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| Thursday 28 & Friday 29 June 2012, Hotel Russell, Russell Square, LondonAbout us | Contact us | |
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11.00 - 12.00 |
Action Learning Sets |
APM2
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| As a method for staff learning and development, Action Learning Sets provide a great opportunity for staff to develop their practice and create sustained behavioural change. This session will introduce ALS and share ideas for using this technique as a low-cost intervention for building staff confidence and skills. Speaker: Mike Phillips back to top |
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09.30 - 10.30
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Adopting a Coaching Style of Management |
APM1
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| What is the difference between managing and coaching? Is it all just ‘fluffy nonsense’ or can a coaching approach really enhance performance? Come and find out how to apply some aspects of coaching and a coaching model to support your staff and really enhance their workplace performance. Speaker: Christine Wright back to top |
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09.30 - 10.30
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All About Me |
AMY1
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| Yes, that's right, an hour dedicated to you! Personal development is key to success in your current job and your future career progression and it is so much more than just going on a course! Come and get some tips on how to approach, record and make time for your own personal development. Speaker: Heather Brierley back to top |
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14.30 - 15.30
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An Example of a Wonderful Campaign |
ACS4
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| Participants will be presented with a case study of a successful issue-based campaign - and with an example of a less successful campaign. By comparing and contrasting the two campaigns participants will discover what makes a successful campaign. Speaker: Matthew Davis back to top |
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14.30 - 15.30
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Building your Senior Management Team |
ABG4
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| You can't do it alone. If you want your organisation to succeed you need your senior team on-side. This session will look at how to create a unified SMT, reduce silo-thinking and help you to achieve your organisation's goals. Speaker: Debra Allcock-Tyler back to top |
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09.30 - 10.30
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Campaigning & Lobbying Tips |
ACL1
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| This seminar will help develop participants’ practical skills and provide a number of easy-to-apply tips and tools to be used when planning and delivering lobbying and campaign activities. Speaker: Matthew Davis back to top |
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12.30 - 13.30
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Campaigning Strategy & Planning |
ACL3
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| This session will build your knowledge of the theory and practice of campaigning. Learn how to communicate key objectives through a strategic approach, the importance of audience analysis, campaign framing & messaging, and how to measure success. Speaker: Matthew Davis back to top |
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12.30 - 13.30
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Charities and Trading |
ALE3
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| This session will help you to understand how to manage the risks of trading, when you do and don’t need a trading subsidiary, and provide you with ideas on negotiating effective contracts. Speaker: David Mears, Russell-Cooke LLP back to top |
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09.30 - 10.30
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Chief Executives and Chairs - A Partnership made in Heaven! |
ABG1
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| Getting this relationship right is an art as much as a science. Come along and learn how to support and nurture this crucial relationship in your charity to maximise its potential impact. Speaker: Ilene Hoyle back to top |
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11.00 - 12.00
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Community Fundraising - Top Tips |
AFS2
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| The sky is literally the limit. Engage the energy and creativity of your staff and volunteers to raise income from your local community. Keep it legal, use best practice and make it fun for everyone. Speaker: IIene Hoyle |
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11.00 - 12.00
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Cutting Edge Developments in Governance and Management |
ABG2
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| A summary of hot topics in governance and management including: generative governance; board member performance assessment; authentic leadership; managing for outcomes; and a chance to assess their relevance to your organisation. Speaker: Mike Hudson |
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12.00 - 13.00
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Don't Panic - A Structured Approach to Dealing with Loss of Income |
AMM2
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| Learn how to deal with cuts in existing revenue streams, loss of income or a rapidly changing environment. Recognise and take the necessary steps to move the organisation forward and emerge stronger, more effective and more successful. Speaker: Lee Gosling back to top |
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09.30 - 10.30
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Duties of a Company Secretary |
ALE1
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| 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 |
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11.00 - 12.00
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Duties of a Trustee |
ALE2
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| 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. Develop an understanding of the role and duties of trustees and explore practical ways of establishing an effective and efficient Board. Speaker: David Mears, Russell-Cooke LLP |
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12.30 - 13.30
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Earned Income Venture - an Alternative to Traditional Fundraising |
ACS3
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| Learn how charities can generate substantial funds through the development of ‘earned income ventures’ without a large initial investment. You will look at a step-by-step guide to how your organisation can establish its own business enterprise and case studies including how one Australian charity generates more than half a million pounds. Speaker: Peter Holdsworth, Director, Pathways Australia |
