10th October
Get Grants Upcoming Training Courses and Events:
We have lots going on this month and our courses are filling fast. Take a look at what we have on offer and book your space before it’s too late! Don’t be fooled by the date for Fundraising For Beginners at the end of next month – it’s proving really popular...
Bid Writing For Charities and Community Groups - Tuesday 17th October & Tuesday 24th October, 10am – 12pm Our Online Bid Writing Course will give you pragmatic support that will improve your ratio of success and motivate you to write further grant applications and proposals with greater confidence. Our course will give you access to our Fundraising expert’s extensive knowledge and advice and is equally useful for novices and people with all levels of experience in fundraising. It will help you increase your organisation income through fundraising and materialise those much-needed projects.
Developing Your Individual Giving - Wednesday 1st November & Wednesday 8th November, 10am – 12pm Our Developing Your Individual Giving Course will give you practical solutions and ideas for growing your charity’s income through support from individual donors. By developing an individual giving offer, organisations can diversify their income, strengthening resilience and sustainability (which is needed now more than ever). Many organisations have communities of people that are enthusiastic about their work and willing to give their support. However, often organisations aren’t making the most of these opportunities as they lack the confidence and knowledge to progress this.
Bid Writing in Sports and Physical Activity Workshop - Wednesday 8th November, 6pm – 8pm
The Workshop is a two-hour online session aimed at organisations who are delivering sports and physical activity projects who are interested in growing their grant fundraising confidence and increasing their income through grant funding. The workshop aims to benefit fundraisers with all levels of experience looking to hone their grant fundraising skills, as well as those who are looking to write their first application and don’t know where to begin
Using Data to Increase Fundraising Success Course Thursday 2nd November & Thursday 9th November, 9:30am – 11:30am
Get Grants Online Using Data to Increase Fundraising Success Course will support you to incorporate freely available data, simple analysis, and evaluation into your bid writing to make you a more skilled, confident fundraiser.
Increasingly, we see funders asking charities and community groups to use data and evaluation to evidence why the work they do is worthy of funding. Simple uses of data and evidence can help you better tell the story of your organisation, describe the people you help, establish why your work is needed, and clearly demonstrate the difference you make. This course will equip you with practical approaches to thinking about the who, why, what, how and when of your organisation’s work. Throughout the course you will learn how to answer these important questions and apply them to
Fundraising for Beginners Training Course - Wednesday 22nd November & Wednesday 29th November, 10am – 12pm
Develop a strong foundational understanding of different types of fundraising and explore what options are available and what will work best for your organisation. Attendees will also consider the importance of a fundraising strategy and receive practical support to put this into practice and confidently take the first steps towards achieving your fundraising goals!
GET GRANTS FREE EVENTS
Virtual Fundraisers Networking – Monday 23rd October, 2pm – 3pm
These friendly sessions involve a Get Grants Expert providing an update on the current grant fundraising landscape, before facilitating discussions about how the grant fundraising world continues to change, and what opportunities and challenges this presents to you as fundraisers.
Meet The Funder Events:
BBC Children in Need - Wednesday 18th October, 10:30am – 11:30am
Severn Trent Community Fund - Thursday 9th November, 1pm – 2pm
Free Introduction Workshops
Get Grants are running monthly FREE Introduction Workshops throughout 2023.
Each workshop will be a taster session of one of our training courses led by our fantastic expert trainers themselves and will focus on a different topic of Fundraising. This month we have: Introduction to Storytelling in Fundraising - Tuesday 10th October, 10am – 11am
Introduction to Fundraising Strategy - Friday 10th November, 10am – 11am
If you have any questions about any of our events or courses or would like to find out anything about the other services we offer then please just get in touch.