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Courses will be held at:
The Resource Centre, London:
30th June - 1st July
The Deaf Cultural Centre, Birmingham:
9th - 10th July
An intensive workshop
for a maximum of 18 participants
Two days of ‘hands on’ training on
how to win more funding from local authorities,
central Government and Government agencies
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Attendance
fee: £370 per delegate, including VAT, all
meeting facilities and materials, lunches and tea/coffee
breaks on both days. The workshop is non-residential. The
workshop will be led Derek Smith, Action Planning’s
lead consultant on public sector contracting.
Derek was previously Head of Statutory Fundraising
and then Director of Services for RNID, which achieved
rapid expansion in statutory funding to become one
of Britain’s leading disability charities and
a key partner of Government in the development of
services for the hearing impaired.
“A superb course. It is so
needed for medium sized local voluntary and community
organisations. I hope to put it all to good use in
the coming months when I submit my tender for a major
project.”
Sue Holmes, Chief Executive, Medway Mediation
“This course is simply excellent.
I only wish I had done it ten years ago!”
Ann Evett,
Development Manager, Thomas Pocklington Trust
workshop content:
This
two day, non-residential workshop includes:
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an overview of statutory funding and
the main opportunities for 2006 and beyond as the
Government increasingly works with the sector ‘on
equal terms’ to deliver public services |
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the key characteristics of formal
tendering processes of public services and the implications
for potential voluntary sector partners |
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guidance on how to build and maintaining
effective
long term partnerships with statutory funders |
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briefing on the Freedom of Information
Act and the ways in which this can be used to obtain
information which is valuable in the tendering process |
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an introduction to the Action Planning
Funding Checklist which helps organisations to develop
a detailed understanding of what the funder is seeking
to achieve and adapt their proposition accordingly |
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help in developing an evidence based
track record before you bid, which demonstrates the
effectiveness of your services and systems |
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briefing on the evaluation and validation
systems used by the main statutory funders and
the presentation of the outputs and outcomes of
your programmes. |
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practice, during the second day, in
applying the learning from the workshop to prepare
bids which provide succinct responses that meet the
scoring
criteria and feedback from the workshop tutor to
improve performance. |
practical exercises:
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a practical exercise based on
a real life tendering process for the provision of
residential care to young people, from the initial
stages of expressing interest. |
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a further case study on how a local
authority which was contracting out £1m of
adult learning set about reducing the number of organisations
funded
and identifying its remaining partners |
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a practical exercise to predict
the bid scoring
system used by a statutory funder and maximise
your organisation’s potential score |
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an exercise to ensure that when you
reach the final
stages of the application process
that you can
make an effective presentation to a funder |
Organised
by Action Planning in association with Third Sector
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