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Creating a Culture of Curiosity16 May 2019, Harrogate

Bringing together the voluntary and community sector across North, South and West Yorkshire to be curious, listen and question.

Supporting communities | Inspiring action | Representing you

Community First Yorkshire is an influential regional charity and membership body that works with voluntary and community organisations, social enterprises and rural communities across North, South and West Yorkshire. We work to strengthen groups by building their capacity, skills, know-how and confidence. We can help with everything from governance and funding, to strategic planning and community engagement through one-to-one support, training, funding advice and signposting.

We believe that connecting communities is vital to encouraging proactivity, community engagement and peer learning. Our aim is to enable the strengths within a community to be identified and nurtured to achieve the community’s own vision. This might be reducing social isolation and loneliness, improving health and wellbeing or taking forward a new community project.

We give voice to community issues and needs by empowering and inspiring communities. We do this by involving, consulting, uniting and amplifying the voice of our members and communities to shape and influence the policies that affect them.

We develop partnership and collaboration opportunities to create stronger communities that are empowered to bring about lasting change. Through our projects, we work with our partners to tackle the diverse issues that communities face to make them stronger.

From starting a community cinema to running a Men’s Shed, from trustee training to untangling a governance issue, from updating your policies to influencing change - we’re here to help.

Welcome to our second annual conference for voluntary and community organisations in North, South and West Yorkshire. Hear from experts, share insights and new thinking, and get together to help to create a culture of curiosity.

Whether you’re a charity, community group, trustee or VCS leader – we all have one thing in common. We’ve all started from a position of curiosity by asking questions, pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo. How many of our organisations would exist today if someone hadn’t asked ‘What if…?’

Keeping our curiosity alive is vital to understanding our beneficiaries, exploring new funding and finding innovative ways of working to greater support the communities that we serve.

This event aims to give you the space and time to explore new ideas and discover new concepts, and importantly to answer the question ‘How can curiosity help us to thrive?’

You will get a chance to apply what you hear from our guest speakers in our practical workshops led by leading sector partners.

Do you represent a parish council, village hall committee or voluntary organisation, and are interested in how to make the most of your community assets? Perhaps you want to tackle loneliness or find out more about digital and social media trends, recruiting volunteers, or how to get the best from your staff? We’re sure there will be a workshop that will give you new ideas to take away today.

Making new contacts is always one of the best things about conferences, so we’ve included a nice long lunch, as well as some fun with Henshaw’s Hotspots to wake us up again afterwards!

Thanks so much for joining us today – by sharing and moving forward together we can all start creating a culture of curiosity for communities in Yorkshire.

Leah SwainChief Executive, Community First Yorkshire

Conference programme9am Registration and refreshments9.45am Welcome Leah Swain, Chief Executive, and David Sharp, Chair, Community First Yorkshire

10am Who says curiosity kills the cat? Dawn Austwick, Chief Executive, National Lottery Community Fund

10.25am How can curiosity lead to growth for people, charities and voluntary groups? Sir Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive, National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

10.50am Your questions11am Refreshments11.15-12 noon Workshops 1 (choose one) • Digital! Digital! Digital! Where do I start? • How do I use social media to feed my curiosity? • What makes a great leader? • People and places – how do we identify our community assets and make the most of them? • Why should we tackle loneliness?

12.15pm Workshops 2 (choose one) • How do we make data provocative and personal? • Is there life after a neighbourhood plan? • How do I tell my story to funders to secure that grant? • What’s the best way to reach and recruit new volunteers? • What’s a Theory of Change and why does it matter? • Who’s in the room? An opportunity to ‘speed date’ with other organisations

1pm Networking lunch1.50pm Henshaw’s Hotspots 2.10pm How do we harness our curiosity to develop new ways of working? Dr Lincoln Sargeant, Director of Public Health, North Yorkshire County Council

2.45pm Workshops 3 (choose one) • My staff are amazing – how do I do the best for them? • How do I tell my story to funders to secure that grant? • Volunteers and safeguarding – what should I know? • I want to see change. How do I influence policy makers to develop a strategy? • Why should we focus energy on a new workforce strategy for the voluntary sector?

3.45pm Closing address Leah Swain, Chief Executive, Community First Yorkshire

4-5pm Still curious? Have unanswered questions? The Community First Yorkshire team are here to answer any burning queries you may have. An informal chance to chat and network.

5pm Close

BiographySir Stuart Etherington was appointed Chief Executive of NCVO in 1994. Previously he was Chief Executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. Stuart is a member of the Economic & Social Committee of the European Union. He was Chair of the Trustees of the Patron’s Fund and Chaired a cross party review looking at the structure of the regulation of fundraising. He is also an IES Honorary Fellow and Visiting Fellow at Cumberland Lodge. He has been a trustee of Business in the Community, the Chair of London United, the Chair of the BBC Appeals Advisory Committee, a member of the Community & Social Affairs Committee of Barclays Bank, former Chair of Guidestar UK, Chair of CIVICUS Europe, Treasurer of CIVICUS, an Advisory Group member for the Policy Centre at the British Academy and for the Lord Mayor’s Trust Initiative. Stuart was knighted in 2010 for services to the voluntary sector.

