Last month we took another 16 inspiring leaders away for our biennial leadership retreat. As with the 2015 event, the guests were mostly from the not-for-profit sectors, but with diverse…
Inspiring leadership
Sustaining your interest
It’s been a busy few months for our work on sustainable organisations and impact. We’ve delivered ‘Lasting Difference’ workshops to more than 250 people already this year and given conference…
Review of 2016 – Part Two: Programmes
Partnership programmes are one of the most satisfying and cost-effective ways we can make a lasting difference to charities. This year (unsurprisingly!) the theme uniting all of our main programmes…
Review of 2016 – Part One: Carers
One of the main themes from 2016 was our work with carers’ organisations. In previous years we’ve written consultation and evaluation toolkits, helped put together a national eligibility framework and…
Taking time for development
When we’re all under increasing pressure to do more with less, who has the time to think? When we’re stressed – and stretched – it’s also tempting to think that,…
We’re on to something special!
We launched our organisational sustainability toolkit (‘A Lasting Difference‘) at the Gathering yesterday to a large and enthusiastic group of third sector organisations, funders and supporters. Around 95 people came…
Gathering bookings for Sustainability event
UPDATE – We’ve now filled all 100 places for the special Sustainability workshop at this year’s Gathering. Clearly an idea whose time has come! If you can’t join us on…
Sustainability – free workshop at The Gathering 2016
We’ve just announced a special workshop on the theme of sustainability at the Gathering in February. The event, which holds up to 100 people, marks Graeme’s 10th anniversary as a…
Sustainability Workshop success
We are continuing to develop resources and ideas to help organisations and projects address the challenge of sustainability. In September we piloted two very successful workshops with Voluntary Action Fund’s…
Designing and commissioning for innovation
This autumn, we’re working with Providers and Personalisation and CCPS to launch Action Learning Sets for voluntary sector children’s providers and local authority commissioners to look at the way that…