About the Workshop

Active Essex has developed a Fundraising and Bid Writing Workshop in response to requests for fundraising support from our locally trusted organisations (LTOs) and wider network.

Fundraising has never been more challenging for community and voluntary organisations across Essex. There is huge demand on grant givers like National Lottery Community Fund and Sport England. There are less grants available from local authorities and NHS. Your fundraising plan needs to think of different ways to bring in income, know where to look for available and relevant grants, and make sure your bids and grant applications stand out.

This three hour in-person workshop is aimed at organisations who are using physical activity and sport to deliver their organisation’s vision and outcomes and want to improve their fundraising and bid writing knowledge and confidence to strengthen income generation.

What the Workshop offers

The Active Essex Fundraising and Bid Writing Workshop benefits all levels of fundraising experience who are looking to improve their fundraising knowledge and skills, whether you are looking to write your first application and don’t know where to begin, or you want to look at other ways of fundraising for your organisation. Through the three-hour workshop attendees will:

1. Understand the different types of fundraising.
2. Understand the current trends in fundraising.
3. Understand the different sources of grants for community sport/physical activity.
4. Understand the best approach to writing a small grant application.
5. Understand the best approach to writing a large grant application.

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Please email [email protected] if you have any queries about the session.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course, designed to teach people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis. This accredited two-day course will allow you to develop practical skills to identify a range of mental health issues and support a young person to get the help they need. Provides an in depth understanding of specific mental health issues and is delivered in four manageable chunks:

• What is mental health?
• Depression and anxiety
• Suicide and psychosis
• Self-harm and eating disorders

It focuses on the issues faced by young people today, such as cyber bullying and substance misuse, and build your knowledge and confidence on how to promote protective factors and offer support.

Completing this course qualifies you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider. In order to complete this course you must attend day 2 on Monday 14 April.

Further information and registration will appear here closer to the event.

Note this workshop is now full.

Please email [email protected] if you would be interested in attending future sessions.

Active Essex Foundation Sport and Youth Mental Health Project will be hosting Believe Perform, a specialist culture change consultancy, for their first training session with our LTOs.

The session will be broken up into 2 days and take a deep dive into individual resilience building to ensure that deliverers are ready to cope with supporting others. It will introduce and explore models which will help to aid, build, or add to understanding behind emotional wellbeing.

Day 2 will start at the same time on 06/05/2025

Lunch will be provided

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