Be a Better Grant Assessor Training Workshop

Be a better grants assessor training workshop 10am – 3pm

This Yorkshire Funders’ training workshop is run by Jan Garrill, Yorkshire Funders’ Associate Director, CEO of Two Ridings Community Foundation for nine years. The session is for employees and trustees who are new to grant assessing, as well as those who are looking for a refresher.

There are more than 8,000 funders, foundations and charitable trusts in the UK and each of these may have different ways to assess applications for grants, based on their size, their criteria, size of grant, etc. But there are key issues and principles which most will have in common and it’s these that this course will focus on.

We will look at:

• The role of the grants assessor
• The characteristics of what makes a good grant assessment
• The principles that underpin good practice in grant assessment
• What we are looking for when assessing a grant application and interpreting governing documents
• What we need to do and be aware of so that our assessments are objective, fair, and equitable
• What information does a good assessor need to make an objective, fair, and equitable assessment?

Doing this course will help you:

• Identify the key principles of grant assessing
• Identify the risks that affect making good assessment and how to plan for them
• Identify what makes a good grant application and how to find this information
• Develop solutions to dilemmas and choices in grant assessments learning from colleagues in similar positions

The session will be a mixture of information, presentations, exercises, talking, listening, and learning from each other, so that you can become a better grant assessor.

Feedback from a previous attendee at this training: Thank you for an excellent training session. Jan was fantastic and with such a breadth of knowledge and experience it kept things interesting. Best training I’ve had in a long, long….long time!

Book on the course here – and don’t delay this course is popular and gets full in weeks of opening.

The course is held at Wrigley’s Solicitors offices in central Leeds, only 10 minutes walk from Leeds train station.

Booking details

1. For 2025, all bookings must be made via Eventbrite and if possible, please pay by credit card, but if you do need an invoice to pay by BACS or cheque, you will see these payment options listed on Eventbrite. We will then send you an invoice directly to the name and email address listed on Eventbrite.
2. It is a maximum of two people per organisation at each training workshop.
3. The cost is £50.00 per person if you or your organisation is a Yorkshire Funders’ member and £75.00 for non-members. This includes tea, coffee, biscuits and a sandwich lunch which will take place at 12.30 approximately.
4. In order for this session to be as informative and interactive as possible, we can only offer 14 places for each course.

We will be holding more of these popular training events in 2025. If you can’t make the 22nd or can’t get a place, don’t despair. Contact Jan  (jan@yorkshirefunders.org.uk and you can be put on a waiting list – next course to be delivered in early May.

Many thanks to our corporate supporter, Wrigleys Solicitors for providing their boardroom for this session.