Recession Recovery: Ensuring Success
Description: With the effects of the recession still being felt throughout the sector Social Enterprise London are running 3 facilitated workshops to help leaders ensure the continued success of their organisations. By helping leaders analyse the current status of their organisations, through a combination of financial planning and strategic review, leaders will uncover risks currently facing them and Income Generation opportunities for the future.
Target Audience: Leaders and senior management teams
Date: TBC
Region: TBC
Phone: 020 7022 1920
Community Sector Trading
Description: By offering practical learning based on the real experience of the ‘nuts and bolts’ of running a community business Community Sector Trading offers participants a unique way of understanding enterprise. Delivered through a mix of face-to-face and live online sessions combined with post course mentoring the course aims to help participants understand how voluntary and community organisations can develop their trading activities.
Target Audience: Development workers and senior managers
Date: Ongoing
Region: Various
Contact Name: Haoming Yau Email: h.yau@dta.org.uk Phone: 0207 336 9438
Developing Income Generation Capabilities
Description: This program, consisting of both coaching and consultancy, offers leaders and senior managers the space to develop an income generation activity. The coaching is aimed at organisations at the initial stage of this process. They will have the opportunity to shape and form the idea. Discovering the feasibility and starting along the often difficult first steps of diversifying their income sources.
The consultancy element is offered at those organisations whose ideas are more developed and will help them to implement and execute an idea. Combined these aim to strengthen the organisations sustainability so that they can continue to provide vital services in preparation for the economic upturn.
Target Audience: Leaders and senior management teams
Date: Application process for coaching open till 4th June
Region: Various
Contact Name: Daniel Hooper Email: daniel.hooper@acevo.org.uk Phone: 020 7280 4929
Cascading Asset Transfer
Description: Asset transfer has the capability of transforming spaces into vibrant community spaces. To help organisations who provide support in this area this course will offer participants the chance to gain a thorough understanding of all aspects of asset transfer and the wider asset development process.
Target Audience: Development workers and senior managers
Date: TBC
Region: TBC
Contact Name: Sarah Eustace Email: s.eustace@dta.org.uk Phone: 0845 345 4564
Community Assets Matter
Description: Covering the myriad of legal, technical and regulatory aspects of asset management participants of this course will, by the end of the course, be better able to advise and support frontline organisations with asset management The Community Assets Matter project consists of a publication and learning events on legal, technical and regulatory and operational aspects of asset management for community anchors and local infrastructure organisations.
Target Audience: Development workers and senior managers
Date: Various TBC
Region: Various TBC
Contact Name: Annie Jenkins Email: annie.jenkins@communitymatters.org.uk Phone: 020 7837 7887
Winning a Bigger Buck for the Bang
Description: This training develops the crucial role that second tier infrastructure organisations play in expanding the capacity for the frontline to win government contracts and secure sub-contracts, with larger organisations. The programme comprises five different training topics, delivered by experts with the aim of giving these organisations the skills they need to support the groups they work with and to help them develop opportunities and to win the contracts they need to continue delivering their vital work.
Target Audience: Development workers and senior managers
Dates & Regions:
How to successfully approach commissioning and procurement processes
2nd September 2010 (Taunton), 21st September 2010 (Manchester), 7th October 2010 (Lincolnshire), 14th October 2010 (Newcastle)
How big is your bang? Setting targets and measuring benefit
5th October 2010 (Taunton), 12th October 2010 (Manchester), 4th November 2010 (Lincolnshire), 11th November 2010 (Newcastle)
Influencing commissioning processes
2nd November 2010 (Taunton), 9th November 2010 (Manchester), 2nd December 2010 (Lincolnshire), 9th December 2010 (Newcastle)
How to negotiate during commissioning processes
7th December 2010 (Taunton), 14th December 2010 (Manchester), 13th January 2011(Lincolnshire), 20th January 2011 (Newcastle)
Financial planning and budgeting to win
11th January 2011 (Taunton), 18th January 2011 (Manchester), 3rd February 2011(Lincolnshire)
10th February 2011 (Newcastle)
Contact Name: Nick McAllister Email: nick.mcallister@acevo.org.uk Phone: 020 7280 4937
Procurement Champions Network
Description: The procurement champions are those people who play the crucial role in helping third sector organisations provide their services to the public as public sector commissioners. This event facilitates the sharing of knowledge and skills between commissioners and procurement champions with a particular focus on raising skills and connecting infrastructure. It aims to provide an opportunity for the professional development of the champions by creating opportunities for strategic leadership, networking and peer support.
