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EVENTS AND TRAINING

‘Southwark Pioneers Fund: Launchpad’ Basic Business Skills series

This series of webinars cover critical topics that will help you to strengthen your organisation and build up engagement with your work.

Government Contract Ready – SSE

Develop your procurement skills and learn from other charities and social enterprises who have successfully won government contracts.

Bates Wells – Fundraising and lotteries

Have you thought about using a lottery or a prize draw to raise money? This session will go through what you need to know to keep it legal.

Income Diversification – Triceratops Training

This training will help you to explore how you can successfully diversify your organisation's income.

FSB Business Bootcamp: Spring into Success

This full-day conference is targeted specifically at small businesses to help you grow and develop your business with new skills and networks.

London Digital Inclusion Strategy Workshop

Are you interested in how the public and voluntary sectors can work together to increase digital inclusion outcomes in London? Join this session to contribute your thoughts!

Stand ups: how to strengthen team collaboration and communication in 15 minutes

Join this session to learn some techniques and tips for how your team can collaborate better through regular short update meetings called 'stand-ups'.

Digital Boost – Website Wellness: Boost Your Online Presence

This session will help you to get the most out of your website and find ways you can reach more people through digital methods.

Preparing for the Future of Your Organisation – Succession Planning

B&G is a partnership between Ben Payne and Gerald Richards, based in London and Edinburgh. They help people and organisations be more creative, clearer about their purpose and tell a better story about what they do. The session is for nonprofits leaders and board members and provides an opportunity to share perspectives and learn from others and a space to start thinking about how to make an effective succession plan for your organisation.

What do charity trustees need to know about campaigning?

This is a useful session to help you understand more about how charities can engage in political campaigning activities.

HSE: Managing Work-related Stress for Public Services

This session will help you to think about ways you can support those you work with to manage their mental health and avoid work-related stress.

Homelessness and Safeguarding Webinar

This webinar will include a short film and a range of speakers, all exploring key information and initiatives around safeguarding for homeless people.

Pitching for investment for your impact-driven startup

Being able to pitch your organisation and its work to potential funders is crucial to raising the money you need, and this session will help you to feel more confident doing this.

Getting On Board – Help! We need new trustees

This session will cover the basics of how to recruit new Trustees to your charity board.

Mental Health awareness training for community groups

Join this interactive session to build your confidence in supporting people with mental health challenges, whether that's team members, service users or anyone else.

How to Read a Lease – Ethical Property Foundation

Join the UK's leading property advice charity for this free training session on how to understand a lease.

Digital Boost – Developing A Viable And Persuasive Business Plan

Are you working on a business plan for your organisation? This session will talk you through the key elements and information you should be including.

Sayer Vincent – Preparing for your audit

This session will give you the practical information your organisation needs if you are preparing for an audit on your financial accounts.

How to work collaboratively in the hybrid office

This session will share some key tools and techniques to help your team build more effective working practices and communication as a team.

Digital Boost – Understanding & Creating Video Content For Business

Want to get over being camera-shy? In this session, you'll learn about how to make engaging and effective video content to promote your organisation.

Digital Boost – SEO Strategies To Boost Website Visibility Online

Want to get more people using your website? This session will share tips and techniques to optimise how your website can be found on search engines.

Shifting London Workshops – Building your social brand

This session for 16-25 year olds will help you think about how you can build a socially-driven brand for your social enterprise and the work it does.

Culturally Competent Design Research: Designing With Care

This is the second of three sessions by Space4 on how to improve your research processes, exploring a set of principles which will help you put people at the centre of your research process.

Journey to Better Health Outcomes for Southwark’s BAME Community Part 2

Join in the conversation about understanding and acknowledging the unequal power between NHS and local authority decision-makers and how this can be shifted to a more equal relationship.

Testing: how to carry out small incremental tests that have big impact

If your team is working on complex projects, this session on how to build regular testing and learning processes into the work will help you to be more effective.

Digital Boost – How To Make Friends, The Organic Way Using LinkedIn

If you're looking for ways to build your networks and reach new audiences, this session will give you tips on how LinkedIn can help with this.

Getting On Board – Finance In-tray

In this session, a panel of experts will discuss real (anonymised) finance issues that charities are facing and how to resolve them.

Government Contracts Revealed: Your introduction to government tenders

This session will cover the fundamentals of public procurement and tendering, where the government offers contracts, and what they are looking for in bids.

ICAEW – Charities, tech, and the climate

This session looks at how charities can use digital tools to support their environmental work and improve their impact on the climate crisis.

Digital Boost – Be A Client Magnet

This webinar will help you to think about how you can use your brand better to bring in new clients and business to your organisation.

