“The South East Charity Forum is all about CEOs coming together to assist each other and to share knowledge, experience and best practice with a view to developing stronger leadership and management in the region and the sector,” according to Margaret Craton, partner at asb law. “It also provides an opportunity for them to network with other charity heads, and support their peers at a local level.”
We held the inaugural meeting in January when Debra Allcock Tyler, chief executive of the Directory of Social Change and author of ‘It’s tough at the top’( which is also the tile of a course I run at the DSC ), gave a stimulating presentation to 25 chief executives on the issues currently facing the sector. Feedback from the delegates after the meeting was positive with comments such as “an excellent start”, “interesting and informative meeting” and “a good range of charities represented”.
David Montgomery, partner at Kingston Smith LLP, said: “The feedback from the first event proved its value. The members of the forum will decide on the subjects to be discussed in the future, and there’s no shortage of ideas. The next event will give charity chiefs the opportunity to discuss ways to ride out the current economic situation and prepare for the upturn when it does come, for while the recession may be officially over, we’re not out of the woods just yet.”
Membership of the South East Charity Forum is open to chief executives of charities in the region with an income in excess of £500,000 and by invitation only. In order to ensure diversity I have set up the forum to have a revolving chair. Diana Greenman of Music in Hospitals will chair the second event on 18th May at St Catherine’s Hospice, Crawley. The main discussion theme will be ‘The recession – how to ride the storm and use the opportunity to leverage change’
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