How communications and digital innovation are helping with grief
Cruse Bereavement Care’s Director of Communications & Digital shares what rebranding has taken place at Cruse since the pandemic hit and how digital has been at the heart of it.
Board Shadowing Webinar: What it is, how it benefits charities and getting involved
Are you keen to support people from diverse backgrounds to take up Board positions, ensuring that your board is more accessible and inclusive to young people or racialised minorities and that it brings onboard people with lived experience expertise? Or, are you someone interested in becoming a trustee but not secured your first role yet? If so, see this webinar.
Top tips for hiring in a candidate-short market in the charity sector
How can you hire the best talent in a crowded market? With so many vacancies available in the UK at the moment, the market for charity organisations is candidate-short, but crucially not candidate-empty. See this advice from Associate Director of Recruitment, Tristan Shirley, to attract the best candidates to your charity sector role.
A celebration for Black History Month with Spring Impact Director, Mohamed Osman
In this short video, we celebrate the journey of Mohamed Osman, who is now Director at Spring Impact, an organisation devoted to supporting, enabling and scaling up great ideas in communities in the UK and all over the world. Find out about his time at the Elton John Foundation, why he made the transition from a career in grant-making to what he does now, and what being a Black leader means to him.
Eliminating Barriers to Boards – Podcast 17 with Eli Manderson Evans
This podcast features Eli Manderson Evans, Senior Social Justice Consultant at Ten Years’ Time, looking at the issue of barriers to boards, particularly for first time trustees, and what can be practically done to remove them. In conversation with Principal Consultant, Board Appointments, Lottie Wihl.
Transforming Disaster Risk Management Across Africa – a podcast with Lesley Ndlovu
This podcast features Lesley Ndlovu, CEO at African Risk Capacity, an organisation committed to helping African governments improve their capacities to better plan, prepare, and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters. Find out how his distinguished global finance career is now benefitting the African community both in this role and in his position as a Board Member at international humanitarian organisation, Mercy Corps.
Juergen Krauss – Great British Bake Off 2021
The entire Prospectus team are extremely proud that Juergen Krauss, our multi-talented Database Administrator, is a contestant on the Great British Bake Off 2021.
Green skills are essential for a low-carbon UK – the not for profit sector has a huge role to play
Research shows only 7% of people in the UK associate climate action with jobs – but research also shows that greening the world economy could result in 60 million new jobs by 2030. Here, Harriet Lamb, CEO at Ashden Climate Solutions, talks us through the amazing impact that charities are having, and can continue to have, on the green economy and green jobs revolution.
Getting your staff ready to become the Head Of a department
How do you know if your staff are ready to make the step up to become the Head Of a function? What do other charities in the sector look for in their Head of marketing, finance, IT and other areas? How can you appease your current staff and their ambition to make the role theirs? Find out and see tips here from Team Leader in Senior Recruitment at Prospectus, Matt Till.
What’s it like being a Kickstarter in the not for profit (charity) sector?
The Kickstart Scheme is open to all 16-24 year olds in the UK that are eligible for Universal Credit. But just what do Kickstart roles entail, and why is the not for profit/charity sector an amazing place to begin your career? Find out from Josh Shelton, an Advertising Administrator working at Prospectus as part of the Kickstart Scheme.