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If you'd like to feel more confident around Finance, this will do the trick. In this interactive and fun day, charity consultant Adrian Ashton will cover:

• reading accounts - understanding the story they tell
• book-keeping basics
• forecasting
• essential processes and policies for charities

The cost is £25 for LDCVS members and £50 for non-members.

Finance is something that most charities struggle to get to grips with, but not being able to do so can limit access to funding and limit their impact and benefit to their communities.

In this day of training, Adrian will use quizzes, worked examples, templates, and ‘live accounting’ to help you:

• better understand what makes finance in charities different from any other type of organisation, and the implications for this in how it is approached
• understand the concepts of bookkeeping, and how having a regular practice of ‘doing it’ can help make better decisions in a charity
• feel more confident and able to ‘read’ the story that a set of end-of-year accounts is presenting and telling (both for themselves, and in how a funding body would understand them);
• be able to start to more confidently and accurately create budgets to support future funding bids, and well as manage the overall charity for the coming year(s)
• explore a wide range of options and ideas for how charities can increase the number of ways in which they raise income in the future
• identify practices and systems that will help strengthen and enhance how they currently manage finance in their charity, so that it can be done with more confidence and impact

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Christ Church
Wyresdale Road, Lancaster, LA1 3EA

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