For all interested in VCSE Leadership.
Our Open Workshops are an opportunity to develop and deepen your understanding of key aspects of leadership and workforce development. Each workshop will feature speakers from Greater Manchester’s VCSE sector, sharing their experiences of leadership, and successes and challenges in nurturing and supporting their workforce. These workshops will provide a valuable learning space for VCSE staff; reflecting the strengths, joys and challenges of working in Greater Manchester’s VCSE sector and creating opportunities for peer learning.
Tuesday 21 May 2024, 10:30-12:00, online.
How can data empower you as a VCSE leader and support your decision making, strategic planning and relationships with commissioners and funders?
What skills development and training are needed to support your workforce to work with data confidently?
How can we shift VCSE organisational cultures so that data is seen as a key asset and resource?
This workshop will explore what we mean by data maturity and how VCSE leaders can use data effectively. Facilitated by Madeleine Spinks, Co-Chief Exec and co-founder of Data Orchard CIC, the workshop will include practical insights from Alice Mason, Chief Executive of Manchester Care and Repair on their data maturity journey. There will be time and space to reflect on your organisation’s own needs in terms of skills development and for Q&A with Madeleine and Alice.
Madeleine Spinks is the Co-Chief Exec and co-founder of Data Orchard CIC, and also a researcher with 25 years’ experience in the non-profit and public sector. She's an ardent advocate of social change and using evidence to help organisations 'punch above their weight'. Previously she led a local authority research and intelligence team to provide a strategic evidence base, in partnership with public health and other statutory services, business and the voluntary and community sector. Madeleine is Zimbabwean and has been living in Herefordshire for 25 years where she's an active community volunteer and currently Chair of a primary school board.
Alice Mason has been with Manchester Care and Repair since 2020, formerly she has been Chief Exec at a number of charities working in Health and Social Care and International Development as well as working as a consultant, researcher and grants assessor. Alice works with the Board to set the strategic direction and leads the team in organizational development and delivery.
Wednesday 1 May 2024, 13:30-15:00, online.
What does it mean to be an inclusive leader within the VCSE sector?
How can we develop anti-racist practices within our organisations that support equity, justice and liberation?
How can we create disability equity by changing attitudes and structures?
Join us for an engaging panel discussion, chaired by Mike Wild, Chief Executive of Macc, exploring the role we have as VCSE leaders in building inclusive cultures. Mike will be joined by Hilda Bertie from Caribbean and African Health Network and Rick Burgess from Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People to discuss racial and disability equity and intersectionality, with a specific focus on leadership and workforce development. Rick and Hilda will share practical steps that leaders can take, to create organisational cultures that support equity, diversity and inclusion.
Mike Wild is the CEO of Macc, the local infrastructure organisation that supports Manchester charities, community organisations, and social enterprises. Mike keeps a watch on policy issues and speaks up on behalf of our diverse, passionate and fantastic local voluntary, community and social enterprise sector. He supports Macc's Trustees in ensuring Macc leads by example, lives by its values and, along with the rest of the VCSE sector, makes a real difference for all the communities of Manchester. Mike is also a founder member of the VCSE Leadership Group and a Director of 10GM.
Hilda Bertie has worked across the country championing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) for over 30 years. She has a proven track record of achieving transformational change (HR and OD), across several public and voluntary sector organisations. She has considerable experience working with executive leaders, board members and politicians, collaborating on organisational direction, vision, and values to support embedding EDI into business as usual. Currently, she is working two days per week leading on the EDI and leadership agenda for the Greater Manchester, voluntary sector organisation Caribbean, African Health Network (CAHN).
Rick Burgess is the Outreach, Development, & Campaigns Lead at the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, a Disabled People's Organisation 100% staffed and run by disabled people. As co-founder of the WOW Campaign they brought the first ever main chamber debate to the House of Commons authored by disabled people, and cofounded Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts. He sits on the inaugural Amnesty International UK Disabled People Human Rights Committee, and the Lived Experience Advisory Board of the Centre for Society & Mental Health at King's College.
Have you ever wondered what people mean when they say 'values-based leadership' or 'leading through values'? What does being guided by your values even feel like and is it something that anyone can do? In this interactive online workshop, Jackie Le Fevre will explored these questions with the help of speakers from Greater Manchester’s VCSE sector.
This workshop explored the importance of personal wellbeing and resilience for Greater Manchester VCSE leaders.
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