current courses

  • 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: 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.

    • 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 for your organisational growth.

    • Board: Making the most of your trustees.

    • Five steps of the development process and four primary tools for development.

    • Workshop: Principles we learn from capital campaigns.

    • Key development rules, principles, and common mistakes.

    • Trusts: Approaching trusts - you best friend if…

See below for forthcoming courses and endorsements.

UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

March 20th, 2025 @ 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!

April 10th, 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 in such a way that participants can join this course before or after Course A. This focuses on key development principles that are tried and tested, how to use your Board well and utilise their skills, and how to approach trusts and maximise your support from this key sector.

May 15th, 2025 @ 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!

June 19th, 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 in such a way that participants can join this course before or after Course A. This focuses on key development principles that are tried and tested, how to use your Board well and utilise their skills, and how to approach trusts and maximise your support from this key sector.

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