Coming up on Achates Community
Read on to see Achates Community‘s live offerings, including facilitated Purposeful Leader Programme sessions where you can explore and develop your own leadership approach with peers from across the sector.
July – September 2026: Achates Community Events
1 July 2026
Purposeful Leader Programme Advanced – Session 7: Organisational Culture – 1 to 1 Organisational Culture Surgeries Participants will be offered an individual 30-minute surgery where they can bring their reflections and questions around their experiences of implementing this culture change work within their organisations.
7 July 2026
Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 5) – Session 5: Leadership is a Team Sport. This session will focus on the art of collaboration in leadership and develop the tools to truly work with our stakeholders and peers as sector leaders.
16 July 2026
Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 4) – Session 9: Your Personal Leadership Manifesto and where do you go from here? This final session marks the end of the programme and will bring together all learnings from the previous sessions to develop each participant’s individual Leadership Manifesto and their objectives for future development.
23 July 2026
Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 6) – Session 1: Ambition Setting. This session will give participants the opportunity to meet each other, outline their own objectives for participating in the programme and move towards articulating their own ambitions for this work and their next steps as sector leaders.
29 July 2026
Purposeful Leader Programme Advanced – Session 8: Organisational Culture and Purposeful Leadership – Future Proofing. This final session will bring together all the learning from the programme and will empower participants to move forward. Participants will share their experience of developing their organisational culture through a purpose-led lens and will develop a roadmap for the next 3, 6 and 12 months to further integrate this way of working.
8 September 2026
Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 5) – Session 6: Entrepreneurialism with Purpose. This session will focus on the need for today’s leaders to think entrepreneurially about our business models and will explore the tools needed to do that whilst also centring purpose. It will also focus on the concepts of risk within the sector, and the role leaders should play in balancing that risk in a charitable/subsidised context
10 September 2026
Achates Virtual Roundtable – an exclusive, invite-only Resilience Roundtable held online, bringing sector leaders together for an open, peer-led discussion on purpose-led leadership and financial resilience. This collaborative forum explores practical ways to balance income streams, leverage purpose-aligned opportunities, and build sustainable operating models for maximum impact.
15 September 2026
Achates Triple Bottom Line Business Model Live Webinar Series – Session 1.
17 September 2026
Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 6) – Session 2: Triple Bottom Line. This session will introduce the concept of the Triple Bottom Line as a means of developing and articulating their purpose, their organisational purpose, and what they see as the purpose of the sector. Participants will be guided to explore how these three can fit together and explore how, as leaders, they can hold all 3 in their practice within the context of their current role.
22 September 2026
Purposeful Leader Programme Advanced Cohort 2 – Session 1: What sort of a purposeful leader are you? The first PLP Advanced session will recap the learnings from the original programme, introduce the idea of three types of purposeful leadership, and allow participants to understand what they can expect from the rest of the advanced programme.
Achates Triple Bottom Line Business Model Live Webinar Series – Session 2.
29 September 2026
Achates Triple Bottom Line Business Model Live Webinar Series – Session 3.
Plus Weekly Provocations & New Releases
Designed to spark critical thinking, our weekly provocations will challenge received ideas and inspire new approaches to your work and we’ll be releasing new Masterclasses on a variety of topics including Financial Management, Capital Fundraising, The 9th Type of Impact and much more, throughout the year.
How to access these sessions:
All of the above events (and all future events) can be accessed via the Achates Community platform, hosted on Mighty Networks. Join Achates Community here.*
What is Achates Community?
Achates Community is our digital support and learning platform for income-generation professionals. It offers video Masterclasses that can be followed on-demand, as well as interactive sessions and a community hub so you can come together to discuss important topics and exchange ideas.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
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*The £50 p/m subscription offer is applicable only to cultural sector employees. Consultants and government sector workers can join Achates Community at a rate of £100 p/m here.
