Merry Christmas from all of us at Ella Forums! We want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and say a huge thank you for working so hard to support those in our communities that need you most. Many of you won't have the luxury of stopping over Christmas as beneficiary needs are year round. A special thanks goes out to everyone working over Christmas and keeping charity spirit alive all year. We know Christmas isn't full of joy for everyone, for some of us it is extra hard. If you are finding things difficult this festive season take a look at the brilliant resources from Mind (https://lnkd.in/d2KnZdk) and Self Space are hosting some great events to keep you connected and not feeling alone. Take care of yourselves. Lots of Love, Team Ella xx P.S. When we pop back here in the new year we will be called Leaders Together. Keep an eye out for our new logo and website.
Ella Forums
Professional Training and Coaching
Edgware, Middlesex 1,045 followers
Charity Leaders Growing Together
About us
What is Ella all about? We are are a mainly volunteer run CIC supporting charity leaders to thrive in their roles. Helping them to safeguard their own wellbeing whilst delivering the greatest impact for their beneficiaries. So how do we do it? We run online action learning sets across the country. Where charity leaders meet monthly to share their real life leadership and operational challenges. The hive mind of the group helps them find solutions and take action. Facilitated by experienced chairs, these sessions are supportive and action focused. We enable leadership development by offering inspiring monthly speaker sessions. Focused on topics that help charity leaders be the best leader they can be and offer a fresh take on typical charity challenges. So what does it cost and how do I get involved? An annual membership to Ella Forums is £600. This covers access to monthly action learning set, the monthly speaker sessions and the annual conference. Attending a session for free is a great way to test out if this is the right support for you. Just email us to book your free place. To find out more please connect with us further: Email: [email protected] Website: www.ella-forums.org Twitter: @ellaforums Facebook: www.facebook.com/ellaforums Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/ELLAorg
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http://www.ella-forums.org
External link for Ella Forums
- Industry
- Professional Training and Coaching
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Edgware, Middlesex
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2011
- Specialties
- Leadership Development, Peer Mentoring, Mentoring, Coaching, Educational Speakers, Experiential Learning, Organisational Improvement, and Personal Development
Locations
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Wisdom House
17 Peters Lodge, 2 Stonegrove
Edgware, Middlesex HA8 7TY, GB
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c/o Lucid
3 Brindley Place
Birmingham, B1 2JB, GB
Employees at Ella Forums
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Mike Burnage
Coach, Mentor and Speaker in the Charity and Social Enterprise sector.Joint Founder and Director at Ella Forums CIC
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Danny Kalman
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Abbi Buszard
Coach and learning designer | Helping humans & their teams find room to grow | MD & Founder at Grow Your Own Organic Learning Ltd | Board Member at…
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Charlie Medcalf Hayter
Supporting charities to thrive by connecting leaders to support, facilitating team sessions, providing strategy development and project support.
Updates
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Are you concerned about charity leader mental health? We are. Through our leadership forums and monthly speaker sessions we see charity leaders being put under significant pressure to keep the wheels turning when faced with increased need and reduced funding. This pressure is having a negative impact on leader mental health. To kickstart 2025 we are hosting an event to explore charity leader mental health. Vic Hancock Fell has kindly agreed to share her research findings and together we will explore how we can collaborate to better support leaders. If you would like to be part of the conversation email [email protected] to book your place.
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The Fore 's Spring registration for funding closes in 24hrs. See all details below 👇
🔔 REGISTRATION CLOSES IN 24 HOURS🔔 It’s your last chance to register for our Spring 2025 Funding Round. Registration closes at 12 pm midday on Wednesday 11th December. All the information you need to register: - Key contact’s name, job title and email address - Your organisation’s name, legal form (that should be either a UK registered charity, CIO, “CIC” – Community Interest Company, or “CBS” – Community Benefit Society) and registration number - Your organisation’s address, telephone number, annual income for the last complete financial year, the sector(s) your work covers and areas where you do your work - Whether you have applied for or received funding from us in the past. We ask that only one registration is completed per organisation. If multiple are completed, we will only consider one in the interest of fairness. 🤷♂️ Wondering what our funding might cover and over what time period?🤷♂️ Our Head of Programmes & Impact Francis Shaw has been in conversation with one of our fantastic Strategic Applicant Consultants, Isabel de la Cour, to answer all your questions. Watch the recording here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/egNMG7Hu #smallcharities #socialchange #socialjustice #funding #socialenterprise #charities #inequality #grantmaking
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Great opportunity to help shape the support your 'for purpose' organisation needs. Complete the School for Social Entrepreneurs survey by 18th Dec!
