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Webinars

On this page you will find “learn-at-your-own-pace” webinars on a range of topics prepared by the POP ideas team: Gareth Hart, Susan Moores, and Paul Read.

If you’d like to learn more, take a look at our workshops, bespoke support, or resources.

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This workshop is an introduction to writing a successful funding bid. Susan will help you to clarify your responses to “What, Who, When, Where and Why”, thinking through how your idea best meets needs in the community, and how to get those ideas down into an application form.

Writing a Funding Application: Headlines and Top Tips!

Finding the Words: Writing a Funding Application

This webinar is an introduction to writing a successful funding bid. Susan will help you to clarify your responses to “What, Who, When, Where and Why”, thinking through how your idea best meets needs in the community, and how to get those ideas down into an application form.

Resources

  • Writing a Funding Application: Headlines and Top Tips!
Start Something Good

If you want to get funding and advance your community project, voluntary group, or social enterprise, you usually need some kind of ‘organisational structure’.

This webinar will go over the common organisational forms that community projects adopt. We’ll cover the pros and cons of different structures like associations, charities, community interest companies, and more.

Resources

  • Charity Commission: The Essential Trustee
  • CICs: Corporate Governance
  • Companies House
  • Good Governance Code
  • NCVO
  • UK Coops
  • Know How Non Profit
Recruiting, Retaining, and Managing Volunteers

This webinar is an introduction to finding and maintaining volunteers, and the tools and processes you’ll need to support them. It’s for organisations new to managing volunteers and for those wanting to review and improve their current processes. 

Resources

  • NCVO volunteer advice
  • Volunteer England
  • Volunteering Matters
  • Investing in Volunteering
  • Our Plymouth
Proving Your Impact

This webinar is an introduction to social impact reporting, measurement and management. We’ll cover the basic principles of social impact: exploring how to start off measuring the impact of your organisation.

Resources

  • Social Impact Report 2023
  • Logic Model
  • Vision Mission New
  • Improving Quality
  • Outcomes Matrix
  • Social Value UK
  • Outcomes Star
  • Iridescent Ideas Resources
  • Piktochart

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