Beyond Fundraising - Altrincham - 4th November 2010
Generating income to become more sustainable
Date: Thursday 4th November 2010
Time: 9:45am-4pm (we start promptly at 10am)
Venue: Bowdon Parish Centre, Stamford Road, Bowdon, WA14 2TR
Cost: FREE (including lunch)
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This is one day interactive seminar to enable churches and faith-based community groups to get greater understanding on how to become self-sustaining.
Every organisation, faith-based or not, is facing economic challenges. For churches, engagement with community increasingly involves meeting identified needs of the communities which they serve as well as providing spiritual and moral guidance. With the change in economic climate, it is becoming increasingly necessary to move from relying on grants, to earning income through:
- selling services and selling space
- activity based investment income
- contracting for the provision of services
- trading
- transferring assets
This day seminar provides an opportunity to consider:
- Making Assets Work for You – the pros and cons of managing buildings and trying to earn an income from them and how to legitimately minimise the tax bill and maximise benefit.
- Working with statutory organisations – looking at opportunities around commissioning and contracting and what to look out for before signing on the dotted line
- Legal Structures – looking at the pros and cons of different legal structures and issues around social enterprise and trading
The seminar will incorporate interactive sessions to which delegates can bring their questions, case studies of those who have been there, done it, and have lived to tell the tale and written materials.
The day will be run by Anthony Collins Solicitors in collaboration with accountants Mazars. Both firms regularly advise churches working in their local communities. This is a partnership with Chester Diocese and Church Urban Fund.
For more information or any problems, please contact Victoria Day, Diocese of Chester on 01244 681973 x263 or victoria.day@chester.anglican.org.