Midas offers course on funding social enterprises

Howard Lake | 27 September 2007 | News

Midas Charity Appeals Service is running two training courses next month offering a chance to meet 11 funders, ranging from those giving £80,000 to over £50 million a year. One event will be Midas’ first on Social Enterprise and includes a cabinet office speaker.

“Introduction to Funding Social Enterprises” takes place on 11 October. The workshop will examine this expanding area of charity and is run in conjunction with social enterprise specialists Red Ochre and includes some funders of social enterprise, including the Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust, the Waterside Trust, the Office of the Third Sector, and the Adventure Capital Fund.

On 17 October Midas will hold an “Introduction to Trust Fundraising and Meet the Funders.” This will include presentations from some well-known names, but also some, according to Midas’ Ian Kerr, who “are not part of the usual charity funders circuit.” The funders include the Wates Foundation, Triangle Trust, George Hodson Trust, the Mrs F B Laurence Charitable Trust, community foundations, the Karim Rida Said Foundation and Philanthropy UK. The workshop includes an opportunity for a one-to-one on your appeals with a trustee.

Both workshops are held at the Novartis Foundation, 41 Portland Place, London W1 and cost £95 and £125 respectively.

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.