Ensure your pitches to grant makers are engaging, persuasive and powerful.
4th February – Proposal Writing for Beginners
Improve your skills to attract the attention needed to guarantee a ‘yes’.
12th February – Proposal Writing – Developing your Skills
For many, there has never been a better time for reflection and thinking about how we can improve on the year before. Personal development is important and you reap the benefits both inside and outside the workplace. Where do you want to be this time next year?
Click on Upcoming Personal Development Training, and scroll down for our best personal development bits.
Writing Skills: Minute Taking Skills (14 Feb)
All too often, a minute-taker struggles to make sense of a chaotic meeting. Explore practical tips on how to make the task more manageable before, during and after. Read more
Resilience (27 Feb)
Take a holistic approach to finding the inner-strength and will-power to face the many challenges of your life on a day-to-day basis. Read more or see the trainer’s top tips ahead of his session
We are looking for more and more partners to help us promote this fantastic opportunity to their staff, members, customers, family or friends. We had 3 new microsites go live in 2019. They are great examples of the training websites we are proposing…
If you would like to discuss how your organisation can take advantage of their own FREE training website perhaps we can schedule a call? There is no cost attached to this at all. All we ask is that your site generates approx 25 enquiries per month. We have a whole host of marketing ideas and campaigns that we can share with you to help achieve this.
For a no-obligation consultation contact Vivienne Wharton on 0121 752 3800 or email partnerships@freecoursesinengland.co.uk
If the above is not relevant to you please browse all free courses available here
We can support you in focusing on retraining or up-skilling, providing you with motivation, job satisfaction, and brand new qualifications.
This will be H&F Council’s third annual awards celebrating those individuals and organisations who give their time to help to enrich the lives of others in the borough. This year, we are looking for nominations in the following categories:
You can nominate anyone who lives, works, studies or volunteers in the borough, or any community or voluntary group or organisation. All nominations will be put before a panel of judges and the finalists will be invited to an awards ceremony in early June (exact date and venue tbc), at which the winners will be announced.
Visit the story on the council website for more information, a link to the nomination form – and also to see the video from last year’s awards event at the town hall.
If you know someone who deserves recognition for their hard work and dedication, nominate them now! Nominations close on Monday 9th March 2020.
Media Trust is thrilled to announce the launch of our fourth annual Women’s Voices event in celebration of International Women’s Day.
Date: Thursday 5 March 2020
Time: 12:45-17:30, followed by networking and drinks
Location: Academy London, 123 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria SW1W 9SH
We’re offering 30 charities that support, campaign and advocate for women and girls the opportunity to work with their own team of media and creative industry volunteers. Each team will have the combined skills to help their charity build an effective, impactful and compelling communications campaign. The afternoon will also include light lunch when you arrive.
Get involved, get support
To apply, simply head over to the Media Trust website and complete the application form.
With limited places available, we are looking for strong applications that clearly outline a specific communication challenge including: reaching new audiences, developing a new campaign, or raising awareness about your cause.
The deadline for applications is Friday 24 January at 17:00. Successful charities will be notified by Friday 31 January.
All applicants must:
To read more about what to expect on the day check out the highlights from Women’s Voices 2019. If you have any questions, please email Carly Bell on carlyb@mediatrust.org.
This mini masterclass offers outstanding value to small charities who will learn about fundraising strategy, trust fundraising and building relationships in corporate and community fundraising. You will hear from three successful fundraisers, sharing insights and taking you through practical templates that you can put to use to improve the success of your charity’s fundraising. You will also have the opportunity to network with your peers, with a drink on us!
When: Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13.00 – 17.00
Where: The main event is at Voluntary Action Islington, 200a Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP, followed by networking drinks at Camino, 3 Varnishers Yard, The Regent Quarter, Kings Cross, N1 9FD
Who: This event has been designed for small charity leaders and fundraisers in small to medium size charities.
How much: Tickets are priced from just £5+VAT for small charities.
Full details and booking: https://www.kedaconsulting.co.uk/event/fundraising-mini-masterclass/
Stewart White, an Instructor Member of MHFA England has recently set up a new business, based in Hammersmith, to provide Mental Health First Aid training for businesses and individuals. He is running the Adult MHFA Two Day course at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith on 27th/28th Jan 2020. The course is open to anyone over the age of 16 at a special introductory price of £200pp. Everyone who completes the course will receive:
Website: www.blueshadow.co.uk
Contact stewart@blueshadow.co.ukl
Whether it’s meeting fundraising targets, building the ultimate team or reaching more people with the message dedicated to your cause, we all have a resolution in mind. Scroll down for DSC’s top resources to get your 2020 off to a flying start. Here’s to making this year the best one yet!
Check out the latest DSC blog post – read it online here.
With 2020 kicking off, there’s no time like the present to ponder what you’d like to be proud of this time next year.
To help you out, we’ve put together a list of the pick of our library of 45 free courses and a few ways they could benefit you in the coming year.
Be excellent in 2020…
sobus
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Telephone 020 7952 1230
Email info@sobus.org.uk
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Sobus is a new Community Development Agency for Hammersmith & Fulham. It has been created through the merger of the Community and Voluntary Sector Association Hammersmith & Fulham (CaVSA) and the Fulham Community Partnership Trust (FCPT). Building on the strengths of both organisations, sobus aims to provide a wider range of support services for local charities, community groups, social enterprises and start up businesses.
