This online course is packed full of content to give you an overview of annual accounts and external reporting.

Financial reporting requirements:Statutory reporting requirements; Audit/independent examination levels; Format of accounts and thresholds – Receipts & Payments or SORP-compliant.

Understanding financial statements:Format of the annual accounts; Overview of a set of SORP-compliant accounts; Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA); Balance sheets and notes to financial statements.

The Trustees Annual Report:Format and content; How it links to the financial statements; What makes a good TAR.

Reserves:What’s included in reserves; Building up reserves; The reserves’ policy.

Reporting to regulators:Reporting to OSCR; Reporting to Companies House; Notifying changes; Sharing information with the public.

This course will help you to understand the components of project stages and lifecycles. It will provide an understanding of project methodologies and their application, teaching you how to develop a project plan, identify/mitigate risks and construct a strategy for monitoring/review. You will leave with an understanding of the following areas and the tools required to:

1. Define the stages of a project and develop an understanding of a project lifecycle from conception to commissioning/hand over. Using this knowledge, assess where projects fit into operational activities.
2. Develop the ability to use various approaches and tools to manage a project and understand how to use these to form a business case and engage sponsors. This will include how to create an effective management environment/culture to support projects and identification of effective communication methods for each shareholder.
3. Design a project plan to achieve a specified objective. This will include financial components such as risk appraisal for effective project design and control as well as a monitoring and review strategy for a project that assesses impact and achievement.

Session 1

• How has Covid affected your organisation? Your overall work. Your beneficiaries. Your funding.
• What has been your response? New or changed ways of working? New skills gained? New needs identified? Funds accessed or lost?
• Creating a powerful ‘case for support’ for your potential funders and supporters. Start from the Personal. Uses for the ‘case for Support’. How to aim the case for support for different audiences.
• Writing effective proposals and applications for funding: The basic components of a proposal. Filling in forms, and what to do when there is no form. Budget tips and full cost recovery. Bang for the buck.
• Evaluation and Monitoring for you and the funder: What data should be collected and how? How to show impact.

Session 2

• Communications with donors and supporters.
• Fundraising Strategy in uncertain times: Basic strategy questions. Suggested Template for strategy.
• Stewardship and donor care – the heart of fundraising: Principles of good stewardship. The donor journey?
• Acknowledgement and Thank you: Saying thank you properly. Recognition and benefits

Session 1

• Purpose of both sessions and introduction to session 1
• Contracting
• Brief introduction to definitions
• What is privilege?
• What are microaggressions?
• Where is the sector at? Some stats and quotes from the sector

Session 2

• Contracting EDI work
• Assessing where your organisation is on its journey towards EDI
• Creating a compelling EDI vision
• Setting tangible goals
• Using these tools with staff or trustee teams
• Commitment setting

This interactive online course covers tools and techniques to get the best out of your people including delegation skills, team engagement and holding people to account. You will learn active listening and good questioning techniques, fundamental to handling difficult conversations and people.It will share the five steps to having great delivery conversations and how to adapt your approach to different people and scenarios.We explore how to create working environments where people feel empowered and engaged.

This online course will providean introduction tothe tools required to plan, deliver and evaluate effective training.Anne Whitefordwill guide you through the three sessions so you willgain the confidence to design and deliver learning to individuals and small groups.

Session 1

Managing Learning Experiences

• The Training Cycle
• How Adults Learn: The Kolb Learning Cycle; Learning Styles

Developing a Learning experience

• Training Methods: Tools; Icebreakers; Energisers
• Review and Evaluation: Kirkpatrick's 4 levels of evaluation

Session 2

Managing Groups

• The group process
• Group dynamics

Leading groups to facilitate learning

• Skills and characteristics of trainers and facilitators
• Managing challenging situations

Session 3

Putting it into practice

• Developing a training event in teams
• Presentation to the other groups
• Review of the task
• Review of the learning

This online course will help you to understand the components of a Service Level Agreement (SLA). It will provide an understanding of various tools and their application, and teach you how to create and develop an SLA.

You will take away a number of tools to use in real-life bidding and negotiation situations. The course is packed full of content that looks at:

• turning Best Value to your advantage

• capitalising on your strengths and unique selling points

• pros and cons of types of contract – “spot purchase”, “block purchase” and “unit purchase”

• the contents of a contract

• drafting a service specification

• preserving quality

• an introduction to Full Cost Recovery

• negotiating practice

• mastering the jargon

You will also leave with an understanding of the following:

• structuring Business Plans
• strategy management V ops management
• Outcomes and outputs
• defining the board’s role in strategy planning
• scoping
• strategy and implementation

The online workshop isdesigned to be interactive,blending theory with practical day-to-day examples and participant contributionsand group discussions. It will utilise all the best online tools including breakout rooms and polls.

The learning outcomes will have you leave the course with:

• a greater awareness of what resilient people do that sets them apart from others
• tools to develop your power of perseverance with some practical approaches
• an enhanced confidence in dealing with rejection and perceived failure
• a greater awareness of what triggers your self doubt and negative feelings
• clarity around what you need to start, stop and continue doing in order to build your resilience

Twitter, Facebook and blogging don’t have to be a mystery any longer - this online course will help youdevelop the skills to use these core social channels more confidently and effectively. Whether it is part of your role, or you just want to be more social media savvy,it has never been more important to communicate well online.Using online tools, group discussions and lots of practical exercises you will look at:

·Twitter ·Blogging ·Video & audio ·Facebook

You will also look at creating a social media strategy - everypost, reply, like, and comment should serve a purpose!Having asocial media strategy you will have everything you plan to do, and hope to achieve, at hand! It will guide you and let you know whether you're succeeding or failing at your objectives.

During this online course we will:

• find out what you need to get from the session

• explain the value of storytelling

• take you through our six stages to get a great story

• identify what currently works (or how to adapt)

• brainstorm some of your own organisation’s storytelling needs, together