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Overview
How mission-led organisations stay solvent and effective: funding strategy, governance, impact measurement and trading income. Uses live cases from small charities through to social enterprises.
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Aims of the Course
- Design a mixed funding and income strategy
- Run mission-led governance and accountability
- Measure and communicate genuine impact
- Build sustainable traded income
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Course Structure
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Mission and Model
- Charitable purpose and public benefit
- Legal structures for mission-led work
- Hybrid models and trading arms
- Theory of change
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Funding and Income
- Grant funding and bid writing
- Trust and foundation relationships
- Contracts versus grants
- Traded income and social enterprise
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Governance and Compliance
- Trustee duties and reporting
- Regulatory filings and safeguarding
- Reserves and financial sustainability
- Risk oversight
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Programme Design and Impact
- Outcome-based programme design
- Data collection that people accept
- Impact evaluation methods
- Reporting to funders and communities
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People and Partnerships
- Volunteer management
- Partnerships and consortia
- Working with lived experience
- Staff wellbeing in under-resourced settings
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Sustainability Plan
- Diversification scenarios
- Cash flow in lumpy funding
- Business planning for grants
- Pitch and funder presentation
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Learning Outcomes
- 01Construct a theory of change for a programme
- 02Write a competitive funding application
- 03Build a reserve and diversification plan
- 04Design an impact measurement framework
- 05Present a sustainability case to funders
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Assessment
- Funding application submission
- Impact framework and report
- Sustainability plan and presentation
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Entry Requirements
- Open access; charity or community involvement helpful
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Progression and Careers
- Charity programme manager
- Social enterprise founder
- Grants and fundraising officer