Building futures: creating a financially strong women’s sector

The Women’s Resource Centre is launching a brand new project in December 2008 supporting women’s frontline organisations across London to become financially stronger, resilient and more independent.

You will be able to access practical support, tailored to your needs, in areas such as:

• How to be more successful in tendering for services
• Writing more successful tenders and fundraising bids
• How to better engage with funders to ensure more ongoing support
• Forming effective partnerships
• Social enterprise
  

We will provide this support through:

• Local surgeries across London where you can meet, listen and pose questions to inspiring speakers with first hand experience of the issues set out above including local commissioners, small voluntary organisations who have formed successful partnerships or social enterprises and other funding experts
• Trainings where you will network with other women’s organisations and receive practical tools, information and skills in making your organisations financially stronger
• One to One support where we will work directly with you to help make your organisations financially more independent.
• Online community where you can receive relevant information and network and exchange your experiences with other women’s organisations endeavouring to make themselves more financially secure.

Take a look at the Building Futures leaflet (PDF,187KB).

Upcoming events

• Developing a sustainable funding mix: 10 December 2008. Read more here...
• Are you ready to diversify your funding? 22 January 2009
• Building relationships with funders and commissioners: 10 February 2009
• Commissioning and procurement - the basics: 26 February 2009
• Developing effective partnerships: 18 March 2009
• Social enterprise and the women's sector: 2 April 2009
  

Take a look at the Building Futures training calendar (PDF, 161KB) for full details

Have your say - fill in our survey!

If you would like to let us know which areas the project should cover, why not fill in our survey?  We will use this information to ensure our support is tailored to the real needs of women's organisations. You can also take a look at a summary (word, 27KB) of the most recent results.

For more information about the upcoming events and/or to register your interest please email us at development@wrc.org.uk