Delivering Sustainability to Small Charities: the Weston Charity Awards
Last week the class of 2017 Weston Charity Award winners marked the end of their engagements with us and celebrated how far they have come at Fortn
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Have your say on leadership and strategic planning in the charity sector
The Garfield Weston Foundation and Pilotlight, who together run the Weston Charity Awards, are inviting Chairs and senior leaders of charities to a
Aiding Zest to diversify its income
"Working with the Pilotlighters has given the Zest team confidence to think more commercially. We’re in a very different place now.”
Helping Staffordshire Women's Aid build a strong strategy
“I thought we’d just get tools to work through, instead we got a complete audit of how we operate. The process has been bigger than we thought it would be.”
Exploring how Malvern Special Families could develop
“Working with Pilotlight has made a real difference to the governance of Malvern Special Families. We have been challenged to review the way we were working and now we are thinking more strategically and the board is working together more professionally and effectively."
Setting a focused vision for the future for SELFA
"This time last year we weren't winning funding bids, and I couldn't work out why. Now I know why. We can go into a meeting and say who we are and where we're going. And now we're winning bids, and being approached to apply for bids. I don’t think in my whole career I’ve had a year like this – it’s been a transformational process for me.”
How to pitch effectively for corporate partnerships
In more and more of our work with charities we’re seeing an increased demand for guidance on how to receive support from corporate companies, so we invited the Weston Charity Awards winners to attend a two-part series of workshops focusing on this. I share the top three tips:
Minding the gap: The power of skilled volunteers
A few strides west from our London office I can look up at the City’s glassy towers where, metaphorically at least, the ambitious have made it to t
Growing a successful charity: Celine Sinclair on The Yard
"Even if it was £80,000 I would still go for my team of Pilotlighters! Pilotlighters provide a superb sounding board and I can’t recommend the scheme too highly. They give you a lot of confidence and help to create a balance between operational demands and the need for strategic development." -Celine Sinclair, CEO, The Yard
Creating a strategic direction for The Queen's Nursing Institute
“It's been so helpful to think about the whole strategy of the charity, in particular understanding the specific roles of the CEO and Chair."
How Pilotlight helped the QNI face the future
"I had no idea when starting our journey with Pilotlight the effect it would have on us as an organisation. When I look back now I see how much it really has transformed the way we work."