Seven Affordable Training Courses For Charities And Public Sector Organisations
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Seven Affordable Training Courses For Charities And Public Sector Organisations
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BID WRITING: THE BASICS
Start 09.00 Finish 11.30 Cost £95.00
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?
BID WRITING ADVANCED
Start 12.00 Finish 14.30 Cost £95.00
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?
LOCATIONS & DATES
LONDON VAI, 200A Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London N1 9JP
13 Jan 2020 - 20 Jan 2020 - 16 Mar 2020 - 23 Mar 2020
SOUTHAMPTON Jurys Inn, Charlotte Place, Southampton SO14 0TB
14 Jan 2020 - 17 Mar 2020
BRISTOL The Waterfront Meeting Rooms, Welsh Back, Bristol BS1 4SB
15 Jan 2020 - 18 Mar 2020
EDINBURGH Courtyard, 1-3 Baxter's Place, Edinburgh EH1 3AF
16 Jan 2020 - 19 Mar 2020
NEWCASTLE Jurys Inn, Scotswood Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4AD
17 Jan 2020 - 20 Mar 2020
NOTTINGHAM Jurys Inn, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3BJ
21 Jan 2020 - 24 Mar 2020
BIRMINGHAM Jurys Inn, 245 Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2HQ
22 Jan 2020 - 25 Mar 2020
MANCHESTER Jurys Inn, 56 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester M1 5LE
23 Jan 2020 - 26 Mar 2020
LEEDS Jurys Inn, Brewery Wharf, Brewery Place, Leeds LS10 1NE
24 Jan 2020 - 27 Mar 2020
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. What
aspects should you be telling more people more about. What 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 2020
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 2020
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 2020
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 2020
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 2020
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.
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