Our Impact
We are driving positive change by developing, connecting and empowering leaders in the voluntary and community Sector.
Our Impact
CO3 delivered 67% of this activity free to members between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024.
Individual Events |
Delegates |
|
Leadership Development |
33 | 294 |
Networking & Connection |
18 | 940 |
Policy Events |
14 | 471 |
Governance Training |
10 | 159 |
Member Forums |
6 | 72 |
| Total Impacts | 81 | 1936 |
We delivered short courses in a wide range of areas including:
- Measuring Impact
- Strategy Planning
- High Productivity
- Major Donor Fundraising
- Working with Trusts and Foundations
- Telling your story with Impact
- Leadership Panel
And free sessions on:
- Developing a CRM
- Will to Give
- Resilient Leaders
- Your Mentoring Journey
Networking & Connection
The CO3 Annual Leadership Conference in September 2023 attracted over 220 delegates and provided a day of learning, inspiration and networking.
The Leadership Awards in March 2024 attracted over 250 people celebrating the best leadership in the sector, hearing from Clodagh Dunlop our keynote speaker and being entertained by Bollywood style dancers from Arts Ekta.
Our event led by Engage Executive Talent on Digital Transformation was well attended with over 50 delegates and the Launch of our Leadership Framework at the Christmas Drinks event at Ulster Bank saw almost 80 members come together in the festive season.
Policy Events
CO3 continues to deliver on policy events providing opportunities for members to put their concerns and questions directly to policy makers. Harnessing corporate support and partnerships we have delivered ALL of our policy events free to members, this included:
Three Roundtable events with permanent secretaries of Finance, Education and Justice (in the absence of ministers), a Meet the New Executive Event held within a week of the Stormont Executive reforming in February 2024, and a series of events run via the CO3 Health Special Interest Group.
Having secured funding through the National Lottery Dormant Accounts Fund for a Scoping Study into the relationship between the Health & Social Care providers in the VCSE sector and the Statutory agencies that they work with, we held 6 engagement events to capture member opinions to feed into the research. We also ran two Health Special Interest Group Networking events with guest speakers from Queen’s main research facility iREACH and with talks on the implementation of the Integrated Care System (ICS).
Representation
The Chief Executive and senior managers represent CO3 members at various forums, groups and committees including:
UK Shared Prosperity Fund Partnership Group
Charity Commission NI Stakeholder Group
Alliance of Lifelong Learning
All Party Group on the Community & Voluntary Sector
And we are on the judging panels for awards events such as the OCN Learning Endeavour Awards, Chartered Institute of Fundraising Awards, Eastside Awards, Clanmil Colleague Awards and the Construction Employers Awards.
CO3 was represented by the chief executive at the event marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement at Queen’s University “Reflect, Renew Reimagine” in April 2023. The senior team attend as many member events as we can given the limited resources and work to support and promote the work of the members.
Member Forums
2023 saw the launch of our Regional Charity Leaders Forum to support those running the NI arm of national and international charities. The forum has 12 members already and we ran two events in 23/24.
The CO3 New to Post Forum continues to be very popular with 4 events in the period covering topics like developing a social enterprise, the power of networking and post pandemic learnings for people management, reaching 50 delegates in total.