Charity Impact

Paul Nott – how to recruit and retain the best staff for your charity. (#4)

“If there was one thing I could change about the sector it would be the diversity of trustee boards”
 
Paul Nott – how to recruit and retain the best staff for your charity. (#4)
 
Paul Nott is a consultant helping charities to improve staff recruitment and retention.
For the last year almost, Paul has been offering consultancy to organisations to improve their internal systems to both attract new staff and, as importantly, to retain the good people they already have. 
Paul is also a coach, helping individuals and teams to develop their careers, create their own definitions of success and plan achievable steps to make them happen.
Prior to this Paul has been a recruitment consultant specialising in fundraising, marketing and senior roles in the sector for the last 16 years and has also been a fundraiser, a charity founder and a trustee.
In this episode, we discuss charity sector recruitment and retention in some detail – the challenges and solutions; tips for learning and development; career advice and more.
 
For episode notes, links and other guests, please visit https://www.kedaconsulting.co.uk/charity-impact-podcast/ 
 
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If you have any questions, feedback or enquiries regarding the podcast, you can e-mail hello@kedaconsulting.co.uk or tweet @alexblake_KEDA
 
This Podcast is brought to you by KEDA Consulting, which provides strategic consultancy support to charities. KEDA is led by Alex Blake who works as a management consultant, specifically for charities and non-profits in the UK, with the aim of maximising social impact. We help charities to be as effective as possible in delivering their charitable objectives through developing strategy and plans; securing funding; undertaking reviews; and a range of other consulting projects involving research, analysis, facilitation and reporting.
 
The purpose of the Charity Impact podcast is to learn more about how effective charities and individuals achieve social change or social impact. This podcast is for anyone who wants to make a difference, but particularly those who are working for social change / impact; including charity trustees, CEOs, staff, volunteers, advisors, philanthropists and public service professionals.

Amanda Batten, CEO of Contact - the charity for families with disabled children – strategist; campaigner; Agatha Christie fan; collaborator; and occasionally ‘a bit of a martyr’. (#3)

“What helps or hinders us is us, it’s how we are, managing stress and conflict, how resilient we are. Coaching has been really helpful in shining a light on those things.”
 
Amanda Batten, CEO of Contact - the charity for families with disabled children – strategist; campaigner; Agatha Christie fan; collaborator; and occasionally ‘a bit of a martyr’. (#3)
 
Amanda Batten is Chief Executive of Contact, the charity for families with disabled children and chair of the Disabled Children’s Partnership campaign. Amanda was previously director of external affairs at the National Autistic Society (NAS). While there she led a multi-award winning campaign to secure the Autism Act, the first ever condition-specific legislation. She played a key role supporting the development of autism strategies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Amanda studied Economics and Politics at Birmingham University and holds an MSc Voluntary Sector Management from Bayes Business School.
 
In this episode, we discuss a range of topics including the experience of becoming a Charity CEO; coaching; campaigning; diary management to maximise energy flow; Agatha Christie for recovery; the power of feedback and remembering to be less ‘martyrish’.
 
For episode notes, links and other guests, please visit https://www.kedaconsulting.co.uk/charity-impact-podcast/ 
 
If you enjoy the podcast, please do follow us and leave a rating / review. 
If you have any questions, feedback or enquiries regarding the podcast, you can e-mail hello@kedaconsulting.co.uk or tweet @alexblake_KEDA
 
This Podcast is brought to you by KEDA Consulting, which provides strategic consultancy support to charities. KEDA is led by Alex Blake who works as a management consultant, specifically for charities and non-profits in the UK, with the aim of maximising social impact. We help charities to be as effective as possible in delivering their charitable objectives through developing strategy and plans; securing funding; undertaking reviews; and a range of other consulting projects involving research, analysis, facilitation and reporting.
 
The purpose of the Charity Impact podcast is to learn more about how effective charities and individuals achieve social change or social impact. This podcast is for anyone who wants to make a difference, but particularly those who are working for social change / impact; including charity trustees, CEOs, staff, volunteers, advisors, philanthropists and public service professionals.

Dee Brecker – choosing your next role; recruitment; diversity & inclusion; not ‘bringing your whole self to work’; networking; fundraising; strategy; consultants; coaching; and more. (#2)

“Unless you can show and evidence that you are a truly inclusive organisation, you do not have the right to ask someone to bring their ‘whole self’ to work.”
 
Dee Brecker is currently Deputy Director of High Value Fundraising at Guys and St Thomas’ Charity. Dee has previously held senior roles in philanthropy, fundraising and communications at a range of interesting organisations including the LSE, Carers UK, Sense and the Department of Health. Dee’s also been a trustee, a chair, a consultant and is a qualified coach.
 
