# Action Planning announces 2007 conference and workshop programme

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/01/03/action-planning-announces-2007-conference-and-workshop-programme/
- Published: 2007-01-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Not-for-profit sector consultants Action Planning have announced their most extensive
programme of conferences and workshops to date.
The consultancy will be running 
four national conferences with ACEVO, Third Sector and UK Fundraising at Central
Hall Westminster.

**Communicating success** on 27 March will be a strategy-level seminar for 400 Chief
Executives and senior management team members with speakers from the print and broadcast
media and experts in ‘new media’ technologies on how to mobilise public support 
and build your reputation nationally and internationally. It will be presented in
association with Communications Inc.

**ACEVO Roadshow** on 5 June onwards will be a series of four regional conferences
highlighting the work done by ACEVO and by Action Planning to help Boards address
strategy and governance issues, drawing upon case studies from ACEVO’s regional 
members.

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**Raising funds from the Rich 2007** will take place on 27 September. This annual
event on major donor fundraising was attended by 700 charities in 2006, and each
year offers a valuable valuable opportunity to hear Britain’s richest givers and
most effective practitioners in major donor fundraising.

Another annual event, **Funding the Future 2007**, to be held on 22 November this
year, attracts audiences of up to 1,400. It features 50 top level presentations 
from the principal statutory, Lottery and trust funders addressing charities in 
plenary session, then in seven separate halls.

Action Planning is also expanding its programme of workshops, run both centrally
and in-house for organisations wishing to train several people.

Workshops in the coming weeks include:

 * Preparing successful bids for statutory grants and tenders This two-day course,
   recently adopted by Futurebuilders England, provides intensive ‘hands-on’ learning
   for those who need to bid competitively for statutory funding. It has proved 
   popular, having run more than 50 times. There are currently places on the workshop
   on 1-2 February and 14-15 February in London.
 * Running successful projects is a two-day course on how to deliver voluntary sector
   projects, a key competence which charities must demonstrate if they are to secure
   funding. The January course is now fully booked with a waiting list, but Action
   Planning plans to repeat the course.

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   12 January 2007)
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   13 February 2007)
 * **[New head of training team at CharitySoftware](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/03/04/new-head-training-team-charitysoftware/)**(
   4 March 2007)