Senior director of an established UK-based charity looking to grow?
Multiple financial and operational challenges?
Finding it hard to access the expertise you need?
Want to learn informally from the insights of other like-minded charity leaders?
If this sounds like you, then join us! From September, you can become a member of Knowledge Peers' Growth Charity Programme – our private members club for the leaders of medium to large UK-based charities.
Your monthly fee of £30 gives you access to a closed network of like-minded senior charity executives. The programme is managed by Knowledge Peers to ensure that everyone can benefit from each other’s experience, in an informal way.
If you’re looking to do new things and make new connections, it’s the perfect way to promote yourself and your charity to the people who really matter: your peers.
The eight pressing issues that charity CEOs need to get to grips with
Our programme is structured around eight core topics which all leaders of major charities will need to get to grips with over the next year. You’ll have numerous opportunities to learn what your peers are thinking and doing about these issues, via a programme of personal introductions, video interviews, networking events, research materials and more.
Opportunities to learn from your peers
Charity leader networking events
Talk to anyone who has attended a Knowledge Peers networking event and you'll hear good things. We work hard to keep attendance to experienced executives only, and the debate focused and lively. Events are typically held in the evening at an interesting venue in and around London, with food and drink provided, and each focuses on one of the core topics outlined above. Eight events per year are included in your membership fee.
Read the report from our event, "Beyond the bunker", held at the Cabinet War Rooms
Personal introductions to other charity leaders and experts
As individuals with years of experience running businesses, we are extremely well-connected across a number of disciplines – not to mention the 5,000-strong Knowledge Peers network. So as a member of our Growth Charities Programme, we'll gladly open our ‘little black book’ of contacts to you.
It's not a formal recommendation service, and we certainly don't take payment from suppliers for referrals. But if you are looking for new contacts to talk to informally about issues from mobile giving to trustee recruitment, give us a call or drop in to see us at our Hatton Garden offices. If we have a relevant personal contact, we'll put you in touch.
Continuing access to all of our learning and research materials
As a member, you benefit from continuing access to Knowledge Peers’ entire research output, including all of our video interviews with charity leaders and others, articles and research reports (Talking Guides). And if we don’t have anything on the topic you are looking for …
… Use us as your private research team!
If you're grappling with an internal challenge, the best place to look for help is often your peer group. Similar charities may have successfully addressed the same problems, and won’t try to sell you an answer as suppliers do. But how can you find out? Simple: commission the Knowledge Peers research team to do it for you.
Tell us about the issue or topic you are looking to find out about, with the questions you’d like to have answered, and we will conduct video interviews with up to three senior decision-makers to find out how their charities are approaching the issue.
Note this is NOT a competitor snooping service! All interviews are carried out on a fully transparent basis, and are made available for all members of Knowledge Peers to view.
Opportunities to promote yourself and your charity
If you haven’t already done a video interview for Knowledge Peers about the work of your charity, then we’d like you to do one! This will be published on our website for all members and visitors to see. You’ll also have your own, dedicated page which you can use to showcase the work of your charity in greater detail. This is a great way to reach out to new partners, senior-level recruits and also sponsors - since Knowledge Peers' membership comprises a large number of company directors and high net-worth individuals, as well as charity leaders.
For a small additional fee, Knowledge Peers can also put together a short promotional video for you to use on your own website. Contact the team for further details and a quote.
Joining the Growth Charities Programme
The Growth Charities Programme will formally launch in September 2010 with several hundred members. Individual membership costs £30 + VAT per month, or £360 + VAT per year, and can be shared between up to three board members within the same charity.
To find out more, or to sign up, please contact Rebecca Reiner.
