current courses
Next Course A: October 30th, 2025
Next Course B: November 27th, 2025
You will want to register for my courses if your charity doesn’t have the resources it needs for it to have the impact it deserves…
From these courses:
1. You will gain expert insights into your Case for Support, essential for your success.
2. You will receive clear steps for developing your fundraising strategy.
3. You will be equipped to work with philanthropists/major donors and learn how to be comfortable making an ask for support.
4. You will be given crucial guidance on how to maximise your success with trusts.
5. You will learn how to grow your charity in a relational, intentional and sustainable way, including through implementing a Development Calendar.
You will walk away with a clear and helpful framework for fundraising – and an increased desire and confidence to raise the funds you deserve to help your charity thrive.
-
I currently run two complementary day-long courses, running from 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM. They are designed in such a way that you can undertake either Course A or Course B first. Both courses leave ample time for Q&A and to develop Action Plans at the end of each day.
Location: King’s Cross, London
Cost: £150 per person per course (a second person from the same charity can register for £125).
-
Key Content:
‘Development is a game changer, but only if’… Misconceptions that paralyse you.
The ten big questions for a Case for Support… and telling your story well.
Where do I find funds? Thinking through trusts, donors, churches, corporates, friends, family, and your database. Developing a strategy.
Work-Life balance - how it fits into development, with key principles and practices.
The Development Calendar: how it should really flow with events, comms, and thanks!
Pitfalls and Pleasures: how do you ask a person for money? And how much do you ask for? Debunking myths.
-
Key Content:
Essential characteristics and tools for your organisational growth: using the development and fundraising wheels.
Board: Making the most of your trustees.
Trusts: Approaching trusts - your best friend if…
Principles we learn from capital campaigns for everyday fundraising.
Key development rules, principles, and common mistakes.
See below for forthcoming courses and endorsements.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 30th @ 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Offices of the Evangelical Alliance
176 Copenhagen Street, London
Course A: Embracing development, your case for support, and making your pitch well
This course is ideal for those CEOs and development/comms team members who want to ensure they are getting stuck into development rather than shying away from growing their organisation in a truly relational and intentional way. This is all about telling your story well, presenting why your charity needs new funding, how to ask for support, and how not to burn out in the process!
November 27th, 2025 @ 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Offices of the Evangelical Alliance
176 Copenhagen Street, London
Course B: Development principles, working with your Board, and funding sources (including trusts)
This course, again for CEOs and development/comms team members of small to medium-sized charities, complements Course A and is designed to give you the tools you need to develop a comprehensive fundraising strategy ranging from work with your major donors through to trusts, your board, and other potential stakeholders.
endorsements
As a small charity, we attended the course to learn how to be more effective at fundraising. The course provided a very helpful structure and approach to thinking through how we might position our case and then ultimately seek funding. Not only did we come away with enthusiasm and a clear aim of creating and completing a ‘case for support’, we also realised that we could approach our existing (but not yet supporting) network with a new and clearer message. Moreover, the course helped us think through an ongoing stakeholder communication framework to ensure that our supporters and other interested parties are kept abreast of our work. Lastly, it was great being in a room with other small charities with whom we could share stories, fellowship, and make new relationships.
— David Calfo, ASIOX Chair
I really enjoyed the Development and Fundraising seminar put on by David Lloyd. The content was brilliant. It was relevant and made the daunting task of fundraising seem doable. It encouraged me to want to go out and do it rather than shy away from it. David himself is highly personable and will go the extra mile to help. I can highly recommend David and his seminar!
— Janet Sewell
It was transformational, directing our anxious thoughts to relationship, godliness, and kingdom. We now have access to an understanding of development we never had before, but it has also opened a whole way of thinking. Amazing God-given timing for us.
— Philip and Brenda, Christian Schools Sector, Manchester