Funding and Finance Options
Course Summary
Do you find funding and finance difficult?
Would you like to have a clear approach to generating income?
If you answered Yes to these questions, this workshop is for you!
Heidi will cover how you can:
Identify suitable sources of funding and finance
Explore finance options including loans, shares and quasi-equity
Plan where you'll get your income from
This workshop is pre-recorded and available on demand, for you to watch when you like.
The workshop also includes a workbook to help you implement what you learn in your organisation.
Heidi's significant experience in setting up and running several charities and social enterprises, and bid and tender writing, is reflected in this course, as she takes you through your options for financing your activities. As a Chartered Accountant Heidi has supported social enterprises to secure investment and shares what she has learnt in this course.
Course Curriculum
Heidi Fisher
Heidi is the founder of Make an Impact CIC – a social enterprise that supports other social enterprises, charities, public sector agencies and for-purpose organisations to better measure, manage and communicate their impact.
Heidi has been supporting organisations with impact measurement and management for over 20 years, working across all sectors, but she particularly loves working with organisations delivering health and social care, employability and skills, and financial inclusion, and using a Social Return on Investment approach. Heidi also loves organisations that don’t just want to tick boxes but genuinely want to go above and beyond, and continually focus on maximising the impact they have.
Heidi is multi-award winning and received an MBE for Services to Innovation in Social Enterprise and to Impact Measurement in the 2020 New Year Honours.
Heidi has worked with over 3,000 social enterprises, ranging from start-ups through to those with over £1 billion of income supporting them to become more sustainable, develop their trading income and to better measure, manage and communicate the impact they have. Heidi shares her experience and knowledge through delivering workshops and regularly delivers for universities and enterprise programmes in the UK and also globally.
Heidi is the author of two books, "Impact First: The social entrepreneur's guide to measuring, managing and growing your impact" and “Social Enterprise: How to successfully set up and grow a social enterprise.” Her vision is a world where all businesses are social enterprises that positively impact people and the planet.