Getting On Board – Unravel the Mystery of Cybersecurity

This session will explore some of the online threats to your organisation and how you can keep it safe from these.

Introduction to Legacy Fundraising Workshop

This session is an introduction to legacy fundraising, getting people to donate a gift in their Will - you'll learn about whether this could be useful for your organisation and how to get started

Digital Boost – Basic Business Strategy For Founders

This session is a good introduction to putting together a business strategy for your new organisation, and how to navigate the inevitable challenges.

Digital Boost – Health Is Wealth: How To Avoid Burnout In Business

Setting up and running a group can be all-consuming - this session will help you to think about how you can build your group and your confidence without burning out.

Digital estates and donations – improving the supporter experience

Raising money digitally can be a valuable resource for non-profit groups, and this session will help you make the most of digital tools to raise money.

Digital Boost – An Introduction To AI And Its Tools

There are lots of types of artificial intelligence (AI) to use for different purposes - this session will give you an overview of how you can use these to support your business.

Government Contracts Revealed: Your introduction to government tenders

This session will cover the fundamentals of public procurement and tendering, where the government offers contracts, and what they are looking for in bids.

Up Your Skills With Chat GPT and Other AI Tools: Learning to Learn

This is the third of three sessions from Space4 looking at how you can make use of AI, focused on using AI to support your learning and development.

The Women’s Night Safety Charter – WAVE, Safe Havens, Charter and “Ask for Angela”

This session covers some key measures being rolled out in Southwark to tackle violence against women and girls across the borough.

Introduction to Management for Fundraisers Workshop

Are you leading a fundraising team? This webinar will go through some tips to help you and your team to deliver more effective fundraising work.

Retrospectives: how to quickly identify and learn from mistakes

This practical session will help you and your colleagues to do effective evaluations of complete work, especially to learn lessons for the future.

Mission, Vision and Starting Well (Online)

A whistlestop tour for groups in their early stages - Understanding the purpose of your group, and becoming more effective in expressing your purpose.

Government Contract Ready – SSE

Develop your procurement skills and learn from other charities and social enterprises who have successfully won government contracts.

Introduction to Bid Writing for Charities & Community Groups Workshop

This session will offer a brief overview of what Bid Writing for charities and community groups involves and how to get started in this area.

Charities Aid Foundation – Income diversification

This session looks at why it's important to have diverse income streams and how you could achieve this.

Ethical Property Foundation – Everyday Premises Management

Premises are a critical part of many organisations' work, and this session will cover key aspects of what you need for managing yours, including costs, risks and safety.

Fundraising strategies for diverse founders

This practical session looks at the logistics and systems your business needs for fundraising: bringing a strong team together, identifying suitable investors, and exploring different types of fundraising.

Generating Income – Trading and Subsidiaries

Join this session to learn about what you need to think about if your charity is planning to explore making income through trading.

Culturally Competent Design Research: Divergent Thinking

This is the third of three sessions by Space4 on how to improve your research processes, looking at what can be learned through comparing how astrology and finance use prediction tools.

Introduction to Fundraising for Beginners Workshop

This session offers a very broad introduction to different kinds of fundraising and how to get started with raising money for your organisation.

Bates Wells – Face to face fundraising: how to stay compliant

If your group is doing any face-to-face fundraising, this informative webinar will talk you through any legal implications involved in this form of fundraising.

The Women’s Night Safety Charter – WAVE, Safe Havens, Charter and “Ask for Angela”

This session covers some key measures being rolled out in Southwark to tackle violence against women and girls across the borough.

Government Contracts Revealed: Your introduction to government tenders

This session will cover the fundamentals of public procurement and tendering, where the government offers contracts, and what they are looking for in bids.

Charities Aid Foundation – Is risk management just common sense?

It's best to be prepared: this session explores the importance of identifying and managing potential risks your organisation might face.

Government Contract Ready – SSE

Develop your procurement skills and learn from other charities and social enterprises who have successfully won government contracts.

Digital Boost – Founders’ Marketing Strategy

This session will share with you a useful structure for thinking about and planning your group's marketing strategy so you can reach greater audiences.

Southwark Council – Tacking Violence Against Women and Girls

This session covers some key measures being rolled out in Southwark to tackle violence against women and girls across the borough.

Introduction to Using Data Workshop

This session will give you a strong overview of how your fundraising success can be improved through the use of data, and how to do this.

Income Diversification – Triceratops Training

This training will help you to explore how you can successfully diversify your organisation's income.

Bates Wells – Corporate fundraising: opportunities and pitfalls

Corporate partnerships can be a great way of raising funds for your organisation - this session will highlight the legal aspects you should be aware of.