Investment Ready Webinars and Workshops
providing practical advice on a range of topics such as evidencing your project’s impact, how to invigorate your fundraising story.
All of our videos can be found on the DGU YouTube Channel
providing practical advice on a range of topics such as evidencing your project’s impact, how to invigorate your fundraising story.
- Investment Ready Webinar 1: Evidencing your Impact
- Investment Ready Webinar 2: Introduction to Fundraising for Beginners
- Investment Ready Webinar 3: Financing Creativity
- Investment Ready Webinar 4: Presenting Your Story: Express your core values, history, aspirations and Goals
All of our videos can be found on the DGU YouTube Channel
Investment Ready Webinar 1: Evidencing your Impact
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Being able to measure and share your and/or your organisation’s impact is a powerful tool in levering in investment to support the work you do. Pressure on income generation and increased competition for funding means knowing how to qualify and then communicate them remains very important.
DGU recently hosted Evidencing Your Impact webinar with guest speaker Helen Turner, Assistant Director, The Holywood Trust. The webinar included an overview of various ways to measure impact, including ways in which to differentiate between Outputs/Outcomes as well as providing some essentials for incorporating these into reports for funders/funding applications. |
Helen Turner has been working with The Holywood Trust (THT) for 18 years. Involved in assessing applications coming into the Trust, Helen also co-ordinates the reporting by organisations who have received funding.
Helen’s background is in Youth Work, having worked for Dumfries YMCA and D&G Council’s Community Learning and Development service before joining THT. Helen enjoys talking with organisations about their work and sharing any information she can that might help them in the work that they do, whether with young people or the community in general.
Helen’s background is in Youth Work, having worked for Dumfries YMCA and D&G Council’s Community Learning and Development service before joining THT. Helen enjoys talking with organisations about their work and sharing any information she can that might help them in the work that they do, whether with young people or the community in general.
Investment Ready Webinar 2: Introduction to Fundraising for Beginners
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Are you looking to fund a creative idea or project you want to develop but don’t know where to start? There are many approaches to raising funds; DGU’s introduction to fundraising webinar will help you navigate these by providing practical tips on how to present you and your project to funders. There are also some ‘real-life’ examples of successful approaches and a chat with our guest speaker, Duncan Bremner, Development Officer, Voluntary Arts Scotland.
Duncan brings a range of experience across sectors, having worked within the arts, heritage, educational and creative industries, with a particular focus on community development and place-based working. He has worked with a broad range of organisations including community and voluntary groups, third sector groups, educational institutions, public and governmental bodies, to name but a few. |
He has also been lucky enough to serve on the board, or as part of advisory groups, for several national arts and heritage organisations.
With a background as a visual artist and arts administrator, Duncan has a passion for participation and the benefits of working with others. In 2013 he became the founding Director of Citizen Curator, a charity examining history, identity and creativity in Leith and North Edinburgh.
With a background as a visual artist and arts administrator, Duncan has a passion for participation and the benefits of working with others. In 2013 he became the founding Director of Citizen Curator, a charity examining history, identity and creativity in Leith and North Edinburgh.
Investment Ready Webinar 3: Financing Creativity
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A panel discussion where three inspiring ‘income generators’ share their experience of growing income and their ‘top tips’ for managing their audience/customers, funders, supporters, and philanthropic patrons needs whilst delivering top quality events and impactful cultural activities.
Guest Speakers: Alex McQuiston, Absolute Classics Lee Medd, Dumfries & Galloway Chamber of Commerce Aidan Nicol, CatStrand |
Investment Ready Webinar 4: Presenting Your Story: Express your core values, history, aspirations and Goals
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Communication is key in setting out a vision and encouraging others to share in its development and delivery. It is not only about conveying the facts but also about expressing passion and commitment, inspiring communities and fellow contributors to have ownership of the project and convincing funders and potential benefactors to support creative ideas and projects.
Join us for an online webinar where our guest speaker, Barbara Chalmers, shares her experience gained over many years of working across arts/cultural organisations and as a Freelance Consultant in the arts, public sector and death sector since 2009. “I can’t emphasise enough how strongly I feel about the value of values. They underpin everything. If you don’t know what your values are, frankly, you’re doomed.” |
Barbara will use 3 case studies to explore the value of values and the art of expression. She will use her own award-winning work with 3 organisations… two leading arts organisations and one very different enterprise: her own award-winning platform for end of life planning, Final Fling.
Speaker's Bio:
A wearer of many hats. Sometimes consulting, sometimes working on team, always flying my own kites. Consultant in culture, change, communication and service design. A specialist in life and death.
Currently:
Speaker's Bio:
A wearer of many hats. Sometimes consulting, sometimes working on team, always flying my own kites. Consultant in culture, change, communication and service design. A specialist in life and death.
Currently:
- Business Recovery Lead, Aberdeen Performing Arts (consulting)
- Founder/Director, OnlyHuman, rites of passage (in start-up mode)
- Founder/Director of Final Fling, award-winning platform for end-of-life planning
- Founder of A Quiet Revolution, Humanist charity
- Business Development Manager, Cultural Venues shaping Paisley’s £100 million investment in cultural infrastructure.
- Masters in Design Innovation (Service Design), Glasgow School of Art.
- 10 years consulting… with Snook, Macmillan, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Cruse, Horsecross Arts, Scottish Government, Mischief La Bas, Dundee Rep/Scottish Dance Theatre, Macrobert.
- Over the years worked in arts and communication roles to Director level with New Campus Glasgow, Horsecross Arts, Stirling Council, Edinburgh Council, Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Development Agency, BBC TV London.
