Canva for Small Charities: Getting Started with Canva

Ideal for charities and nonprofit organisations who do not have access to a professional designer, Canva is a free to use online tool that makes it easy to create graphics and designs such as images for social media, annual reports, presentations, flyers, posters, videos, and much more.

It allows individuals and team members to easily collaborate on work and create a range of resources your charity might use across digital platforms and for print.

And perhaps best of all – if you’re a UK registered charity, you can apply to Canva for a ‘PRO’ license. If accepted, you have access to thousands of additional ‘pro’ level assets (e.g. illustrations, graphics, photos, video, audio) that you would normally only be able to use if you paid extra.

In this workshop, we will take you through Canva as a platform, showing you how to get started and learn the basics in order to be able to create your own first designs. If you need a Facebook hero image to have text over the top – Canva is your tool. If you’re looking to make a more eye catching Instagram post – Canva has a heap of inspiration to get you started. If you want to jazz up your annual report – Canva has a collection of templates that look good and will save you time. Join us on this workshop to get started with Canva and learn how it can help your charity!

You will leave this workshop knowing how to:

- Get started with Canva – set up an account and navigate the platform

- Create a basic design – using a pre-made template and entering your own design dimensions

- Save your design to the most appropriate format to use outside of Canva (e.g. on your website, on socials, as a printed product)

After this workshop, if you wish to have further training in Canva, you might wish to sign up to our three hour Canva for Small Charities: Growing Your Confidence with Canva class, which is available online as a paid course.

We offer a range of online courses all designed to help small charities grow their confidence with digital marketing and fundraising.

Find out more at: www.lovefundraising.co.uk/training

What past attendees have said about Love Fundraising Training:

"This has been really useful, thank you so much!" - CG

"Thank you so much. This was super useful :-)" - IS

"Thanks Emma, really useful 🙂 lots added to my to do list :)" - MM

"Thank you this has been so useful so far!" - SH

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The trainer for this course is: Emma Bryant

Emma Bryant Dip(MCIOF) is a freelance charity consultant, trainer, and speaker specialising in digital fundraising and marketing.

Emma holds both the Diploma in Fundraising and Certificate in Fundraising from the Chartered Institute of Fundraising (CIOF) and is a tutor for the CIOF’s Certificate in Fundraising Online course, and formerly a tutor for the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy’s Certificate in Fundraising Copywriting, and the US-based Fundraising Standard course.

Prior to going freelance, Emma worked for world-leading fundraising academics, Prof. Adrian Sargeant and Prof. Jen Shang for seven years supporting with various bespoke research projects for international organisations. She has led and delivered fundraising programmes for local, national, and international charities, held Trustee positions, and is a current member of the CIOF’s South West Committee.

Emma enjoys being outside, from hiking to paddleboarding, or exploring the UK in her self-converted campervan.