Diane can deliver friendly and informative sessions. They can be over a half or whole day or even a couple of hours as part of your meetings. Topics can include;

• Legal Structures:  An introduction to Charity/Company/Community Interest Company & Charitable Incorporated Organisation status and offer guidance making the right choice.
• Financial management; An introduction to managing money, the systems and structures that need to be in place in order to govern well.   This includes; developing a project or organisational budget, day to day practice in managing income, expenditure and reporting to your board of Trustees or funders.
• Fundraising from Trusts and Foundations; from fundraising for beginners to writing funding applications, finding the right funder for you and development of a comprehensive funding strategy for the organisation.
• Organisational Planning. This session involves exploration of the tools to support planning including; planning cycles, SWOT analysis, development of annual action plans and deciding strategic direction.  
• Monitoring and Evaluation. Measuring the impact of your services, looking at the range of methods and designing a system that is complimentary to your organisation and its current capacity.
• Managing Your People Well.  In this training event, we explore the building blocks that need to be in place to recruit and support people. From how to recruit a new worker or volunteer/trustee,  to the contents of supervision sessions. This is popular for people managing others for the first time or a chance to reflect on the way your organisation manages its staff, trustees and volunteers.
• Setting up Your Community Organisation (Comprehensive overview of all areas to consider).
• Minute Taking Skills and Making Meetings Effective.
• Roles and Responsibilities of Trustees/Committee Members

What people said!  Here are some examples of quote by past attendees;

‘ Di is good experienced individual – gave me confidence’

‘Offered practical solutions – great communicator!’

‘Direct, informative and extremely knowledgeable’ ‘Enthusiastic’

‘Kept us engaged’   ‘Really good course. Well explained and made it interesting and funny’.

‘The trainer covered every aspect of managing people and gave practical ideas on how to raise issues at a higher level but also how to deal with staff on a daily basis. She has excellent knowledge on the subject matter.

More feedback can be provided on request.