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We run training workshops throughout the year to support organisations and practitioners with their evaluation needs. Scroll down to see our upcoming training and events.

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Our training workshops are available to commission - they can be commissioned and delivered to a group of staff within a single organisation, either in-person or online. Intermediaries, funders and local authorities can also commission us to run workshops for their members or funded organisations.



Online workshop 

Getting the best from your grantholders

Date/timeThursday 13th August 2026, 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
LocationOnline (Zoom)
Cost£99.00 incl VAT

This workshop will improve your understanding of self-evaluation and help you make the most of your relationships with the organisations you fund. Grants Officers may find the workshop particularly helpful.

At this workshop you will learn:

  • what good self-evaluation practice for third sector organisations is
  • what effective funder-funded relationships look like
  • how to assess and give feedback on reports to funded organisations

Staff or volunteers who work for funders such as trusts and foundations, local authorities, Government and public bodies.

We are running this workshop using Zoom. We’ll email in advance with a link, password and all the materials you will need for the workshop. For more information, please read our Participant guide for using Zoom.

There will be a mixture of PowerPoint presentation and trainer guided exercises. We’ll help you learn from other participants and apply the learning to your work. There will be an icebreaker exercise at the start of the day to get to know each other. Participants will be placed in small groups to complete group activities.

For an engaging learning environment, we expect all attendees to actively participate in our workshops and to commit their full attention to the whole session. Please read our digital etiquette and best practice for online events.

We are accessible. We use plain English. We work in a way that meets the different needs and abilities of people and organisations. We ask you if you have any access needs when we work with you and ensure that, as far as possible, we meet them.  Please ask us if you want to see our equalities policy.

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