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Our future plans
We developed our current business
plan in 2023, it runs to 2026.
We have reviewed it in summer
2024, to ensure that it is relevant for
the coming months, as we are working
in a fast-changing environment.
Our main objectives are to:
Continue to develop our core services
Our core services are well established, and receive
excellent feedback. Demand has risen over the last
twelve months, and is likely to continue to be strong, as
charities respond to rising demand for their services,
falling income and workforce challenges.
We will be managing demand for our most intensive
services – consultancy and mentoring – carefully, in line
with our resources. We will encourage engagement with
our webinars and information resources, to provide more
self-directed support, and work collaboratively with
other service providers to make referrals, when we are
unable to offer support ourselves.
We believe that our current portfolio of services will
continue to be highly relevant to frontline charities, and it
is possible that further types of support may be helpful.
We will consider developing further services if needed.
Explore and develop a management training
programme
We undertook some valuable research into management
training and development in 2023. We aim to work
towards the development of a management training
programme, to build the skills of sector leaders and
managers, improving capability and con昀椀dence on a
larger scale than our current services enable. Our long
term aim is to develop a bespoke programme, but in
the next 12 months we will be seeking to engage and
collaborate with other training providers, to provide a
more navigable ‘virtual’ programme of existing training
offers.
Across these objectives, we will be working to ensure
that the Trust is diverse, inclusive and equitable in all its
activities, that we work to minimize our environmental
impact, and that we make the most of opportunities
offered by technology developments.
Use our insight effectively
We have a strong position in supporting and advocating
for excellent management in the voluntary sector.
Through our services, we have good insight which we are
starting to share more widely with others in the sector, to
help to inform and in昀氀uence our own and their activities.
We hope to share more of our data and insight, with
other service providers like ourselves, as well as with
funders and government, over the next 12 months.
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