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The annual one-day conference with 40 top-level presentations from statutory, lottery and trust funders, speaking in plenary session and in seven separate streams.
9th December 2008 at Central Hall Westminster 10 am to 4 pm
Attendance fee £148 inc VAT
Now it its seventh year, ‘Funding the Future’ is the third sector’s largest ‘meet the funders’ event and comprises a morning plenary session followed by seven concurrent afternoon streams to enable charities to meet funders interested in their field of work.
Eight top-level presentations to our morning plenary session
10 am to 1 pm followed by networking lunch
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The new Third Sector Minister - Kevin Brennan MP, will deliver the keynote address on the Government strategy for helping third sector organisations to secure and deliver more contracts
for the delivery of public services. |
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The new Shadow Third Sector Minister - Nick Hurd MP, wil share Conservative proposals to reform statutory funding, create a new lottery distributor and work with the third sector to deliver ‘Breakthrough Britain’. |
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Chief Executive of the Big Lottery Fund - Peter Wanless, will consult delegates on the development of BLF’s new funding streams. You can also meet members of the BLF’s policy team during the specialist afternoon streams. |
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Director of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts - Alan Bookbinder, will speak on the implications of the financial crisis, what impresses his team about the charities they work with and how to evaluate a charity’s impact. |
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Fundraising in a recession - Victoria Anderson, Head of Advisory Services at the Charities Aid Foundation, will assess the impact of the recesion and outline stragegies for increasing and diversifying your income. |
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Survival strategies for the downturn - Stephen Bubb, Chief Executive of ACEVO, will examine how to grow income and contain costs, alternative funding sources and the support available to individual charities facing difficulties. |
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The Challenges of Success - New research findings into how the Britain’s fastest growing charities are building their income streams and managing change, will be presented by Kerry Rock Tim Waldron of Action Planning. |
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Chief Executive of Futurebuilders - Jonathan Lewis will set out Futurebuilders’ ‘form free’ strategy for expediting decision making and helping a wider range of organisations. Jonathan’s team will also address the afternoon streams. |
A choice of seven afternoon streams with funders in your field of work
2 pm to 4 pm followed by wine reception
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Health and Social Care including the Department of Health, Big Lottery Fund, Futurebuilders and grant-making trusts. |
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Community Regeneration and Social Change including Linda Kelly (CEO Lloyds TSB Foundations), Esmee Fairbairn
Foundation, Big Lottery Fund and Department for Communities and Local Government. |
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Children and Young People including the Department for Children, Schools and Families, Youth Sector Development Fund, Big Lottery Fund, Futurebuilders and grant-making charitable trusts. |
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Arts and Heritage including DCMS, Carole Souter (CEO Heritage Lottery Fund), Francis Runacres (Investment Director, Arts Council England), Arts and Business and grant-making trusts. |
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International Development including the Department for International Development and grant-making charitable trusts. |
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The Environment including the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Groundwork Chief Executive, Tony Hawkhead, and grant-making charitable trusts. |
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Faith-based organisations including Tim Waldron (Chair YMCA England), Church Urban Fund Chief Executive, Tim Bissett, and grant-making charitable trusts. |
Conference Chair
The event will be chaired by David Senior, Director of Development at Action Planning, a leading UK strategy, fundraising and recruitment consultancy.
The event has been organised by Action Planning in association with our partners - ACEVO, CAF, Blackbaud and UK Fundraising.
Your attendance fee of £148 includes VAT, lunch, presentation materials and the networking reception. You can email kbuckle@actionplanning.co.uk and we will register you and send you an invoice. You can download the full conference brochure at www.actionplanning.co.uk/fundingthefuture.pdf
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