Professional development

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.

This interactive session will help you to ensure your social media activity is closely aligned to organisational goals. You’ll come away from this session with an understanding of how social media can help your organisation achieve its aims, how you can protect your charity, staff and volunteers with a simple policy, and which channels are key to your online presence and content planning techniques.

A well-handled grievance can resolve workplace conflict at an early stage, saving management time, employer costs and supporting good working relationships. 

In this webinar Acas will explore how to manage a workplace grievance.

It will cover: 

Embedding a fair disciplinary process is an important consideration for organisations. It can help reduce risk, create better working relationships and improve operational performance. 

This webinar will provide you and your managers with a valuable opportunity to see some of the key elements that go into creating a fair disciplinary process. We will include guidance on suspension, investigations, hearings, the right to be accompanied and appeals. 

This half-day course provides a detailed understanding of the safeguarding duties and responsibilities for Trustees.

Course content includes:

Charity finance teams are under increasing pressure to deliver accurate reporting, manage complex funding structures, support strategic decision-making, and meet growing governance expectations, often with limited resources and heavily manual processes.

Our (Charity Digital) upcoming webinar from finance experts, AccountsIQ, explores how charities can reduce operational complexity, improve financial visibility, and move from reactive reporting to more strategic finance leadership.

As part of Project 17's training series in collaboration with United Impact, we are excited to invite you to our upcoming free session.

This training is ideal for professionals who regularly make Section 17 referrals or work with individuals receiving Section 17 support. Please note, there will be only a brief overview of Section 17, so it’s best suited for those already familiar with the topic.

The session will explore:

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.

There is a wide range of not-for-profit structures ranging from registered charities to community interest companies. They all have specific benefits, and some drawbacks. This session will look at the main structures, and explain the benefits and issues associated with each of them.

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.