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Training, Workshops and more initiatives for small charities

About The FSI (The Foundation for Social Improvement)
Our aim is to support charities to become more efficient, effective, accountable and self sustaining. We do this by delivering expert knowledge, strategy and support to charities so their futures are secure and their users protected.

The FSI Monthly Newsletter is back with more great initiatives, including:

  • New speakers announced for our Skills Conference
  • Our three-day London training event has been launched
  • Our 18th Small Charity Index is released today
  • Fundraising qualification, bursaries and discounts
  • Saw this and thought of you opportunities
  • New funds for small charities
  • Dates for your diaries

To view the newsletter Click Here

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Get Started in Radio for 16-25 year olds

The Prince’s Trust & Media Trust have teamed up to offer a FREE one-week course

  • Receive training on the art of radio and podcasting
  • Based in the Media Suite at Queens Park Rangers Football Stadium
  • Learn how to technically devise, record, edit and present compelling radio shows and podcasts
  • Produce your own podcast in groups by the end of the week
  • Meet new people and improve your confidence, team work and time-management skills
  • Receive up to three months’ progression support from the Prince’s Trust to help you find further work or training
  • Travel and Lunch paid on programme

Taster Day: Tuesday 27 Feb 2018

Main Programme: 5 – 9 March 2018

Location: West London

How to Refer:

·        Use our Online Form (Please specify ‘RADIO’ in the ‘Which programme are they interested in?’ section)

·        Call our Customer service team on 0800 842 842

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ACAVA Flourish: Arts for Wellbeing workshops

We are pleased to announce funding from RBKC for ACAVA to deliver Flourish: Arts for Wellbeing workshops at The Curve until the end of the summer term.

In response to our taster sessions delivered at The Curve in November and December 2017, we have programmed the following activities and courses for North Kensington residents, which include opportunities for adults, children and the whole community.

We now have a dedicated twitter account @ACAVAFlourish to follow for regular updates.

Read on for further details and to book your place on one of our courses

The workshops will take place at:

The Curve
10 Bard Road, W10 6TP

If you have any questions, you can email us here
Find out more about Flourish here

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Introduction to Accountable Care and the H&F Integrated Care Partnership

Imperial | Chelsea and Westminster | West London Mental Health Trust | H&F GP Federation | CLCH

We are holding an Introduction to Accountable Care and the H&F Integrated Care Partnership workshop for our leaders and managers across our healthcare providers, social care providers, local authorities and voluntary and community sector providers in Hammersmith and Fulham.

These workshops are for you to:

  • Learn more about integrated working and what this means for yourselves, your teams and our patients
  • Explore what integrated working looks like at Hammersmith and Fulham and how we can achieve this
  • Build relationships across organisational boundaries and decide how you will work together as leaders

Coffee and tea will be available from 8.30am, the workshop will run from 9am to 5pm and lunch will be provided. Topics for the day include:

  • Getting to know each other
  • What integrated working means
  • Accountable care: the national, international and local context
  • Working together across H&F
  • Leading integrated working at H&F
  • Action Learning Sets
  • Next steps and staying involved

The workshop will be highly interactive and participative as well as informative. It provides a great opportunity for you to meet your colleagues across the partnership and build working relationships that will form the foundations for working together in the future. We also aspire to create a network of Integrated Care Champions and this is the first step of that journey, so your attendance and contributions will be key to shaping this area of work and its success.

There will also be a limited number of places for participants to visit North East Hampshire and Farnham Vanguard site to see accountable care in action.

The dates and venues for the workshops are:

  • March 1st – White City Community Centre
  • March 6th – Hammersmith Town Hall
  • March 16th – White City Community Centre
  • March 22nd  – White City Community Centre

To sign up, please register your details online here and answer a short pre-course questionnaire.

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Heavily Subsidised Small Charity Training in London

With support from Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the FSI is delivering a heavily subsidised three day training event in London on February 20-22nd offering small and local charities and community groups full & half day courses on key fundraising & governance skills.

A sampling of training courses include GDPR Essentials, Preparing Major Grant Applications and Tenders Successfully, How to Prepare your Annual Report, Demonstrating Your Impact and a variety of workshops. We also have standalone training days in London on January 15th and 30th, as well as workshops on January 17th and 25th. Places fill up fast, so book your place today to access this fantastic training opportunity: 

Feb 20-22: click here

Jan 15: click here

Jan 17: click here

Jan 25: click here

Jan 30: click here

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Meet the Funder – Trust for London

Trust for London offers grants to organisations undertaking charitable activities (you do not need to be a registered charity) that aim to tackle poverty and its root causes in London by dealing with issues such as deprivation, unemployment, inequality, homelessness and poor health.

At this workshop, Helal Abbas from Trust for London will outline new priorities for this important London funder.

When: 9 January 2018, 10:30am – 12:00pm

Location: One Westminster
37 Chapel St
London, NW1 5DP
United Kingdom

REGISTER NOW

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Affordable Training Courses for Charities, Schools, Associations & Social Enterprises

Bid Writing: The Basics

TOPICS COVERED

Who are the winners and losers in grant funding. How to identify the weaknesses in your project. What questions will funders will ask themselves about your bid. Common reasons for applications being rejected. The key terms in bid writing explained with examples of each. Make your application short but effective. 

Start telling funders the things they really want to hear. How to build greater credibility in the eyes of funders. Demonstrating that the beneficiaries of your project are involved. The importance of getting your numbers and totals right. What to do with all your supporting documents. Make your proofreading foolproof.

Bid Writing: Advanced

TOPICS COVERED

Are you applying to the right trusts ? Are you looking for trusts in all the right places ? Are you applying to enough trusts ? Are you applying in the right ways ? Are your projects the most fundable projects ? How do you compare with your competitors for funding ?

Are you carrying out trust fundraising in a professional way ? Do you understand what trusts are looking for ? Do you know how to turn your competitors into your ambassadors ? Is the rest of your fundraising hampering your bids to trusts ?

Click Here for more Info, dates, costs and booking details

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New Mental Health Carers Support Group

Carers Network has partnered with Rethink Mental Illness to provide a new Carers Support Group in Hammersmith and Fulham.

This group will:

  • provide support to people who care for others with a mental illness
  • offer a range of workshops, which provide supportive tools and information
  • Have public speakers who can offer advice and guidance on issues affecting carers and mental health

The first meeting will be held Tuesday 9th January. To register please email events@carers-network.org.uk or call 020 8960 3033.

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Important Changes to Rules of Data Protection

The rules and regulations on data protection are changing and the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will effect all organisations big and small. This workshop will help ensure your organisation has an understanding of GDPR and what you need to do next. Places are limited and to book your place click here

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