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Organising and Managing Events

By SAVO CIC

This half day course is designed to help participants plan and promote events, whether for fundraising, social or educational purposes. It provides practical tips on a wide range of subject areas from choosing events to determining budgets and publicity methods. The course can be adapted to take in any type of events or can concentrate on particular areas such as organising fundraising events, conferences or cultural events.

Organising and Managing Events
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150

Writing Policies and Procedures

By SAVO CIC

This half day course is designed to help participants who need to write or revise policies and procedures for their organisations. It will help them to develop effective structures for the writing and design and ensure that they meet key legal and good practice requirements on some of the most important policies such as health and safety, equal opportunities and financial procedures. It will also look at the process of consultation and implementation so that the policies obtain “buy-in” and commitment from staff and volunteers.

Writing Policies and Procedures
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150

Taking and Presenting Minutes

By SAVO CIC

A half day course for those who find themselves taking and presenting minutes for different kinds of meetings. The session will provide practical tips on how to write minutes that are clear and more concise and how to save time during the minute-taking process. It will be a useful session for both novice and experienced minute takers.

Taking and Presenting Minutes
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150

Writing good Funding Applications

By SAVO CIC

This half day course is designed for voluntary and community organisations and those involved in community development who need to write funding applications and want to ensure that their bids are clear, focussed and meet the funders’ criteria.

Writing good Funding Applications
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150

Partnership Working for LEP Funding

By SAVO CIC

This half day course is designed to help staff working in statutory agencies, and local representatives, understand the role of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), how the management of European funding for Social Inclusion is changing and requiring more partnership working, and the opportunities and issues that arise in working in partnership with the VCS.

Partnership Working for LEP Funding
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150

Monitoring and Evaluation

By SAVO CIC

This half day course is designed to help participants in the voluntary and community sector to monitor and evaluate the work of their organisation effectively and ensure that their working practices are robust and fit for purpose. It can also be relevant to those staff in statutory agencies who work on community projects.

Monitoring and Evaluation
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150

Introduction to Publicity and Marketing

By SAVO CIC

This half day course is designed for those people working or volunteering in groups or working on projects who would like some practical tips on making their marketing and publicity more effective.

Introduction to Publicity and Marketing
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150

Running Effective Meetings

By SAVO CIC

This course, which can be run as a half day (3.5 hours) or a whole day course, is designed to help those who chair or participate in meetings to understand how to run effective meetings that are constructive, concise and actually achieve something! The course can be adapted to cover meetings in general or focus on specific types of meetings such as trustee, director or committee meetings, staff or project meetings.

Running Effective Meetings
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150

Supervising Staff

By SAVO CIC

This half day course is designed to help relatively inexperienced managers and supervisors to manage their staff effectively. The course can be run as a one-off session or can be incorporated into a series of sessions on managing staff. Alternatively it can be run as a day session and incorporate elements of the Managing the Difficult Staff member course. The course can concentrate on managing paid staff or (for voluntary and community sector organisations) can include aspects of supervising and supporting volunteers as well.

Supervising Staff
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150

How to write a simple Business Plan

By SAVO CIC

This half day course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to write a simple but effective business plan for their organisation. It considers aspects of why business planning is important, what background research is needed, what subject areas to include and how to monitor progress against the business plan. For in-house courses the session could be extended to a whole day with participants spending the afternoon working on a first draft of a business plan.

How to write a simple Business Plan
Delivered In-Person in Thetford or UK WideFlexible Dates
£150