Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services Training Brochure 2020

Generating Income through Trading Activity
Thursday 30 April 2020, 10am – 4pm
Would you like to expand your range of income streams through trading?
Want to know how to do it, or how to do it better, and the important points to
consider before you start? This course will provide you with information and
tools that could open up a whole new funding stream.
Competition and economic pressures are making grants and donations
increasingly hard to come by, so it can be hugely beneficial to have an
alternative funding method, with the ability to reduce your dependence on
traditional streams.
Trading income has the ability to provide unrestricted funding and become a
sustainable source of income that expands the way an organisation meets its
social/charitable objectives. It can also provide income to supplement those
activities that will never attract funding.
What is there to learn?
Before you begin trading, trustees and key staff will need to learn new
entrepreneurial skills and this could bring about a change in culture. All
voluntary organisations, but particularly charities, require robust business
planning and due diligence by trustees and key employees to successfully
start and sustain trading activity.
Handled inexpertly, trading could negatively impact your organisation’s
finances and reputation. Handled well, it provides a real opportunity to
increase your income, reach and impact.
This full day course looks at:
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the benefits of trading as a charity/voluntary organisation.
the issues to consider when trading as a charity
how to generate trading ideas
carrying out market research
developing a business case
financing the idea through development/feasibility grants and social
investment
Don’t allow yourself to feel restricted to traditional income streams.
Learn how trading could enable you to increase your reach.
Price: £90 charity/voluntary sector, £120 private/public sector
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