AI training for
Charities, Public Sector and Education
More capacity for small teams, under proper scrutiny.
A grants team, a communications team of two, a school office, a policy unit. Hours of repeated written work an assistant can take, and funders, trustees, regulators or the public to answer to for how it is done.
Tell us what is holding the business back. We’ll tell you what we would do about it, and whether it is worth doing.
Why this sector
How AI training works for charities, public bodies and education providers
The day is built on your own material and your own obligations: funder reports, case notes, safeguarding rules, information governance, the board’s appetite. The workflows are small and durable, because nobody has time to maintain anything grander.
Priced for the room, not per head. A half day is often the right start, and we say so.
Functions we build for
- Fundraising, grants and partnerships
- Communications and campaigns
- Policy, research and impact
- Operations, finance and administration
- Service delivery and frontline support
What we train on
Workflows built on the documents your week already contains.
Grant applications and funder reports drafted from the organisation’s approved impact narrative and numbers
Newsletters, appeals and social content in the organisation’s voice, with the approval step preserved
Policy briefings, consultation responses and literature summaries with sources listed
Board papers, minutes and trustee reporting produced faster from the source material
Case note summaries and referral letters within safeguarding and data rules, reviewed by the caseworker
Procurement, tender and compliance documents assembled from previous submissions
A shared prompt library and one-page AI policy the whole organisation can follow
The shape of a typical day. Yours is built from a survey of the people attending.
Built around your rules
The guardrails a session in this sector is designed around.
- Safeguarding and vulnerable people
- What may never enter a tool, and how a workflow keeps the caseworker or teacher in charge of every decision.
- UK GDPR and public-sector information governance
- Which data, which tenancy, and how the organisation’s existing DPIA and records rules apply.
- Funder and regulator expectations
- What the Charity Commission, Ofsted, a funder or a council would expect to see if they asked how a document was produced.
- Transparency
- A plain-English statement of how the organisation uses AI, agreed by the board, for staff, beneficiaries and the public.
Not legal or regulatory advice: the frameworks we agree the day around with your compliance, legal or data owner, written on one page.
Tools in play
Taught inside the tools this sector already uses.
- Copilot
- ChatGPT
- Gemini
- Word
- Outlook
- Docs
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Training formats
A day for your team. A programme for your organisation.
Team workshop
One practical day focused on your team’s own tasks. Built around a short call and a participant survey.
Organisation programme
Training across teams, delivered in cohorts. Sessions tailored to different roles, with leadership and champion support where needed.
Leadership and champion sessions are available alongside either format.
At your offices or our London offices in Wembley.
A clear price before you commit.
Priced per workshop or programme, based on team size and preparation.
If your team tells us on the day it wasn't useful, we don't invoice.
For one person, or a few of you:join an open session
Questions
Questions we expect from charities, public bodies and education providers.
- We are a small charity. Is this within reach?
- The AI Essentials half day is designed for exactly this. It is priced for the room, not per head, and the scoping call is where we tell you honestly whether it is worth it for your team.
- We have free or education licences rather than enterprise ones. Does that change things?
- It changes the guardrails, not the method. The session covers what the tier your organisation actually has does with your data, and the one page your team leaves with reflects that.
- Can you train volunteers or governors as well as staff?
- Yes. Mixed groups of staff and trustees work well, because the policy conversation happens in the room.
Further reading
Free to read.
Governance
An AI usage policy for a UK organisation: what to put on one page
9 min read
Adoption
AI training for employees: what works, and why most of it fades
8 min read
Tools
Rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot: a plan for the first ninety days
8 min read
Twenty five prompts your team can use todayThe policy template and the week four review sheet
Other sectors
Start here
Talk to us about your team.
Book a call and we will suggest a useful place to start.
- No preparation needed
- Solutions, training, or not sure yet
- A short written summary afterwards