Events & Workshops

LCSN CONFERENCE

‘FUNDING THE BIGGER PICTURE’ 

@ The Queens Club    

Palliser Road, West Kensington, London, W14 9EQ 

Wednesday 12th November 2008

12.00 – 17.30 

In the increasingly competitive field of community sports, knowing how and from where to get resources gives you the edge. This conference will focus on a variety of fundraising aspects from charitable fundraising to commissioning and from full cost recovery to pursuing sustainability. This conference is a must for any Fundraiser, Chief Executive or Project Manager working in community sports and wishing to grow their organisation’s resources.  

What to expect? 

·       Commissioning – the new fund?

Borough Councils and PCTs 

·       Sustainable Funding, NCVO 

·       Full Cost Recovery, ACEVO 

·       London Youth Offer 

·       City Bridge Trust  

Please download conference programme here 

Click here for booking form

 

 

 

 

  Workshop programme

Workshop	Location	Date
		2008
How to ... get the best out of your committee	Walthamstow	09 Sep
Funding ... Help a London Child/Sport Relief	Brent	16 Sep
How to ... assess a community sports project	Brixton	14 Oct
Funding ... Help a London Child/Sport Relief	Leyton	07 Oct
Funding ... Awards for all/Jack Petchey	Harrow	21 Oct
How to ... write a project budget	Brixton	28 Oct
Funding ... Awards for all/Jack Petchey	Leyton	04 Nov
How to ... plan a community sport project	Walthamstow	11 Nov
How to … raise funds for community sports projects	Brent	18 Nov
How to ... find the best community coaches/volunteers	Brixton	25 Nov
Funding ... Football Foundation small grants	Leyton	02 Dec
How to ... find the best community coaches/volunteers	Walthamstow	09 Dec
		2009
How to ... assess a community sports project	Harrow	20 Jan
How to ... find out what your participants want	Leyton	03 Feb
How to ... assess a community sports project	Walthamstow	10 Feb
How to ... plan a community sport project	Brent	17 Feb
How to … raise funds for community sports projects	Brixton	24 Feb
How to ... assess a community sports project	Leyton	03 Mar
How to ... raise funds for community sports projects	Walthamstow	10 Mar
How to ... raise funds for community sports projects	Harrow	17 Mar
How to ... plan a community sports project	Brixton	31 Mar
How to ... achieve Charter Standard	Walthamstow	07 Apr

 

All workshops are taking place on Tuesdays from 6-8pm.

Download our workshop programme as a flyer click here.

 

Brent	Harrow
Bridge Park Community Centre	Harrow Leisure Centre
Brentfield/Harrow Road	Christchurch Avenue
London	London
NW10 0RG	HA3 5BD

 

 

Brixton	Leyton	Walthamstow
Brixton Recreation Ground	Score Complex	Douglas Eyre Sports Centre
27 Brixton Station Rd	100 Oliver Rd	Coppermill Lane
London	London	London
SW9 8QQ	E10 5JY	E17 7HE

 

 

To book a place please email Melanie.bindel@locsp.org with your contact details.

Suggested target group/beneficiaries
The training programme is aimed at individuals in new and emerging community groups that need support with their overall infrastructure development but also voluntary organisations that are better established but who are looking to improve their skills and understanding in specific organisational areas. The training is pitched from a basic to medium level.

How to ... raise funds for community sports projects
Overall aim: To ensure that participants have an understanding of the fundraising process, tips for good and bad fundraising and will construct key responses to typical fundraising questions.

How to ... get the best out of your management committee
Overall aim: To ensure that participants have understanding of the Code of Governance and national occupational standards in Governance.
Specific aims:

• Improving the skills of your management committee members
• Improving the operation of your management committee
• Good governance action planning

How to ... plan a community sports project
Overall aim: To ensure that participants have the understanding and knowledge of planning a community sports programme.
Specific aims:

• Develop understanding and knowledge of planning a community sports project
• Identify and gain an understanding of the key elements and process of planning a project
•  Prepare an action plan for a proposed project

How to ... write a project budget
Overall aim: To ensure that participants have the understanding and knowledge to write project budgets including all hidden costs

How to ... find the best community coaches/ volunteers
Overall aim: To ensure that participants have an understanding of the key tasks and duties of a generic community coach, be able to identify suitable personal attributes and will be able to put together a job description and personal specification for their community coach/ volunteer.

How to ... assess a community sports project
Overall aim: To ensure that participants have a good understanding of the context of monitoring and evaluation, develop a simple monitoring and evaluation framework for a community sports project and explore different ways of gathering monitoring and evaluation information.

How to ... find out what your participants want
Overall aim: To ensure that participants have an understanding of its users values and builds good relationships with them. It includes them in designing, delivering, reviewing and assessing services in order to meet their needs.

Our partners are Lambeth Council, Brent Council, Harrow Council, Sport England, London Playing Field Foundation.