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Programme
1300 – 1400
ROOM ONE – Welcome and opening Plenary
Margins to Milestones: Toby Gorniak MBE shares his Journey from Church Hall, to Multi- Award-Winning Enterprise – Unleashing the Secrets of Freelancer-Funded Success
Toby G MBE will take us on an inspiring 18-year journey, recounting the company’s humble beginnings in a church hall and the challenges faced while surviving as freelancers. He will share the transformative decision of reinvesting in the company for 13 years, as well as the pivotal moment when they discovered the world of funding, propelling them towards becoming a multi-award-winning enterprise. Throughout the session, Toby will impart valuable findings, knowledge, and expertise gained from this remarkable odyssey, aiming to motivate and empower you with lessons of resilience, resourcefulness, and innovation to apply in your own ventures
1400 – 1410
Break
1410 – 1455
CHOOSE YOUR SESSION:
ROOM ONE – Winning (and keeping!) support for your cause. Rachel Collinson, Chief Whisperer, The Donor Whisperer
Attracting new donors can be tough at the best of times – even harder when people are so worried about spiralling costs! Rachel will explore how we can overcome these challenges to win (and keep!) more support for our causes.
What is a ‘strategy’ and how do you find the time to write one with all the business as usual work continuing?! This is the dilemma Tess recently experienced in a very busy, part time, interim role as Fundraising and Communications Director of a national charity. Speaking from recent experience Tess will provide a practical guide to getting started on a strategy, how to engage a wider range of people in the discussions and decisions and deliver a strategy that is memorable and inspiring. Whether you are a team of 1 or 100 there will be practical takeaways to help you get your strategy underway and Tess will share the challenges with honesty, inspiration and humour.
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ROOM THREE – How budget holders make decisions.
Andy King, Director, Fireside Fundraising
When you picture a business leader, you likely picture a faceless, suited robot who has more in common with an excel spreadsheet than you. But these business leaders are human – just like you – and their brains work in similar ways. This session runs you through the leading behavioural science about how we make money-related decisions, and what this means for our corporate fundraising approaches. You’ll leave refreshed, ready to nudge companies towards the ‘yes’ you need.
1455 – 1505
Break
1505 – 1550
CHOOSE YOUR SESSION:
ROOM ONE – What are Trust funders looking for post-pandemic and how is the changing Cost of Living landscape influencing grant-making policies?
David Burgess, Director of Apollo Fundraising will host this Q&A panel of Trust and Foundation funders to explore what has changed over recent years and how we can all work together with funders to help them meet their developing priorities. Panel members will include local, regional and national funders.
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ROOM TWO – Gift Aid Making Every Gift Count without letting the rules grind you down! Phil Robertson, Director of Client Services, Giftease Solutions
This whistle-stop workshop will bring clarity to understanding what drives the HMRC rule book, helping you to focus on what matters to simplify the process of claiming Gift Aid by recognising how to work with HMRC to produce no-risk, audit-ready tax claims.
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ROOM THREE – Why are we still wanging-on about wellbeing? Claire Warner, Founder and Director, Lift workplace wellbeing consultancy
When I first started “wanging-on” about wellbeing (fundraiser wellbeing is where it all started!!) I’m not sure any of us had ever heard of Covid-19, furlough, lockdown or any of the other serious wellbeing-impacting occurrences that took over our lives in 2020 and 2021. And yet, all of the things that we know were impacting wellbeing before 2020 are still happening. We’ve just discovered a new layer of “stuff”. In this session we will look at the causes of good and not-so-good wellbeing, we will look at why they appear and where we do and don’t help ourselves, and we will look at how we can maximise the good parts and minimise the not-so-good parts (or make them feel better).
1550 – 1600
Break
1600 – 1700
ROOM 1 – Final Plenary
Keeping pace with digital trends
Zoe Amar, Founder & Director of Zoe Amar Digital
So much is changing in the digital space. How can you and your team keep up with trends, and how they might affect your charity, when time, money and headspace are at a premium? Join digital expert Zoe Amar who will take you through the top trends. This session will help you plan how to keep your team ahead of what’s happening and how to act on this information.
Plenary Speakers
Toby G MBE
Toby Gorniak MBE (Aka- Toby G) is the Co-founder, CEO Of Street Factory and is a multi-award-winning Hip-hop artist, author, Tedx speaker, global transformational life coach, entrepreneur & Mentor. Using his personal life experiences as a former teenage refugee facing daily violence, Hip Hop culture, love, kindness to transform the lives & mindset of people from a range of backgrounds, especially those who feel there is no hope.
He empowers them to Discover their individual Genius, Exceed Their Potential & Fall in Love with Their Purpose. Over the last 18yrs Toby G has helped 1000’s of community members to live their best lives, re-enter education, employment, training & most importantly, be good people, giving back to their community.
Toby G has received numerous accolades, including an MBE honour from the Queen for his outstanding community contribution, an Honorary fellowship degree, BBC unsung hero, National lottery local legend, & so many more. He also had the honour this year to run with the Queen’s Baton for the commonwealth games.
He was nominated for these honours by his community, as they love & respect how he uses his horrific beginnings in life, as a former refugee fleeing violence, as his superpower to now reach the unreachable & bring people into the light.
As Toby says “as a child, all I wanted was to be saved and no one saved me, so now I make sure I save others.”
Zoe Amar
Zoe Amar is founder and director of Zoe Amar Digital, a social enterprise and digital agency who help charities lead change with confidence, developing strategies which increase their resilience, income and influence. She is chair of The Charity Digital Code of Practice, and blogs for Third Sector and others. Zoe is the co-author of The Charity Digital Skills Report and co-host of the leadership podcast Starts at the Top. She has 15 years’ experience of sitting on charity boards. She is currently a trustee of Charity Digital Trust. She is a previous winner of an Inspiring Communicator award from Charitycomms and was named Changemaker of the Year at The Pros Awards.
