Get Grants FREE Virtual Conference 2024

Thank you to everyone who signed up and took part in Get Grants FREE Virtual Conference in October 2024. The first Get Grants FREE Virtual Conference was a massive success. The full programme, speakers, and FREE Session Recordings can be found below.

Get Grants FREE Virtual Conference Event Details

Across 1st & 2nd October 2024, Get Grants are leading a FREE Virtual Conference full of celebration, inspiration, and practical advice and support – true Get Grants style.

Over 2 days, Get Grants FREE Virtual Conference will bring together Fundraisers from across the UK for a programme led by Get Grants Experts, funders, and other experts from across the sector.

Expect expert advice, top tips, Q&As, networking, peer-support, and lots of chat! As with everything we do, every session will have practical support and advice that you can take away and put into practice.

This FREE Virtual Conference is for Fundraisers of all levels of abilities to build their confidence and celebrate the amazing work they do with like-minded, friendly people!

Building on our regular FREE Virtual Events, we want to reach as many fundraisers as possible – help us spread the word and share with your networks!

This Virtual Conference will be entirely FREE – no fees, no sponsors, no advertising. We’re also keeping it simple and accessible – no break-out rooms and no choosing which sessions to attend. Can’t attend all the sessions? The recording will be made available to everyone, also FREE!

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Get Grants FREE Virtual Conference Programme

Day 1 – Tuesday 1st October 2024

10.00 – 10:15 Welcome! John Ellery – Get Grants
10:15 – 11.00 Shift your Mindset for Fundraising Success Rosie Milsom
11:15 – 12.00 Simple Bid Writing Hayley Gullen
12:30 – 13:15 Stress-Free AI Michelle Stein
13:30 – 14:15 Funders in Conversation Clothworkers Foundation & Albert Hunt Trust
14.30 – 15.00 Reflections John Ellery – Get Grants

Day 2 – Wednesday 2nd October 2024

10.00 – 10:15 Welcome! John Ellery – Get Grants
10:15 – 11.00 Stay Motivated (and Stay Sane) as a Fundraiser David Page
11:15 – 12.00 Prospecting on Peanuts Jo Jeffery
12:30 – 13:15 Don’t Ask for a Donation on the First Date! Michelle Stein
13:30 – 14:15 Funders in Conversation Lloyds Bank Foundation & Charities Aid Foundation
14.30 – 15.00 Reflections John Ellery – Get Grants

Meet the Speakers

John Ellery – Get Grants

Founder & Director of Get Grants. You may already know him from Get Grants FREE Virtual Events and Training! John set up Get Grants in 2012. He has a passion for supporting small grassroots community organisations and this is reflected in everything we offer at Get Grants.

Jo Jeffery

Jo Jeffery is a freelance Trust and Foundations Fundraiser and one of the creators of ‘The List’, a collaborative record of over 130 Trusts and Foundations that are pausing, closing, and reviewing their funding programmes.

Rosie Milsom

Rosie Milsom is an experienced multi-discipline fundraiser and is passionate about helping charities of all sizes to become more confident in their fundraising. Alongside her fundraising career, Rosie is a certified life coach, supporting people to increase their self-worth and success.

Michelle Stein

Michelle Stein is an experienced fundraiser specialising in high-value relationship fundraising. For over ten years she has worked in charities and with some of the biggest philanthropic families in the UK and US. She has trained fundraisers in the UK, Europe, Australia and South Africa and knows from first-hand experience that with the right training, any fundraiser can go from mediocre to extraordinary.

Hayley Gullen

Hayley Gullen has 13 years experience as a fundraiser and bid writer, of which 10 have been in the voluntary sector for well-known charities including Tommy’s and St Mungo’s. Hayley has significant experience in trusts and foundations and has worked with Garfield Weston Foundation, City Bridge Trust and The Wellcome Trust.

David Page

David Page has been a fundraiser for almost 20 years and specialises in working with small charities that are disproportionately affected by financial challenges. He has built a wealth of experience on how to survive, flourish and grow when resources seem scarce. David has previously delivered training for the Foundation for Social Improvement (FSI) and is also a Director of Triceratops Training.

Funders

Albert Hunt Trust – Jane Deller Ray, Operations Manager

Albert Hunt Trust offers unrestricted core funding for smaller organisations for Hospices, Homelessness, and Health and Wellbeing. In 2023 the Trustees decided to spend The Albert Hunt Trust’s entire resources and close coinciding with its 50^th Anniversary in January 2029.

Charities Aid Foundation – Lorna Belsey Senior Manager, Grantmaking Operations

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) run a range of programmes on behalf of its clients, awarding grants of various sizes, across many cause areas within the UK and internationally.

Clothworkers Foundation – Jack Abbotts, Large Grants Lead

The Clothworkers’ Foundation is a UK-wide funder that offers capital grants to not-for-profits that support communities facing disadvantage and marginalisation. The projects funded focus on buildings, equipment, vehicles and digital infrastructure.

Lloyds Bank Foundation – Peter Cunnison, Regional Manager

Through unrestricted funding and support to develop Lloyds Bank Foundation help small and local charities thrive, communities grow stronger, and people overcome complex issues and barriers so they can transform their lives.

Praise for Get Grants FREE Virtual Conference 2024

“So much magic here over the past few days, thank you so much for bringing us all together – I feel rejuvenated!”

“Feel energised and beginning to see my worth — thank you”

“Thank you the last two days have been well worth letting my emails pile up !! 👏”

“Fantastic and positive conference. I feel reinvigorated to get back to it after what seems like an age of negativity around fundraising in the sector.”

“Absolutely fantastic 2 days, thank you! We feel less alone, like we are doing a lot of things right, and understand how to take rejection better :-)”

“I’ve been in fundraising for 5 years and this has been the best conference I’ve ever been to. Thank you.”

“FANTASTIC and a much-needed conference”

“Thank you for the feeling of not being alone and for such a well-organised and delivered 2-day session, for free, AMAZING! 🤩”

“Very accessible – very interesting – and surprisingly fun. Thank you!”

“Get Grants is proving to be a major life-line for charities and other small organisations. You are extremely good at identifying the barriers and helping us to keep going. Thank you very much.”

“It’s so good to be having more open conversations on mental health in fundraising. So many of us are under extreme pressure and are isolated.”

“Very insightful, thank you!!! Wonderful to see the great community of grant writers/fundraisers 🌻”

“Really great to feel talked to, rather than talked at.”

“A superb day which has provided so many take away messages which will really help my work and wellbeing; thank you so much”

“It’s reassuring to hear about the struggles and acknowledge it’s not an easy environment to raise funds. It feels like I can give an informed message to the trustees from a BIG group of people.”

“I had not heard of Get Grants before the conference invitation came through. You are so knowledgeable and have facilitated an extremely informative day. I am the fundraiser for our charity, I do the publicity, marketing, recruitment etc etc and it can often feel quite lonely. This has been fabulous today in being connected with other people that are speaking my speak and knowing what it is like in my role. THANK YOU!”

“Very accessible and helpful – thank you 🙂”

“What a fabulous day! Really looking forward to tomorrow! Thank you so much for putting this Conference together and running it so well. All guest speakers have been brilliant, most informative and very motivational, thank you for an extremely useful day :)”

“Thanks so much Get Grants! It’s been an amazing blend of wellbeing, grant writing practicals and funders’ feedback for me!”

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