We’ve partnered with The Fore who rigorously and transparently screen thousands of small charities and social enterprises (turnover under £0.5m) to identify those with exceptional leadership, innovative ideas and cost-effective solutions. The Fore then provides a wraparound package of unrestricted, multi-year grant-funding (up to £30,000) training, skilled volunteers, peer-to-peer networks and impact measurement.

​Each month, representatives from charities and non-profits funded by the Fore will come and share their missions and the specific challenges and problems they are facing. As they scale up, they need and want our help.

​In ​the Brave Starts ​Workshop 1​, we ask you to consider how you can spend a day a week enhancing your own portfolio of skills, connections and experience. By attending​ our Purpose & Impact events, you might find an organisation you want to work with or, more simply, you might be able to offer feedback or insight into their issues.  

​This is a unique chance for Brave Starts members to donate time, energy, expertise or insight to organisations we know are making a considerable, positive difference.​

​MEET THIS MONTH'S SPEAKERS & CHARITIES:

​Bev Cook, Managing Director @ Huckleberries Nurture Farm

​Huckleberries Nurture Farm is a therapeutic combination of animals, nature immersion and well-being practices to enhance children’s emotional well-being.

​They are expanding into a dynamic, self-directed wild learning centre to transform the lives of children and young people, particularly those facing mental health challenges.

​By pioneering the use of social investment funding in alternative education, they aim to break down barriers and ensure equitable access to choice, regardless of disadvantage.

​They invite you to join them on this transformative journey as a member of their advisory panel of experts. Your knowledge and passion can help empower children and support the charity in unlocking their limitless potential.

​Lisa Davis, Managing Director @ Changing Relations

​Changing Relations C.I.C. delivers education to schools, businesses and communities, using the arts to transform the way people think about gender stereotypes and relationship behaviours. Their innovative work breaks down gender barriers, fosters healthy relationships and transforms lives.

​The issues they address are in the news every single day - gender stereotypes, relationship behaviours, domestic abuse, sexual assault, consent, respect... Schools are short of cash but need their help to arm the next generation to do better than those who keep making the papers for inappropriate and harmful behaviour.

​Zoe Minihan, Programme Manager @ Hotel School

​Hotel School is an award-winning charity that empowers people who have experienced homelessness and other disadvantages to thrive in the hospitality industry. Their dynamic 10-week programme combines theory, hands-on experience, and industry visits to provide the skills and confidence to land a job and excel in it. Hotel School started in 2017 and is a joint venture between The Passage (London’s largest voluntary sector homeless resource centre) and The Goring Hotel.

​Lynne Misner, CEO & Founder @ Small Acts of Kindness

​Small Acts of Kindness is an ambitious, award winning, high impact, rapidly growing charity working in partnership with over 120 organisations from the voluntary, corporate and statutory sectors and over 450 community volunteers.

​They source, pack and distribute practical gifts and information to older people; reducing the negative impacts on physical and mental wellbeing of loneliness and isolation and helping them to keep warm in their homes. Small Acts of Kindness is changing the lives of some of the most vulnerable and hardest to find older people by connecting communities with kindness.

​Jane Anderson, Fundraising Manager @ Development Education Centre South Yorkshire

​DECSY promotes Global Learning: an approach to education that increases understanding of complex global issues, such as inequality, conflict, climate change, migration and different world views.

​As part of their remit to support schools, teachers and pupils talking and learning about complex global issues, they want to expand their Gender Action programme that helps schools and young people to combat stereotyping and sexual harassment. They are looking for someone with marketing and funding expertise to help realise their vision to expand this programme across the UK.

‍