4in10 Events
4in10 run events both for and collaboratively with our members. From practical, skills-based events to capacity building workshops, we aim to provide a diverse and useful offering for our members. Become a member for free to hear about and get involved in 4in10 events and activities.
We have set up a Policy Forum within 4in10, to bring members together to discuss all things relating to policy and child poverty in London. In Oct 2023 our Strategic Programme Manager, Katherine, joined the London Partnership Board as a representative of the community and voluntary sectors which provides us with an excellent opportunity to feed into high level strategic discussions about the big issues affecting London and we propose to use these meetings to ensure that she is reflecting the membership’s views in these discussions. Sign up to join the mailing list for the forum here. The Forum meets quarterly and there will be no formal membership – any 4in10 member will be welcome to attend on a meeting by meeting basis.
Upcoming Events
Developing a realistic fundraising strategy
Recording of training available to members, please email Emily to access it -emily.barker@4in10.org.uk
This session covers the following topics:
• Developing a 2-page fundraising strategy – a working document that works for your organisation.
• Review, adapt and respond – how the fundraising strategy must work with your organisation and not against it.
• Responding to the current climate fundraising climate and how to develop meaningful partnerships (e.g co-applications).
Fundraising to end child poverty: Back to Basics
Recording of training available to members, please email Emily to access it -emily.barker@4in10.org.uk
Online – Free
The session will cover the following topics:
• How to find funders? Assessing suitable grants and making sure it’s a good use of resources.
• How to apply for funding? Taking time to prepare and review your core documents: developing a good case of support, budget and cash flow, and keeping track of your trusts and foundation database.
• What do funders look for? My experience sitting on funding panels: making sure your numbers make sense, narrative and being honest e.g. showing your charity, is a good investment.
4in10 Open Coffee Mornings
Coffee Morning: Responding to the harm of hygiene poverty for children
19th September 2024, 10:00am-11:00pm
Online – Free
This latest Coffee Morning will focus on the way in which In Kind Direct, a 4in10 member is helping individuals all across London (and the UK) access crucial hygeine products in response to the high costs of living families are facing.
They will also be sharing their own research on the impact of poverty on families unable to access hygeine products and hear from other members about important issues to focus on in future research. – https://www.inkinddirect.org/reports/hygiene-poverty-briefing-spring-2024
This coffee morning will introduce InKind Direct to the 4in10 network as well as help to facilitate a discussion on how best to help meet families’ needs in a direct, tangible way.
In Kind Direct is a UK charity focused on distributing consumer products, donated by companies, to charitable organisations in their network to ensure that everyone has access to the products they need to keep clean, safe and well.
Tickets are limited, sign up by following this link.
If you would like to co-host a coffee morning with 4in10 to discuss a particular theme, please get in touch.
4in10 Open Coffee Mornings are free, fun and open to everyone who shares concern on issues relating to growing child poverty in our capital. Open Coffee Morning sessions are thematic, usually online and with one overarching area which frames the discussion. However, the sessions are truly flexible; attendees can contribute, participate, and engage in ways and on areas that matter to them.
Previous Coffee Mornings:
- Cost of Returning To School
- Youth Workers, Afterschool Clubs and Play Workers
- Levelling Up London
- Young people and cycles of violence
- Annual ‘BIG Coffee Morning’
- Childcare In The Capital
- Poverty in Outer London Boroughs
- Housing and Homelessness
- Benefits and Income
- Health Inequalities In London