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Have you ever wondered what happens to your funding proposals after you click ‘submit’? Or mused on what conversations actually take place behind the closed doors of a grant-maker’s trustee meeting?

​This is your chance to see for yourself!

Based on interviews with trustees and grant managers from a wide range of funders, this interactive workshop has been carefully designed to give you as accurate and realistic an experience of a grant-making meeting as possible.

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:

An in-depth course to develop your knowledge and skills to effectively implement social care duties and best practice when assessing and meeting the care and support needs of adults with no recourse to public funds who are experiencing homelessness or destitution.

Course Objectives

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

What you’ll learn:

This workshop encourages discussion, reflection and critical thinking to enhance your safeguarding adults policy and procedures is fit for purpose.

Developed through the lens of those with lived-experience, this workshop focuses on the fundamentals of developing an effective policy and the accompanying procedures and applying a values-based approach.

Date: Thursday 5 March 2026
Time: 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Location: Online
Price: £99 per person

Objectives For the Session

This online course will explore the roles and responsibilities of managers in terms of safeguarding adults at risk.

We’ll (Ann Craft Trust) look at the key changes within safeguarding as part of the Care Act. You’ll be encouraged to identify where the challenges are, and to seek solutions towards implementation in practice.

We’ll cover best practice, the expectations of regulators, and the lessons we learned from our safeguarding adults reviews.

Part 1: Supporting families in the SEND tribunals
A presentation by National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) caseworkers with a practical focus for those navigating the SEND tribunals, including an overview of the tribunals process and important rules and procedures.  It will also look at issues such as social barriers to the appeals process, gathering children’s views and getting parent’s perspectives for hearings.
Lorraine Friend Thomas, Lamina Lloyd, and Hannah Pinchin, National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS)

Part 1: Advocacy in the welfare benefits tribunals (First Tier Social Entitlements Chamber and Upper Tribunal)
Top tips on advocacy, including common issues such as DWP not attending hearings, preparing and presenting complex evidence, and asking the tribunal for adjournments and dealing with delays.
Chair: Matt Ahluwalia, Garden Court Chambers
Brandi Amiss-Towler, Free Representation Unit
Martin Williams, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)

Part 1: Advocacy in the immigration and asylum tribunals

How can you maximise your chances of success in appealing refusal of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) requests in the First Tier and Upper tribunal?

What are the essential rules and procedures that appellants need to understand?
How do you ensure the tribunal is presented with the clearest and best case for transparency and disclosure?
What public law arguments can be used in the tribunal?

Speakers