Community Engagement

Turn funding rejections into success. Learn why bids fail, refine your writing, and create stronger, compelling grant applications.

Fundraisers across the sector are dealing with more rejections than usual. But even in this landscape, charities are still having fundraising success.

So how can fundraisers turn their rejections into successes?

Focussing on what you can control in your bid writing and making it as strong and compelling as possible is crucial.

This free workshop will cover the following topics:

• Importance of evaluating,
• different ways to evaluate and deciding which way is best suited for your project,
• deciding what questions to ask and the data you need both for your organisation and for measuring impact for your funders

This free workshop will cover the following topics:

• What is signposting and what are referrals,
• what are the benefits of signposting and referrals for your clients and your organisation,
• setting up referral and signposting pathways,
• having effective and sensitive conversations to create signposting opportunities,
• accessing and setting up resources to signpost/refer and manage capacity

This free workshop is focused on Partnership Working. 

Topics will include: 

• Benefits of partnership work for your clients and your organisations,
• setting up partnerships appropriate to your service and your organisational goals,
• networking in spaces appropriate to your service and organisation,
• maintaining and developing relationships with partner organisations,
• developing your network

This is a free workshop focusing on Community Engagement.

Topics will include: 

• How to engage with the groups and individuals you want to work with,
• different barriers people face and how to overcome them in your service/activity,
• providing a positive client experience,
• creating an inclusive and accessible environment,
• recruiting people to attend your service/activity,
• carrying out outreach work.

Are you tired of the headlines? It’s easy to look at the news and wonder if there is any good left out there. We’re told the world is divided, but here at Tales to Inspire, we know a different story.

Welcome to Inspire Fest, a one-day immersion into the heart of the UK's changemakers. This isn’t a corporate conference; it’s a gathering of humans from all walks of life who refused to stay silent, stay small and chose to make a difference instead, in their lives and in their communities. 

Join Manchester Met Business School for a free morning event bringing together neurodivergent business owners/leaders, academics and anyone else who thinks a little differently.

The event will feature a keynote from Dan Freeman — a multi-award winning writer and director who'll be sharing his story about being Autistic in the creative sector — plus round tables, great conversation, and of course lunch.

This course will introduce processes and tools to help ensure that decision-making is responsive to your environment and focused on the most important issues affecting your organisation

Whether your organisation is embarking on a new strategy as part of a regular review, or making strategic choices in response to challenges, this course will help leadership teams deal with difficult decision making.

By the end of this training, you'll: