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Welfare reform and the impact upon individuals you fund
With welfare reform continuing to have an impact upon people’s lives, this half-day seminar provides an analysis and an update.
Networks & Events
Introduction to issues in grant-making
New to grant-making? This course will give you a fuller understanding of how your role relates to the work of your foundation, and how that compares to others in the grantmaking world.
Foundation Endowments
This new two-day programme (with introductory seminar and dinner the evening before) will empower trustees and senior foundation executives to realise the full potential of their investment assets to achieve their charitable and financial objectives. The curriculum has been developed with extensive feedback from ACF members. The speakers include expert investment professionals from ACF’s Official Partners and leading foundation practitioners. Participants can tailor their learning by booking to attend all or part of the curriculum (please see event page for full details of the options).
Funding plus – an analysis of current practice and learning
This seminar is a unique opportunity to hear from a panel of experienced practitioners about their experience of funding plus – the good, the bad and the ugly – from the perspective of both practitioners and researchers.
The Lord Mayor’s Digital Skills Summit
The Charity Digital Report 2018 made sobering reading: 58% of UK charities cited funding as the biggest obstacle to embedding digital in their organisational strategy and services.
Reading applicants’ accounts
This event is full. This essential and popular course gives grant-makers an understanding of applicants’ statutory accounts and the legal and accounting framework of which they are a part.
Assessing grant applications – exploring key principles which underpin good practice
How grant applications are assessed can depend enormously on the size of the foundation, as well as on the mission and operational models adopted.