Our speakers

How can curiosity lead to growth for people, charities and voluntary groups? Stuart will be exploring the road ahead for charities, identifying the challenges and opportunities we face as a sector and more widely as a society.

Sir Stuart Etherington Chief Executive, National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

BiographyDawn was appointed as Chief Executive of The National Lottery Community Fund at the end of 2013, and has led the development of the Fund’s Strategic Framework, People in the Lead. Prior to joining the Fund, Dawn was Chief Executive of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Deputy Director of the British Museum, Project Director for Tate Modern and a Principal Consultant at KPMG. She began her career in fringe theatre. Dawn is a Trustee of the London Marathon Charitable Trust, a member of the Advisory Boards of the Institute of Policy Research at the University of Bath and RAND Europe. She was previously a Trustee of the Historic Royal Palaces and of the Woodland Trust. She has an MBA from the London Business School and an honorary doctorate from London Metropolitan University.

Who says curiosity kills the cat? Dawn will consider the value of curiosity in bringing People in the Lead to life, helping communities to thrive, and building generous leadership.

Dawn Austwick Chief Executive, National Lottery Community Fund

BiographyLincoln has been Director of Public Health for North Yorkshire since November 2012. He leads a core team of public health specialists who work closely with communities and organisations across England’s largest county to improve the health and wellbeing of residents and reduce the variations in health outcomes between communities. He was previously a Consultant in Public Health Medicine with NHS Cambridgeshire and his portfolio including health protection, social inclusion, mental health, housing growth and planning. He was also an Associate Lecturer in Public Health and Epidemiology with the University of Cambridge and a Recognised Clinical Teacher at the medical school there. Lincoln is a medical graduate of University of West Indies and holds postgraduate degrees from University of Cambridge in Epidemiology and Public Health.

How do we harness our curiosity to develop new ways of working? We use our culture, training and experience every day but how do we inspire curiosity in communities to challenge assumptions and stimulate sophisticated solutions to complicated problems?

Dr Lincoln Sargeant Director of Public Health, North Yorkshire County Council

Workshops

Digital! Digital! Digital! Where do I start? (LightStart / Community First Yorkshire) How do I use social media to feed my curiosity? (Community First Yorkshire) What makes a great leader? (HEY100 / Coaching York)People and places – how do we identify our community assets and make the most of them? (Community First Yorkshire) Why should we tackle loneliness? (Skyblue Research / Community First Yorkshire) How do we make data provocative and personal? (North Yorkshire County Council) Is there life after a neighbourhood plan? (Steeton & Eastburn Parish Council / Community First Yorkshire) How do I tell my story to funders to secure that grant? (Two Ridings Community Foundation / The National Lottery Community Fund)What’s the best way to reach and recruit new volunteers? (Community First Yorkshire) What’s a Theory of Change and why does it matter? (Community First Yorkshire) Who’s in the room? An opportunity to ‘speed date’ with other organisations (Community First Yorkshire)My staff are amazing – how do I do the best for them? (Community First Yorkshire) Volunteers and safeguarding – what should I know? (North Yorkshire County Council) I want to see change. How do I influence policy makers to develop a strategy (North Yorkshire County Council / Community First Yorkshire)Why should we focus energy on a new workforce strategy for the voluntary sector? (Community First Yorkshire)

Workshops

Choose one workshop from streams 1, 2 and 3. 11.15 - 12 noon Workshops 1 12.15 - 1.00pm Workshops 2 2.45 - 3.30pm Workshops 3

Workshop Stream

Workshop Stream 1

Digital! Digital! Digital! Where do I start? – Dan Akers, Digital Business Analyst, LightStart Explore how you can start your organisation’s digital journey and shape how Community First Yorkshire supports VCS digital transformation in 2019/20.

How do I use social media to feed my curiosity?

– Claire Hetherington, Marketing & Communications Officer, Community First YorkshireFind out how you can use social media to find new networks, explore opportunities and stimulate your creativity.

What makes a great leader? – Beth Goddard, Clore Social Fellow, HEY100 / Fiona Smith and Geoff Ashton, Coaching YorkCuriosity may be one skill of a great leader but what else do our VCS leaders need to be and how can their development be supported?

People and places – how do we identify our community assets and make the most of them?

– Mark Hopley, Head of Community & Volunteer Support, Community First YorkshireWhat is asset-based community development? Find out how to make the most of local people’s strengths to create a vibrant community.

Why should we tackle loneliness? – Alan Graver, Managing Director, and Amber Graver, Research Executive, Skyblue Research / Bev Frain, Loneliness Project Manager, Community First Yorkshire Come and have a conversation to help us to understand the causes, characteristics and consequences of loneliness in North Yorkshire.

