The Strategic & Financial Elements leading to a Business Plan

Apart from offering you quality training - participation in these courses will offer you an excellent networking opportunity.

The courses will allow you to share, discuss and debate ideas with a wide range of consumer organisations from Europe, building a strong network to protect consumer's rights in Europe.

Please note this course description has been amended.

Therefore we strongly recommend that you read entirely the course description before applying.

Course dates: .

Part 1 - 20-22 June 2012 (inclusive)
Part 2 - 20-21 September 2012 (inclusive) _{If selected, participation in both courses is mandatory}

What is the aim of this course?

The aim of this course is to help consumer organisations to:

Develop a strategic plan and a business plan accompanied by a financing strategy to support them.

The course is organised in two parts to give participants the opportunity to work on and refine their strategic plan and business plan accompanied by a financing strategy. The course will cover elements of the business plan, coaching advice as well as room for mutual exchange.

IMPORTANT: Please note that this is training requests a high input of work from participants before, during and after the first training. Therefore, you should only apply if you are willing to commit to this work and active participation in both courses, because only then can the successful outcome be ensured, and the coaching of the second part of the course becomes an added value to your organisation.

Application Requirements - ^{deadline 25th April}

In order to be considered for participating in the training, please send us a draft of a simple business plan for your organisation for 2013. In order to establish this, make sure that you have a development project for which you want to prepare a Business plan. Please submit this draft of a simple business plan to beuc.training@beuc.eu.

This simple business plan should include the following:

The structure of your organisation;
The staff employed by your organisation and the key management team members;
Current year consolidated budget for your organisation and past financial statement(s) in English (audited if possibly and ideally for the last 1-3 years);
What services and products are you providing and selling?
What do you know about your 'market' for selling products and services, the needs of those who may use your products and services, how to reach them, etc?
How is your strategy (actual and new projects) for the next 12 to 24 months? What is your first estimate of how much it will cost?
The deadline for sending the draft of a simple business plan for your organisation is the 25th April 2012.

Profile of participants

This course will be addressed in priority to consumer organisations in countries with a less well established family of NGOs and targeted to directors or senior managers who are

dealing with both the strategy and financing of the organisation and responsible for long- term financial sustainability
who have the acknowledged responsibility and willingness to complete this course but also have the capacity to implement a Business Plan and Strategy into their organisation upon completion of the course.

Outline of the course*

Part 1 - 20 to 22nd June 2012 (inclusive)


Day 1	Day 2	Day 3
Introduction to the topic	The financing strategy	The Financial strategy
Strategic Planning Framework: Vision, Mission and objectives	Risk mapping	Developing your funding mix
Development & Management Plan	Assessing your financing mix	Building reserves
Strategic Planning Framework: Strategy and Activity Plans	Alternative sources of income	Action planning
	Ethical considerations

*Subject to slight amendments

18th July 2012 - Deadline to send an updated and detailed business plan (selected participants)

Part 2 - 20 to 21st September 2012 (inclusive)

Feedback and Individual coaching

Next dates

The Strategic & Financial Elements leading to a Business Plan (SBP_S_45)
Specialised course in
Brussels, 20/06/2012 - 22/06/2012

applications for this course are closed
The Strategic & Financial Elements leading to a Business Plan (SBP_S_48)
Specialised course in
Brussels, 20/09/2012 - 21/09/2012

applications for this course will open soon