Transition Institute Regional Spin-out Camp: North West (Manchester)

This is the first of a series of three that will be held throughout the year. Come along to an inspiring and informative day, a neutral space to explore some of the most current debates and issues in public service reform. The event is aimed at both practitioners and commissioners who are delivering and procuring public services respectively.

The event is taking place on Thursday the 29th March, 9.30am – 15.00pm at the lovely offices of Hempsons Solicitors in Manchester, at Portland Tower, Portland Street, M1 3LF (venue map can be found here)

The programme consists of an interactive, action-packed day of three practical workshops that are being delivered by experts in the field:

• Building a viable Business: lead by Justine Andrew, Business Development Director at KPMG
• Innovation in delivery models: lead by Vicki Sellick, Programme Leader at The Young Foundation
• Legal issues (covering issues such as governance and TUPE): lead by Ian Hempseed, Partner at Hempsons Solicitors

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IoF Manchester Networking Event

Institute of Fundraising North West are pleased to invite you to our first charity networking event of 2012; an absolute must for charitable organisations, particularly fundraisers and marketers.

Network with your peers in the charity and voluntary sector and keep your finger on the pulse!

Date: Tuesday, 7 February 2012 at 6pm – 8pm
Venue: Main Hall, Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS
Speaker: Matt Haworth of Reason Digital
Title: “Online PR for Fundraisers”
Summary:  Promoting your messages online is free, and it means they’re constantly available to a wide audience of potential supporters, service users and funders.  Yet with so many different tools and websites, it can be hard to know where to start.  Learn how you can get your press releases and fundraising messages out onto the web is the most cost and time effective ways and hear some success stories from other charities raising big funds online in some surprising and creative ways.

Come along at 6pm to learn from Matt, and enjoy the excellent networking opportunities over a cup of tea or coffee.

RSVP
We ask for a contribution of £1 to cover the room hire. Places are limited so please book your place by emailing sophie.cunningham@afteradoption.org.uk

Make Your Own Money – 3rd November 2011

For: Anyone (including staff, volunteers, and committee members) interested or involved in fundraising for their organisation. Hear what to include and what to avoid when fundraising.

Learning outcomes:
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Identify the variety fundraising option and opportunities.
• Understand how to use your own ingenuity (and those of your volunteers) to raise your own finance.
• Know the essential skills for writing fundraising letters.
• Explore ways of making your own money – looking at community fundraising (events, activities and much more).
• Explore the top tips for avoiding the bin and catch the attention of your funders.

Content:

1. Are you doing too much too Soon
2. Do you have a funding strategy
3. Keeping up Good relationships
4. Raising Your Own Funds
5. External Funding
6. Standing out to Succeed
7. Focus on your audience
8. Attention of G funders, Donors
9. How to write more effective fundraising letters
10.  Avoid the Bin
11. Demonstrate Success
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IOF – Northwest Annual Conference 2011

1 & 2 November 2011, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria

The IOF North West Committee would like to welcome you to what we believe will be one of the best fundraising conferences of 2011.

Why should you attend?

We have a fantastic programme confirmed with workshops being held by some of the most well respected fundraising speakers in the world including; Alan Clayton, Richard Radcliffe, John Grain, Kevin Kibble, Panikos Efthimou to name a few!

Something for all levels and areas of expertise. Whether you are just commencing your fundraising career or have a wealth of experience our programme offers a wide range of appropriate workshops. Please click here to find out more.

1 in 10 chance of Reaching Communities Success

New guidance has been issued by the Big Lottery Fund indicating a 1 in 10 chance of success at outline project proposal stage – which increases to around 50% success rate if you are invited to submit a full application.

Read more here

Manchester Networking Event – Institute of Fundraising

Tuesday, 12th April 2011
Held at MAG (Mines Advisory Group), Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3NF from 6 - 8pm

Network with your peers in the charity and voluntary sector and keep your finger on the pulse!

Institute of Fundraising North West are pleased to invite you to our second charity networking event of 2011; an absolute must for charitable organisations, particularly fundraisers and marketers, as well as businesses wanting to work with charities.
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Increasing Donations and Volunteering

The latest Alertbox from web usability guru Jakob Nielsen is ‘Non-Profit Organization Websites: Increasing Donations and Volunteering’. The summary reads “Giving money on charity websites is 7% harder than spending money on e-commerce sites. Donating physical items is even harder. For non-profit websites, social media is secondary; the top priority is to write clearer content.” As there is no mention of geographic coverage, this has to be assumed to be based on testing in America but it is likely to have lessons for UK charities too, http://www.useit.com/alertbox/nonprofit-donations.html.

Full Cost Recovery Training 26-10-10

There are just 3 places left on this training. If you would like to attend please contact Francess Tagoe as soon as possible.

Duration: 10.00 – 15:00 (Full Day)

Dates: Tuesday 26th October 2010

For: Anyone (including staff, volunteers, and
committee members) involved in the financial forecasting and budgeting of the organisation

Learning outcomes:
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Understand the principles of full cost analysis
- Know how to apply a full cost analysis
- Understand how Full Cost Recovery applies in ‘reality when making a funding application
- Calculate the full cost of each activity and the relevant proportion of overheads that should be claimed when applying for funding

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Networking with the stars of Cori – Moodswings Network

Moodswings network, a Manchester based charity that helps people recover from mood, stress and anxiety problems, held their fundraising event last Friday at the midland hotel in Manchester.   In recent months, the Gio Project supported the charity through our training and one-to-one application review. I was very excited to be invited as a guest and really looked forward to putting on my glad rags for a change.

The event was by far the most creative and successful fundraising event that I have ever witnessed by a third sector organisation.  This was off cause helped by the fact that they were nominated as one of Coronation Street’s charity of the year.  The cast and production team, therefore turn out and really donated plenty of dush to support the charity. … Continue Reading

Everyclick

Everyclick

Everyclick provides a comprehensive range of online fundraising tools for charities of all sizes opens up potentially significant additional revenue stream – Give as you Live.

Give as you Live is an opportunity for your supporters to raise significant additional funds simply by going about their usual online activities, searching the web, shopping online and trading on eBay.

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