National Training August 2011

Spotlight

Institute of Fundraising – bursary places available
Training for trustees and senior managers at DSC’s Trustee Fair
Trustees’ Week – 31 October – 6 November
Trustee Conference 2011

Institute of Fundraising bursary places available

Two hundred places at one-day conferences made available to organisations with incomes of less than £250,000 a year.

The Institute of Fundraising is offering staff at small charities the chance to attend its one-day conferences for only £20 under a new bursary scheme with 200 one-day conference bursary places available (to not-for-profit organisations with annual voluntary incomes of less than £250,000).

They are being funded through the IoF’s strategic partnership with the Office for Civil Society. The OCS has awarded £275,000 to the IoF for 2011/12.

The IoF’s usual conference rate is £225 for non-members and £175 for members.
The IoF has conferences on digital fundraising, face-to-face fundraising and legacy fundraising scheduled. To apply for places, charities should visit the Institute’s website

The deadline for applications is 30 August.

Training for trustees and senior managers at DSC’s Trustee Fair

Date: Thursday 29 September 2011
Venue: DSC’s Charity Centre, London

Small Charities Coalition and Charity Trustee Networks have worked together with the Directory of Social Change to provide a day full of interactive training designed specifically for trustees, chairs, CEOs and senior executives.
Choose from 14 sessions and three masterclasses, including:

Chairing board meetings
Effective decision making by the board
Essentials skills and fundraising strategy
Great exceptions – exploring the roles of chair and trustee
Company law, how it affects charities
Update on Charity Commission guidance

Full session listings can be found online at www.trusteefair.org.uk .Workshop sessions are priced from £25, but hurry, numbers are limited so book now.
Book online today at www.trusteefair.org.uk or contact DSC at 08450 77 77 07 or email enquiries@dsc.org.uk if you have any further questions.

Trustees’ Week - 31 October – 6 November

Trustees’ Week is an annual celebration of charity trusteeship. It highlights the great work that trustees do and draws attention to opportunities for people from all walks of life to get involved and make a real difference. Whilst there are around 800,000 trustees in England and Wales, estimates suggest that almost half of charities have a vacancy on their trustee board. A number of the organisations behind Trustees’ Week provide trustee-matching services, details of these can be found at www.trusteesweek.org.uk.
If you are organising a Trustees’ Week event and want its details to be included on the website, you can send details to trusteesweek@charitycommission.gsi.gov.uk.

Trustees’ Week 2011 is organised in partnership with The Charity Commission, Charity Trustee Network, recently merged with the Small Charities Coalition, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), Reach Volunteering, Getting on Board, ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales), Governance magazine and the National Unions of Students (NUS).

Trustee Conference 2011

Date: Monday 31 October
Venue: The Brewery, London

In an environment where innovative and enterprising solutions are more important than ever, it is clear that good governance and leadership is crucial for creating successful and sustainable organisations.

Join us at this year's Trustee Conference to discover the latest thinking, practical tools, and support to help you and your trustee board better respond to, adapt to and drive change.

Here are a few highlights to whet your appetite:

Hear from some of the sector’s most inspiring leaders, including Martyn Lewis CBE, Chair of NCVO who has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in trusteeship and Martha Lane Fox, the Government's Digital Champion who founded lastminute.com, set up her own grant giving foundation in 2007 and has been set the challenge of making sure everyone is an internet user by 2012
Learn from a range of practical workshops including managing the fallout from enforced change, challenging funding decisions and crisis management for trustees
Gain insight into legal updates affecting trustee boards
Network and learn from other chairs, trustees and chief executives
Celebrate trusteeship with the launch of Trustees' Week 2011 and the announcement of the winner of the Winifred Tumim Prize at our drinks reception.

Booking your place is easy. Visit www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/trusteeconference2011 or contact Sue Beckett on 020 7520 3153, Susan.Beckett@ncvo-vol.org.uk

g Thing: Finance

Date: Tuesday 5 July
Time: 9am – 12.30pm
Venue: KPMG, Salisbury Square, London EC4Y 8BB

Social Enterprise London in partnership KPMG deliver another FREE programme of training to ambitious social enterprises based in London.
This session will provide training in:

Financial modelling
Budget development and management
Financial management for non finance professionals

KPMG would also like to provide ongoing support through one to-one mentoring to a small number of workshop participants. Information on this will be provided at the workshop.

The workshops are FREE to attend for members of the London Social Enterprise Network. Places are strictly limited and are in high demand. Follow this link. for more information and to register your place.

Please call 0207 033 2604 or email events@sel.org.uk if you require more information.

Short courses on Fundraising

London Rebuilding Society is a social enterprise that specialises in creating innovative forms of finance, that benefit local communities and the environment.

Planning your Fundraising

Date: Tuesday 19 July, 9.30 for 10am – 1pm
Cost: £15
This course aims to prepare organisations for more sustainable fundraising and for making larger funding applications. It aims to deliver improved fundraising skills for volunteers, managers/directors or committee members responsible for fundraising.
Further information

Writing funding applications for Trusts and Foundations

Date: Tuesday 19 July, 2-5pm
Cost: £15

This introductory seminar will look at the content of a successful funding application. The course aims to deliver improved fundraising skills for volunteers, managers/directors or committee members responsible for fundraising.
Further information

Finance skills for business planning

Dates: 5, 12, 18 and 27 July 2011, mornings
Cost: Free to social entrepreneurs, however a £50 returnable deposit will be required to ensure attendance.

Anyone who is setting up or managing an enterprise will benefit from this course. It will help you to demonstrate to others, such as potential investors or lenders, your directors or management committee, but above all to yourself, that the business will survive and be profitable, and how the cash will flow. Knowing how your business is going to perform will give you more confidence and enable you to manage better (and have fewer sleepless nights).
Further information

From Voluntary Sector to Social Enterprise

Date: Thursday 14 July, 10am-4pm
Cost: £30 including lunch

This workshop is designed for voluntary sector organisations to help the move from Voluntary Sector grant-funding to social enterprise trading, from spending time applying for grants to selling products or services. We will explore the questions that arise for not-for-profit bodies developing social enterprise activities. What have we got that we can sell? Where are our markets? What new ways of thinking, knowledge skills, systems and structure are needed?
Further information

Marketing for Training Managers

Date: Friday 23 September 2011
Location: Central London
Cost: FREE

Do you organise and promote training and courses for other voluntary sector organisations and community groups? If so, you are invited to a one-day course on writing effective promotional material for your organisation’s training.
This opportunity is aimed exclusively at charity and voluntary sector training managers, please see criteria on the webpage. To register your place, complete the short application here. Can’t make the date? Complete the application anyway and NGO media will let you know about further training dates.