Board Shadowing Webinar: What it is, how it benefits charities and getting involved
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

Green skills are essential for a low-carbon UK – the not for profit sector has a huge role to play
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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
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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?
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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.

Disability and Leadership roles – addressing the balance
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Disability and Leadership roles – addressing the balance

How can organisations facilitate change, both in methods and practically, to increase the representation of those with a disability on leadership teams in the charity sector and beyond? Watch or listen to this panel and podcast with Disability Rights CEO, Kamran Mallick, and Steph Cutler, Founder of Making Lemonade, an organisation devoted to facilitating disability confident and inclusive workplaces.