Board Effectiveness - Strategy: risk, funding, and collaboration

A strong board helps a charity focus on long-term impact rather than simply responding to immediate pressures. This requires realistic strategic thinking about risk, financial sustainability and organisational capacity.

Boards should ensure that the organisation makes the most of the funding, assets and expertise it already possesses, while maintaining an appropriate approach to risk that enables innovation without jeopardising stability.

Crucially, effective charities recognise that they cannot achieve their mission alone. Collaboration with partners, funders and other organisations can increase reach, share resources and create greater impact than working in isolation.

What you will take away from this event

We will be once again joined by Nigel Kippax, whose knowledge and experience of the sector will provide understanding of:

• How to assess risks and opportunities through a strategic lens
• The importance of utilising existing funding and assets effectively
• Using collaboration to achieve charitable objectives

This session will also give attendees the opportunity to network with other professions in the small charity sector and share insights.

Meet Your Speaker

Nigel Kippax works with a range of charities and community organisations to help their leaders take the right steps to being the best they can be through governance, strategy and business development.

Nigel has many years of experience in the corporate and charitable sector. He runs Charity Leaders and is also an associate consultant on governance and risk with the Charity Finance Group. He believes strongly that leaders in voluntary and corporate organisations have a lot to learn from each other.

Who should attend:

This session is suitable for staff, senior leadership, and trustees.

Please note that the event is for not-for-profit organisations whose beneficiaries are in Buckinghamshire, with priority given to organisations with a turnover of £100,000 or below.