Past events
NPC runs around 50 events a year from our annual conference, NPC Ignites, to training events, and from practical seminars to topical discussions. View our upcoming events or find out more about our programme of events below.
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NPC Ignites is our annual conference. Every October, we bring together the boldest thinkers with the brightest ideas in the charity sector, and beyond, to inspire new ways of working. The conference 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.
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We hold topical discussions on subjects ranging from Brexit and youth crime to the charity sector’s relationship with technology and. To read more visit wakelet.com/@NPCthinks and @NPCthinks.
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Our Leading Impact seminar series is designed to provide practical tips and resources to help charities improve their imact. We achieve this through sharing NPC’s wealth of experience and through charity case study presentations. To find out more about previous events visit the hashtag #LeadingImpact.
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Since 2010 we have held seminars for trustees in partnership with the Clothworkers’ Company, exploring the key issues affecting charity governance. Following the events; blogs and short reports are produced to share the learning more widely.
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Our public training courses run throughout the year and help you get to grips with key issues and methodologies—from strategy for impact to theory of change. The training is run by our experienced consultants who are able to draw on the knowledge and lessons we have gathered from our research, think tank and consultancy activities since 2002.
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The EU settlement scheme: Legal concerns and the role of campaigning in protecting EU citizens
This webinar, the last in the series, will explore the legal implications of the EU settlement scheme, and the role advocacy and campaigning can play in protecting EU citizens’ rights.
Theory of change in ten steps
A theory of change process encourages us to reflect on our aims and plans, to discuss them with others and to make them explicit. We see this process as the foundation of charity strategy, evaluation and communication.
Covid, coordination & community response: How a systems approach can make a difference
With the winter waves upon us, we’ll explore what other charities and service providers can learn from this whole system approach.
Setting your charity’s reserves policy through and beyond Covid-19
This seminar—run in partnership with the Clothworker’s Company—explores what trustees are and should be doing to ensure their charity’s reserves are being well managed.
The impact of the EUSS scheme on EU workers
This webinar will explore the broader impact of the EUSS scheme on EU workers, particularly in those sectors they are highly represented.
Rethinking Organisational Development in the Social Sector
An open participatory session exploring what works and what needs to work better in the field of social sector organisational development.
What’s holding back digital innovation in the charity sector?
Insights and recommendations from Media Trust and NPC’s virtual roundtable.
Identify, prevent and predict: Using data to stop global trafficking
In anticipation of our upcoming seminar on data, this guest blog by STOP THE TRAFFIK emphasises the importance of data in identifying, preventing and predicting global trafficking hotspots.
Thinking big in your theory of change
Are you an organisation with a mission to tackle large and complex social issues? This workshop is aimed at organisations wanting to think big in their theory of change: to influence lasting social change in a complex area.
