Empower - Support for the Voluntary Sector

August 2013

Income Generation for the Third Sector:
Getting money in!
Third Sector organisations rely on 5 main sources of income:
  1. Grants and charitable funds
  2. Donations and fundraising activity
  3. Delivery of services under contract
  4. Sales of goods and services
  5. Sponsorship

Empower can help provide support and advice on each of these routes to income. 

Undertaking a commercial review of your organisation

While the focus is on generating further funds, charities unwittingly experience a seeping away of funds on unnecessary costs...


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10 essential marketing strategies to make your sales fly.

Follow these tips and watch your sales grow!



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Grants and Charitable Funds:
Writing strong funding applications...
Empower provides training for individuals and organisations on writing strong funding applications with our renowned Essential Guide to Fundraising and Bid Writing training course. This popular course is also available as an interactive CD.

The CD and course includes interviews with major funders who share their experiences about what they look for in a strong funding application.

Donations:
Convert your popularity into cash...
Some organisations are highly organised in creating opportunities for supporters to donate but many charities and charitable organisations, whilst extremely popular with the public, fail to convert this support to cash.

Empower can help you develop a highly effective fundraising strategy and show you how to use social media to mobile support.

Delivery of services under contract:
Writing winning tenders...
Empower delivers training to individuals and organisations on effective tendering with our course Complete Guide to Tendering for the Third Sector.

We also provide expertise in writing tenders through partnership with Kwtch.

Sales of Goods and Services:
Ensure your whole team generate leads and sales...
Empower has a strong track record in bringing commercial expertise to the sector. We provide training in the following areas:
  • Making Social Enterprise Work
  • Developing a Strong Brand
  • Successful Training for the Third Sector

We can also work with you organisations to develop strategies, train up your team and help you get out there!

 

Our Sales and Marketing service will help you understand the principles of marketing and ensure the whole team understand how to generate leads and make sales.


Sponsorship:
There is a lot of money out there. Get your share...
Even during a recession businesses are looking for sponsorship opportunities.

Effective sponsorship arrangements provide a win:win outcome for both parties.

Empower provides an insight into the principles of effective sponsorship in the course Essential Guide to Fundraising and Bid Writing.

We can also work with you to identify and approach potential sponsors and raise the profile of your organisation to the private sector.