Learn how to engage and respond effectively when your charity experiences challenge or opposition. This event forms part of Small Charity Week 2024.
Event details
In online and public spaces, many charities experience challenge or opposition. This webinar will help you prepare for this and provide you with an opportunity to learn from charities with first-hand experience of successfully responding to challenge.
Pricing
This event is free.
If you’re an NCVO member, don’t forget to log in to your website account before booking. Follow our instructions if you need help logging in to your website account.
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Organisations with a gross annual income of less than £30,000 can join NCVO for free.
Outcomes
By the end of the event, you’ll:
- learn strategies to prepare your charity to respond to challenge and opposition
- learn best practice for both proactive and reactive approaches
- consider how and when to use different communication tools and platforms
- hear from other charities with lived experience
- gain practical tools to apply in your own context
- understand how good governance applies.
Who should attend?
- Chief executives
- Marketing and communications professionals
- Campaigning professionals
- Fundraising professionals
- Trustees
Who’s delivering the event?
We’re running this webinar in partnership with Media Trust. During the webinar, you’ll hear from charities with first-hand experience of responding to challenge or opposition.
How will it be delivered?
This event will take place on Zoom. Captions will be available.
We’ll share joining instructions, including the Zoom link, one week in advance.
Timings are as follows.
- 10.00: Welcome and housekeeping (NCVO chair)
- 10.10: Theory and best practice (Media Trust)
- 10.25: First charity example
- 10.35: Second charity example
- 10.45: Third charity example
- 10.55: Question-and-answer session
- 11.10: Summary and close
Will this event be recorded?
Yes, this event is being recorded and will be uploaded to the NCVO YouTube channel shortly afterwards.
Your access needs
We’re committed to running accessible training and events. We want you to feel welcome, included, and able to fully engage in our sessions.
All online events will have closed captions. We’re also happy to arrange speech-to-text writers or BSL interpreters (subject to availability).
To help us, please share any access needs you have when prompted by our booking form. We may be in touch to ensure we’re making the right adjustments.