You will need to purchase one of these for entry to the event, even if you are just coming to the workshops. Includes free lunch and refreshments.

Overview and update on current funding programmes offered by this leading local funder

Are you new to fundraising? Mark will take you through some key points that you need to know before starting to put you on the road to success!

Top tips from an expert for staging a fundraising event and ideas for community fundraising events.

Social Enterprise is the way to go for many groups in the VCS - hear what's involved from one of the leading authorities on the subject in Essex.

An overview of current Big Lottery Fund programmes and of the Awards for All small grants programme.

How effective are your applications? Top tips for ensuring you make an impact and gain that fund raising edge!

This session will help you to identify suitable Trusts to approach, understand what they are looking for and how to write appropriate applications.

What are outcomes, how do you identify them and measure them. What value do they add to delivery and what evidence can they provide potential future funders. This workshop will illustrate how outcomes can enable a more effective service to be delivered.

This workshop aims to give you an understanding of some of the legal requirements surrounding funding and fundraising. Starting with a general update on charity and company law, it will move on to types of funding before focusing on aspects of fundraising including the use of professional fundraisers, making public collections, and a charities obligations towards its donors. Samantha Pritchard is a solicitor at Russell-Cooke LLP. She works exclusively with charities and not for profit organisations on a range of charity law and company law issues. Her work centres mostly on governance and includes establishing new charities, reviewing governance and constitutional documentation and liaising with the Charity Commission.

This workshop will tell you about the different funding streams available to your organisation, and how to develop a diverse income base. Sustainable funding is about finding stable, suitable and sufficient funding for your organisation, and using good financial management to make best use of resources available. We’ll look at some of the tools and resources your organisation can use to find out about and access different sources of income

A whistle-stop tour of how budgets relate to fundraising activities. There will also be a quick dash round the financial ‘dictionary’ clarifying how to sort out direct from indirect costs and fixed ones from variable ones!

This presentation will give an outline of Heritage Lottery Funding, the types of projects that can be funded and an overview of the different grant programmes that operate from £3,000 and upwards.

Is your organisation thinking about earning income through trading products or services? This presentation will consider the key issues in getting ready for enterprise, including organisational culture, on-mission trading, getting the right legal form, marketing and managing risk. We’ll also highlight some useful sources of information to help you develop your idea, and some case studies of organisations that have used traded income to help achieve their mission.

Often interpreted as just promotion and publicity, marketing is misunderstood by many organisations. Define it as ‘identifying and meeting need’ and ‘putting the service user first’ and it becomes an essential tool. Chris will give you an express tour of why marketing matters, how to make the right first impression and best of all, tell you 10 ways to stand out from the rest!

The Big Lottery Fund wishes to fund projects which help individuals and communities most in need. This session will help delegates understand what evidence they can use to prove there is a need for their project.