NFP Workshops: Affordable Training Courses for Charities, Schools, Healthcare & Public Sector

Workshops are held online via Zoom. 10.00 to 12.30 on a single date. Multiple dates shown are alternative dates. Each workshop costs £95 per participant. There are no discounts available. Workshops consist of talk, discussions, questions and answers. There are no power points or audio visuals used. Participants receive full notes by email after the workshop.

Our website contains booking links allowing you to pay by debit card, credit card, PayPal or Google Pay.Google nfp workshops to go to our website. If you can’t book online we can accept BACS payments. Please send the workshop names, workshop dates, participant names, participant email addresses and your postal address to paybybacs1@nfpmail1.co.uk 

We do not offer in house courses, courses on other topics, bid writing services or consultancy services. If you have a question please email question1@nfpmail1.co.uk If you wish a phone chat please send your name, number and available times to callback1@nfpmail1.co.uk

 

Bid Writing 17 Apr 2023, 24 Apr 2023, 22 May 2023, 05 Jun 2023, 19 Jun 2023

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?

 

Trust Fundraising 09 May 2023

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?

 

Major Donor Fundraising 23 May 2023

Major Donor Characteristics, Motivations and Requirements. Researching and Screening Major Donors. Encouraging, Involving and Retaining Major Donors. Building Relationships with Major Donors. Major Donor Events and Activities. Setting Up Major Donor Clubs. Asking For Major Gifts. Looking After and Reporting Back to Major Donors. Delivering on Major Donor Expectations. Showing Your Appreciation to Major Donors. Fundraising Budgets and Committees.

 

Corporate Fundraising 18 Apr 2023, 06 Jun 2023

Who are these companies? Why do they get involved? What do they like? What can you get from them? What can you offer them? What are the differences between donations, sponsorship, advertising and cause related marketing? Are companies just like trusts? How do you find these companies? How do you research them?

How do you contact them? How do you pitch to them? How do you negotiate with them? When should you say no? How do you draft contracts? How do you manage the relationships? What could go wrong? What are the tax issues? What are the other considerations?

 

Legacy Fundraising 25 Apr 2023, 20 Jun 2023

Why do people make legacy gifts? What are the ethical issues? What are the regulations? What are the tax issues? What are the statistics? What are the trends? How can we integrate legacy fundraising into our other fundraising? What are the sources for research? How should we set a budget? How should we evaluate our results? How should we forecast likely income? Should we use consultants? How should we build a case for support? What media and marketing channels should we use? What about in memory giving? How should we setup our admin systems? What are the common problems & pitfalls?

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Grants to Improve the Resilience of Local Communities (UK)

Grants of up to £1,600 are available for grassroots community groups and organisations to support a broad range of activities that contribute towards transforming communities and improving lives across the UK. The funding is available through the Asda Foundation’s Empowering Local Communities Fund Round 1 to support projects and activities which address local issues that are important to a community and which benefit local people. This includes events that bring people together and encourage community connections, initiatives to provide basic essentials, projects to transform or improve spaces or activities, and events to celebrate the King’s Coronation (up to £400). Applications should be made through each local Asda store’s Community Champion by the 21st April 2023. Grants to Improve the Resilience of Local Communities (UK)

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Grants to Support Disadvantaged Young People through Educational & Sporting Activities (UK)

Applications are open for UK charities, educational institutions and NHS Trusts seeking funding to support those under the age of 18 who are living with a mental health condition, disability or growing up in poverty. The Hargreaves Foundation aims to help children and young people to fulfil their potential and improve their wellbeing, self-esteem and independence through educational and sporting activities provided. This could include initiatives that improve academic engagement and attainment, develop skills to aid future employment, improve life skills, and ensure sport is accessible. There is no minimum or maximum grant amount. Applications can be made at any time and are reviewed in the month following online submission. Grants to Support Disadvantaged Young People through Educational & Sporting Activities (UK)

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Fundraising in a Downturn – 5 Fundraising Tips to Help You Keep Going!

‘It’s a challenging time out there for many of our supporters. The perfect storm of rising costs across just about all their regular outgoings (mortgages, energy, travel, food) has required many people to make economies. But don’t despair! Here are five tips to help you keep bringing in the crucial resources for your mission…’ Read more here.

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FREE Office Furnishings for Charities

Available items:

22 desks

22 pedestals

Various colour plastic chairs

Kitchen tables

9 glass boards

Interested persons will need to contact facilitiesuk@awaze.co.uk asap and collect from Hammersmith before the end of March.

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International Womens Month – Celebrating the Women of H&F, Sharon Tomlin, Sobus Community Organiser

“International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women’s achievements or rally for women’s equality”

International Womens Day – https://www.internationalwomensday.com/About

I have had the pleasure of working with phenomenal women who live, work and operate in Hammersmith and Fulham who go the extra mile to support residents who volunteer and work in organisations in this borough. These are colleagues from across the borough who work hard to strive for gender equity in the spaces they operate in.

Based on the listenings (dialogue) that I have had the privilege to conduct with women (workers, volunteers and residents) in the borough, I have found that many aspects of the service and work being delivered aim to address gender equity by developing and sustaining good practices, whilst being aware of the complex behavioural and societal challenges residents face.

As we get ready to attend and participate in activities organised in Hammersmith and Fulham, I wish to take this time to mention the immense body of work and service delivered by women colleagues from across the sectors in the borough.

