Plymouth Improving Reach Project

Date: 18th and 19th April

Venue: Plymouth Guild

Time: 9.30am-4.30pm with Lunch Provided

Trainer: Susan Moores

Course Outline: The course will cover the key aspects of developing a project plan, with reference to a popular funding application process, such as Awards For All (Lottery) and other Small Grants programmes.

Participants on the course will have opportunities to consider the following:

• What defines a project and the stages of a project
• What makes a project successful and balancing potential risks against possible results
• The unique features in project design
• Project Planning techniques

And will increase their understanding, skills and knowledge in relation to:

• Writing a project plan within a clear framework
• Monitoring and Evaluation; writing performance indicators and measuring success
• Basic budgeting/costings
• The terminology used in project development and project management

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The course will be run with a combination of small group exercises, tutor input and working through suggested templates using the examples of project work that participants bring to the training. The course is supported with handouts.

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PARTICIPANTS

This course is for:

Community workers, project leaders, social entrepreneurs, development workers and anybody else with a project idea they would like to move forward!