West London Zone (WLZ) is a new project aimed at helping 13,000 children and young people over the next 10 years flourish into youth and adulthood. WLZ is recruiting link workers to help achieve this ambition. The successful applicants will work mostly in the community, helping the children and families. They will also work in the WLZ office, reporting on how the children and families are progressing and how the wider community is engaging with the project.
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Westminster Befriend a Family (WBAF), which helps support disadvantaged families throughout the Borough of Westminster, is looking for a befriending development worker to expand a new young person’s mentoring scheme. The role is for four days per week on a 12 month fixed term contract at £18,400 per annum, (£23,000 pro rata). Closing date for applications is 15 July 2016.

For further information and an application pack contact Bob Cornell, Chief Executive on 020 7828 2765 or send him an email.

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Westminster City Council is establishing the Young Westminster Foundation to provide services and activities for children and young people across the borough. It is now looking for a chief executive officer to work with the board of trustees to ensure the charity delivers its strategy and achieves its objectives.

The salary is £50,000 pa for a 35-hour week. The deadline for applications is 5pm, 19 August 2016.

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LVSC is seeking a highly skilled interim CEO to lead London’s voluntary sector through the significant changes it has faced, and continues to face. The ability to think and act strategically is essential.  As well as providing strategic direction for LVSC you will be providing leadership for London’s voluntary and community sector.  Extensive experience of developing long-term strategic plans is essential.

The position is fixed term to March 2017 with negotiable hours.  Salary circa £50,000 pro rata pa, inclusive ILW.

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Local Giving is running a free session on how to organise an online fundraising plan on Thursday, 11 August from 10am to 12pm at The Lodge, 64 Pinner Road, Harrow HA1 4HZ looking at the best ways to plan, develop and run a successful campaign.
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This LVSC one-day practical course, free for voluntary and community sector employees, will take place on Thursday, 21 July at 200a Pentonville Road, N1 9JP and aims to raise awareness of employment legislation and good practice in the workplace.
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Now’s the time to nominate your volunteers for an award from the Mayor of London as part of the Team London 2016 Achievement Awards. Volunteers can be nominated in a number of categories, with awards for volunteers under 25, volunteers over 25, and people who volunteer in a team.

Nominations close on 31 July 2016.

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Course Title-    Project Proposal Writing  Online 

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This course is designed to provide you with the skills required to write an effective project proposal for fundraising.

 

This course will offer you tools and templates that you can use to write your proposal, as well as practical examples to tackle different sections of your proposal writing, ensuring that you gain competitive-edge in your funding application.Small charities gain immediate access to our directory of over 2500 grant making charitable trusts and foundations. Click the Book Now tab to learn more about the course contents.

 

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14 July  20146 12.30 pm – 14.00 pm Online
20 September 2016           12.30pm – 14.00 pm                                           Online
24 November 2016 12.30am -14.00pm Online

 

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Course Title – Funding Strategies For Financial Sustainability Online 

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Many charities now need new funding strategies to grow or diversify their income. Building financial sustainability involves a blend of different toolkits of which your funding strategies for core operations and projects is critical.  This online  course is designed to provide  the key components you need to design an effective funding strategy that works for you to improve financial sustainability. Click the Book Now tab to read more about the course contents.

 

Date Time Venue
   
     
18 August 2016 13.00 pm – 14.00 pm Online
19 October 2016 13.00 pm – 14.00 pm Online

 

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Course Title –   Grant Writing Skills  Online

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This course will provide you with knowledge of the grant funding sector, as well as techniques and tools you can quickly learn to write an effective grant application form.

 

If you are new to grant writing, this course is for you. If you are new to project development and funding, we  ask that you take our ‘Developing Project For Proposal Writing Course’ together  with this course in-order to learn how to develop projects for which you will be seeking grants-funding. Small charities gain immediate access to our directory of over 2500 grant making charitable trusts and foundations.  Click the Book Now tab to learn more about the course contents.

 

 

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17 August 2016 10.00am -11.30am Online
13 October 2016 10.00am -11.30am Online
    8 December 2016     10.00 am – 11.30 am                           Online

 

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Course Title- Business Planning For Not For Profit Sector Online

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Does your organisation need a business plan for funding or growth?

 

This course is designed for those in the not-for-profit and for profit sector and a separate E-toolkit is available for the Not-For-Profit Sector Organisations &For Profit Organisations.

 

This course is designed to assist you to gain the skills needed to write your business plan to accomplish your organisational priorities including funding.

 

You will be able to access training video of the course within few business days after your payment for the course is cleared.

 

 

Date Time Venue
   
12 July 2016 10.00an -11.15am Online
21 September 2016 10.00am -11.15 am Online
17 November 2016 10.00am – 11.15am Online

 

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Course Title –   Charity Finance For Non Finance Managers

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Understanding the fundamentals of finance as a measurement of charity’s performance is the key objective of this course. As managers or directors you have responsibility for the impact of every transaction undertaken for your charity and it is not sufficient to abdicate responsibility to the finance department. You owe it to your charity to understand the impact of these transactions on the three areas of the organisation-; Income and expenditure account, Cashflow; Balance Sheet .

