Seminar

Opening remarks from the seminar leader

• What are the options available to you for accessing funds and working with your community?
• The importance of establishing a strategic vision for your school and developing a fundraising strategy to match
• Cascading your fundraising message and empowering staff to contribute to your strategy

Successfully accessing additional funds – An overview

• Putting together a successful fundraising strategy – Having a clear vision and investing in your infrastructure
• Assessing possible sources of funding and evaluating current trends in grants available e.g. green project, health projects, applications from young people
• Identifying and establishing relationships with key partners in order to access as much funding as possible 
• Cascading your fundraising message and empowering staff to contribute to your strategy

Briefing: Working effectively with Big Lottery Fund

• What does a successful application look like?
• What can grants be used for and what’s been achieved?
• Our plans for funding in 2010 and beyond

Question and answer session

Peer discussion: Evaluating your approach to securing additional funding

• What’s your current approach to grants, fundraising and sponsorship?
• Who has responsibility for this and what support do they require?
• How do you set targets?
• What are the drivers and barriers to securing external funding in your organisation?

Workshop: Putting together your successful funding bid

• Identifying the key partners you could work with to maximise the potential of your fundraising
• Strategies that increase efficiencies and make the most of your resources and supportive partners
• Gathering the information you require to compile a successful bid

Lunch

Building robust and sustainable extended services – An overview

• Auditing community needs and ensuring you have the resources to deliver extended services in the long-term
• Understanding the true cost of delivering extended services and what it will take to ensure services run more efficiently year-on-year
• Working with partners to more effectively access funding and provide services
• Thinking creatively – Are there projects you can run without funding?
• Highlighting the potential for specialist schools’ community activity funding to be used to sustain long-term projects

Case study: Delivering sustainable extended services

• Examining the evolution of our extended services and their funding requirements
• Evaluating potential challenges and pitfalls to funding and delivering these services
• Highlighting top tips for delivering sustainable extended services

Case Study: Utilising the Extended Services Subsidy Funding to improve outcomes in Bridgwater

• Understanding how this funding was accessed and used by our community learning partnership, as part of the Pathfinder
• Outlining the positive outcomes of using the funding – The benefits of an innovative and entrepreneurial approach
• Exploring the options for accessing and using this funding - It's available to all schools and local authorities in England from April 2010!

Question and answer session

Peer discussion and ideas sharing: Working with community partners to access additional funding

• What could you do in your community?
• What alliances could you forge?
• How could local businesses help you?
• How could you work with community groups better to benefit everyone?
  

Closing remarks from the seminar leader