Frequently Asked Questions (and answers!)

1. Who is the Academy for?

Anyone wanting to learn the core skills or repolish existing skills to innovate more successfully in their day-to-day jobs.

You might be:

  • An Innovation Director wishing to polish your skills

  • An innovation manager wanting more hands-on prototyping tools

  • A fundraising executive beginning a career in product development

  • Work in charity fundraising, advocacy, or programme delivery

  • A company wishing to develop products with for-purpose design

  • Or just innovation curious

    You will work with a mass number of supporters, clients or customers, and you want to create new propositions or adapt and improve existing propositions. You are keen to understand how to develop new ideas based on audience-led design and co-creation.

    You are hoping to come out of the course understanding everything there is to know about creating audience-led ideas and understanding how to prototype the ideas in quick, low-expense steps.

    You can be anywhere globally, but you must be able to attend online sessions that start at 9am London GMT

2. Why is innovation so important?

In a rapidly changing world where fundraising is struggling to keep up, innovation can give you and your organisation an essential advantage.

Learn from people who have worked charity-side for decades and understand your needs, wants and frustrations in Innovation.

Attending Flying Cars Innovation Academy will teach you how to innovate and save money, time and resources. We know where charities waste money trying to innovate incorrectly, especially when it comes to prototyping. This course will pay for itself many times over in teaching you how to make savings for your organisation when innovating.

3. Who are you? Why should we learn from you?

  • We have worked in teams raising hundreds of millions of pounds for leading charities.

  • We are innovation and fundraising experts with over 20 years of experience in the core teaching team.

  • We have a wealth of happy clients and work with large, medium and small charity and for-purpose brands globally such as Macmillan, Save the Children, Asthma & Lung UK, Dementia UK, Battersea, Cancer Council NSW, and many more.

4. What will I learn?

The full set of tools you need to innovate in an audience-led way. Specifically:

  • Identify your target audience

  • Involve key stakeholders

  • Create audience insight

  • Generate audience-led ideas from that insight

  • Run inclusive and extensive ideation sessions

  • Co-creation

  • Prototype any idea quickly, cheaply and easily

  • The Flying Cars Idea Schematic to pivot any campaign

  • Validate or invalidate key assumptions

5. Can I take just one module?
No. Attending all 3 sessions teaches you the skills you need to run a comprehensive innovation cycle.
Attendees will work on real-life examples through the 3 Master Classes.

6. What materials do I get?
You will receive a workbook with all the tools, templates and insights used in the Masterclass session

7. Is this in person? Or virtual?
They are virtual. This makes them the most accessible for everyone and the most cost-effective for all
We use two main tools - Zoom & Mural

8. How long are the masterclasses?
There are three Masterclasses with 13.5 hours of total teaching
Session 1️⃣ 9am-3.30pm
Session 2️⃣ 9am - 1pm
Session 3️⃣ 9am - 1pm

You must also commit to 30 mins to 2 hours of homework between sessions 1 and 2