Coming Up on Achates Community

Achates Community is now live!

Read on to see Achates Community‘s live offerings, including Response Sessions that accompany the video masterclasses, and facilitated Purposeful Leader Programme sessions where you can explore and develop your own leadership approach with peers from across the sector.

Online Events Listings Mar – Jun 2025

Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 1) – Session 4: Leading with Purpose – Centring Care and Resilience
Thu 6 Mar
9am

This session of PLP will focus on how to lead with purpose whilst focusing on both care and resilience. It will aim to equip participants with a clearer understanding of how to navigate some of the complexities of leading teams within the current environment and how to lead in a way that embodies care for our stakeholders whilst also building their resilience.

Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 2) – Session 2: Triple Bottom Line
Thu 12 Mar
9am

This second session of the new cohort will introduce the concept of the triple bottom line as a means of developing and articulating your purpose, the organisational purpose and what you, as leaders see as the purpose of the sector.

Response Session: Module 10.2 – Legacy Giving: Making the Ask
Thu 20 Mar
2pm

The Response Session for Module 10.2 provides an opportunity to discuss your progress on this Audience Consultation masterclass with one of the Achates team. Gain further insight and feedback on how you can implement what you have learned in a small group setting.

Module 10.2 will focus on best practice approaches to making the legacy ask and the tools and materials you might want to develop to support you in this. In this Module, we will consider donor reciprocation and recognition processes and approaches.

Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 1) – Session 5: Leadership is a Team Sport
Thu 10 Apr
9am & 10am

This session of PLP will focus on the art of collaboration in leadership and develop the tools to truly work with our stakeholders and peers as sector leaders.

Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 2) – Session 3: Audiences and Impact
Wed 16 Apr
9am

This third session of cohort 2 will focus on the need for leaders to ultimately act as a conduit through which impact for audiences is delivered. We will discuss the importance and nuances of advocating for audiences within leadership roles and develop participants understanding of the importance of an audience-informed approach in their work exploring the need for listening and transparency to inform choices when leading an audience-informed organisation.

Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 1) – Session 6: Entrepreneurialism with Purpose
Thu 1 May
9am & 10am

This session of PLP 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 centering 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.

Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 2) – Session 4: Leading with Purpose – Centring Care and Resilience
Wed 7 May
9am

This fourth session of the second cohort will focus on how to lead with purpose whilst focusing on both care and resilience. It’ll aim to equip participants with a clearer understanding of how to navigate some of the complexities of leading teams within the current environment and how to lead in a way that embodies care for our stakeholders whilst also building their resilience.

Response Session: Module 13.2 – How to Create the Conditions for Success
Thu 15 May
2pm

The Response Session for Module 13.2 provides an opportunity to discuss your progress on this Commercial Income Generation Masterclass with one of the Achates team. Gain further insight and feedback on how you can implement what you have learned in a small group setting.

Module 13.2 looks at How to Create the Conditions for Success. In this session, we’ll look at the rigor involved in making that important decision and how to create the conditions for success in new commercial income generation.

Response Session: Module 14.2 – Developing an Offer
Thu 29 May
2pm

The Response Session for Module 14.2 provides an opportunity to discuss your progress on this Corporate Support (Partnerships) Masterclass with one of the Achates team. Gain further insight and feedback on how you can implement what you have learned in a small group setting.

Module 14.2 looks at Developing an Offer. We will consider what role Corporate Membership can play within a wider corporate fundraising strategy, and how to develop a purpose-led, authentic, and distinctive Corporate Membership offer that demonstrates both Return on Investment for the business, whilst also achieving wider benefit and impact relating to the SDGs.

Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 1) – Session 7: Navigating Change
Thu 12 Jun
9am & 10am

This session of PLP will focus on the critical role of change in the sector and the role leaders must play in ensuring that change is positive and manageable. It will develop the tools for participants to think about change as a fundamental part of what they are doing as leaders and a critical (and helpful) part of the development of any organisation.

Purposeful Leader Programme (Cohort 2) – Session 5: Leadership is a Team Sport
Wed 18 Jun
9am

This fifth session of the second cohort will explore the art of collaboration in leadership and develop the tools to truly work with our stakeholders and peers as sector leaders.

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.

You can choose to follow along with our Response Sessions, or you can dip in and out as you prefer.

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.

Coming Up on Achates Community

Achates Community is now live!

Online Events Listings Mar – Jun 2025

Plus Weekly Provocations & New Releases

How to access these sessions:

What is Achates Community?

Summer 2024 Blog Series: Introducing Achates Community

2035 Industrial Strategy – Achates’ Response

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