Funding

Third Sector Lab: Google Ad Grants in 2026 - New Opportunities for Charity Advertisers

Find out about the current state of Google Ad Grants, the free ads that Google offers to charities. What types of ad you can run, recent changes to policies, and current best practice, with real-world examples of successful ad campaigns. The grant has changed a lot in the last year, with new features that make it a more useful way to boost your organisation’s profile.

The training is followed by a dedicated Q&A session.

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Apollo Fundraising: Through a Funder's Eyes – The Interactive Grant-Making Experience for Fundraisers

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.

Manchester Art Gallery, M2 3JL

Get Grants: Stronger Bid Writing Masterclass

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.

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Evaluating and Continuously Improving Projects workshop

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
Gorton Library, 27 Garratt Way, Manchester, M18 8HE

NPC: Theory of change in ten steps

A theory of change process encourages us to reflect on our aims and plans, to discuss them with others, and to make them explicit. We see this process as the foundation of strategy, evaluation and communication. This seminar will run through how to develop a theory of change, based on our published guidance Theory of change in ten steps.

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Cracking Good Food: Carnival Cook-Up fundraiser

On Tuesday 2nd June, the fundraiser Carnival Cook-Up! is taking over Manchester as we (Cracking Good Food) head back to the fantastic venue, Freight Island. Take your team away from their desks as they don their aprons, network with fellow foodies and feel the electric buzz of social good!

We absolutely smashed our targets last year and this time we have the ambitious task of 2,000 meals in 1 day, are your team up to the challenge?

Freight Island, 11 Baring Street, Manchester, M1 2PZ

Introduction to Monitoring & Evaluation

All community organisations exist because they want to make a difference, but why do we need to be able to talk about how we do that?

Monitoring and evaluation is collecting and recording information about your work and service users. It is checking that what you deliver is working, and then being able to show others what difference your work makes to services users and the community you serve (and why that’s important).

This session will;

The Grange Community Resource Centre, 4 Pilgrim Drive, Beswick, Manchester, M11 3TQ