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We wanted you to be the first to know - volunteer staff for small charities are now able to access our training!

We have listened to our Small Charity members’ feedback over the past year and are aware of the significant challenge our smallest members have accessing our training. We have therefore decided to run a pilot for the remainder of 2016 training dates whereby charities with an income of less than £50K per annum (and no more than two FTE paid staff) can send a volunteer to a FSI training course.

Click on the button to find out what training events we have coming up in 2016.
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Check out our latest blogs and guest blogs!

Steve Clapperton, Campaigns Manager from CAF tells us about their report 'Charity St II', Pauline Broomhead CEO at The FSI discusses financial incentives for Trustees and our Consultancy team let us in to a great project they have been working on. To read these blogs, click here.
Saw this and thought of you!

Charity IT Association (CITA) are now giving charities free IT support! As part of a new collaborative project to provide free IT volunteers to charities across the UK, they're offering a range of services including Tech Surgeries, IT Consultancy and IT Project Delivery. Click here for more.
Fundraising qualifications 10% off!

We have extended the 10% discount on the fundraising qualifications for one more week! The offer and will now on 26th August 2016.  We still have six places available for the discount so sign up while you still have the chance.
Click here for more information.
Do you want to help promote good governance?
 
Do you have a view on how we could recruit more trustees into small charities?
 
Do you think the Government should treat volunteers who become trustees in the same way as those who donate, through tax incentives?
 
Whatever your views, we’d like to hear them. We are in Nottingham on 21st September and we’d like to invite you for lunch to discuss the questions above. If you’d like to come along then let us know by contacting olivia@thefsi.org.
Funding to strengthen your organisation
 
The Heritage Lottery Fund has just launched a new initiative, Resilient Heritage, with up to £250,000 of funding available per organisation for capacity building work. The funding is targeted to help strengthen organisations and build the capacity of staff and volunteers to better manage heritage in the long term. 
 
Lloyds Bank Foundation's Enable Grants offer charities up to a total of £15,000 over one or two years, and can reinvigorate charities through funding organisational improvements, development of areas such as leadership and governance, improved systems and demonstrating outcomes.
 
If you’d like some support in developing or reviewing your application, please contact admin@thefsi.org to book an advice session with one of our advisors.
Sign up for Small Charity Index Survey
 
Don’t forget the new Small Charity Index will be coming out on 1st September, which offers a way for small charities like yours to collectively inform the sector of the issues facing smaller charities.

Has your charity’s CEO, Trustee or the most senior staff member signed up to take part yet? If not then your charity is missing out on the opportunity to win a £4,000, £1,000 or £500 prize. All they will need to do to be in with a chance of winning is to join our other members by completing a quarterly survey, each taking no more than 5-10 minutes. For more details about eligibility, then click here.

To register your interest, email Olivia at olivia@thefsi.org.
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Our aim is to support charities to become more efficient, effective, accountable and self sustaining. We do this by delivering expert knowledge, strategy and support to charities so their futures are secure and their users protected.

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