 

This course is targeted at non-financial experts with responsibility to manage and control financial resources. This course will provide participants with finance fundamentals that will help them understand how to interpret and evaluate financial statements of charities and demonstrate to stakeholders their funds have been spent wisely. Click the Book Now tab to learn more about the course contents.

 

 

Date Time Venue
  10.00am – 11.15 am Online
  10.00am – 11.15 an Online
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Course Title –   Tendering For Public Sector Contracts

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This course is designed to help you learn effective bidding skills to improve your success rate in tendering for contracts. You will learn how to source contracts, assess tender opportunities, plan your bid writing and bid effectively for contracts. You will gain access to portal where you can access training videos, materials and resources. We are continually updating our resources to help you with your tender writing operations. Click the Book Now tab to learn more about the course contents.

 

Date Time Venue
   
     
19 August 2016   12.30 pm -14.00 pm Online
              20 October 2016      12.30 pm – 14.00 pm                          Online
          14 December 2016      12.30 pm -14.00 pm                          Online

 

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Course Title-  Marketing Strategies To Grow Your Charitable Income  Online

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To learn how to use strategic marketing tools to assess the effectiveness of your current marketing strategy; and craft robust marketing strategy to grow your income- the strategies have been used by many small charities to plan and implement income growth strategies effectively.

To learn how to assess your strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats to penetrate different market segments for funding and,how to put in place plans for income growth and stability.

Learn marketing models such as; Porters Five Forces,  Ansoff Matrix and 7 Marketing Mix to build competitive strategy to penetrate funding market and grow your charity. Click the Book Nowtab to learn more about the course contents.

 

 

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    15  August 2016 10.00am – 11.30am                              Online
     26 October 2016 10.00am -11.30am                              Online
    9 December 2016 12.30 pm- 14.00pm                              Online

 

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Course Title – Best Practice Procurement To Improve Cost Effectiveness & Efficiency Online

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This course will teach you how to manage your purchasing and procurement activities to achieve value for money through best practice procurement techniques.

Public sector funders are required by law to comply with procurement regulations and expect organisations funded by them to deliver value for money.

 

Delivering cost savings and managing supply risks through best practice procurement and purchasing can boost your success rate in winning public sector tenders and application for grant funding.

 

This course will teach you techniques to gain competitive advantage and improve the financial health of your organisation. Click the Book Now tab to learn more about the course contents.

 

Date Time Venue
     
  12.00 noon – 13.30 pm Online
  12.00 noon – 13.30 pm Online
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Course Title –  Developing Projects For Fundraising  Online 

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This course is an online course in which you will be able to attend a webinar and gain access to training materials prior to the webinar. The course is designed to teach you how to effectively plan and develop successful projects for proposal writing and fundraising.

 

You will learn, best practice approach to designing an effective project, how to factor the social and economic context of your project, how to use SWOT Analysis to maximise project success and minimise risks, how to use Stakeholder Analysis Model to enhance buy in, how to use  models such as COSTS V BENEFITS MODEL for project selection framework and much more. Click the Book Now tab to read more about the course contents.

 

 

Date Time Venue
   

 

 

14 July 2016

10.00am – 11.30 am Online
20 September 2016 10.00am -11.30 am Online
24 November 2016 10.00am – 11.30 am Online

 

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Course Title – Managing Project Risks To Secure Funding  

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This course is designed for any staff who has responsibilities for planning and managing projects and in need of financial skills to effectively determine budgets, identify risks and produce management strategies to reduce project failure.

You will learn how to conduct financial planning and evaluation of your project, as well as how to conduct risk analysis for projects and produce risk management strategies and management plan. Click the Book Now  tab to read more about the course contents .

 

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12 August 2016 10.00am -11.30am Online
27 October 2016 12.30 pm -14.00pm Online
13 December 2016 10.00sm -11.30 sm Online

 

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Course Title : Risk Management Strategies  For Trustess and Managers

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If you are a lead partner in a consortium or joint venture arrangement you need to attend this course to learn how to manage sub-contractors’ as part of your contract management strategies.

 

As a lead contractor, your organisation is exposed to the performance of your delivery partners and your failure to exercise appropriate risk management strategies comes with heavy financial and reputational penalties which can serious damage the long term viability of your organisation.

 

This course is for those thinking of engaging sub-contractors as well as those who want to increase their management of their existing sub-contractors.

 

Date Time Venue
10.00am-11.15am Online
12.30 pm – 14.00 pm Online
10.00 am -11.30 am Online

 

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Course Title – Managing Grant Funding Contract Risk  

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With the growing competition for grant funding in the market, your organisation cannot afford to expose its limited

internal resources to the risk of breaching terms and conditions of grant funding contracts.