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11.00 - 12.00
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Emotional Intelligence |
AMY2
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| Success at work is not just dependent on your practical and technical skills but also your ability to get on with others. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to communicate your emotions effectively and appropriately, enabling you and others to achieve the outcomes you both need and want from any situation, be it at work or socially. Speaker: Patricia Adams |
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11.00 - 12.00
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Enewsletters |
ACW2
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| What makes a charity e-newsletter successful? It’s all about getting the right people signed up, writing copy that gets people opening, taking actions, building a relationship and monitoring results. We’ll show you how to do it all, with concrete examples, exercises, as well as practical advice on what software to use, how much it costs and how you can save money and time by getting it right. Speaker: Matt Haworth, ReasonDigital |
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09.30 - 10.30
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Events Fundraising |
AMM1
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| A fast paced interactive session looking at planning, objectives and outcomes for events, ROI, promotion and celebrities. Speaker: Al Bell |
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14.30 - 15.30
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Fundraising from Individuals - Getting it Right from the Start |
AMM4
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| Large, wealthy and national charities are not the only ones who can raise money from individual donors. In this interactive session you will learn how to use the riches of your own charity to start creating a database of supporters. Speaker: IIene Hoyle back to top |
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14.30 - 15.30
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Getting Heard, Energising Support |
ACL4
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Hear why campaigners need to know how to promote their issue simply & cheaply, while competing with the bigger budgets all around them. This session has been cancelled |
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14.30 - 15.30
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Great Writing Made Simple |
ACW4
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| Learn how to make your charity copy sing, and achieve concrete results. Whether it’s for news, features, websites, reports, newsletters or magazines, if you’ve ever stared at a blank sheet of paper wondering what to write, this workshop is for you. Speaker: Matt Chittock, writer at ngo.media back to top |
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12.30 - 13.30
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Hooking Interest from Companies |
AFS3
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| When times, and profits, are tough, how do you persuade companies to support what you do? Learn how to grab their interest, harness their enthusiasm, and bring success to both sides of the deal. Speaker: Chris Wells back to top |
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16.00 - 17.00
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How Social Media can Help Achieve your Goals |
AMM5
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| Why should I care about social media? With 18 million Facebook users in the UK, 54% are over 35 years old. The Silver Surfers are the fastest growing population on social media who will not only visit your website 9 times more than average but also have a far greater spending capacity. Come and learn the benefits of tapping into the internet market. Speaker: Noam Kostucki |
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16.00 - 17.00
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Major Donor Fundraising |
AFS5
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| This session will focus on how you can start a major donor programme in your organisation. How you go about finding potential major donors, trade secrets for making the ask and how to look after your donors once you’ve got them on board. Speaker: Lucy Sargent |
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09.30 - 10.30
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Managing Major Change |
ACS1
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| Working together? Thinking of getting closer? Half of all mergers fail and collaborations often work out fraught as pressures pull the partners apart. But when things work out, there are real benefits for everyone, especially service users. Using real case studies find out what makes the difference with mergers & collaborations. Speaker: Lee Gosling |
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16.00 - 17.00
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Marketing on Limited Budgets |
ACW5
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| Taking you through tried and tested, but low cost techniques that direct mail companies and advertisers use on us every day, and how to apply them to your charity. Become more effective at getting people to do what you want them to do. Speaker: Gideon Burrows, Editor at ngo.media |
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14.30
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Motivating Yourself and Others |
AMY4
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| This fun, interactive session will help you explore techniques for boosting your personal motivation and help you consider how you can get the best from yourself and others. Speaker: Mike Phillips back to top |
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12.30 - 13.30
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NLP Communication | |||||||
| NLP provides a range of tools and techniques for improving communication. This interactive session will give an introduction to some of the principles that will springboard you into finding out more about how communication can be maximised for you and your organisation. Speaker: Mike Phillips back to top |
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16.00
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Personalities Matter? Being a Better Trustee |
ABG5
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| Want to go down in history as being the perfect trustee? This session will help you to understand the distinction between executive and governance and how to participate effectively as a Board member. Speaker: Debra Allcock-Tyler |
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11.00 - 12.00
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Perspectives on Change |
ACS2