I know Dee because we’ve worked together a couple of times directly and because we try to stay in touch when we’re not working together. I see Dee as an excellent fundraiser and relationship builder, importantly an organisational navigator, a thinker, strategist and an articulate communicator.
 
Dee has some great insights to share. We discuss recruitment, from both sides; working in and across organisations of differing sizes; diversity and inclusion – finding the confidence to speak up, demonstrate diversity in leadership and fighting to recruit more diverse teams; the benefits of informal catch ups with peers; asking beneficiaries to donate; strategy development; working with consultants and agencies; facilitation; and coaching.
 
For episode notes, links and other guests, please visit https://www.kedaconsulting.co.uk/charity-impact-podcast/ 
 
If you enjoy the podcast, please do follow us and leave a rating / review. 
If you have any questions, feedback or enquiries regarding the podcast, you can e-mail hello@kedaconsulting.co.uk or tweet @alexblake_KEDA
 
This Podcast is brought to you by KEDA Consulting, which provides strategic consultancy support to charities. KEDA is led by Alex Blake who works as a management consultant, specifically for charities and non-profits in the UK, with the aim of maximising social impact. We help charities to be as effective as possible in delivering their charitable objectives through developing strategy and plans; securing funding; undertaking reviews; and a range of other consulting projects involving research, analysis, facilitation and reporting.
 
The purpose of the Charity Impact podcast is to learn more about how effective charities and individuals achieve social change or social impact. This podcast is for anyone who wants to make a difference, but particularly those who are working for social change / impact; including charity trustees, CEOs, staff, volunteers, advisors, philanthropists and public service professionals.

Mark Lever, learning from CEO roles at Helpforce, National Autistic Society and RVS; successful campaigns and social enterprise investments to the devastating consequences of service failure. (#1)

“If I went back to being a large charity CEO I would do it differently following my experience at Helpforce.”
 
In this episode, we discuss a range of topics including growing the impact of volunteering health and care; joining the sector; different CEO roles; prioritising relationships over tasks; turning £3m into £15m through social enterprise; campaigning; managing the impact of service failure; communicating your vision; the importance of charities to society and the lack of recognition from Government.
 
Mark Lever OBE is the Chief Executive at Helpforce. Mark is a Chartered Accountant with a Cranfield MBA. The first 13 years of his career were spent training and practising as a Chartered Accountant, he then decided to leave the world of finance and move into the third sector – a decision he has not regretted for a single minute of his 25 + years in the sector. During this time, he has been Chief Executive of the WRVS (now Royal Voluntary Service) and the National Autistic Society. He joined Helpforce in 2019 and has been leading the charity in its mission to accelerate the growth and impact of volunteering in health and care. Mark has held numerous trustee positions and in his time at Helpforce has been awarded an OBE for services to volunteering during the pandemic.
 
For episode notes, links and other guests, please visit https://www.kedaconsulting.co.uk/charity-impact-podcast/ 
 
If you enjoy the podcast, please do follow us and leave a rating / review. 
If you have any questions, feedback or enquiries regarding the podcast, you can e-mail hello@kedaconsulting.co.uk or tweet @alexblake_KEDA
 
This Podcast is brought to you by KEDA Consulting, which provides strategic consultancy support to charities. KEDA is led by Alex Blake who works as a management consultant, specifically for charities and non-profits in the UK, with the aim of maximising social impact. We help charities to be as effective as possible in delivering their charitable objectives through developing strategy and plans; securing funding; undertaking reviews; and a range of other consulting projects involving research, analysis, facilitation and reporting.
 
The purpose of the Charity Impact podcast is to learn more about how effective charities and individuals achieve social change or social impact. This podcast is for anyone who wants to make a difference, but particularly those who are working for social change / impact; including charity trustees, CEOs, staff, volunteers, advisors, philanthropists and public service professionals.

Introduction to the Charity Impact podcast (trailer)

This is a brief introduction to the Charity impact podcast.
The text version is below.
Hello, welcome to the Charity Impact Podcast where our purpose is to learn more about how effective charities and individuals achieve social change or social impact.
My name is Alex Blake, I’m a strategic consultant working exclusively with charities and non-profits, and each episode I ask a guest working in this field about their approach so that you and I can gain insights to maximise the impact of our own work. These 1-2-1 interviews will cover a variety of areas, including strategy, tactics, resources, motivations, learning and more.
This podcast is for anyone who wants to make a difference, but particularly those who are working for social change / impact; including charity trustees, CEOs, staff, volunteers, advisors, philanthropists and public service professionals.
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The Charity Impact Podcast is brought to you by KEDA Consulting, the company I started in 2013 to help charities maximise their impact. I work with charities and non profits to develop their strategies; explore solutions to the challenges they face; increase and diversify their income; develop partnerships; review performance; undertake research and more.
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