Improving charity performance and sustainability - Tuesday 22 March

  
​Providing better support to charities

Many of our Members work with charities through our pro-bono consultancy and mentoring programmes or through their own role as trustees or volunteers.  We frequently find that these charities have common challenges in building a strong management infrastructure and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.  We are therefore delighted to bring two experts in this field to share their expertise with us, and therefore to help us enhance our own support:

• Beth Clarke has been a trustee and employee at several charities, and recently led a programme at the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) which is aimed at helping small charities to develop their resilience to ensure their long term survival and the continuation of the vital services that they provide. Through "CAF Resilience" ten small to medium sized charities across the UK have received grant funding and bespoke advice and training.  CAF has recently released the final report that shares the insights and learnings gained, including recommendations to funders.  Beth will present these findings and the plans for the next phase of the resilience programme.
   
• Ian McLintock has been a volunteer for 40+ years and has held various Chair and CEO appointments over the last 25 years.  He built and personally funded the free Charity Excellence Framework online toolkit.  Launched in 2018, it now has 23k members, nearly half of whom rate it 10/10.  It acts as a digital mentor for charities, taps into the collective expertise of the sector by connecting them to a huge range of free support and has created Big Data for the sector.  Ian will explain how the CEF can support our charity clients and offer insights into what it tells us about the challenges they face today, some of which may surprise you.  He’ll also outline the even more ambitious strategic development phase.  

Following these presentations by Beth and Ian, there will be 45-60 minutes of open discussion for attendees to develop these ideas and perhaps extend them with examples from their own experience.

We will then have drinks and a buffet provided to enable informal discussion and networking to continue up to c9pm.  Please bring £20 to cover the cost of refreshments.

Members can click on this Participant Listing link to see who has booked.

The dress code for the evening is Business Casual.