Resources – From Training & Events

The Decelerator Presentation

Resources

Webinar Summary Notes

Annual Conference - 19 June 2025

Plenary Session Summary

Workshop Presentations:

Finding and Funding Collective Solutions to Address Critical Issues in a Locality

AI for Grantmakers – Lessons, Experiments and Ideas from the Sector

How to have a Positive Impact as a Trustee or Panel Member

Collaborating with Health – Exploring and Creating Opportunities

Supercharging Philanthropy

Who, How Much and to Whom? Understanding the UK Grant-making Landscape

Workshop Notes

Reviewing your Investment Policy - 8 April 2025

Meeting summary

AI for Grant Makers - 13 March 2025

Meeting summary

Useful AI resources shared during webinar

Duties of a Trustee - 11 February 2025

Webinar summary notes

Moving towards unrestricted and multi-year funding - 28 January 2025

BRELMS presentation

Talbot Trusts presentation

Workshop notes – 28 Jan 2025 – Moving towards unrestricted and multi-year funding

Members Day & AGM - 18 November 2024

YF GM survey Sept 2024

YF Finances presentation

Collaboration in all its varieties break-out session Members Day 18 Nov 24

Getting the fundamentals right workshop notes 18 Nov 2024

SGMT website slides for Yorkshire Funders Nov 24 session

SYFAB Social Media Yorkshire Funders 7.11.24

IVAR_Yorkshire Funders_September 19th 2024

IVAR What matters most to charities

St Giles Trust – Yorkshire Funders PP

Summary on Hearing from the Frontline Online Forum – 19 Sept 2024

USEFUL LINKS & FURTHER READING FROM IVAR:

Application and assessment processes

Let charities shine – Principles for Funding Applications – IVAR

Diversity and equity

Delivering better funding for Black-led organisations and racial justice – IVAR

Multi-year funding

Time to end the dominance of short-term grants: The evidence for multi-year funding

Unrestricted funding

Making the case for unrestricted funding

A shared endeavour: Five approaches to assessing the impact of unrestricted funding

Reporting

Open and Trusting Reporting

Risk 

Accepting risk in funding practice: A discussion paper

Choosing the Right GMS 14 August 2024 key points

20240814 YF FlexiGrant Presentation

Shears Foundation – Notes for Grants Management presentation

Yorkshire Funders 2024 Conference - 19 June 2024

Summary from Yorkshire Funders 2024 Conference + video

Yorkshire Funders Forum CSJ presentation

CiN Understanding Your Area’s Needs

Embracing New Technologies workshop

Henry Smith How to Manage Demand from the Frontline workshop

Climate Justice workshop YF June 24

IVAR Independent funders working with the public sector

Yorkshire Funders_MYF Workshop_Slides_Final

Towards more transparent application and assessment processes – IVAR – Nov 2021

Time-to-end-the-dominance-of-short-term-grants-the-evidence-for-multi-year-funding-February-2024

https://www.ivar.org.uk/blog/five-perspectives-to-celebrate-three-years-of-open-and-trusting/ – this includes Bruce Warnes from the Shears Foundation’s blog about communications and dialogue.

https://www.ivar.org.uk/publication/making-the-case-for-unrestricted-funding/

https://www.ivar.org.uk/publication/towards-more-transparent-application-and-assessment-processes/ – which picks up the point about making choices and giving bad news.

Open and trusting grant-making – Flexible Funders – IVAR UK – link to join the Open and Trusting community.

Duties of a Trustees Wrigleys 21 03 24 Yorkshire Funders slides

Recording:

https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/hTpHsoHZ2jf3rGcBej5xKge79TTG4gU9wOZPfe2YwEZhRV6T0uiOG-66drtsbYCk.ZSVmRuFOwSXeByJE

Passcode: !S0j!&da

Sarah Vibert NCVO Yorkshire Funders Jan 2024

Pro Bono Economics Yorkshire Funders 18 Jan 24

Nicky Ruddick, FAWN (Funding Advice Workers Network) Chair also shared the three top issues currently facing Yorkshire’s voluntary & community sector:

1. Local authority cuts (and in some cases total removal of funds with immediate effect) to infrastructure support organisations such as CVS’s and volunteer centres, but this does vary greatly for each district. It is the small grassroots organisations that will suffer the impact of the loss of infrastructure support most significantly.
2. Many frontline charities and groups are really struggling to recruit enough volunteers (including trustees) to meet growing demand for services. Funders should be aware that some organisations will need more funding to replace volunteers with paid staff members.
3. Setting up charity/community bank accounts continues to be a very slow and painful process for many working on the frontline. Funders should consider being flexible and if an applicant asks if a potential grant could be held by a sister organisation or partner until their own bank account is set up, a ‘Yes’ answer will be so helpful for them.

