Flourish Together are seeking to find 20 diverse women’s support organisations across Greater Manchester who want to develop their Enterprise, Learning, Leadership, Innovation and Influencing skills to build the capacity and sustainability of the Women’s Support Sector.
Ellii is a 6-9 month programme aimed at the Women’s Support Sector to help develop skills in Enterprise, Leadership, Learning, Innovation and Influencing, whilst connect diverse grass roots support organisations alongside some of the longer standing women’s support organisations. The goal is to build strong networks and sustain important services, plus better connect and promote services to the general public. Flourish Together are also aiming to help innovate support for women and encourage more diverse collaborative opportunities to evolve. The free information sessions are taking place throughout July, August and September.
Flourish Together have support from the WEA and Natwest to develop the capacity, sustainability and skills development of leaders across the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector as part as part of an inclusive economy. As part of activities Flourish Together are developing this unique programme for women activists, social innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders with lived experience to strengthen and sustain services delivered across the women’s support sector lead change they see needed for women, families and communities.
Flourish Together will work in partnership with a range of local and regional agencies to enhance support and nurture local talent to build lasting legacies whether from early stage or grass roots organisations to established organisations seeking to grow their influence, legacy and diversify routes to sustainability.
In addition to developing their knowledge skills and networks to lead social change organisations improving services and outcomes for women and families, participants will also develop their leadership potential, develop their business acumen and financial planning skills, their influencing and campaigning skills plus be encouraged to collaborate across themes and geographies to create new events, resources, content and more in order to build trust, the potential for solid partnership opportunities and raise awareness of the broad range of services the wider world can access across communities.
Everyone involved will also have access to a series of coaching and action learning groups sessions alongside the capacity building programme.
Plus participants will be invited to apply to take part in interactive events where skills will be crowd sourced across the public, private and voluntary sectors to strengthen organisational strategies such as marketing and communications/business planning/digital strategies and more and a participatory budgeting event will be held where people on the programme and wider stakeholders help invest seed funding in collaborative ideas, campaigns, projects and creation of joint resources.
The programme is open to women leading their organisations on a voluntary basis seeking to develop a more sustainable future or for scaling social ventures with staff and volunteer teams who are seeking to grow their organisation and secure their future.
For more information and to apply click here or email: [email protected]
Deadline: 8 September 2021