Events and Training

In a fast-paced digital world content is key to telling your organisation’s stories and creating impactful communications. In this session, we’ll explore smartphone content creation, sharing tricks of the trade to help busy professionals capture and create content on the go.

This will be a peer led, networking and information session for our members to collaborate by sharing ideas, resources, fundraising tips, successes, losses, potential funders and more. We will also be able to share upcoming funding/grant opportunities, fundraising events, training and other resources on different aspects of fundraising. This is open to anyone in our Arts network, engaging into any aspects of fundraising.

In this engaging and interactive session all about team work, our guest speaker shares her five disciplines of high performing teams. Discover practical steps to help increase your team’s effectiveness.

Immerse yourself in the holiday spirit and connect with fellow artists, entrepreneurs, and professionals from across the Arts & Business NI membership network. Enjoy an afternoon of chatting, refreshments, seasonal crafts and hear about our plans for the New Year. Whether you're seeking artistic inspiration, valuable business connections or just looking for a bit of festive spirit, this event promises to spark conversations and ideas.  And sure, if all else fails - we will have some mince pies! Christmas jumpers and festive sparkle encouraged.

Save the date for our annual Trusts and Foundations Symposium at the Crescent Arts Centre on 22nd February 2024. Attendees will get the chance to hear directly from invited Foundations on their funding priorities, gain an insight into the decision process, and receive top tips for applications. Details and tickets coming soon!

This interactive day long workshop will help participants to shift their mindset, tools and planning processes to become better strategic fundraisers. The workshop will guide participants through the core building blocks of strategic fundraising, to consider different funding requirements, timelines and investment levels, how to think about their medium and long term development, how to sweat their assets, how to build in development funds into bids, how to invest strategically using funding, and how to unlock greater levels of investment from funders.

Dana Koahva Segal (she/they) is a cultural fundraising specialist working in the UK and internationally.