Funding

Many charities feel that fundraising is all about the next ask but the organisations that build lasting income focus on something deeper: meaningful donor relationships. 

This practical webinar will help charity leaders shift from transactional fundraising to long-term stewardship, giving you simple, realistic ways to strengthen relationships with the people and organisations who support your work. You'll learn how thoughtful engagement and communication can turn one-off gifts into lasting partnerships.

In this one-hour session you’ll learn:

Join Media Trust’s panel to learn how charities can keep their comms shining, even when costs are rising.

When finances are under pressure, good communications can be one of your most powerful tools. That’s why Media Trust has brought together an expert panel to support charities facing rising costs.

This webinar from the National Lottery Community Fund will introduce their new change makers partnership and provide further information to help you understand more about it, explore whether it’s right for you, and give you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.

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.

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.

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

The Live Well Communities Fund is a community-l

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.

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?