Join our fully funded 8-week programme to transform your online communications

  • Build openness and transparency by effectively communicating what you're learning and doing
  • Engage your funders, partners and communities more effectively
  • Position your organisation as experts in your field
  • Fuel conversations and communicate and collaborate more effectively with your staff, volunteers and other stakeholders
  • Build a reputation as a great place to work
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To learn more about open working, listen to this conversation between the director of Third Sector Lab, Ross McCulloch, and CEO of the William Grant Foundation, Nick Addington:

Third Sector Lab are offering fully-funded support, training and guidance for third sector organisations and funders to transform how they use online comms as a tool for more open and transparent working. This work is funded by the Robertson Trust and the National Lottery Community Fund

Delivered online, the programme is open to staff and volunteers of third sector organisations across the UK. Places are limited. We are keen to receive applications from people working in any role from service delivery to senior management. This programme is an excellent way of spreading the responsibility for communications across your organisation.

The next cohort of the Open Working Programme is open to grantholders of the National Lottery Community Fund and the Robertson Trust and will begin in summer 2025. Register before 30th May for the next cohort.

Through Open Working we can save money and make better use of our resources. Everyone should want to employ this way of working and I strongly believe many can benefit from this kind of training.

Maddie Stark, SCVO

Apply now to receive:

  • A place on our Open Working & Re-use workshop
  • A place on our 'Five Ways to Get Started with Agile Comms' Masterclass with Giles Turnbull
  • A place on our Writing for the Web workshop
  • 8 x weekly 30-minute open writing sessions with your cohort
  • Access to the Open Working Toolkit
  • Use of the Open Working & Reuse Medium blog as a space to publish your content
  • Access to our WhatsApp community of others working in the open
  • Register before 30th May for the next cohort
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