This course is designed to help participants understand the wider dynamics  risks  exposure to grant funding contracts;

how to identify, evaluate and manage contract  risks to secure payment of grants from funders and how to formulate a

risk management plan for ongoing project management.

 

As part of this course, we will be using samples of grant funding contracts to explore the concepts.

 

 

Date Time Venue
 

 

12 July 2016 12.30 pm -14.00pm Online

 

27  September 2016 10am -11.30 am Online
17 November 2016 10.00am – 11.30am Online

 

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Course Title- Due Diligence Skills For Effective Partnership  Online

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This course teaches participants how to conduct a solid and reliable due diligence review on potential partners before formal engagement.

 

The course will teach you how to manage risks to leverage your resource capacity to accomplish cost efficiency, service delivery effectiveness, access to new funding streams and contract opportunities as well as access to diverse markets.

 

Date Time Venue
 

 

18 August 2016 13.00pm – 14.30pm Online
20 October 2016 10.00 pm – 11.30 am Online

 

Our training courses come with support and access to video training courses and training materials in our portal, plus access to tutor support up to two weeks after the training.

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Course Title  – Project  Evaluation Skills Online 

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This ‘Project Evaluation Skills For Sustainable Funding’ is an online course for those who cannot afford workshop due to limited time or budget. It is part of our project management training programme.

 

The webinar course covers all aspects of the project evaluation methodology used to appraise how effective a project has been in achieving planned outcomes and impacts.

By the end of the webinar you will learn cutting edge tools to confidently design and implement an evaluation framework for projects. Click  the Book Now tab to read more about the contents of this course.

 

 

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17 August 2016 12.30 pm- 14.00 pm Online
13 October 2016 12.30 pm -14.00 pm Online
                  8 December 2016       12.30 pm- 14.00 pm               Online

 

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Course Title-  Project Outcomes And Impact Assessment  For Effective Monitoring Online

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This online course is a webinar and is designed to teach you how to define and measure your project’s outputs, outcomes and impacts in order to develop a robust project management framework.

You will learn how to integrate your sustainability plan within the framework to build robust evidence to attract ongoing funding for your project through earned income. Click on the Book Now tab for  more details about this course.

 

Date Time Venue
     
 
   
26 October 2016 10.00am – 11.30 am Online
14 December 2016           12.30pm- 14.00pm  Online

 

Course Title-  Budgeting Skills For Non Finance Managers

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This online course is a webinar and is designed to teach you how to  plan and develop your budgets, as well as how to use budgets to manage your financial resources.

As part of this course, you will gain access to  our online training course materials for six months as well as support from our tutors.  The course comes with a workbook

with lots of examples on the steps to producing an effective budget for your organisation and your projects.

 

Date Time Venue
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17 August 2016 10.00am -11.30 am Online
18 October  2016 10.00am -11.30 am Online
12 December  2016 10.00am – 11.30 am Online

 

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” I  recommend not only this style of training course but all the course content as being exactly what it said on the tin!  I was very impressed by the presenter’s delivery of a great deal of content covered over a short period of time.  Fast paced yes, but delivered in an interesting style and delivered in a manner which gave me confidence I too could manage this and am now equipped with a clear route map as to how I need to order my work to maximize my potential for success. Thank you.”

 

Shirley ILLSLEY  St. Joseph’s Specialist School & College

 

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“I now feel that I have the confidence and knowledge to play a positive role in a bid team.”

 

Bryn Morris  Citizen Advice  Bureau

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“The session was excellent and as advertised.  My only comment was that it may have been a little fast for anyone completely new to the funding arena, however the handouts are well designed and contain plenty of information to pick up on afterwards.

I have attended similar workshops but this is the first to talk about some aspects of preparation needed i.e. funding strategy.  As someone who inherited a successful bid I can say my job would have been much easier if those writing the bid had provided that much detail!

 

I would be interested to learn of other courses run in this fashion and have already promoted this one to colleagues.”

 

Teresa Goldson   MoneyWiseHomeSafe

 

www.cotman-housing.org.uk 

 

 

 

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The workshop contents will help to write a successful application ad proposals. It help me clarify what kind of business plan is required for different projects.

 

Maria Mesa    Women Connect First

 

www.womenconnectfirst.org.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Date: Wednesday 20th July 2016
  • Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
  • Venue: Race Equality Foundation – Unit 17 Deane House Studios, 27 Greenwood Place, London, NW5 1LB

The Race Equality Foundation is inviting patients and carers, voluntary and community organisations and local NHS commissioners to take part in an informed conversation about experiences of interpreting services. Having this discussion will help to shape the standard to help ensure the communication needs for those who need it are met.

Please click here for further information and to register for the event.

 

Supportmatch Homeshare Service offers a simple but effective solution to meeting housing and support needs. It enables people to preserve their independence, remain living in their own homes, while providing affordable accommodation to capable homesharers who can offer both companionship and practical support. Click here to find out more.