Free UK Charity Training Webinars
Weekly free charity training webinars and workshops, on a range of issues from trustee governance training workshops to courses on finance, fundraising management and more, or search for charity training courses on our Help Finder directory. Plus we also have a web page for charity trustee and volunteer training and another for free fundraising training courses. Scroll down for the links and also see the next section on how to use Help Finder for even more free UK charity training.
Search Online for Free Charity Training Courses & Webinars
Use the Help Finder search category for Learning & Development to find 100+ charity training opportunities and courses. You can also use it to find company donations (Donations - Funding category) or Funding Finder, to find a huge range of grants. Plus all our other services making us a free one-stop-shop for anything a non profit needs.
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CHARITY EXCELLENCE TRAINING WEBINARS
We provide weekly free Charity Excellence webinars and online training for charities at 10am on a Thursday. There is no booking. You simply create an appointment in your calendar and join us for the webinar by clicking the virtual meeting room link.
Fundraising Training Webinars
- Creating a fundraising strategy – you don’t need to pay a consultant to create your fundraising strategy because the important stuff is what you know. What a strategy is and how to do it yourself in simple steps to improve your fundraising and grow income streams. It's available as a video (42 mins) on our You Tube Channel. Download the supporting toolkit from the Income questionnaire.
- 4 Steps to Funding Success – the key areas you need to understand and apply to be successful in trust funding bids, including how to ensure the best possible case, write bids more quickly and how to use the free AI bid writer to write bids for you. It's available as a video (29 mins) on our You Tube Channel.
- How to Find New Funders – the fundraising outlook, diversifying income, how to choose the best grants directories and lots of ways to find new funders, including Charity Excellence tips & tricks and those used by the professionals. It's available as a video (34 mins) on our You Tube Channel.
- How to Use AI to Find Funding. Kate Hillier Chat GPT toolkit to find grant funding and celebrities who might support your causes. You can find the toolkit here and Kate's also made a short 5 min demo video.
Charity AI Training Webinars
- 9 Jan 25 @ 10am: An Introduction to AI – What the new generative AI is, the key risks, how to manage these and also how to exploit the opportunities, and what AI can and cannot do. You don’t need to know anything about AI or tech. It's also available as a video (35 mins) on our You Tube Channel.
- 16 Jan 25 @ 10am: How Anyone Can Use AI - You don’t need to know anything about AI or tech but by the end of the webinar you’ll be able to start using it immediately and, if you already are, top tips on how to get more out of it. It's available as a video (29 Mins) on our You Tube Channel.
- 23 Jan 25 @ 10am: The Best AI for Charities and AI Benchmarking - the best free AI for charities, plus AI discounts/grants, and how to choose the best AI for your charity. The current state of charity AI readiness, what needs to be done, and the results of our latest strategic thinking - emerging key issues for the sector.
- 30 Jan 25 @ 10am. AI and the Future of the Charity Sector. What that might look like, including the changing world of work, new jobs, and the skills needed, as well as digital moats, AI roadkill, holistic impact & digital super exclusion. It's available as a video (39 mins) on our You Tube Channel.
- 6 Feb 25 @ 10am. How to use AI to Find Funding. How to find funders using Kate's really simple AI Grant Finder toolkit. Click the link for her You Tube video (5 Mins).
Charity Excellence Training Webinar
- Getting The Most From The CEF – the CEF is one platform but 11 systems all of which support fundraising. How each can be used to help you, with tips and tricks on how to get the most from it – including writing funding bids and downloading policies.
Charity Trustee Governance Training
- Governance made simple - there’s a huge amount written about this but there isn’t even an agreed definition of what charity governance is. The key is to understand and apply the fundamentals. Ian has filled various chair and CEO appointments over the last 25 years and he built the Charity Excellence governance assessment system. This webinar shows you what you need to know and do to apply that successfully. It's available as a video (42 mins) on our You Tube Channel.
- How to Run Meetings Effectively. The costs and benefits, how to prepare, the chair’s role, everyone’s responsibilities and what to do after your meeting. It's available as a video (42 mins) on our You Tube Channel.
