A free, online Capability Development Programme is available over the next few months for community-led organisations working with older people.
The programme is designed to support organisations with the skills and knowledge to run their services in challenging times. The programme is delivered by two partner organisations Moore Kingston Smith Non-Profit Advisory and colleagues at the School of Social Work and Social Care, University of Birmingham, with support from an external faculty.
The programme is delivered via four webinars which centre around a framework called RISE: Re-imagining Organisations, Impact, Sustainability (Financial) and Efficiency.
Underpinnings are themes around governance, strategy, leadership and research capacity and collaboration. The webinars are supported with a series of stand-alone deep dive videos with subject matter experts.
Says Sarah Allport, Head of Communities and Governance at The Dunhill Medical Trust, “We recognise that a lot of community organisations are time poor, and it is difficult to commit to these types of programmes. We therefore offer three routes to access the programme.”
You can…
- Watch the content at your own pace without joining the webinars (a recorded, no audience version is available) or having any engagement with the cohort programme.
- Join some of the webinars and watch the rest in your own time.
- Commit to attending the webinars and becoming part of the 2024/25 Cohort, this will allow access to the end of programme residential and year two.
The programme is completely free, the providers just ask that organisations become members of the DMT Academy. Aside from the end of year residential programme, all is delivered online.
Year two takes the learning from year one and aims to support organisations to make a transformational change through action learning sets on the main RISE modules, seminars which are more in depth and providing small grants to allow them to work on a bespoke basis with members of the delivery team, to apply their learning to their organisation.
The 2024/25 webinar dates are:
- Impact Measurement – 22 October 2024
- Creating Financial Sustainability – 3 December 2024
- Developing Research Capacity and Collaboration – 28 January 2025
- Re-imaging Organisations and Design Thinking – 4 March 2025
You can find out more here:https://dunhillmedical.org.uk/news/capability-development-training-for-community-led-organisations/