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| How do charities adapt? What are the enablers and inhibitors of change? And what happens when the charity that needs changing is more than a hundred years old? Get an inside look at the lessons learned from Managing Director of London Youth and their change programme. Speaker: Nick Wilkie, CEO, London Youth |
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16.00 - 17.00
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Practical Project Management |
APM5
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| You have agreement to go ahead with your project, now you have to manage it to be a success! This session provides 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 |
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11.00 - 12.00
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Press and Media Support |
ACL2
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| A whistle-stop tour of a dozen great ways to increase and improve your charity’s media coverage today. Practical tips that you can put into practice right away. This session is informative and useful, as well as fun and inspiring. Speaker: Gideon Burrows, Editor at ngo.media |
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12.30 - 13.30
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Ready for Bid Writing |
AMM3
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| Make sure you have everything to enable you to write winning bids. What skills? How much time? What information? What makes you stand out? An introduction to bid writing for 'first-timers' and practical exercises to improve your bid writing effectiveness for 'old-hands'. Speaker: Lee Gosling |
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12.30 - 13.30
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Refreshing and Recruiting Board Members |
ABG3
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| Getting the right people onto your Board is crucial for your organisation. Keeping the Board refreshed and engaged is just as important. Get practical help and advice from an experienced Trustee and ex-Chair. Speaker: Ilene Hoyle |
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14.30 - 15.30
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Risk Management |
ALE4
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| Identification and management of risk is increasingly important for charities - this session will seek to identify real risks and assist in identifying processes to manage and reduce risk. Speaker: Andrew Studd, Russell-Cooke LLP |
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12.30 - 13.30
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Showing you Make a Difference |
APM3
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| At the heart of managing projects is the question “have we made a difference and enabled people to make changes and live resourcefully?” Funders require evidence of impact. This lively session identifies key skills for measuring outcomes using effective and time efficient methods. Speaker: Elizabeth Martindale |
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16.00 - 17.00
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Super Self-Esteem and Assertiveness |
AMY5
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| Do you want to be the best you can be? This practical and fun session looks 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! Speaker: Mike Phillips |
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16.00 - 17.00
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Ten Golden Rules for Influencing Policy Makers |
ACL5
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| 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 |
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14.30 - 15.30
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The Wild Idea Club |
APM4
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| Want to develop your creativity? Give your brain a workout with creative thinking tools, break out of your usual thinking patterns and explore alternative approaches to dealing with problems, handling change, developing sustainability and creative visions for the future. Speaker: Sandy Leong back to top |
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16.00
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Think Differently when Income Streams Stagger |
ACS5
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Cuts, job losses, and instability are a difficult trio for fundraisers, when the confidence of their donors is shaken. Find out how to reinvent the old, spiced with the new, and encourage renewed commitment. This session has been cancelled |
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16.00 -17.00
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Understanding your Memorandum and Articles of Association and Improving your Governance |
ALE5
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| This session will explain the main provisions of your memorandum and articles of association, consider why and how to make changes and looks at how to improve your governance. Speaker: Sukanya Ransford, Russell-Cooke LLP |
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12.30 - 13.30
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Using Story Telling to Develop People and Organisations |
ACW3
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| Stories are our way of making sense of things, delivering a message or having fun. Stories can open doors, effect change, and engage individuals. Learn the benefits of using stories to develop organisations and people. Speaker: Sandy Leong | ||||||||
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14.30 - 15.30
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What is the Best Sustainable Income? |
AFS4
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| Are you interested in tapping into one of the hundreds of pots of £177 billion? This session will show you how to tap into the trading market and these funds. Learn how to create competitive products and services that will be your most sustainable and empowering form of fundraising that is also the fastest growing market in the UK. Speaker: Noam Kostucki | ||||||||
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09.30 - 10.30
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Why are Proposals so Boring? |
AFS1
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| 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 | ||||||||
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09.30 - 10.30
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Writing for the Web |
ACW1
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| We’ll cover everything from audiences and key messaging for the web and rules for good web writing to writing for search engines and making your pages sticky. Everything you need to make your website sparkle with a comprehensive trot through the principles of good writing for websites, and the basics of writing to improve search engine optimisation. Speaker: Barney Jeffries, Writer at ngo.media | ||||||||