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Workshop programme



London Community Sports Network is an established organisation working with frontline community and voluntary groups to develop and sustain their sporting activities and projects. After discussion and feedback from previous attendees and partnership organisations we have developed 7 bespoke workshops that will help make your community sports project as successful as possible!
Workshops that we offer:
Raise funds for a community sports project
This workshop will help ensure that participants have an understanding of the fundraising process. It will offer tips for good and bad fundraising and will construct key responses to typical fundraising questions.
Make a successful application to Football Foundation / Help a London Child
Come along and find out how to improve your knowledge of the funding requirements and application process for these seasonal streams. Following this workshop you will have learnt how make your application a success by clearly understanding the criteria and forming strong proposals.
Make a successful application to Sport England Small Grants Scheme and Awards for All
Learn about criteria and application process for the small grants scheme in these £10k funding streams.
Plan and assess a community sports project
This workshop will ensure that participants have the understanding and knowledge to conduct a health check for their organisation enabling them to effectively plan for a specific project. This will cover project management, planning, monitoring and evaluation and the financial aspects of running a project.
Achieve a quality standard mark
This workshop will explain the application process for your club trying to achieve a recognised quality standard. Clubmark and FA Charter Standard will be covered as well as how you can work with the National Governing Bodies, County Sports Partnerships and other strategic partners
Align your project with partners and strategies
To ensure that participants have the correct understanding and knowledge to network effectively. This course will also explain how you can target projects that fit into the strategies of the other key bodies in your operating area.
Find and develop coaches and volunteers
Learn how to you can use local networks and organisations to help recruit new volunteers into your project, but more importantly how you can train and develop your participants so that they can lead sessions and become qualified in the process.
All workshops are taking place from 6-8pm.
To book a place please email debbie.keast@locsp.org with your contact details or ring 0208 556 5973.
Suggested target group/beneficiaries
The training programme is aimed at individuals in new and emerging community groups which need support with their overall infrastructure development as well as voluntary organisations who are looking to improve their skills and understanding in specific organisational areas.
If you and your group would like to book a workshop or to find out more information please contact debbie.keast@locsp.org
Our partners are London Borough of Brent, London Borough of Harrow, London Borough of Waltham Forest, Sport England, London Playing Field Foundation, Football Foundation and City Bridge Trust.