Target Audience: Development workers and senior managers
Dates:
- Carbon footprint of public services – 15th September
- The continuing development of personalisation – 15th December
- Consortia – 15th March
Region: Various
Contact Name: Nick McAllister Email: nick.mcallister@acevo.org.uk Phone: 020 7280 4937
Capacity Manager
Description: The online tool enables you to evaluate whether your internal support services are working effectively. By examining all the main types of overhead costs it can help judge the effectiveness of spending in different areas of business. It can assist organisations in benchmarking their spending against similar businesses, as well as make a case to funding and commissioning bodies to support investment.
Target Audience: Leaders, senior management teams and development workers .
Date: Available now
Region: All Regions
Contact Name: Daniel Hooper Email: daniel.hooper@acevo.org.uk Phone: 020 7280 4929
Individual Budgets Core Package Training
Description: Following the production of 5 guides covering the key topics organisations will have to address with the introduction of individual budgets we are offering 5 organisations the chance to use the reference guides to design their own locally tailored individual budgets training package to be used in their locality.
Target Audience: Development workers and senior managers
Date: TBC
Region: TBC
Contact Name: Daniel Hooper Email: daniel.hooper@acevo.org.uk Phone: 020 7280 4929
Building Capacity for Personalisation
Description:Under this project support provider leaders will be given a ‘personal budget’ to spend on the services/training that they believe would build their capacity to prepare for the introduction of personalisation in the fields of health and social care. Leaders will be expected to match their leveraged funds and design their own capacity building needs in the fields of health and social care.
Target Audience: Leaders and senior management teams
Date: TBC
Region: TBC
Contact Name: Daniel Hooper Email: daniel.hooper@acevo.org.uk Phone: 020 7280 4929
Trading Consultancy
Description: Under this project Social Enterprise London are providing bespoke consultancy to 10 organisations to assist infrastructure providers to support them in the identification, exploration, and realisation of enterprising ideas to generate income.
Target Audience: Leaders, senior management teams and development workers
Date: Application process open
Region: Various
Contact Name: Catriona Rust Email: catriona@sel.org.uk Phone: 020 7022 1920
Strategic Support Group for Infrastructure Leaders
Description: ACEVO’s Income Generation and Leadership and Governance workstream teams will be running 5 Strategic Support Group meetings around the country that will help third sector support provider leaders to navigate some of the key strategic issues necessary for a long term sustainable future. Delegates will hear from some of the top thinkers from within and beyond the sector on crucial aspects of developing effective income generation functions and leadership skills, as well as benefiting from networking and peer support from other leaders in the sector.
Target Audience: Leaders and senior management teams
Date & Regions: Topic TBC 9 September (London), 12 October (Liverpool), 28 October (Birmingham), 23 November (Sheffield), 1 December(Durham)
Contact Name: Daniel Hooper Email: daniel.hooper@acevo.org.uk Phone: 020 7280 4929
Supporting Infrastructure Consortia
Description: In order to support the development of third sector consortium ACEVO, in partnership with the Social Investment Business and Voluntary Action Sheffield is offering a number of packages of business development support, valued at over £5000 to third sector infra-structure support providers who wish to work with the groups they support to develop consortia approaches aimed at securing contracts from local or national public sector bodies to deliver public service contracts. Aimed at supporting both the establishment of brand new consortia and to help newly formed consortia find their feet and bid for their first contracts. In tandem to this offer two Consortium Development Training seminars will also be run on how to go about setting up third sector consortium.
Target Audience: Leaders, senior management teams and development workers
Dates & Regions: Application process open
Contact Name: Nick McAllister Email: nick.mcallister@acevo.org.uk Phone: 020 7280 4937
The Future of Infrastructure Consortia
Description: Research on how the markets for support may develop. To include local authorities’ views on how they wish to support infrastructure in the future and how support providers can assist local authorities to add value to local communities
Target Audience: TBC
Date: TBC
Region: TBC
Contact Name: Daniel Hooper Email: daniel.hooper@acevo.org.uk Phone: 020 7280 4929