Pros and Cons of the New CIO Structure

ALE1

The CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) structure gives charities the benefits of incorporation and means they only need to register with the Charity Commission. The pros and cons will be discussed.
Speaker: Tamsin Priddle, Russell-Cooke LLP

Why Are Proposals So Boring?

AFS1

Assessing charity proposals has become like marking exam papers. When one hits the desk which exudes passion and fire and eschews jargon, it is a welcome change, and an energising task. Put the passion back into your proposals, and cheer up the assessors who read it!
Speaker: Chris Wells

Why Companies Want to Give Money?

AMM1

Know what motivates companies to give you money. Learn how to approach them and talk their language. What are the areas of cooperation to look at? How can you work with companies and not lose your identity? After this session you will know how to make the most of their strengths and fulfil your mission and goals.
Speaker: Noam Kostucki

Finance for Non Finance People

AFM1

For all those who have to deal with finance issues, organisational events and activities, and report on income and expenditure. This brief introduction covers some of the basic finance concepts that non-finance staff need to demystify finance jargon and finance related processes.
Speaker: Jacqueline Williams

Leadership of Charities – Priorities for the Future

ASE1

Mike will use his 25 years experience as a charity consultant to set the major developments in the leadership, management and governance of non-profit organisations into context. He will go on to predict the key areas for Chairs’ and Chief Executives’ attention over the next five years.
Speaker: Mike Hudson

Delegation - can’t someone else do it?

APM1

There is a difference between delegation and abdication. Delegation is an art so they say – come and discover why and find out how you can dramatically improve both your own and team’s performance through effective delegation.
Speaker: Heather Brierley

Managing Absence - NEW

AHR1

This session will be packed with practical advice on how to respond to both short and long term absence, including latest cases and what to include in your absence policy.
Speaker: Annabelle Carey, HR Services Partnership

ACP1

In an increasingly competitive world, it’s vital to reach decision-makers and influence them. This session will help participants to deliver the three critical elements in influencing decision-makers: how are they persuadable; what do you offer that they want; and how can you reach them?
Speaker: Nick Day

Duties of a Trustee

ALE2

Charity trustees are ultimately responsible for everything that the charity does. New and existing trustees need to be aware of the duties they have and how best to meet their responsibilities. This session will develop an understanding of the role of trustees and explore practical ways of establishing an effective and efficient Board of trustees, without losing the passion for the cause!
Speaker: Jacqueline Williams

Legacy Visions - What Are They and Why They Are So Important?

AFS2

This session will explain how a legacy vision which is tangible and inspirational can help ensure every charity gets legacies. This is a fun, challenging and informative session.
Speaker: Richard Radcliff

Getting Money from Government

AMM2

This practical session will look at how the funding relationships between statutory and voluntary organisations are changing. It will cover: grants; contracts and loans; getting the money; how to manage the relationship AND maintain your independence.
Speaker: Chris Wells

Mergers and Collaboration

AFM2

By working together, organisations may be able to deliver better services for beneficiaries and reach more people. This session will look at consortium bids, joint ventures and sharing back-office functions, offering practical tips on how to set them up. It will also look at full merger and the steps involved.
Speaker: Kate Sayer

Developing the Culture for Your Organisation - NEW

ASE2

If you want to achieve lasting and effective change for your organisation you have to create the right culture. Getting the culture you want is simple but not easy. This session will help you to understand what culture is and how to create the one you want.
Speaker: Debra Allcock Tyler

Managing People Remotely - NEW

APM2

Working with teams across different sites and with different time/working patterns can create challenges for all concerned. How can you build a team when members are not present? This workshop will look at practical ways to reach and manage remote teams.
Speaker: Heather Brierley

Super Self Esteem and Confidence

AHR2

A practical and fun session looking at simple ways we can develop our self esteem and how we can come across more confidently. How to become a champion and boost your personal image! What is it that you would do if you weren’t scared of anything...?
Speaker: Noam Kostucki

Mobilising Support through Networking & Communication

ACP2

This session will cover the key facts, central to campaign success, of producing campaign materials, motivating members, using informal and viral networking, as well as using the media.
Speaker: Nick Day

Charities and Trading

ALE3

This session will help you to understand when you do and don’t need a trading subsidiary, together with some ideas on negotiating effective contracts.
Speaker: David Mears, Russell- Cooke LLP

Better Success with Fundraising Materials

AFS3

So, which bits of your deathless prose do your potential donors really read? If you had to reduce your fundraising message to fifty words could you find a successful essence? Come and find out what really works.
Speaker: Chris Wells

Is Relationship Fundraising a Myth or a Reality?

AMM3

“Always bet on the jockey, not on the horse” is what I first heard from a ‘business angel’ in Singapore. The truth with major donors in the UK is unsurprisingly the same: people donate to you, not to your organisation! Learn how to build relationships, create trust and show your appreciation. You want to know how the best relationships bring money to your charity? Join this session to keep your donors/funders happy and fulfilled.
Speaker: Noam Kostucki

Preparing Charity Accounts

AFM3

Is an integral part of the statutory financial management responsibilities that voluntary organisations face. This session will briefly introduce budgets and explain how accounts must be maintained to ensure complete and accurate record keeping on the organisation’s behalf.
Speaker: Jacqueline Williams

Strengthening Governance Through Codes of Conduct - NEW

ASE3

A Code of Conduct is valuable in strengthening performance and tackling the difficulties which can arise within Boards. This session will address the development, adoption and implementation of Codes of Conduct, and whether or not to make them constitutional. Participants will be able to explore how Codes add value to governance, and how best to make use of them as a tool and a resource.
Speaker: Linda Laurance

