Cluster2 of the LEx Leaders Training Programme 2022-23

Site Admin • 19 December 2022

Cancellation Notice:

Unfortunately, for operational reasons we had to cancel this series of sessions.

Please Note: We have co-developed a series of resource documents and guides on the topics that would have been delivered in these training modules.

Visit: www.catalyst4change.org.uk/leaders-living-toolkits

source: Catalyst 4 Change CIC
published: 19 December 2022

Catalyst's LEx Leaders Programme is pleased to announce the second cluster from our season of low-cost good governance training modules from 19 January to 17 March 2023. We seek to run further sessions later in 2023.

The session modules cover broad topics that are critical to good organisation development & management and will be delivered at an introductory level by skilled and experienced providers including EW Accounting, Birmingham Voluntary Services Council, BlueSky Coaching and Training Personified.

Some of our modules are delivered twice over the life of the programme giving attendees choice and flexibility – they can also select modules that they need the most and opt-out of others.

In the second cluster topics will include;

Establishing a Business Development Strategy
Funding Applications & Bid Writing
Effective Marketing & Promotion
Managing Assets & Premises
Financial Management & Accounting
Good Governance Practice & Legal Structures

See a full listing of all the first and second cluster modules here (pdf) >

See the Eventbrite booking pages here >

Who is eligible to attend our sessions? (You must meet one or more of the following criteria)

Registered members of Catalyst and/or registered participants of the LEx Leaders Development Programme
Non-member participants must be user led initiatives or organisations that have significant operational input from people with lived experience of mental health issues Join for FREE here >
Members of any community organisations that provide mental health and wellbeing services to a significant African and Caribbean user base
All participants must be in need of significant operational, governance or strategic development support

Help with start-up essential costs:

Selected registered members of Catalyst 4 Change and/or registered participants of the LEx Leaders Development Programme will also qualify for cash support of up to £300 towards essential resources, e.g. laptops, affiliation fees, accessibility and/or language or essential office stationery needs etc.

Background to the LEx Leaders Development Programme:

The National Lottery's Leaders with Lived Experience Programme aims to support lived experience (LEx) leaders and their organisations to be central to recovery and renewal efforts as we move through and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.

The National Lottery said; “The programme builds on the Leaders with Lived Experience Pilot Programme and is part of a wider journey to share power with communities, improve perceptions of LEx and create parity between different types of knowledge and experience. The impetus for the programme, its shape and vision, came from witnessing the commitment, innovation and resilience of the pilot cohort, particularly in the early stages of the crisis when mainstream organisations were retreating. This confirmed that LEx experience leadership needs to be at the forefront of strategies for the future of civil society."

Catalyst 4 Change said; “At Catalyst, we believe that to successfully renew civil society it is imperative that we make access to services equal and that those services are culturally representative and responsive. We believe that we can only affect meaningful change by empowering and equipping grassroots African and Caribbean communities to provide high quality, culturally relevant, mental wellbeing services and by co-producing and co-designing statutory mental health services.”