Join us for this one hour interactive session where we go back to basics to explore our three jobs when building a financially resilient small charity.

Building a financially resilient small charity is tricky. Funding practices, commissioning priorities and scarcity of resources coupled with a heavily regulated sector and challenging business models means that we are all financially precarious. We all have an iceberg somewhere out there on our horizon.

Being financially resilient means being able to locate the iceberg and set sail around it. Organisations that do this well have three things:

• they have financially confident leadership
• they have a sense of what good looks like and how to get there
• they have robust financial management

In this session, we will look at what these three things mean in practice for our own organisation. We will identify small tweaks that can have a big impact on our financial resilience. Tweaks that help take some of the stress out of managing the uncertainties and tensions ahead.

We will explore:

• what we talk about when we talk about small charity financial resilience
• what good looks like
• common elephant traps and how to avoid them

Who this session is for:

• anyone new to small charity finance
• anyone wanting a refresh
• anyone who loves to talk about small charity finance

What you will leave with:

• a framework for building financial resilience
• a bank of self mentoring questions
• a deeper love of small charity finance
• an invite to a follow up peer mentoring session on financial resilience

What you can expect:

• some slides
• breakout room session
• group chat session

Delivered by:

Liz Pepler MIAB, Director Embrace Finance. Embrace Finance is a small non-profit organisation working with small charities to build financial confidence. We understand that managing the finances can be tricky. Our three step approach helps leaders break it down into three manageable steps.

Liz has over 20 years experience of working with small charities and has supported organisations through growth, stability and financial difficulty.

Liz is Trustee Treasurer of Association of Chairs.

This is a collaboration with sector friends who are also running some fantastic finance sessions for small charities. Check them out at www.smallcharityweek.com/events

Zoom links will be sent the day before the session.