Flexigrant Overview

Flexigrant Showcase

GLM Presentation

Salesforce Case Study

23 Nov Forum PROGRAMME

YF DEI session Nov 23 2023

SEUK PowerPoint YF presentation

CRT Presentation to Yorkshire Funders Sept 2023

recording of the session. passcode: 0@!eA8m$

Chat content from session

Further info from Social Enterprise UK & Wrigleys Sept 23

Giving effective Feedback YF

Shared learnings from 16 Aug Giving Effective Feedback Online Workshop

Rhodri Davies – Yorkshire Funders Conference Keynote

Sufina Ahmed John Ellerman Yorkshire Funders Conference Presentation 2023

Wrigleys Solicitors Keeping up with Legal Workshop slides PDF

Re-vitalising your Grantmaking workshop – Yorkshire Funders

Technology Trends – What Funders Need to Know Workshop

Being a Greener Funder Yorkshire Funders 2023

Bringing Lived Experience to Your Grantmaking Workshop Yorkshire Funders Conference

IVAR Making the Making the Case for Unrestricted Funding Workshop Yorkshire Funders Conference

IVAR – Yorkshire Funders Workshop on Reporting_Final

IVAR Aligned Reporting Online Workshop – Considerations & Actions Summary 27 April 23

RECORDING OF SESSION:

https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/4Y9jOoBNVgB2VxFIz5nlVi75faSTuxq82ba23dwOtFzKZ3Nl2HiHZ9L4DqnC6dxU.VRpdAO0LignxepaR?startTime=1680080448000

Passcode: 2hP#$X1f

NPC Yorkshire Funders Online Forum presentation March 23 final

CiN North Team Intro to Funding Outcomes

Emma Pears SELFA Yorkshire Funders Presentation Mar 2023

RECORDING OF ZOOM SESSION

Passcode: %5Vt8=0J

Useful links which Sarah Vibert, CEO of NCVO mentioned and other resources referenced:  

https://www.ncvo.org.uk/news-and-insights/news-index/uk-civil-society-almanac-2022/#/

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2022/05/new-national-observatory-to-plug-voluntary-sector-data-gap-so-organisations-can-better-serve-communities

https://www.probonoeconomics.com/breaching-the-dam-the-state-of-the-charity-sector

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/barclays-forced-to-turn-away-new-clients-jzb0m0pbc (need to be a Times subscriber to read online)

Yorkshire Funders presentation Pippa Robson Forum Hull

Barriers to Funding slide from FAWN

Yorkshire Funders & FAWN – Barriers to funding report from 2022 Conference workshop

Youth Endowment Fund Yorkshire Funders Event 24.11.22

Youth Association Regrowing youth work 2022

Frontline panel charities

www.catchleeds.co.uk

www.sidewalk-scarborough.com

www.youth-association.org

www.dhyp.org.uk Doncaster Housing for Young People

Recording of the Zoom session  Passcode: 9cf?RbS2

Pro Bono Economics Presentation for Yorkshire Funders Online September 2022

IVAR Funding Experience Survey Findings Sept 2022

National Lottery Community Fund slides Sept 22

Lottery grant holder – Age Friendly Sheffield Sept 22

Recording of the session

Two Ridings CF Grants Policy presentation Aug 2022

Leeds Building Society Foundation Reviewing your grant making workshop Aug 22

Joseph Rank Benevolent Fund Slides August 2022

Headlines from 15 June Conference morning plenary session

Paul Streets Lloyds Bank Foundation Yorkshire Funders Conference June 2022

Danielle Walker Palmour Friends Provident Yorkshire Funders June 2022

IVAR Workshop What it Takes to be a relational funder Yorkshire Funders June 2022

Issimo Grant Management System Yorkshire Funders June 2022

CCLA Investments Outlook & ESG Yorkshire Funders 2022 Conference

Zoom recording of session including chat/Q&As

Link to the final form

YCAF Initiative Summary Document

YCAF Template Guidance notes for funders who are participating in the initiative

NCVO Yorkshire Funders Forum 23.03.2022

Tony Chapman YORKSHIRE FUNDERS PRESENTATION MARCH 2022

Tony Chapman further information and resource links – Third Sector Trends Research Archive for Yorkshire and Humber (March 2022) 

Zoom recording of session including chat:

https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/lriRlRWDzvrLe-AkP3lAktsMKLRi2_51ysa_thwaoP5_c31GH-1n6x8UNDGJGy0r.wLHV9DxfZy9YZt2z

Yorkshire Funders – 360Giving briefing 2022-01-11

katherine@threesixtygiving.org – email Katherine Duerden, Publishing & Support Manager for further information or to start the 360Giving Standard process.

Yorkshire & Humber Funding Ecology Dashboard https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/3e68a697-205a-4523-9ad1-db41dcca8831/page/7EtLC?s=lC-eMns6364

JRF Yorkshire Funders Forum Nov 21

Lankelly Chase Yorkshire Funders Forum Dec 21

Headlines from YFF 2 Dec Poverty Roundtable

IVAR_Risk Flexibility and Due Diligence Oct 2021

20 Oct Risk Workshop headlines from session

2021.09.15 London Funders presentation for YFF

YFF presentation 15-Sept-21 Funding ecology research

Zoom recording of session 

https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/7QD_Halk2mZKZ5n3NTi57sz5tANq2sUkbKvCahnZbf0AT0Y0jRgCn2AWRzz7dKKn.lzAv_qvrCnaUsfqg Passcode: Y&5p7B?X  Fast forward through the break-out section from 1hr 16mins – 1hr 45 mins as no content in this part

London Funders reports mentioned during session

• Learning from the London Community Response https://londonfunders.org.uk/resources-funders/london-funders-publications/our-blog/london-community-response-learning-reports
• Learning from Place Based Giving in London https://londonsgiving.org.uk/introducing-place-based-giving/news/power-people-partnerships-and-place-new-report-launched-londons

ACF_DEI_Thepillarsofstrongerfoundationpractice_final

Small Charities Coalition Rita Chadha May 2021

IVAR Open and trusting grantmaking 13th May 2021

Pro Bono Economics presentation

WYCAS (West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service) presentation

Two Ridings Community Foundation presentation

Notes from 21 Jan YFF Online Roundtable