Time Management

APM3

Are you constantly running behind schedule and would like to get on top of your work? Do you feel constantly stressed by impending deadlines? This session will look at ways of thinking and planning to help you manage the pressures.
Speaker: Heather Brierley

Managing the Appraisal Process - NEW

AHR3

An effective appraisal process can help charities ensure that organisation, team and individual goals are being achieved and staff feel motivated. This session will explore why the appraisal process is important and provide you with a range of practical tips and tools to ensure your organisation’s appraisal process is effective.
Speaker: Mike Phillips

Getting your Stories into the Media

AIC3

Can be a struggle - but it needn’t be! Discover strategies on how to raise the profile of your charity with: broadcast media: radio and TV, Print media and new media. Find out how you can make the most of stories about your work and your beneficiaries.
Speaker: Tristan Donovan, Third Sector

Marketing your Campaign

ACP3

Campaigns succeed when the right people know about them and take action. This session will cover the vital areas, central to campaign success, of producing campaign materials, motivating members, and using great writing to achieve your campaign successes.
Speaker: Gideon Burrows, ngo.media

Fundraising Law and Intellectual Property - NEW

ALE4

This session will provide you with an update on legal issues relating to fundraising, and an introduction to intellectual property and its use in the context of fundraising.
Speakers: David Mears and Stephen O’Reilly, Russell-Cooke LLP

What Is the Best Sustainable Income? - NEW

AFS4

Are you interested in tapping into a pot of £177 billion? What if there were hundreds of these pots?! If it sounds too good to be true - and you don’t already sell products and services to Royal Dutch Shell - join this session. Learn how to create competitive products and services that will be your most sustainable and empowering form of fundraising. It also happens to be the fastest growing market in the UK.

Speaker: Noam Kostucki

Don’t Just Get Through the Recession- Get Stronger - NEW

AMM4

Every recession has its casualties, but also confirms the strength of purpose of those who both survive and prosper as things begin to recover. Learn how to spot recession survivors and observe their successes.
Speaker: Chris Wells

VAT Update

AFM4

The rules for VAT are complex, but this session will explain when you have to register for VAT and how to minimise VAT costs on purchases even if you are not registered for VAT.
Speaker: Kate Sayer

Support & supervision of staff

APM4

Make everyone in your organisation want to work for you. Learn how to make those one-to-one sessions work for both of you and how to be a great manager.
Speaker: Heather Brierley

Motivation Matters - NEW

AHR4

Staff and volunteers who are motivated are better able to achieve results, stay longer and enjoy better working relationships with colleagues. This session will explore what can help or hinder motivation and morale and share some practical techniques that can be used to get the best out of people.
Speaker: Mike Phillips

Shout the Loudest

AIC4

Learn how to identify your audience, get noticed and find effective ways of reaching them. Come to explore methods of promotion and find out how to choose the right ones to get the right results to: promote without spending money, write effective materials and make the most from contra-deals.
Speaker: Gideon Burrows

Utilising Local Media for Promotion and Marketing

ACP4

Spice up your organisation’s relationships with local media by coming along to this session to learn what they really, really want - and what they don’t. How to write a powerful, professional press release which grabs a journalist’s attention and gets your story into the media.
Speaker: Nick Day

Duties of a Company Secretary

ALE5

This session looks at the changing role of the Company Secretary in the light of the Companies Act 2006 and provides an overview of the obligations of the Company Secretary.
Speaker: Stephen O’Reilly, Russell-Cooke LLP

Community Fundraising in 2010

AFS5

Do we still do the same old thing? Has your community changed and have you adapted your fundraising to fit? How do we get started and what works best?
Speaker: Eileen Hammond

Everyone’s Got A Strategy... NEW

AMM5

...until they get punched in the face (Mike Tyson). If you feel that strategies are a waste of time or if you want to know how to build your strategy to make it useful, join this session! You will learn to use your fundraising strategy to create sustainability, consistency, select the most effective fundraising methods and create confidence for the donors. Failing to plan is planning to fail, learn to minimise the time needed and maximise the impact.
Speaker: Noam Kostucki

Writing a Budget

AFM5

This brief introduction is aimed at those new to the budgeting process, or who are still struggling when working with budgets and will cover budget assumptions, identifying budget lines and generally explaining why budgets are necessary, enabling you to be more confident when using budgets in future.
Speaker: Kate Sayer Senior & Executive

Project Management

APM5

Don’t let you project turn into crisis management! You have agreement to go ahead with your project, now you have to manage it to be a success! Come along to this session to get some ideas and tips on what to do, especially in the early stages to ensure your project runs as smoothly as possible and you aren’t left tearing you hair out!
Speaker: Heather Brierley

‘Who do you think you are’ - Myers Briggs

AHR5

Enhance your understanding of yourself, your motivations, natural strengths and potential areas for growth. It will also help you appreciate people who differ from you. Myers- Briggs uses a theory of psychological types to build knowledge of how each individual sees & relates to the world.
Speaker: Janet Owens

Leaflets, Brochures, Articles et al

AIC5

So you were the one in the toilet when the boss came looking for a place to drop the new promotional piece! Seven classic tips on design, structure and enthusiasm for better literature, which will give you a flying start to the next job.
Speaker: Chris Wells

Campaigns: Strategy and Planning

ACP5

Campaigning is all about changing hearts and minds through the strength of your argument. To do that, you need a vision, a strategy and a plan – and communicate them clearly. This session explores some of the fundamentals.
Speaker: Harmit Kambo