This session took place on Thursday 6th February 2025
About this Session:
The need for you as trustees to be seen to take responsibility for holding your organisations to account has seldom been greater. At the same time, so has the need for you to step-up in taking an active role in supporting fundraising. Do you understand how your charity raises funds? How diversified is your income? What options do you have to increase this? This session suggested some areas where you can help transform your charity’s ability to generate income.
The presentation can be viewed as a PPTX or PDF file.
About the Presenter: Jonathan Badger
Jonathan Badger Consulting offers consultancy based on over 35 years’ direct experience working in fundraising / development / advancement roles across the UK’s NGO, Health, Arts and Higher Education sectors – helping enable transformation for causes as varied as mental health, cancer research, access to education, academic excellence and the environment.
Services offered include fundraising strategy development and implementation (specialism in major/principle gift fundraising), international fundraising, case-for-support development, fundraising review and audit, interim posts, campaign feasibility and development, as well coaching for fundraising teams and volunteer boards.
27th March – 2pm-3pm – The Ron Manning Day Centre, Higham Ferrers.
27th March – 7pm-8pm – online.
About These Sessions: Our presenter Tony Gibbs shows how to create meaningful relationships with corporate partners with practical examples of how to ensure that your not-for-profit group stands out from everyone else.
Tony will share how he is consistently successful in securing the support of businesses, explaining in practical terms the steps to take including:
Why asking for money is the wrong thing to do.
The importance of relationships.
Using the right language.
Clarifying the opportunities for a business to give you goods in kind as well as volunteers.
Securing sustainable donations from the corporate sector.
You will leave this workshop with the tools and techniques to use, as well as being inspired to approach businesses to support your organisation.
About the Presenter: Tony Gibbs
Tony Gibbs has an MSc in Voluntary Sector Management and has held leadership positions in the voluntary sector for over twenty years as well as a similar period of time in senior roles in the corporate sector. He has also over forty years experience as a trustee and volunteer with charities of all size. Tony is Chief Executive Officer of Serve.
This session took place on Tuesday 25th February. One session was held in person at the Old Village Community Centre, Corby and the second session was online.
About this Session:
Northamptonshire Community Foundation shared advice, hints and tips on what to consider before and during the process of completing grant applications.
The sessions included areas such as impact and monitoring, examples of application questions, and common mistakes to avoid.
The presentation can be viewed as a PPTX or PDF file.
About the Presenter: Alex Rex
Alex joined Northamptonshire Community Foundation in 2018, having worked in the arts and education previously, and became the Grants Manager in 2022.
Since joining NCF, she has always been impressed by the power of local community and voluntary organisations, to be catalysts for change and anchors of support when looking to tackle range of priority needs, from food insecurity to improving health and wellbeing.
This session took place on Tuesday 4 February 2025.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation is a unique charity which promotes and manages philanthropy. In this session attendees learned about funding available from the leading independent grant-making charity in the county.
The presentation can be viewed as a PPTX or PDF file.
Alex joined Northamptonshire Community Foundation in 2018, having worked in the arts and education previously, and became the Grants Manager in 2022. Since joining NCF, she has always been impressed by the power of local community and voluntary organisations, to be catalysts for change and anchors of support when looking to tackle range of priority needs, from food insecurity to improving health and wellbeing.
Groundwork Northamptonshire has been confirmed as the lead provider for a new collaboration – Aspire NN – between North Northamptonshire Council and the voluntary sector. The new contract will provide infrastructure support to the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector across North Northants.
The VCSE sector provides valuable support to people across North Northamptonshire and in February 2024, Executive approved the North Northamptonshire Council Council Communities Strategy 2024-2027 and announced a £600,000 investment into VCSE Infrastructure across North Northamptonshire over a three-year period.
Following a robust procurement process, Groundwork Northamptonshire have been appointed as the lead provider in a new VCSE collaboration for North Northamptonshire.
Groundwork Northamptonshire will now work alongside five other organisations who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to deliver support to community groups, voluntary organisations and social enterprises across North Northamptonshire.
The collaborative leadership between Groundwork and five other key partners based in North Northamptonshire include Support Northamptonshire, Volunteer Action, North Northants Social Enterprise Network, Serve and Northamptonshire Acre.
Cllr Mark Rowley, the council’s Executive Member for Housing and Communities, said: “Residents are at the heart of everything we do, and we have always worked closely with the partners and the voluntary sector to ensure everyone has the best quality of life possible. It is hoped that this new collaboration will further grow on the work that has already been started across North Northants – creating a different and refreshed offer that is rooted in sustainability, trust, need and makes a genuine impact.”
Kate Williams, Executive Director of Groundwork Northamptonshire said:
“Groundwork Northamptonshire are thrilled with this decision, we have worked hard to build a robust partnership that will support strong, dynamic and sustainable change for the VCSE sector. Now, more than ever, the key roles that the VCSE play are crucial, but we recognize and understand the vulnerabilities and strains the sector faces, this partnership is going to work hard to offer genuine support and development for the sector over the next three years.”
The VCSE Infrastructure contract will run for three years with the option for a further one-year extensions subject to funding being available.
Our website, www.aspirenn.org.uk, will provide access to a wide range of resources for VCSE organisations across North Northamptonshire or contact Groundwork Northamptonshire on 01536 526453 to chat about what support they can offer.
Leaders of the six local organisations that make up the new Aspire NN partnership. Left to right: Pratima Dattani (Support Northamptonshire), Nicola Toms (NACRE), Kate Williams (Groundwork Northants), Tony Gibbs (Serve), Rachel Dixon (Volunteer Action), Alison Holland (North Northants Social Enterprise Network).
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