Session description:

When it comes to partnerships, many charities tend to focus solely on corporate fundraising or grant-funding to deliver projects. However, the modern partnership needs an approach that focuses on deeper, more transformative collaboration - and allows both to jointly diagnose the issues at hand, achieve shared goals of social change, as well as invest in and build capacity for innovation. 

Talking points 

Transformative collaberation

Diagnosing the problems and Defining your shared goals 

Keeping communities at the heart.

Speaker: Steven McIntosh, Chief Partnerships Officer, Macmillan

Speakers: 

Daniel Chan, Partner, PwC

David Baxendale, Partner, PwC

More session info to follow!

Speaker: Hannah Thami, Philanthropy Manager, Unicef 

The cost of living crisis has been one of the biggest challenges for animal welfare for decades. Worryingly, the RSPCA's 2024 Animal Kindness Index found almost eight in ten pet owners (78%) felt that pet ownership had become more expensive over the last year. In this tough financial climate, pet owners are having to make heartbreaking choices and the RSPCA has really felt the impact too - with more animals coming into our care, rehoming rates having slowed in recent years; and more reports of animals being abandoned as costs spiral.

The RSPCA has been doing everything we can to keep pets in loving homes - and that's why we're so pleased to have partnered with Smart Energy GB to support our work in food banks. Find out how this innovative partnership has delivered real impact for pet owners in crisis.

Talking points:

• Thinking outside the box - so what does animal welfare have to do with smart meters anyway?
• Help where it’s needed - reaching low-income and digitally excluded audiences in a way they trust.
• Key learnings - heroes, hiccups and horizon.

Speaker: 

• Ellen Camillin, Senior Corporate Development Manager, RSPCA
• Gem Desouza, Corporate Partnerships Manager, RSPCA

The session will introduce you to budgeting, cash flow, forecasting, risk and reserves, and is designed to break down barriers to understanding financial terminology, financial management tools and data.

Talking points

• Building blocks of financial management
• Risky business
• Rainy day reserves

Speaker: Caron Bradshaw OBE, CEO, Charity Finance Group

More session info to follow soon! 

Talking points: 

• Overview of how the process works
• Weighing up when to take a financial vs a services partnership
• Winning the pitch 
• Onboarding and relationship process 
• How to build a working corporate relationship
• Partnership retention
• Extending that relationship 

Speaker: Daniel Valentine, Head of Communications at The Chartered Governance Institute

We don’t need to rehash the turmoil we all went through during Covid – this is about what happened next

What changes we quickly implement

Talking Points

• Early results
• Where are we now?
• Where do we want to get to?
• Reflections

Speaker:

• Helen Slee, Supporter Led Fundraising Lead,  Save the Children UK
• Lisa Aubrey, Director of Community Fundraising & Engagement, Save the Children

Cats Protection showcases the details of the process behind their successful rebrand, which launched nearly 2 years ago and how this has brought people together and had a positive impact on cats. 

Talking points:

• Assessing whether you need a rebrand
• Process - What makes an effective rebrand
• Brand Health metrics 
• The impact this has had internally, on recruitment and importantly on cats. 

Speaker: Nicola Shepherd, Head of Brand and Marketing, Cats Protection

Partnership is a strange word, isn't it? For me, it brings to mind Hugh Grant in Love Actually, talking about the 'special relationship' and how that 'covers all manner of sins'. So how, in this world where 'partnership' can often mean contract, exploitation, unequal relationship, and lots of other unproductive things, do we actually practice partnership?

At Shelter, we have a number of national partners, who we are delighted to work with around the country, and dozens of local ones that help enable our Community Fundraising team to flourish. Tim Baker, our Senior Community Fundraising Area Manager for the North of England shares some of the successes, some of the challenges, and some of the ways of creating lasting, relational, partnerships that bring a real impact.

Speaker: Tim Baker, Senior Community Fundraising Area Manager for the North of England, Shelter

More information coming soon.

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Speaker: Stephanie Maurel, CEO, The Corporation Of The Church House (Church of England)

Over the past 4 years, this partnership has been transformative for Alzheimer’s Society, increasing brand awareness, signposting more people than ever to dementia information, and raising over £1million for research and support services. Find out more about how these organisations collaborated to create a partnership with real impact.

Talking points:

• Building a partnership with impact – how we build campaigns that appeal to fans and show tangible impact for people affected by dementia.
• Involving England players to help build awareness of symptoms of dementia.
• Keeping fans part of the game for as long as possible – announcing Wembley Stadium as the first dementia-friendly national stadium, and creating a community café at the stadium for residents affected by dementia from underserved communities.

Speaker: Sarah Greenwood, Corporate Account Manager, Alzheimer's Society

Join Islamic Relief UK, who discuss how they have been able to double their worldwide income over the past  2 -3 years, at a time when the sector has seen donations decline. This will be a case study presentation of their achievements, followed by a Q&A session. 

Talking points: 

• Context 
• Overview of methods 
• Tips and tricks on how you can implement these strategies in your charity 
• Conclusion and looking to the future 

Speaker: Zia Salik, Director of Fundraising, Islamic Relief UK

Legislative and policy frameworks expect that, as statutory and third sector organisations, we will work effectively together. 

We know that this would make our processes more person-centred, cost-effectively, and time managed.  

Yet, due to having less and needing to do more, we may continue to behave reactively – instead of intentionally.  

The discussion will present the Gloucester Hoarding Initiative’s innovative joint working model.

Speaker: Megan Karnes, Founder/Chair, Hoarding UK 

More information coming soon.

Our panellists discuss strategies for fundraising going into 2026, what does it take to navigate the cost of living crisis?

What do our panellists foresee affecting the sector? Are we still in a phase of post-COVID recovery or have financial issues moved past this? 

This session will provide tangible takeaways you can implement going forward and how you can do this on a limited budget? 

Speakers: 

Lindsay Jones, Head of Community Fundraising, Shelter 

Henry Ellinger-Gane, Head of partnerships, Whizz - Kidz 

Duro Oye, CEO, 2020 Levels

Join Link To Change CEO Hayley Brown, who discusses the processes of how to make your own campaign in-house. 

Talking points:

• How in-house campaigns are done in comparison to the larger charities 
• How you can make your own materials 
• How to measure the success and impact of your campaign.

Speaker: Hayley Brown, CEO, Link to Change

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Case study: Session pending

More information coming soon.