Target Audience
Board Members and Trustees of non-profit organisations who are on, chair or plan to establish board sub-committees.
Outline
Topics covered include:
- The Constitution
- Board Handbook
- Typical Sub-Committees
- Terms of Reference
- – Membership & Attendance
- – Tole of the Chairperson / CEO / Staff / External Members
- – Reporting
- Effective Sub-Committee meetings
- Working Groups
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
Board members, coordinators, managers, and community group leaders who may not have formal financial qualifications or access to a dedicated Finance Manager.
Outline
The session will provide practical guidance on good financial governance, oversight, and sustainability within small to medium-sized community and voluntary organisations.
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
This workshop is suitable for learners who have completed a Canva beginner-level course or who already use Canva regularly and wish to advance their skills.
Workshop Content
This workshop provides an in-depth exploration of Canva’s intermediate and advanced features, focusing on branding, content planning, and professional design workflows. Participants will develop practical skills in maintaining brand consistency, applying colour and typography principles, creating engaging video and presentation content, and producing documents at scale using bulk design tools. The course also introduces accessibility features to ensure designs are inclusive and user-friendly. Throughout the training, learners will leverage Canva’s AI tools to streamline content creation and enhance creativity, equipping them with the skills needed to produce high-quality designs across multiple platforms is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.
Topics covered during the workshop include:
- Canva Branding Kit
- Canva Colour Wheel
- Canva Content Planner
- Linking Canva account to social media accounts
- Typography and Text Apps
- Creating and Editing Videos
- Creating Presentation
- Document Design
- Creating Emails/Newsletters
- Bulk Create Design
- Canva Translate
- Accessibility Features
- Canva AI Tools
- Canva AI 2.0 (or newest version)
- Magic Write
- Magic Studio
- Magic Media
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
“We’re investing in communication but what is it actually achieving?”
CEOs, senior leaders and decision-makers, including board members and trustees, in nonprofit organisations who want to understand whether their organisation’s communication is contributing to organisational objectives and how its value can be demonstrated.
The session does not require specialist communications, marketing, research or evaluation knowledge and is suitable for organisations with different levels of resources and measurement capability.
Outline
Nonprofits invest considerable time, finance and human resources in communication. But how do leaders know whether that investment is actually contributing to organisational objectives? In an attention economy, where organisations compete for increasingly scarce stakeholder attention, measuring activity alone is no longer enough.
This practical session will equip leaders with the questions should ask about communication performance and help participants move beyond measures of activity and outputs, such as media coverage and social media metrics to consider what really matters: outcomes, impact, and the contribution communications make to delivering organisational objectives.
1. What Are We Actually Trying to Achieve?
- Connecting communication with organisational priorities.
- Moving from communication activities to meaningful objectives.
- Understanding the difference between activity, outputs, outcomes and impact.
2. Measuring What Matters
- Identifying meaningful measures and indicators.
- Choosing measures appropriate to each organisation’s objectives and resources.
3. From Evidence to Decisions
- Using evidence to demonstrate the value of communication.
- Using measurement to inform resource allocation.
- Learning from results and improving future communication and organisational decision-making.
4. A Practical Approach for Nonprofits
- Developing a proportionate approach to measurement and evaluation.
- Questions leaders should ask about communication performance.
- Identifying practical next steps for participants’ own organisations.
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom. The session will combine presentation, practical examples and discussion, with opportunities for participants to apply the principles to their own organisational context.
Target Audience
Board Members, Directors, Trustees and Managers and anyone else involved in the preparation of Annual Reports.
Outline
The aim of this session is to understand the preparation of the Annual Report from the perspective of the Board Members, Directors, Trustees and staff.
This course covers the basics of what a good Annual Report should include and focuses on how to use the annual report as a way of showing the public, your members and funders how good your organisation is.
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.