses on the budget part of an application form. The workshop will take you through the terminology relating to budgets and applying for funding as well as top tips for completing this part of an application. If this is an area of the funding application that you struggle with, book on to learn more!
Asset-based Community Development
This course focuses on Asset Based Community Development and how we can use this approach to design and strengthen our community programmes.
Alternative Income Generation
There are a number of different ways to generate income. This will take you through many forms in a little more detail, with a deeper dive into Crowdfunding and Trusts & Foundations. If you are looking for different ways to diversify your income, book on!