13th September – Management Accounts for small organisations
What do management accounts look like and why should you do them? The session will look at:
- why we do them,
- how to do them,
- when to do them,
- what we do with them
19th September – Employing the right people
You should treat employing new staff with the same enthusiasm and rigour that you use when buying your favourite new thing. You will rely on this person to contribute effectively to the success of your organisation. Time spent getting the right individual will be invaluable to you later on, and avoid both parties being dissatisfied.
4th Oct – The Essential Trustee
This short session is designed for Trustees of charities to help understand their role, responsibilities and duties.
Whether you’re looking to get started with email marketing, or looking to expand your existing networks and reach, this is the workshop for you. There are 3.8 billion email users worldwide. Email is 40 times more effective than Facebook and Twitter combined when it comes to connecting with your audience.
The workshop will look at:
- Setting up mailchimp
- Working with templates, and building your own
- Testing campaigns (emails) before sending
- Sending campaigns to your subscribers
- Evaluating your results
17th Oct – Safeguarding for trustees and community buildings
This session will look at the legislation, and what Trustees need to know and do. It will also look at how best to apply it in a Community Building setting where you may be hiring space but have little direct interaction with the vulnerable people attending the activities.
1st Nov – Governance: what’s the right structure?
There is a wide range of not for profit structures ranging from registered charities to community interest companies. They all have specific benefits, and some drawbacks. This session will look at the main structures, and explain the benefits and issues associated with each of them.
8th Nov – GDPR and data security
Who is trying to access your data and what are the implications of this? Also what can you do to make it more difficult for people to steal your data.
What are Strategic plans and how do you write one?
Strategic plans are one of the key documents as an organisation starts to grow, especially in the current climate where organisations have to search wider for funding. A good strategic plan helps keep an organisation grounded in its work, and should help prevent mission drift.
The issue is always who should be involved in the writing of them and what should be included. The session will look at a number of examples, and try to answer some of the difficult questions about how to write the plan.
We now offer all our training online. As we are not having to pay for venues we are passing that saving on to you, so all of these courses will cost only £6.50 per person. or £5.00 per person for those organisations that have paid a membership subscription to Community matters
To book places either follow the links to the Eventbrite pages, or contact admin@communitymatters.org.uk