Bid writing - Getting it right

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Foundation for Future London

In this session, you’ll learn the fundamentals of bid writing. Lisa will share top tips and proven methods of bid writing.

<h3>About this event</h3><h3>Fundamentals of successful bid writing</h3><h3>Join this session to find out more!</h3><h3>YOUR community, YOUR ideas, YOUR change</h3>Join Lisa Stepanovic MBE, Capacity Building lead, for this interactive, hands-on bid writing workshop. It’s vitally important that we arm our local communities with the tools and expertise to help them develop their own socially conscious projects. The Foundation for Future London Capacity Building Programme aims to provide a platform for knowledge sharing and offer networking and partnership opportunities. The programme is designed with an inclusive approach, representing feedback and the needs of participants. The programme will champion inclusivity and wellbeing throughout.About the session:In this session, you’ll learn the fundamentals of bid writing. Lisa will share top tips and proven methods of bid writing using The National Lottery Awards for All application as an example. She will share step-by-step guidance with example answers. This workshop is designed for people who are new to writing funding applications or want refresher training on writing successful funding applications. We will take you through step-by-step guidance and open up for a Q&amp;A." I implemented the learning and went on to secure winning bids. Highly recommend this workshop!" - Participant What else do you need to know?When: 14th January 2025, 6pm - 7.30pmWhere: Zoom (Link to be emailed to you prior to the event)This event is free and open to individuals, organisations and businesses working and living across the local communities in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.Please register your place and we will send you details about how to participate closer to the time. Places will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis.About your Host:The Foundation for Future London is pleased to be working with Lisa Stepanovic, who will be leading the Capacity Building Programme. Lisa is a working-class, award-winning social entrepreneur, experienced businesswoman, activist, and mentor who was born and raised in London’s East End. She is best known as the founder of Social Ark; Social Ark builds on Lisa's many years of experience in running her own businesses and supporting hundreds of entrepreneurs on their journey, especially those from working-class backgrounds who often find themselves excluded from mainstream incubator and accelerator programmes.Follow Lisa here: <a href="https://twitter.com/Lisa_Stepanovic" title="https://twitter.com/Lisa_Stepanovic" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@Lisa_Stepanovic</a>About the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund:In 2020, Foundation for Future London, through funding from Westfield Stratford City, created the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund - an ambitious five-year programme that aims to invest £10 million into the local communities of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest. The Fund aims to support local organisations and individuals to create new jobs, learning, training, and educational programmes through the means of arts, culture, innovation, public realm and creative placemaking. The Fund aims to transform and catalyse the lives and careers of people across east London by putting funding, resources and support straight into local people’s hands.Year 5 of the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund has now opened. With the generous donation from Westfield Stratford City, Year 5 of the fund will continue to provide new jobs, learning, training and educational programmes through the means of arts, culture, innovation, public realm and creative placemakingThis year we are continuing our partnership with Lisa Stepanovic, a series of capacity-building events, starting with pre-application workshops, as part of a 12-month Capacity Building Programme.

About Foundation for Future London:Foundation for Future London is an independent charity established in 2015 created to connect communities, the new East Bank and its globally renowned arts, innovation and cultural partners. We want to ensure East Bank is London’s must-visit destination and becomes a resilient, thriving, world-class neighbourhood of local and global significance.We’re fundraising to expand grant-making opportunities for East Bank communities and partners and facilitating creative placemaking, to support local places, learning, training and employment through arts, education, culture and innovation.Our vision is for a vibrant and inclusive creative East Bank, creating authentic engagement with local people of East London in the boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.We are a part of the East Bank partnership, connecting local communities to the new centre of culture, education, innovation and growth being built on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London. We are also partners with Culture Mile and its organisations.Our work is supported by East Bank’s Founding Partner and Official Sponsor, Westfield Stratford City, and City of London.

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