In 2020 BVSC successfully secured funding from the National Lottery Community Fund Covid-19 Relief, to support the sector with accessing funding opportunities. As part of this we worked with Tony Carr of 4frontpartners who delivered a series of one-hour webinars looking at different aspects of business development and submitting funding applications.

The videos and resources for each session can be downloaded/viewed below.

Understanding your market and commissioner

  1. The policy context
  2. The importance of knowledge

    Download the Powerpoint presentation
    Watch the video presentation

    Business Development – the building blocks

    1. Pipeline
    2. BD approaches

      Download the Powerpoint presentation
      Download the Pipeline Tracker
      Watch the video presentation

    Funding sources #1 

    1. Government funding sources
    2. Grants and awards
    3. Commercial funding and partnerships

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      Watch the video presentation

    Defining your value

    1. Features and benefits of your service
    2. Articulating your value to different customers

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      Watch the video presentation

    Bid strategy and management

    1. To bid or not to bid
    2. Planning and task assignment
    3. Pricing and commercial modelling

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      Watch the video presentation

    Bid Writing techniques #1

    1. Telling your story
    2. Service design techniques
    3. Writing tips

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      Watch the video presentation

    Bid writing techniques #2

    1. Telling your story
    2. Service design techniques
    3. Writing tips

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      Watch the video presentation

    Effective partnerships to secure business

    1. Targeting the 'right' partner
    2. Approaches and messaging
    3. Collaborations and collectives

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      Watch the video presentation

    Managing relationships for repeat business

    1. Account management
    2. The importance of relationships
    3. Pipelining

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      Watch the video presentation

    Managing growth

    1. Good growth and bad growth
    2. The cycle of organisational growth
    3. Alleviating growing pains

      Download the Powerpoint presentation
      Download Chris Blackwell's S.W.I.F.T. presentation
      Watch the video presentation

    Developing your business plan (including National Community Lottery Fund)

    1. Setting a new business plan
    2. Developing objectives and milestones
    3. Reviewing and refreshing

      Download the Powerpoint presentation
      Watch the video presentation (Part 1)
      Watch the video presentation (Part 2)