The range in areas of work and service delivered by colleagues many of whom I have worked with directly or groups that I have supported the development of aim to address gender equity include:

  • Activism of women’s health such female genital mutilation
  • Raising awareness and hosting discussions on gender- based abuse and violence
  • Domestic abuse and violence against women and girls
  • Addressing harassment and “being believed” in matters of physical and emotional intrusion into the homes particularly of single women
  • Mothers of children involved in the justice system
  • Addressing digital poverty
  • Developing the discussions around menopause
  • Isolation and loneliness of mothers and teenage girls
  • Female led local grassroots sports voluntary groups
  • Addressing child care costs
  • Youth Justice leadership
  • Day to day challenges of unpaid carers
  • Inspire women and girls into science, technology, engineering and mathematics
  • Creating informal groups that address particular areas of interest, issue and or concerns

I wish to thank our women colleagues of Hammersmith and Fulham for the transformational work they do that include:

  • Residents
  • Volunteers
  • Voluntary Organisations
  • Community Groups
  • Local Authority
  • Health Authority

List of some events planned for March 2023 and beyond:

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Co-production – A Brief Perspective, Shad Haibatan, Sobus Head of Engagement & Partnerships

Co-production in service design and deliver is a principle that has been widely adopted by statutory and other service providers. In Hammersmith & Fulham the local authority and health providers are committed to implementing co-production. It is seen as a means of co-designing and co-producing services, which involves all stakeholders, who are affected or have an interest in that service. This should lead to the development of more effective and appropriate services, which are accessible to all potential beneficiaries and achieve the intended outcomes.

Development is centred around a partnership approach involving all stakeholders as equal partners. Developing a targeted service for older people may include health, local authority, voluntary and community sector, as well as service users and residents. Everyone should have an input from the drawing board stage to final delivery of a service. This would mean identifying needs more effectively, designing a service that meets those needs more effectively as users perspectives are taken into account and reaching marginalised communities who may have been excluded.

A co-production approach should therefore lead to more efficient, better-targeted and arguably more cost effective services, addressing needs identified and achieving intended outcomes.

From a voluntary and community sector perspective, participation in co-production often presents challenges. These will often discourage involvement.

These challenges include:

  • Being marginal to the process even when involved.
  • Not being invited at the earliest stage of development
  • Not being treated as an equal partner
  • A top down hierarchical approach to decision making
  • Exclusion through communication language and culture of statutory and larger institutions
  • Lack of adequate resources to participate in the process

All these factors mean a lack of voluntary and community sector participation in co-production.

This often leads to lack of progress in achieving a co-produced outcome despite the commitment of all partners to achieve this aim.

Sobus is working with the local authority, health and voluntary sector and community sector partners in trying to address these challenges to achieve a genuine co-production environment in Hammersmith & Fulham.

For more information on co-production in Hammersmith & Fulham please contact shad.haibatan@sobus.org.uk

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K&C is Recruiting

Are you enthusiastic about supporting the voluntary and community sector in Kensington and Chelsea?

At KCSC we support organisations like these through the provision of advice, information, news and training. We also facilitate the voice of the local voluntary and community sector (VCS) and represent the sector at a strategic level.

We are currently hiring. Click the links below for more information:

Community Resilience Programme Support (CRSP) Officer – Deadline: Monday 6 March

Director of Operations – Deadline: Sunday 5 March

Health & Wellbeing VCS Strategic Lead Officer – Deadline: Wednesday 8 March

Project Officer (Health and Wellbeing) – Deadline: Monday 6 March

Office Administrator – Deadline: Monday 20 March

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Disability Equality & Coproduction Training Course for Disabled People who live, work, volunteer or study in H&F

  • Do you want to be part of the drive to make Hammersmith and Fulham the best place for Disabled people to live and work?
  • Do you want to work together with councillors and council officers on services and policies that affect Disabled people?
  • Do you want to use your lived experience as a Disabled person to shape the Independent Living agenda, which means Disabled people living in the community with the same choices, control and freedom as anybody else?

If so, this training course is for you!

  • It is free to attend, and you will be paid for your involvement.
  • It is open to all Disabled people who live, work, volunteer or study in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (LBHF).

Your commitment:

  • To attend and participate in the training course
  • To become a coproducer and work alongside councillors and officers to create Independent Living and empowering services in LBHF

Our commitment to you:

  • To support and give you the skills and knowledge to developing services and policy to remove barriers for Disabled people in LBHF

When will it take place?
March – May 2023. 
Session 1: Saturday 18th March – 11am – 4.00pm
Followed by 6 sessions on Tuesdays 4.00pm – 7.00pm on the following dates:
March: 21st and 28th March 2023
April: 18th and 25th April 2023
May: 2nd and 9th May 2023

Where Will the Course Take Place?
The course will be held at Action on Disability, Centre for Independent Living, Mo Mowlam House, Clem Atlee Court, SW6 7BF. We will make it as accessible as we can for participants and will ensure your access needs are met.

How Do I Participate?
To find out more information or to register, please contact Action on Disability by emailing: info@aod.org.uk or call: 0207 385 2098

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Almost 40% of One-Off Donations Now Made by Digital Wallet

‘Digital wallets are now used to make nearly four in 10 (39%) one-off donations, according to the latest annual report from goDonate, with their use for regular giving also growing. The Online Donations Insights Report is compiled from an analysis of anonymised donations data as part of £25m in income handled by goDonate in the past 12 months on behalf of UK charities…’ Read more here.

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