We’re asking for your feedback, your experience, to help us identify the needs of 'for purpose’ organisations including charities, social enterprises, community businesses and not-for-profits, just like yours. We aim to deliver hands-on, accessible solutions to third sector problems, but we need you to tell us what they are. ⛔ What barriers are you facing? 🧩 Which training needs are hard to fulfil? 💪 How can we continue to support yourself and others in building strong and resilient organisations? We’re asking for two things: 1) Complete the survey. It will take about 10 minutes; every completed survey will be entered into a draw to win one of four £100 John Lewis vouchers. 2) Share the survey far and wide. The more responses we get, the more useful the data will be. Send on to your colleagues, your partners, your supporters, your funders – as many people as possible! We’ll be sharing the results in the new year. The survey is available here, until it closes on Wednesday 18th December: https://lnkd.in/ed6_Rs7h
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🌟 Make 2025 your best leadership year yet 🌟 We're thrilled to announce the launch of a new in-person leadership forum for charity leaders in London! Our Leadership Forums are friendly, supportive groups made up of charity and social enterprise leaders who are keen to gain and give support to their peers. Meeting monthly, we use Action Learning (think group coaching) to guide the group to resolve everyday organisational and leadership challenges. We celebrate the highs and lows of charity leadership and support each other to lead with confidence and safeguard our wellbeing. The brilliant news is this group will be facilitated by our very own Julie Pelych. With a monthly dose of kindness and peer problem solving we promise that charity leadership doesn't need to be lonely. Interested in joining us? Let us know in the comments below or register your interest here: https://lnkd.in/e5cB7ftu P.S. This is just one of the exciting things we have planned for 2025. We are soon to be known as Leaders Together. So watch out for our new logo and website coming soon. #CharityLeadership #NonProfit #SocialImpact #LeadershipForum #EllaForums #ActionLearning
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STOP! Don't buy that thing you never needed! As your newsfeeds fill with Black Friday offers encouraging you to part with your well-earned cash we are offering up an alternative. In our Christmas Gift Guide, you will find some incredible causes that can really make the most of your money. Take a look to see how just a small donation could have a big impact on communities across the UK. 🌟 Youth Leads UK https://lnkd.in/eS6Wz4Hy 🌟 Nechells POD https://lnkd.in/epHyTwvd 🌟 Little Green Pig https://lnkd.in/eefThXMa 🌟 Goods For Good https://lnkd.in/eYmnQ-Ky Let's use our purchase power to create real impact this Christmas. P.S. We are Ella Forums a CIC supporting charity leaders to thrive by delivering Action Learning, bite-sized learning in monthly speaker sessions, a community conference and coaching. Come Join us! #Christmas #Giving #Donations #BlackFriday #Charity #Impact
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🌟 Transform Your Charity: Join Our Workshop Series 🌟 Over the next three months we are delighted to have Ed Moss deliver a series of three workshops to help leaders connect, learn and transform their charities for greater impact and sustainability. Members will be treated to these crackers, helping to round off 2024 and kick start 2025. 🌟 12 December 2024: Culture Catalysts: Transforming Charities from Within 🌟 9 January 2025: User Voices, Stronger Choices: Driving Change with Involvement 🌟 13 February 2025: Governance in Action: Leading Charities with Purpose If you are looking for a monthly dose of inspiration and learning then we have you covered. Our monthly speaker sessions are just part of the benefits of being an Ella Forums member. Email us on [email protected] to find out how to get involved. P.S. We are changing our name to Leaders Together so watch out for a new logo coming soon. #Charity #Leadership #Learning #EllaForums #Community
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🌟 New in-person Leadership Forum launching in London 🌟 We're thrilled to announce the launch of a new in-person leadership forum for charity leaders in London! Our Leadership Forums are friendly, supportive groups made of charity and social enterprise leaders who are keen to gain and give support to their peers. Meeting monthly, we use Action Learning (think group coaching) to guide the group to resolve everyday organisational and leadership challenges. We celebrate the highs and lows of charity leadership and support each other to lead with confidence and safeguard our wellbeing. The brilliant news is this group will be facilitated by our very own Julie Pelych. So, if you are looking towards 2025 and wanting your experience of charity leadership to be less lonely, full of connection and more enjoyable then our forum could be just what you are looking for. Interested in joining us? Let us know in the comments below or register your interest here: https://lnkd.in/e5cB7ftu P.S. This is just one of the exciting things we have planned for 2025. We are soon to be known as Leaders Together. So watch out for our new logo and website coming soon. #CharityLeadership #NonProfit #SocialImpact #LeadershipForum #EllaForums #ActionLearning
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What a way to start the day! This morning we were treated to Sebastian Kamilli sharing his knowledge and insights into the creation of your second brain. Basti walked us through how building a second brain using tools like Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) can help us layer and connect our learning. Helping us to stop wasting time trying to remember things (or re-reading books, looking in endless folders for that useful article or screenshot) and make good use of our learnings. What has this got to do with charity leadership? With ever increasing to do lists and resources being tight this could be an option to help you save time and to make better decisions. For any Ella Forums members that missed the session you will receive a link to the recording as always. P.S. If you are not yet an Ella Forums member but want to be you can find out more here https://lnkd.in/d8tBjNj
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A cracking resource from Reach Volunteering to help with trustee recruitment.
📢 Calling all charities - have you checked out the Trustee Recruitment Cycle? 📢 This Trustees Week has highlighted the problems that many charities are facing with trustee recruitment. But there is help at hand. Have you explored the wealth of information and advice available on the Trustee Recruitment Cycle? Designed as a detailed resource to support charities to recruit successfully and inclusively to their boards, the Trustee Recruitment Cycle is a great source of information whether you’re just starting out or have been trying to fill vacancies for a while. Swipe through our carousel for the headline points and then head to the website for a more detailed look: https://buff.ly/2PEgd1S #TrusteesWeek #Trustee #TrusteeRecruitment #Board #Governance #Charity #TrusteeRecruitmentCycle