Boosting Your Income Generation Avenues - For Those Already Good at Bids

Led by an expert facilitator and designed to be practical and accessible, this course focuses on how to broaden and prioritise fundraising avenues so your bid work is part of a clear, resilient strategy—not a set of one-off opportunities.

Together we’ll explore what information you need to collect (internally and externally) to spot realistic income options, assess fit, and avoid wasted effort. You’ll learn how to make sound decisions about which opportunities to pursue—balancing potential value, likelihood of success, resource requirements, and timeframes.

We’ll also consider how to do this confidently within legal, ethical, organisational, and practical considerations thatshape your organisation’s choices, from governance and compliance to capacity and risk.

By the end, you’ll feel more confident developing fundraising strategies, better able to plan ahead when writing bids, and clearer on the wider factors that influence sustainable income generation.

Expect discussion, applied exercises, and tools you can use immediately.

After the workshop, attendees from Kingston will have the opportunity to receive some one-to-one support after the session to help them further develop their ideas.

Places are limited to a max of 2 per organisation

This course is aimed at those already used to writing bids, it is not a beginner course. It will help you to:

- feel more confident developing fundraising strategies,

- better able to plan ahead when writing bids, and

- be clearer on wider factors that influence sustainable income generation.

- send you away with tools you can use immediately.

About the trainer

As an experienced coach and fundraising trainer, Claudia Demuth helps not-for-profits to set up, effectively deliver, and carefully reflect on their income generation / strategic planning approaches.

During the last 20 years, Claudia has supported a wide range of charities, social enterprises and sub-regional partnerships to raise funds from sources such as the National Community Fund Lottery, central government contracts, or independent trusts; acting as a critical eye for those wanting to set up great new projects. Claudia has been an associate for Lloyds Bank Foundation; the Law Centres Network; Paul Hamlyn Foundation / Schoolfor Social Entrepreneurs and others; she uses expert coaching and action learning techniques to encourage people to think outside of the box.

Clients really value Claudia’s ability to quickly identify organisational stumbling blocks and ask hard questions with empathy which help challenge long-held assumptions whilst bringing humour and patience to this sometimes painful process. With 20 years’ experience in funding panels, commissioning, business planning and project management,she prefers to keep things simple and enjoys helping people to discover ‘light-bulb’ moments.

An online invitation with log in details will be emailed to attendees before the event.