NFP WORKSHOPS Bid Writing Workshops and New Training Courses for Charities, Schools and Public Sector Organisations.
UNSUBSCRIBES This email has been sent to debian-kernel@lists.debian.org To unsubscribe please reply back replacing the subject line with unsubscribe Unsubscribes will take effect within seven days. BOOKING DETAILS You can book any workshop online and pay using a debit card, credit card or paypal. Just google nfp workshops to go to our website. QUESTIONS To ask a question please reply back replacing the subject line with question BID WRITING: THE BASICS Start 09.00 Finish 11.30 Cost £95 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 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 16 Mar 2020 - 23 Mar 2020 SOUTHAMPTON Jurys Inn, Charlotte Place, Southampton SO14 0TB 17 Mar 2020 BRISTOL The Waterfront Meeting Rooms, Welsh Back, Bristol BS1 4SB 18 Mar 2020 EDINBURGH Courtyard, 1-3 Baxter's Place, Edinburgh EH1 3AF 19 Mar 2020 NEWCASTLE Jurys Inn, Scotswood Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4AD 20 Mar 2020 NOTTINGHAM Jurys Inn, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3BJ 24 Mar 2020 BIRMINGHAM Jurys Inn, 245 Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2HQ 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 Start 10.00 Finish 16.00 Cost £295/£345 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 Start 10.00 Finish 16.00 Cost £295/£345 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 Start 10.00 Finish 16.00 Cost £295/£345 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 Start 10.00 Finish 16.00 Cost £295/£345 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 Start 10.00 Finish 16.00 Cost £295/£345 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 NFP WORKSHOPS, 18 Blake Street, York YO1 8QG
