Capacity Building

Community-university partnerships are becoming more popular and co-production is a value increasingly embraced by research funders. Nevertheless, it is still relatively uncommon for voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations to be included from the beginning when it comes to developing a research project.

Come and join speakers from academia and the VCFSE sector to learn from their experiences about the challenges and opportunities of developing research projects together across sectors.

Join the DataKind UK panel to learn how to demonstrate your organisation’s value and build a narrative about your impact, no matter your size. Citizens Advice and Money A+E both tackle financial exclusion, especially for minoritised groups. They are at very different stages in their data use, but one of the major challenges they all face is tracking their service users’ journeys and progress.

Join the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) at the Mechanics Institute for an insightful event focused on tackling illegal money lending in Greater Manchester. This session aimed at Frontline Workers will focus on the dangers of Loan Sharks, how to identify their victims and how to protect the communities you work with from falling victim to their schemes. This in-person event will feature expert speakers and interactive workshops to help you understand the impact of illegal money lending and how to prevent it.

The event will will include input from:

We are hosting the next discussion space for VCSE organisations (statutory and private sector colleagues are very welcome) to meet and discuss what VCSE groups and organisations need from a venue, either a permanent, temporary or adhoc as well as those groups and organisation who would like to attend to promote any venue hire they currently have available.

We also welcome anyone who wants to join the meeting to promote new projects or programmes of work and meet other VCSE groups and organisations.
 

There has never been a greater need for fundraisers to get together and share knowledge and experience.

Get Grants is collaborating with Views to help provide organisations with the resources, and knowledge they require to boost the understanding and impact of their work.

The Views platform allows organisations to intuitively manage data and measure their impact.

Get Grants will be joined by Jack Abbotts from the The Clothworkers’ Foundation team to explore their current grant programme.

The Foundation was established in 1977 to serve as The Clothworkers' Company's main method of charitable giving. Since then, we have given capital grants totalling more than £158 million to charities and not-for-profit organisations that are registered in the UK.

Attendees will have the chance to ask questions and receive insights direct from The Clothworkers’ Foundation about their programme.

The event offers the opportunity to:

Are you seeking to expand your organisation's reach and capabilities through strategic partnerships and consortia?

This 90 minute webinar is the ideal first step towards contract readiness, giving voluntary, community or social enterprises (VCSEs) a solid grounding in building partnerships and consortiums.

This webinar will help you to:

Financial difficulties within many local authorities, sometimes leading to the issuing of a section 114 notice (s114), are affecting voluntary sector organisations and communities across the country. Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales and NAVCA have recently published research into the impact of local government financial difficulty on local voluntary sector organisations.

The research provides recommendations for the voluntary sector for navigating these circumstances, as well as policy recommendations for local and central government.