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Supporting your team - a manager's guide Facilitated by Claire Warner Charity Culture, Wellbeing & Leadership Specialist Aimed at managers | heads of | directors working in fundraising and marcomms leadership roles in UK hospices Please only sign up for this session if you have line management responsibility - - - Managing a team of fundraisers isn’t just about hitting targets - it’s about keeping your people motivated, engaged, and well-supported. Hospice fundraising comes with unique pressures, and as a manager, you play a crucial role in helping your team navigate them. This practical, interactive workshop will help you: ✅ Recognise the early signs of stress and burnout in your team ✅ Create a culture of support, resilience, and psychological safety ✅ Implement strategies to balance high performance with team wellbeing With real-life examples, discussion, and actionable takeaways, you’ll leave with the tools and confidence to be a stronger, more effective leader for your fundraisers. - - - Claire Warner (she/her) is a Charity Culture, Wellbeing & Leadership Specialist. Before developing this specialism, Claire had 19 years working in the charity sector, including 10 years in Director / Senior Leader roles. But it was a period of significant unwellbeing (breast cancer) that led Claire to the career change. And it was in conducting a large piece of research into sector wellbeing, that Claire recognised this significant gap in provision and went on to create Lift. In 2020, Claire won the Best Digital Leader Award at the Social CEO Awards for her wellbeing work during the pandemic. In 2021, she curated the first Charity Workplace Wellbeing Summit and was named as one of Charity Times Magazine’s 20 Pandemic Pioneers. Claire lives in rural Lancashire with her husband, their two daughters, Rowan the dog and horses Maddie and Bernie.

Resilience, stress and boundaries - essential skills for fundraisers Facilitated by Claire Warner Charity Culture, Wellbeing & Leadership Specialist Aimed at those working in fundraising and marcomms roles in UK hospices - - - Fundraising is tough. It’s emotionally demanding, fast-paced, and often unpredictable. To keep going, you need more than passion—you need resilience, stress management, and strong boundaries to protect your wellbeing. Join us for this interactive, practical workshop. You’ll learn: ✅ How to build resilience and stay steady under pressure ✅ The signs of stress and quick strategies to manage it ✅ How to set and maintain boundaries to prevent burnout This session isn’t just theory - we’ll share real-life tools, group discussions, and practical exercises to help you navigate the challenges of your role with confidence. - - - Claire Warner (she/her) is a Charity Culture, Wellbeing & Leadership Specialist. Before developing this specialism, Claire had 19 years working in the charity sector, including 10 years in Director / Senior Leader roles. But it was a period of significant unwellbeing (breast cancer) that led Claire to the career change. And it was in conducting a large piece of research into sector wellbeing, that Claire recognised this significant gap in provision and went on to create Lift. In 2020, Claire won the Best Digital Leader Award at the Social CEO Awards for her wellbeing work during the pandemic. In 2021, she curated the first Charity Workplace Wellbeing Summit and was named as one of Charity Times Magazine’s 20 Pandemic Pioneers. Claire lives in rural Lancashire with her husband, their two daughters, Rowan the dog and horses Maddie and Bernie.

Presentation - How charity retail can improve patient care in hospices by Vicki Burnett, The Charity Retail Consultancy Session aimed at hospice retailers Retail strategy: - How having a strategic approach to retail can support the delivery of your hospice’s goals, what should be included and how to ensure the team share the vision Staff and volunteer recruitment and retention: - The sector’s biggest challenge today – what you can do to ensure you recruit and retain the right people to run your retail chain Investment and growth: - Identifying the key trends in charity retail right now, helping you to make informed decisions about when and how to invest and grow

Sharing & Networking - Regular giving fundraising programmes. Session aimed at those working in supporter care, individual giving and leadership roles. THIS SESSION WILL NOT BE RECORDED

Sharing and networking session to discuss in memory giving: funeral donations, tribute funds, memory trees / gardens, and any other related areas. This session won’t cover Light up a Life as we host several sessions a year on that topic. THIS SESSION WILL NOT BE RECORDED Session aimed at those working in supporter care, individual giving, in memory

Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for Motivations: Quickly learn the foundations of containerization and orchestration with Docker Swarm, and become familiar with all the features of Docker Enterprise. Roles: System Operators & Administrators Overview This course combines all topics of CN100 , CN110 , CN210 In this intense cloud native bootcamp, you?ll encounter containers for the first time, learn to orchestrate them into scalable, highly available applications orchestrated by Docker Swarm, and finally discover how to enhance the security of your entire software supply chain and production environments using Docker Enterprise. This bundle is ideal for students who are just starting out with containerization and want to leverage the full power of the Docker Enterprise platform as soon as possible. In this intense cloud native bootcamp, you'll encounter containers for the first time, learn to orchestrate them into scalable, highly available applications orchestrated by Docker Swarm, and finally discover how to enhance the security of your entire software supply chain and production environments using Docker Enterprise. This bundle is ideal for students who are just starting out with containerization and want to leverage the full power of the Docker Enterprise platform as soon as possible.

Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for The primary audience for this course is database developers who plan to migrate their MySQL or Postgres DB workloads to Azure SQL DB. The secondary audience for this course is MySQL/Postgres administrators to raise awareness of the features and benefits of Azure SQL DB. Overview At the end of this course, the students will have learned: Migrate on-premises MySQL to Azure SQL DB for MySQL Migrate on-premises PostgreSQL to Azure SQL DB for PostgreSQL This course will enable the students to understand Azure SQL Database, and educate the students on what is required to migrate MySQL and PostgreSQL workloads to Azure SQL Database. Migrate to Azure SQL DB for MySQL & PostgreSQL OSS databases overview Common OSS database workloads Customer challenges in migration Migrate on-premises MySQL to Azure SQL DB for MySQL Configure and Manage Azure SQL DB for MySQL Migrate on-premises MySQL to SQL DB for MySQL Application Migration Post-migration considerations Migrate on-premises PostgreSQL to Azure SQL DB for PostgreSQL Configure and Manage Azure SQL DB for PostgreSQL Migrate on-premises MySQL to SQL DB for PostgreSQL Application Migration Post-migration considerations

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for This basic course is for everyone needing to write, support, or understand SQL queries. This includes but is not limited to end-users, programmers, application designers, database administrators, and system administrators who do not yet have knowledge of Overview Code SQL statements to retrieve data from a DB2 or Informix table, including the SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING and ORDER BY clauses Code inner joins and non-correlated subqueries Use SQL arithmetic operations Use scalar and column functions Use UNION and UNION ALL INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE rows Code simple CREATE TABLE and CREATE VIEW statements This course is appropriate for customers working in all DB2 environments, that is, z/OS, VM/VSE, iSeries, Linux, UNIX, and Windows. It is also appropriate for customers working in an Informix environment. Outline Introduction Simple SQL Queries Retrieving Data from Multiple Tables Scalar Functions and Arithmetic Column Functions and Grouping UNION and UNION ALL Using Subqueries Maintaining data

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The audience for this course is data professionals and data architects who want to learn about migrating data platform technologies that exist on Microsoft Azure and how existing SQL based workloads can be migrated and modernized. The secondary audience for this course is individuals who manage data platforms or develop applications that deliver content from the existing data platform technologies. Overview Understand Data Platform Modernization Choose the right tools for Data Migration Migrate SQL Workloads to Azure Virtual Machines Migrate SQL Workloads to Azure SQL Databases Migrate SQL Workloads to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance In this course, the students will explore the objectives of data platform modernization and how it is suitable for given business requirements. They will also explore each stage of the data platform modernization process and define what tasks are involved at each stage, such as the assessment and planning phase. Students will also learn the available migration tools and how they are suitable for each stage of the data migration process. The student will learn how to migrate to the three target platforms for SQL based workloads; Azure Virtual Machines, Azure SQL Databases and Azure SQL Database Managed Instances. The student will learn the benefits and limitations of each target platform and how they can be used to fulfil both business and technical requirements for modern SQL workloads. The student will explore the changes that may need to be made to existing SQL based applications, so that they can make best use of modern data platforms in Azure. Introducing Data Platform Modernization Understand Data Platform Modernization Understanding the stages of migration Data Migration Paths Choose the right tools for Data Migration Discover the Database Migration Guide Build your data estate inventory using Map Toolkit Identify Migration candidates using Data Migration Assistant Evaluate a Data workload using Database Experimentation Assistant Data Migration using Azure Database Migration Service Migrate non-SQL Server workloads to Azure using SQL Migration Assistant Migrating SQL Workloads to Azure Virtual Machines Considerations of SQL Server to Azure VM Migrations SQL Workloads to Azure VM Migration Options Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery Scenarios Migrate SQL Workloads to Azure SQL Databases Choose the right SQL Server Instance option in Azure Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL DB offline Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL DB online Load and Move data to Azure SQL Database Migrate SQL Workloads to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Evaluate migration scenarios to SQL Database Managed Instance Migrate to SQL Database Managed instance Load and Move data to SQL Database Managed instance Application Configuration and Optimization