Invitation to the 2012 Charity Funding Roadshow

- a one-day conference with the leading funders in three cities:

- Central Hall Westminster on Tuesday 18 September
- Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham on Thursday 20 September
- West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds on Tuesday 25 September

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You and your colleagues are warmly invited to join the leading statutory, lottery and trust funders at the 2012 Funding Roadshow conferences. These annual events, presented by Action Planning, ACEVO, CAF and Blackbaud for the past eight years, provide an important opporunity to meet funders and identify new funding opportunities for your charity. The event features:

1. Top-level representatives of the leading funders, including:

Minister for Civil Society, Nick Hurd MP, and colleagues from the Office of  Civil Society, on statutory funding programmes

The Department of Health's Civil Society Team on how to succeed in the new commissioning environment

Big Lottery Fund Chief Executive, Peter Wanless,  and his regional team on how to benefit from the growth in BIG funding after the Olympics

Heritage Lottery Fund Chief Executive, Carole Souter, and colleagues on how the HLF's  growing share of Lottery funding will be invested in the sector

Arts Council England Regional Directors, on how to access national  portfolio and strategic funding programmes plus open access grants 

Chief Executives and grant-makers from leading grant-making charitable trusts - nationally and in your area

2. Expert, practical guidance on increasing your income:

Building  a world-class fundraising team - with Aneesha Moreira,  formerly Fundraising Director of the British Heart Foundation and now Chief  Executive at Action Planning

Winning more statutory contracts and grants - with Derek Smith, formerly Services Director of RNID and now Britain's leading trainer in this field

Securing major donors - with Robin Thomas, one of the world's most experienced big gift fundraisers

Accessing European Union funding - with YTES in Lille, experts in the field

Raising more online - with Bertie Bosredon, who pioneered digital fundraising at the British Heart Foundation and is one of the leading UK experts in this field, on raising more funds and reaching more people through the web, mobile and social media

Social enterprise oppurtunities for charities - with Andrew Johnson of the Action Planning Social Enterprise Team

This intensive one-day event will provide comprehensive advice and support in developing your fundraising. The conference is being run in London, Leeds and Birmingham. Funder representatives will differ between locations to include regional representatives and all three conferences will cover the same subject matter.

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The attendance fee of £127 includes lunch, all presentation materials and a networking reception. You can book online here, by emailing anne@actionplanning.co.uk, by phoning Anne on 020 8661 8060 or by completing the form on the conference brochure. We look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to one of these three conferences.