NPC Ignites: People, Impact, Purpose.
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NPC Ignites is designed to help charities keep pace with change and anticipate new trends and innovations to ensure their organisations are always maximising their social impact. Our annual charity conference #NPCIgnites brings together the brightest minds in the charity sector to inspire new ways of working. And it gives you a chance to network with colleagues and new friends in the sector.
Whole conference was superb…My first NPC conference and will definitely recommend!
NPC Ignites programe
We are excited to share with you the programme for NPC Ignites 2019. Download the programme and check out our great speakers.
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NPC Ignites: People, Impact, Purpose
What can you expect from our annual conference NPC Ignites 2019?
How to harness the data revolution for social good
The social sector has the power to turn the data revolution happening all around us into a cultural and systemic shift of such magnitude that it could change service provision fundamentally. Used for good, data has the power to radically transform our sector, and the lives of the people we serve.
Walking the Talk
Walking the Talk is our cross-sector partnership to help charities improve their diversity
Nothing is settled
EU citizens rights to remain in the UK after Brexit is being brought into a question by the government's apparent push towards hard Brexit and decision to end freedom of movement on deadline day. The Transition Advice Fund needs support to ensure everyone who is entitled to settled status gets it.
NPC Ignites 2019: Impact for people
The programme for this year's NPC Ignites has been announced. Find out what the hot topics are and who will be debating them.
Our framework for Place
The places where we live and work define who we are and what we do. We've developed this framework to share common characteristics we’ve identified from our consulting and think tank work, which we believe will prove invaluable for developing your own place-based projects.
Shifting power, changing lives
How can funders boost the capacity of charities and communities advocating for change?
Systems change: 4 lessons I’ve learnt
Becky Elton, Executive Director of Operations at Changing Lives shares the lessons she's learnt about system change.
What happened at NPC Ignites 2018?
Where next for charities and civil society? Dan Corry’s NPC Ignites 2018 speech
At this year's NPC Ignites conference, NPC CEO Dan Corry asked the sector to imagine what an ideal version of itself might look like. He identified areas for improvement, such as concern for impact, and used new evidence together with existing resources to show there are issues with the sectors geog
What are the barriers to learning from evaluation?
What are the real, practical barriers which stop charities learning from the information they have on themselves? Drawing on a recent session at NPC Ignites, Anne Kazimirski, Head of Measurement and Evaluation, explores the issues.
Exciting to witness how grantmakers are showing leadership
Fran Perrin, Founder of the Indigo Trust and Chair of 360Giving, shares her delight at the shift in the grant-making community towards embracing data and digital and asks what can be done to enable the trend.
Audio: How can charities harness new power dynamics?
Chief Executive of Nesta Geoff Mulgan works with charities and social organisations around the world to help them understand the ways technology is shaping the future. Here he speaks to attendees of NPC Ignites 2018 on the changing nature of power in the world today and what it means for charities.
Peppa Pig & place shaping projects
What have traditional local government and civil society approaches to problems got in common with Peppa Pig characters? Well according to Tom Alexander, Head of Commissioning & Corporate Improvement in Sutton, they're both two dimensional. And the similarities don't end there.
#NPCIgnites 2018: Inspiring the social sector
The programme for 2018's NPC Ignites has been announced. Find out about the big names and bigger topics you can debate this year.
#NPCIgnites2018: Meeting the challenge of change
NPC CEO Dan Corry argues that, just as the fortunes of the England team may change constantly, so does the context and challenges for social sector organisations. While we don't all have Gareth Southgate to guide us through, we do have NPC Ignites, the perfect place to get the ideas and inspiration to change the world.
Highlights of Ignites
#NPC Ignites is just two weeks away and excitement is building here at NPC towers. Here two members of staff discuss what they are most excited to see at the conference.
