Top up your professional skills
Welcome to our professional development programme; designed to help you make an even bigger impact, evidence it and shout about it.
The Festival of Impact takes the best bits from our in-house training and advisory service, and pairs this with tips, tools and crowd-sourced case studies of real projects. Bringing you an exciting programme of effective professional development and networking opportunities.
To reserve your place, drop Judith a note at [email protected] or book a 15-minute free consultation to chat about a training workshop for your whole team.
Inspiration lab: Creative evaluation techniques
A career-refreshing relaxed yet invigorating day to swap ideas and challenges, learn together and try out new ideas for inclusive, creative evaluation with like-minded people.
13th May 2025
10am-3pm
In-person at our wonderful city-centre venue:Widcombe Social Club, Bath BA2 6AA
£195 plus VAT
(£25 discount for existing clients and Inspire newsletter subscribers).
Bootcamps
An opportunity to invest in your career and spend quality time building your confidence, skills and tools.
Strategy Impact Bootcamp
starting 6th November running for 5 weeks and finishing 4th December, every Thursday 1.15-2.45pm £650 + VAT (£50 discount to all Inspire network subscribers)
Partnership Bootcamp
5-week course, date to be released later this year
£650 + VAT (£50 discount to all Inspire network subscribers)
Evaluation Bootcamp
Starting 1st May running for 6 weeks and finishing 5th June (NB: 1 week break over half term) Every Thursday 10.30-12.00
£400 + VAT (£50 discount to all Inspire network subscribers).
Masterclasses
18th March – Theory of Change – 9.30-1.30pm
An introduction to mapping out and communicating the change you want to make.
25th March – Write your own evaluation report – 9.30-1.30pm
18th Sept - Unlocking the power of conversation: planning and delivering evaluation interviews
25th Sept - Beyond the buzz words: how to truly understand the wellbeing benefit of your programme
2nd Oct - Managing your Heritage Fund project: you’ve got the grant, what next?
16th Oct - Art as a pathway to nature: how creativity can unlock impact
4th Nov - Beyond the usual suspects: sharing lessons learnt on reaching lesser seen and more diverse audiences
11th Nov - Mastering the Heritage Fund grant process: insider tips for crafting a grant award-winning funding case
18th Nov - Death of the survey?: considerations for planning inclusive and participative evaluation.
£135 + VAT (£25 discount for Inspire network subscribers)
Terms & Conditions for all events
All event bookings are payable in advance and non-refundable.
If you are unable to attend, your place is transferrable to a colleague, or you can request a place on a future training event (to the same value or as part payment towards) instead.
Online sessions will be delivered via Zoom. Joining instructions will be sent beforehand and it is the participant’s responsibility to check their internet connection speed is sufficient to take part and they can access Zoom.
Sessions are participatory and intended to be attended live and therefore not recorded.
Each session is accompanied by handouts of key tasks or points, but detailed notes and recordings are not included within the price.
If you would like to discuss a group session for your organisation with a recording, please just get in touch.
If you are unable to make your booked session in-person you can transfer your place to a colleague or friend. Just let us know who will be attending.
