Starting Up: How to Become a Charity or Social Enterprise

This interactive online session will cover:

Legal structures, leadership risks, case for support, and how to develop budgets.

It is suitable for anyone who is setting up a community group, charity or social enterprise. Attend as:

· an individual

· with your co-leaders

· as a new group

· someone who wants a refresher on charitable trends.

This course will help you to:

· Develop your project ideas into a draft case for support

· Recognise different kinds of organisational forms and legal statuses

· Identify the steps / support needed to build your idea

· Plan ahead to counteract common leadership risks.

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.

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, socialenterprises 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.