Evaluation feedback from participants: The feedback from this session was very positive, 85% of the 85% participants rated the ‘Getting Back on Track’ workshop (April 2021) of the participants highly and said that the session had achieved its main objective. rated the ‘Getting They all felt that they had learnt about planning and developing their Back on Track’ funding and fundraising focus. workshop highly II. Finding the Funds - July 2021 – Online Participants were shown how to use the Islington Funding Toolkit, a powerful funding search engine which groups can use to search 43 for any type of funding. This event also coincided with the release of the latest July 2021 funding booklet, so the event also showed the delegates participants how to use the funding booklet for better results. The attended the session was recorded, and available on the VAI YouTube channel. ‘Finding the Funds’ The link for this event and the funding toolkit is on the VAI website workshop so groups have permanent access to this. III. Writing Better Funding Applications – February 2022 An in-person fundraising workshop for people and groups new to 13 fundraising or those who hadn’t had much success in the past. The people attended workshop was supported by the National Lottery Funding Officer the ‘Writing Better for Islington, who was on hand to answer questions at the end of Funding the session about the best ways of addressing questions on the Applications’ National Lottery application forms. workshop Annual and Impact Report 21/22 11