An East Midlands Funding Advice Network event to help you sustain the development of your funding advice work in a period when funding and infrastructure are in transformation.

Who should attend

Anyone who has a role in providing funding advice to other voluntary or community organisations.  Funding advisors, group development workers, group support service managers, funding officers, funders, investors, freelancers and others are very welcome.

Draft Agenda

The draft agenda below describes the sort of day to expect, timings and sessions may change.

10.00 Arrival and refreshments

10.30 Keynote speakers

• The challenge of sustaining and transforming group support services
• EMFAN learning needs survey: opportunities and priorities for professional development

11.15 Debate: "This house believes that free local support on the whole range of grant and non-grant income is the sustainable future of funding advice."

12.00 Working groups

• Marketing funding advice: to groups and funders, making sure they know we're the best
• No time for guesswork: getting fit for purpose, with the right skills
• Doctor cure thyself: the entrepreneurial approach to sustaining our services
• Untapped resources: possibilities for specialisation and collaboration

12.45 Feedback from working groups

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Workshops

• Trends in grant funding
• Accessing support from the business community
• Developing a business plan that sells

15.00 Plenary: actions to sustain and transform funding advice

15.30 Final refreshments: mince pies and incentives from local shops to get you in the holiday mood