Be a Better Grant Assessor Training Workshop – 2025 dates TBC in Nov.

We will be holding more of these popular training events in 2025. Please contact Jan via jan@yorkshirefunders.org.uk to get your name on the waiting list ready for 2025.

Many thanks to our corporate supporter, Wrigleys Solicitors for providing their boardroom for all the 2024 sessions.

BE A BETTER GRANT ASSESSOR – 10.00AM – 3.00PM

This Yorkshire Funders’ training workshop has been run by Rob Billson who is Community Foundation for Calderdale’s Grants Manager and an experienced training consultant, and also Jan Garrill, Yorkshire Funders’ Associate Director who was 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.