Other Charity Training Webinars
- Charity Tax Reliefs. We fail to claim £600m pa in Gift Aid alone, it’s just one of many tax reliefs, you can claim up to 4 years retrospectively and, if you’re eligible, it’s guaranteed pretty much core income. The most important boring webinar ever.
- How to Manage Risk. The basics of managing risk explained simply: strategic v operational, the risk management cycle, assessing risk, managing risk, appetite versus tolerance, other factors to think about and the board’s role.
- Thursday 4 July - An Alternative View of Risk Management. We think the standard approach to risk doesn't really work in today's hugely uncertain world. How we do risk at Charity Excellence - starting in 380BC with Plato's Cave, plus black swans, unknown unknowns and how many people cows kill.
- How to Choose the Right Non-profit Structure. Types of non-profit, questions to ask yourself, how to set up a CIC, how to set up a charity, the differ types of charity and how to decide which would be best for you.
- How to Create Vision & Mission Statements. How to create your vision and mission statements without paying a consultant or having an argument. What these are, the difference between them, how to use them and a simple process for creating yours.
- How to Maximise Impact. An introduction to charity impact – what it is, outputs and outcomes, why it’s much more difficult than private sector impact reporting and clarity on the need, what we do and the difference we make.
OTHER CHARITY TRAINING WEBINARS
HR Livery Company Webinars
Our friends at the HR Livery Company are back with their 2024 webinar series. The next Masterclasses will be in September and November.
ICAEW Free Charity Webinars - Finance Training
Join the ICAEW Charity Community for free to get free access to this and other finance webinars. Once you have joined the Charity Community, you can register for any webinar free of charge.
You can access all of the previous free ICAEW charity webinars on demand.
ICAEW Charity Trustee Training Courses
You can also access their free online charity trustee training modules.
Benefact Group
The insurance group have a charity resource hub that includes a range of fundraising webinars that can be streamed on demand.
Getting on Board Free Charity Trustee Training
Getting on Board's free Trustee Programme is a series of online, one-hour, high quality webinars and panel debates. All welcome - trustees, aspiring trustees, people working with trustees, those curious about trusteeship. Book your place here.
Plus they have a regular series which includes:
- What is a Trustee and how do I become one
- How to diversify your charity board
- The Onboarding: induction training for newly appointed Trustees
- Help! We need new trustees
- No more Charity Governance please! Beyond the trustee's role description
- To infinity and beyond; an introduction to charity finance for trustees
- Board diversity clinic
Book your place here.
More Free Charity Training Courses
Have a look at our resources for free charity training courses, with links to a huge range of free training and including top tips and ideas on how to develop your people at low/no cost and with limited time. And we also have our fundraising training course resource, which has links to providers and lots of ideas to help you with your fundraising.
Charity Video Content Training Webinar
The Saltways hold a free monthly workshop called 'How to create effective video content using your phone.'
Charity Energy Efficiency And Management Workshops
Energy Volunteers CIC provides free webinars on energy efficiency and management for small and medium charities, suitable for Facility Managers, Operations Managers, Finance Managers/Accountants, Finance Managers, Executive directors and charity leaders.
Charity Commission Trustee Training 5 Minute Guides
The Charity Commission has a series of 5 minute guides for trustees including purpose, finances, conflicts of interest, decision making, reporting, safeguarding and political campaigning.
PEGS CIC - International Child to Parent Abuse Conference
On 14 Oct, (on Child to Parent Abuse Awareness Day) PEGS is hosting an International Child to Parent Abuse (CPA) Conference. A virtual event bringing together professionals from around the globe to educate all on the reality of child to parent abuse.
Open to charities of all sizes, this is an essential CPD/education for any charity professional working with parents, elderly people, families, adults, and children. All welcome.
And There's Lots More........
Plus, 100+downloadable funder lists, 40+ policies, 8 online health checks and the huge resource base.
Quick, simple and very effective.
Find Funding, Free Help & Resources - Everything Is Free.
To access help and resources on anything to do with running a charity, including funding, click the AI Bunny icon in the bottom right of your screen and ask it short questions, including key words. Register, then login and the in-system AI Bunny is able to write funding bids and download 40+ charity policy templates as well.
