Million Makers July Update!
From Monday 1st July – Thursday 4th July, we celebrated launching this year’s competition with our first ever Fundraising Kick-Off Week, and what a week it was!
To support you on your fundraising journeys, we invited senior leaders and industry experts to deliver our Skills Sessions, Million Makers Alumni to host our online events and share their top-tips and invited some of you into our South London Centre to welcome you to the challenge.
Here is a recap of the Skills Sessions!
- How to Set Up Your Team For Success with the 2023 NBC Universal Team.
- How to Develop Confidence and Achieve Your Potential with Stefanie Sword-Williams, Founder and Author of F*ck Being Humble.
Stefanie Sword-Williams gave her top-tips on how to develop confidence, remain resilient and overcome the fear of failure. We loved hearing all of your positive feedback following Stefanie’s session.
Feeling inspired? You can purchase Stefanie’s book here!
- How to Build and Use Your Network to Successfully Achieve Your Goals with Maximillion Cooper, Founder and CEO of Gumball 3000.
We had a fireside chat with Maximillion Cooper, Founder and CEO of Gumball 3000, and Jeremy Itoje, our Atos Alumni winner of the 2019 National Competition and one of the 3 teams to have ever smashed £400k. They discussed the power of your networks, how to build them, engage them and utilise them to support your fundraising, as well as your development.
- How to Meet and Beat Your Targets with Ifrana Zaffar, Google, Fiona Simpson, AWS and Rob Hingston, Origin Workspace, hosted by Lewis Lane, NatWest Alumni.
‘Every Market has it’s Christmas!’ The experts discussed all things finance, how to budget, forecast, drive income growth, and scale up initiatives. Essential guidance that will support you on your fundraising journeys.
We wanted to give special recognition to the following organisations who attended all of our Skills and Problem-Solving 101 Sessions: American Golf, Barratt Developments, CDW, Cognizant, Legrand, Tesco, Wincanton and Worldpay!
Problem Solving 101 Sessions:
We also held 4 Drop-In sessions throughout the week. If you missed out on these, you can follow the links below or find these on our platform.
- Large scale events – Do’s and Don’ts.
- Building Team Resilience and Morale with special Alumni guest, Tyler Green, Chair and 2023 Outstanding Individual from Taylor Wimpey.
- Engaging your Stakeholders.
- Finance and our Resources.
An Afternoon with The Prince's Trust
On Tuesday 2nd July, we invited some of our Million Maker teams to our South London Centre!
We have loved meeting some of our 2024 team members and introducing them to the work of The Prince’s Trust and showcasing the impact of your fundraising this year!
Shoutout to Atos, Barratt Developments, CDW, Cunard, NatWest, NBC Universal, Simply Business, Tesco, Ventrica, Wincanton, Wood Plc, Worldpay and Xerox for joining us!
We were joined by the inspirational Tyler Lowe, Founder of Loving Life Ltd, and had some delicious treats provided by Amanda at Bon Bon Parade.
Now we have kicked off the challenge, its time to start raising life changing funds!
We are the team who are leading the competition and supporting all of you lovely Million Makers! We lead and deliver your CPD-Accredited events, and ultimately motivate you all to hit your fundraising targets!
If you were able to join us for our Problem Solving 101 Sessions, you may already recognise our faces.
Check back in next month for our August update!
