Increasing collaboration and
connection between think tanks

Smart Thinking's Membership Network hosts multiple training sessions, webinars and networking events throughout the year to help build the UK think tank community and enable knowledge sharing, pooling of resources and peer-to-peer support throughout the sector.

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Upcoming training

Being a strategic fundraiser (part 1)

21 October 2026
9.00am - 1.00pm

Want to think more strategically about how your think tank fundraises? Want to understand how to move from a more reactive model to one that takes an honest, whole-organisation view of your think tank’s fundraising and use it to plan deliberately for the short, medium and long term? This training is for you!

Members £295 (+VAT)
Non-members £395 (+VAT)

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Being a strategic fundraiser (part 2)

4 November 2026
9.00am - 1.00pm

Interested to find out how to turn your fundraising priority or project into a compelling, fundable, multi-year case? Want to learn how to translate strategic intent into practical skills that enable you to tell a story, persuade funders and steward a successful donor relationship? This training is for you!

Members £295 (+VAT)
Non-members £395 (+VAT)

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Upcoming webinars

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Measuring impact in think tanks

24 September 2026
11am - 12pm

How to measure and show your impact and influence is a regular topic for discussion across the Network. This webinar workshop brings members together to explore how UK think tanks are approaching the challenge of measuring, understanding and demonstrating their impact.

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Think tank comms in the age of AI - with Soapbox

20 October 2026
11am - 12pm

We’re now more than three years into the AI revolution, and most think tank comms teams have got the basics down. But some are streaking ahead. What are they doing differently? And how can the rest of us catch up?

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Member Summer Drinks

For the first time, this summer we hosted Member Summer Drinks! Our members braved the phenomenal heat to join us on a roof terrace overlooking the Thames and mingle with their peers from across a range of different think tanks. It was great to see so many of the network in more relaxed and fun mode!

Strategic communications training

July was the month for our two-part strategic communications training! Hannah took a small group through how you can start to think strategically about your think tank’s communications, the purpose of a comms strategy, how to define your comms goals, map your audience, create a channel strategy and accurately measure success and have that inform your strategy going forward.

AI workshop

This workshop was a new type of event for members. Instead of a presenter leading us in a webinar we invited everyone from the membership to join us for a guided discussion on how they are using AI in their work, which tools would they recommend and how their think tank is encouraging experimentation but also implementing guardrails.