Surviving the cuts: seminars in detail

One day conference looking at the impact of the spending review and how to protect your service against the cuts.

seminar session I

SEEKING NEW OPPORTUNITIES: BUILDING FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
Chris Wells: Fundraising & Sponsorship, Directory of Social Change

  • Diversifying funding streams
  • Guide to the different types of funders and how they can support an organisation, including: trusts and foundations, communities, individual donors, corporates, government and statutory sources.

SAFEGUARDING SERVICES: EFFECTIVE TENDER WRITING
Nick McAllister: Procurement and Commissioning Executive, ACEVO

  •  Advice on effective bid writing
  • Guidance on the commissioning process
  • Improve understanding of tender requirements
  • Guidance on how to approach tenders
  • Analysis of policies, systems and procedures required for tendering

CAMPAIGNING FOR CHANGE: INSPIRING SUPPORTER ACTION
Sasha Daly: Campaigning Effectiveness Manager, NCVO

  • How to campaign effectively to create change
  • Expert advice on how to mobilise supporters
  • Tool and resources that can be used to support your campaigning

CREATING EFFICIENCIES: EFFECTIVE HR MANAGEMENT
Helen Giles: Managing Director, Real People, Broadway

  • Consider new organisational structures and how to achieve them
  • Identify posts that are redundant and how to manage the redundancy process
  • How to manage all aspects of a TUPE transfer
  • How to support staff through all of these changes

DEMONSTRATING IMPACT: MEASURING OUTCOMES
Sally Cupitt: Senior Consultant, Charities Evaluation Service

  • How to implement outcomes monitoring
  • How to report on the outcomes you record
  • Using this information to demonstrate your impact to funders and key stakeholders
  • How to use this evaluation for organisational planning

seminar session II

SEEKING NEW OPPORTUNITIES: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Penelope Daly: Red Ochre

  • Models of organisational development
  • Sustainability planning
  • How to build a sustainable social enterprise
  • Capacity building within your organisation
  • How to analyse your organisation’s strengths

SAFEGUARDING SERVICES: DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTY AND MANAGING RISK
Steve Fowler: Chief Executive Officer, The Institute of Risk Management

  • Learn how to recognise and manage the risks an organisation faces
  • Understand where risks arise from
  • Techniques to evaluate and quantify risks
  • Learn how to implement effective risk management
  • Understand how to structure your organisation and systems to make the organisation more resilient
  • The difference between internal and external risks.

CAMPAIGNING FOR CHANGE: LOCAL INFLUENCING IN A BIG SOCIETY
Susie Rabin: Campaigning Effectiveness Manager, NCVO

  • Influencing local MPs
  • Building links with leading local government officials
  • Gaining political support from local government
  • Planning and delivering campaigns locally
  •  Creating an evidence base on the value provided by your service

CREATING EFFICIENCIES: ALTERNATIVE BUSINESS MODELS
Bill Freeman: Members' Support and Development Manager, NAVCA

  • Outsourcing
  • Building partnerships
  • Working in collaboration: potential benefits and challenges
  • Mergers and acquisitions.

DEMONSTRATING IMPACT: MARKETING & PR ON A SHOESTRING
Gideon Burrows: Editor, NGO Media

  • Telling your story in the media
  • Developing core messages in order to do that effectively.

seminar session III

SEEKING NEW OPPORTUNITIES: NEW SERVICES THAT YOU COULD OFFER
Danny Maher: Chief Executive, CHC

  • How to reposition your service and expand your customer base
  • Services you could offer the community at large

SAFEGUARDING SERVICES: CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Helen Giles: Managing Director, Real People, Broadway

  • Motivating staff during periods of change
  • How to maintain employee engagement

CAMPAIGNING FOR CHANGE: PROVING YOUR WORTH WITH WHITEHALL
Speaker TBC

  • Making your case more compelling with central government, local government and with local authorities
  • How to show your work is essential and meets government priorities
  • How to make a strong case
  • Proving you offer an efficient, effective service that meets your customers’ needs

CREATING EFFICIENCIES: SCENARIO PLANNING
Robert Foster: Red Ochre

  • How to undertake strategic planning within your organisation
  • How to make flexible long-term plans for the future
  • Exploration of external factors that need to be taken into account when planning for the future

DEMONSTRATING IMPACT: WRITING SUCCESSFUL FUNDING BIDS
Martin Shaw: Partner, MIDAS Charity Appeals LLP

  • What makes a good application
  • Key steps in drawing up a proposal
  • Key selling points
  • Building credibility
  • Getting and using facts and figures
  • Costing a project
  • What to do after you submit your application