Training Course Examples

Title of Course: Fundraising
Learning style: practical and interactive
Level: 2
Audience: middle management employees
Objective: to provide key staff with generic skills which will be useful for contracts with the public sector and European funds
Outcomes: Participants will gain experience and knowledge of:

• The organisation's aims and objectives
• The rationale behind funding applications
• Reading and understanding relevant policy documents
• Comprehending funding briefs
• Relating funding briefs to the organisation's aims and objectives
• How to design a suitable project
• Understanding funders' requirements (text and figures)
• Negotiating with Government Offices
• Writing funding bids
• Completing a final draft bid
• How to gain feedback from Government Offices

Duration: two days
Cost: £1,000 + VAT
Maximum number of participants: 8

Title of Course: Introduction to Business Planning
Learning style: practical and interactive
Level: 1
Audience:
Objective: to provide participants with a framework from which they can develop and implement realistic, achievable and measurable business plans.
Outcomes: Participants will gain experience and knowledge of:

• What is a business plan?
• Developing Planning Models
• Identifying and using stakeholders
• Business Plan development techniques
• Securing involvement and commitment from staff in the process
• Team and individual targets
• Action planning
• Policy statements
• Human resources
• Critical success factors
• Putting the business plan into effect
• Risks and contingency planning

Duration: two days
Cost: £1,000 + VAT
Maximum number of participants: 6

Title of Course: Finance for Managers
Learning style: practical and interactive
Level: 1
Audience: Managers
Objective: to 'demystify' the principles and practice of budgeting and accounting, and to provide participants with the practical knowledge to manage budgets effectively.
Outcomes: Participants will gain experience and knowledge of:

• Financial jargon
• The principles of accounting
• The importance of cash flow
• Annual accounts (profit and loss and the balance sheet)
• Depreciation
• Fixed and variable costs to decision making
• Analysing Accounts
• Working Capital
• Managerial Responsibility (budget preparation and control)
• Finance as a management tool: sharing the interpretation of financial information

Duration: two days
Cost: £1,000 + VAT
Maximum number of participants: 5