Session 1: Understanding costs

This session will cover:

• Projecting costs
• Recognising core costs and full cost recovery
• Costs of income generation and social enterprise activity.
• Considering costs of fundraising
• Considering different delivery methods/doing it smarter
• How costs change with activity levels

How to book:

• May: Thursday 25th, Tuesday 30th
• June: Wednesday 7th, Thursday 15th, Tuesday 20th, Thursday 29th

Balanced roles for healthy colleagues

This workshop explores key factors that affect whether a role is stressful or fulfilling. It will give leaders insight into how they can shape team roles to improve performance and team members experiences.

• Learn how to design roles which offer a high level of job satisfaction.
• Develop skills and insights you need to create healthy, thriving teams.

Details:

• Tuesday 11th July, 10:00-12:30

Leadership conversations: Lets talk climate

Join sector experts for this series of three online events to learn how charities can be at the fore of climate action in Scotland, led by Keep Scotland Beautiful.

Get recommendations on the best resources available to help you build your sustainability strategy. The intention is that delegates attend all three sessions, dates as follows:

Details:

• Tuesday 18th April, 10:00-11:30
• Thursday 25th May, 10:00-11:30
• Tuesday 20th June, 10:00-11:30

For CEOs and senior managers of organisations that hold an active grant with The National Lottery Community Fund.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

This series of bespoke events is lead by Tony McCaffery, founder of Diversity Scotland.

These sessions are designed to facilitate conversation, increase awareness, knowledge and skills around diversity, equity and inclusion.

Each 90 minute online session aims to empower and enable you to drive cultural change within your organisation and your interactions with your external stakeholders.

Sessions will cover:

• Examining power and privilege
• Marginalised, minoritised and under represented groups in Scotland
• Using inclusive language
• Conscious inclusion and effective allyship.
• Discuss actions you can take within your organisation to increase diversity, advance equity and foster inclusion

Details:

• Tuesday 25th April, 12:30- 2pm
• Thursday 11th May, 12:30- 2pm
• Tuesday 6th June, 12:30- 2pm

For CEOs and senior managers of organisations that hold an active grant with The National Lottery Community Fund.

Leadership skills for change & innovation

This workshop gives you the opportunity to consider some of the impacts of significant organisational change and offer practical tools for keeping things moving in the right direction and working with resistance to change.

Learn a practical planning tool for plotting a path for innovation and future planning.

Details:

• Thursday 18th May, 2 – 5pm

For CEOs and senior managers of organisations that hold an active grant with The National Lottery Community Fund.

Scottish Voluntary Sector CEO check in

Join this discussion session for voluntary sector leaders about their leadership journey over the last few years; what has changed for them and what the highs and lows have been.

This is also an opportunity to hear more about what ACOVSO does as they’ll create a space for you to meet and network with your leadership peers.

Guest speakers:

• Elaine Brown, Edinburgh Remakery
• Mark Bevan, CEO, Leuchie House
• Emma Whitelock, CEO, LEAD Scotland

Details:

• Tuesday 30th May, 3 – 5pm

For CEOs of organisations that hold an active grant with The National Lottery Community Fund.

Candid Chair stories

A networking and discussion event exclusively for Scottish voluntary sector Chairs, Vice Chairs and those considering moving into the roles.

For this session you’ll hear some candid Trustee stories. These will include examples of numerous difficult or challenging situations Trustees have faced and what steps could be taken to overcome them and reach a solution.

We are delighted that this session will be hosted by Shirley Otto. Shirley is a specialist in governance and management development in the charity and not-for-profit sector.

Details:

• Tuesday 27th June, 4 – 6pm

Leading in a Changing World

Our world is changing and in order to deal with this we need to let go of traditional narratives about what leadership is and how leaders should behave in order to embrace a heart-led leadership style which which is built on compassion and empowerment

Participants will gain…

• an understanding of traditional leadership narratives, where they come from, and why they no longer serve us
• an understanding of how and why a more heart-led leadership style is so important and necessary
• ideas on how to develop this leadership style in themselves and others

Details:

• Thursday 29th June, 10am – 11:30am

For senior managers of organisations that hold an active grant with The National Lottery Community Fund.

Discounted membership

ACOSVO help leaders in the third sector all year round. If you would like to get involved with their other events, conferences or Women’s network they are offering a 75% discount on their annual membership for groups holding an active grant from The National Lottery Community Fund in Scotland.

This membership entitles you to their support which includes advice from interim executives and strategic providers that offer pro-bono support.

To find out more, please contact your Funding Officer.

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