Major Donor Bursary – IOF North West

The Major Donor Special Interest Group (MDSIG) committee and TPP, the recruitment consultancy, are delighted to announce a new bursary for major donor fundraisers.

There is up to £1,500 available for experienced or mid career major donor fundraisers who are ambitious to develop their career. The bursary will pay for one individual to undertake mentoring, coaching or training in order to further their major donor fundraising skills and abilities. If required, travel costs will also be covered. The bursary offers you a unique opportunity to develop your career and your professional skills.

In recent years, TPP have found that major donor fundraising is fast becoming one of the most sought after skill sets within the industry and fundraisers with expertise in this area are increasingly in demand.

“TPP is delighted to sponsor this bursary in order to demonstrate our commitment to developing a recognised career path for major donor fundraisers. In addition to being beneficial to major donor fundraisers and the charities we work with, we feel that by supporting your career we are also supporting the development of major donor fundraising overall and further contributing to the sector.”

For full details, see the MDSIG Yahoo E-Group or call TPP on 020 7198 6040, email mdbursary@tpp.co.uk or visit www.tpp.co.uk/mdbursary

‘Managing Uncertainty’ 2 day course

A 2 day workshop to help managers in Voluntary and health sector help themselves and others cope better in these uncertain times

`This workshop is designed to offer you effective approaches and techniques to help you to understand yourself and others with greater clarity, and ways to deal with challenging uncertain situations, people and circumstances whilst leading effectively`

- an Emotional Intelligent workshop
Venue – Birkenhead (about an hour from Manchester)
As the workshop starts in a couple of weeks we are able to offer places for 2 delegates FOR  the cost of one – £225.00

Please do contact me if you need more information
Helen Reuben
Purple Tree Training and Coaching 0151 651 0123

North West Civil Society Leaders Peer Mentoring Project

Civil Society Leaders Peer Mentoring Project

MBF are running a six month pilot mentoring project across the North West region of England aimed at leaders and senior managers of civil society organisations.

Voluntary Sector North West are our official voluntary sector partner, alongside Yorkshire Bank and Co-operative Bank part of the Co-operative Financial Services who are official business partners.

The programme will start in April and we’re inviting applications from people who wish to take part, either as mentors or mentees.

Read more here: http://www.mandbf.org.uk/projects/peer_mentoring_programme_for_leaders_and_senior_managers_of_civil_society_organisations/

Coaching Support for the Third Sector

Every thought about coaching? Workers in the Third Sector are facing every increasing challenges – coaching might work for you or your organisation.

Click to view this service available locally.

Jo Birch Manchester Coach leaflet

Coaching update so far…

I blogged last month about my coaching experience so far. I had been undertaking the ILM Workplace Coaching and Mentoring Qualification.

I have now completed all assessments, which have been handed in and awaiting feedback.

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My coaching experience so far…

I am currently studying for the ILM Workplace Coaching and Mentoring Qualification. I have been attending the training for the past few weeks now and really enjoying what i am learning.

The focus for the past week has been around communication. Did you know that only 7% of our communication is verbal? The other 93% is a mixture of elements such as posture, eye contact, volume of voice, facial expressions etc. I will certainly think about this next time i am trying to get a delicate message across! I might be thinking i am doing a great job with my selective vocab, although my frown and arms folded posture might not be giving the same message!

I’ll keep you updated with the progress and i will let you know how i get on with my verbal/non verbal communication…!

Barbara