Digital! Digital! Digital! Where do I start? (LightStart / Community First Yorkshire) How do I use social media to feed my curiosity? (Community First Yorkshire) What makes a great leader? (HEY100 / Coaching York)People and places – how do we identify our community assets and make the most of them? (Community First Yorkshire) Why should we tackle loneliness? (Skyblue Research / Community First Yorkshire) How do we make data provocative and personal? (North Yorkshire County Council) Is there life after a neighbourhood plan? (Steeton & Eastburn Parish Council / Community First Yorkshire) How do I tell my story to funders to secure that grant? (Two Ridings Community Foundation / The National Lottery Community Fund)What’s the best way to reach and recruit new volunteers? (Community First Yorkshire) What’s a Theory of Change and why does it matter? (Community First Yorkshire) Who’s in the room? An opportunity to ‘speed date’ with other organisations (Community First Yorkshire)My staff are amazing – how do I do the best for them? (Community First Yorkshire) Volunteers and safeguarding – what should I know? (North Yorkshire County Council) I want to see change. How do I influence policy makers to develop a strategy (North Yorkshire County Council / Community First Yorkshire)Why should we focus energy on a new workforce strategy for the voluntary sector? (Community First Yorkshire)

Workshop Stream 2

How do we make data provocative and personal? – Nujcharee Haswell Data Scientist and Wendy Rice, Public Health Intelligence Analyst, North Yorkshire County CouncilData can be daunting, but it can also be the most powerful tool for developing projects and growing support for your organisation’s ambitions. Come and find out more.

Is there life after a neighbourhood plan? – Councillor David Mullen, Steeton & Eastburn Parish Council / Hayley Johnson, Community Led Housing Officer, Community First YorkshireHear from people who have completed a neighbourhood plan, survived to tell the tale and are now considering next steps including community led housing projects.

How do I tell my story to funders to secure that grant? – Jan Garrill, Chief Executive, and Jackie McCafferty, Grants Programme Manager, Two Ridings Community Foundation / Rachel Stephens, Funding Manager, National Lottery Community Fund Hear from funders about the impact they wish to see and explore how you tell a powerful story about the positive change your organisation makes.

What’s the best way to reach and recruit new volunteers? – Kay Morrison, Senior Development Officer / Lizzie Clapham, Volunteer Co-ordinator at Community First Yorkshire Introducing the Volunteering in North Yorkshire directory and top tips for making your volunteering opportunities both accurate and attractive.

What’s a Theory of Change and why does it matter? – Carol Lewis, Senior Development Officer and Ali Bodley, Senior Development Officer, Community First Yorkshire An overview of a Theory of Change, how to develop one and how it informs your organisation’s strategy and plans.

Who’s in the room? An opportunity to ‘speed date’ with other organisations – Leah Swain, Chief Executive and Caroline O’Neill, Policy & Partnerships Officer, Community First Yorkshire Fancy some downtime or a chance to network? Why not come, put an issue on the table and see if you can solve it together?

Workshop Stream 3

My staff are amazing – how do I do the best for them? – Robert Owens and Jane Hudson, HR Advisors, Community First YorkshireFrom recruitment and induction to performance management. Get top tips on keeping staff happy.

How do I tell my story to funders to secure that grant? – Jan Garrill, Chief Executive and Jackie McCafferty, Grants Programme Manager, Two Ridings Community Foundation / Rachel Stephens, Funding Manager, National Lottery Community Fund Hear from funders about the impact they wish to see and explore how you tell a powerful story about the positive change your organisation makes.

Volunteers and safeguarding – what should I know? – Louise Wallace, Assistant Director of Health & Adult Services, NYCC Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Explore how you, your staff and your volunteers can find support to get it right.

I want to see change. How do I influence policy makers to develop a strategy? – Richard Webb, Corporate Director of Health & Adult Services, North Yorkshire County Council / Mark Hopley, Head of Community & Volunteer Support, Community First Yorkshire Hear from Health and Adult Services at North Yorkshire County Council about why they are developing their new strategy and how you can help shape it.

Why should we focus energy on a new workforce strategy for the voluntary sector? – Caroline O’Neill, Policy & Partnerships Officer and Ali Bodley, Senior Development Officer, Community First Yorkshire Come and have a conversation to help us understand what’s great about our VCS workforce and what we need to do to support it.

Our partners and funders

Join us today!

We’re here to help your organisation or project to succeed. Our membership packages have been designed to offer you the support you need to make a difference in your community.

Choose your support package: Membership is available to organisations or groups across North, South and West Yorkshire.

Standard £42 (£35 + VAT) / Joint £60 (£50 + VAT)*Benefits:

• Weekly e-newsletter • Monthly Funding Bulletin • Online members only resources • Training and event discounts • Have your say and represent the sector • 1-1 Email and telephone support • Free Rural Evidence Data Reports • Employment Advice Service and consultancy discounts • Voting rights through Community First Yorkshire

Community buildings and village hall members also have:

• Village hall support service and networks • Village hall Factsheets and case studies • Free Yorkshire Venues website listing

*Joint Membership is for two organisations based in the same location, such as a parish council and village hall.

Individual Supporter £24 (£20 + VAT)Benefits:

• Weekly e-newsletter • Monthly Funding Bulletin • Online member resources • Have your say and represent the sector

Join today:

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