Community Engagement

An opportunity to meet fellow Fundraisers and discuss the challenges and new opportunities arising in our sector.

There has never been a greater need for fundraisers to get together and share knowledge and experience. Get Grants FREE Virtual Fundraisers Networking Events bring fundraisers together to access friendly peer support from our UK-wide Get Grants Community.

Hear from the author of Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health.

What if art could save your life?

Join us for a morning conversation with Professor Daisy Fancourt, the world's leading expert on arts and health, as she reveals the life-changing power of creative engagement.

In her groundbreaking book Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health, Daisy shows us that the arts are not a luxury; they are essential to our health, happiness, and ability to flourish.

Most organisations learn: some formally through structured processes, others informally through day‑to‑day practice. The challenge is to understand how learning already happens in your organisation and then identify the right interventions to intentionally grow and strengthen a learning culture.

In this session, we (NPC) will look at learning as a culture‑change process through four lenses:

Did you know around 20% of the population live with a disability? Yet despite this, much of the content we create online still isn’t fully accessible. Whether it’s a newsletter that’s isn’t screen reader friendly, or a social media post without alt text, many people can be unintentionally excluded from your charity’s messaging due to inaccessible content.

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) invites you to their Garden City Discovery Day Community Connector, a family friendly event celebrating gardening, creativity, and community in Wythenshawe.

This family-friendly Connector will bring together residents, local Community Groups, and organisations to champion community growing, sustainability and local pride.

Understand what data tells us about poverty in the UK, how to find this data and how to use it to build effective responses to poverty.

What you’ll learn:

Learn better practice in engaging with people with lived experience of poverty.

What you’ll learn:

Get an introduction to data collection methods and practical guidance for evaluating your work

Learn how to use surveys, interviews and other tools to find out if your project is making a difference.

Whether you’re preparing funder reports or trying to make sense of programme outcomes, this training course will teach you how to collect data that is relevant to your organisation and cause.

By the end of the training, you’ll:

Being able to articulate and evidence the needs your organisation meets is core to delivery, strategy, fundraising and often your own confidence. This session gives you steps to follow to turn what you intrinsically know, into something others can understand.