Empower Support for the Voluntary Sector is experienced in planning and facilitating staff away days which provide a number of functions.
Our approach is always positive.
As well as training, Empower offers a range of services to voluntary and community sector organisations and regeneration partnerships.
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As there is increasing demand for multi agency partnership working, the challenge is to ensure this mixture of aims, cultures and priorities can come together to achieve real progress. Partnerships like negotiation require honesty, the ability to see other people's viewpoint, to move on things that are not. Empower has worked with a wide range of agencies including Government agencies, the private, public and voluntary sectors to create structures and understanding which enables multi agency partnerships to work. Empower is offering a free toolkit which will enable you to plan or review the effectiveness of your partnership. See below for details. A member of the Empower team can work with your organisation or partnership to establish protocols, identify shared goals and promote shared understanding which will enable the multi agency partnership to begin and continue to be effective. Call Empower Support for the Voluntary Sector now to discuss your partnership needs. We are here to help! 01443 749787
Partnership Development Toolkit
There are occassions when a project or organisation experiences critical issues which require swift and decisive action. Sometimes the staff or trustees either lack the experience or confidence to intervene to bring about change themselves. Empower has a substantial track record in facilitating this change. We support staff, tackle the issues and re-engage partners, leaving the organisation when it is back at full strength and confidence both internally and externally has returned.
The trustee board or board of directors is the strategic head of a charitable organisation and often individuals become trustees without really understanding the importance of the role. Occasionally trustee boards become negative or ineffective and we can intervene to work with the organisation to help the board refocus and evaluate their position. This intervention is challenging but also empowering and has already had a profound impact on a number of boards.
Is your project or organisation facing the end of a key funding stream? Let Empower work with staff and trustees to help you develop a forward strategy which will enable you to move from one source of funding to another and develop income streams to secure long term sustainability. Dont wait until half your staff have found other jobs; put your forward strategy in place now and secure the future of your organisation.
There is an increasing pressure on 3rd sector organisations to develop income streams through trading which requires an entirely different approach to generating income through funding. We can help organisations generate an entrepreneurial approach to trading and stand out in a crowded market place. We can help you develop a marketing strategy, business development strategy and show you how to keep customers. Let Empower share the secrets of their success with your organisation and increase your income rapidly through trading.
We work alone or in partnership with other agencies to help local people engage in local decision making structures. We specialise in engaging those groups who are traditionally excluded from local democracy and ensuring that community organisations reflect the communities they represent.
Empower can provide bespoke HR advice and support. Whether the organisation is just starting out, or faces a particular HR issue, we work with staff and trustees to develop knowledge and capacity, ensuring that you have the proper procedures in place to manage staff and staff issues correctly.
Delays in funding often mean that projects are playing catch up to meet targets whilst still trying to recruit key staff. Empower are experienced in setting up new projects from the outset to create the monitoring processes, forming steering groups, creating policies and procedures and begin achieving outcomes, whilst staff can be recruited. We can pull the project back responding to slippage in order to hand over a successful project to incoming staff.
Empower has planned and facilitated a number of high profile conferences and we can help make your event a success. From encouraging sponsorship to meet the cost of the events, through to marketing and ensuring you reach your delegate numbers we can help. Empower will engage you every step of the way to ensure the event reflects the style and values of your organisation and raises your profile through out the field you work.
Empower provides a wide range of team building activities to provide a bespoke team building event for you which offers a mix of fun and accessible team building events and reflection and team problem solving. We have already enabled a large number of teams to develop greater understanding and respond collectively to issues affecting their organisation.
We have within the team managers with Change Agent expertise and qualifications and can help senior staff manage their organisation through the change process. We take the whole team along and ensure resistance is kept to a minimum and all staff are engaged and valued.
Do you have a post that you are having difficulty filling? Or need someone on a flexible basis to cover maternity or sickness? Our interim managers are accustomed to operating at an extremely high level and will hit the ground running. Each comes with admin support and the backing of a team of specialists to ensure all aspects of the job are covered. The benefits of using interim management is that you have cover when you need it and for as long as you need it. We do not charge for recruitment fees and you save on advertising costs.
Empower is unique in the breadth of the expertise we have to offer any organisation going through the planning service. Cash flow and forecasting is undertaken by Keith Simmonds, an ex Bank Manager who operated at a senior level developing small businesses. Our approach is to work with the board of trustees or directors to develop the business plan so that the capacity of all stakeholders are engaged and the plan is owned by the organisation.
We have within our team professional, qualified coaches and mentors who can provide individual and team support through executive coaching, life coaching and mentoring. Coaching is recognised as one of the most direct and effective means of individual and organisational development and Empower bring the latest thinking to the sector at affordable prices.
The Empower team can provide professional finance and delivery expertise to establish how feasible a project is before a group invests valuable time and resources into it. We can also provide a feasibility study to support the business planning process.
We have substantial experience in engaging even the most marginalised members of our community and our experienced team work to ensure that everyone is heard. We can go door to door, facilitate focus groups and use the telephone to collect information. We have a range of testimonies to our success in this area.
Tel: 01443 749787
Mob: 07904 109277
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