Are you a charity or CIC struggling to measure and showcase your impact? Join Made For Impact for an interactive workshop designed to help you track and communicate the difference you make.
Come join us for an interactive session on understanding and measuring the impact of your charitable work. This event will equip you with the tools and knowledge to effectively assess the outcomes of your projects. This event is perfect for charity leaders, CIC founders, and nonprofit professionals looking to improve their impact measurement strategies.
What You’ll Learn:
✅ Why impact measurement matters – How it helps with funding, credibility, and decision-making.
✅ Common challenges & how to overcome them – What holds charities back and how to avoid common pitfalls.
✅ Simple frameworks & tools – Easy-to-use methods to start tracking impact effectively.
✅ Turning data into stories – How to use impact data to engage funders and stakeholders.
✅ Next steps – Practical actions to take right away.
Why is measuring our charities impact important?
Ever struggled to prove your charity’s impact to funders? You’re not alone. Many charities face this challenge. Funders, stakeholders, and supporters want to see more than just good intentions—they need real evidence of impact.
This session will introduce you to the essentials of measuring impact, helping your charity track, prove, and communicate the difference you make.
Previous attendees have said:
‘The session was very clearly presented and structured. The use of lots of examples was really useful and inspiring and it’s given me lots of food for thought.’
‘I learned a lot about developing a strategy and an overall plan for measuring impact, and has transformed how we measure impact’
About the host
Sonny is the director of an impact agency dedicated to helping charities and CICs secure more funding, improve efficiency, and boost their credibility. With a background in marketing, impact measurement, and strategic planning, Sonny has worked with a range of organisations to turn their impact into compelling stories that attract funders and supporters.
Spaces are limited—reserve your spot today and start making a bigger impact!
Network with like-minded individuals passionate about making a difference. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your organisation’s impact!
If you are looking for new ideas to drive innovation and growth in your business, whilst protecting and evolving you successful culture, this is the event for you.
Experts from hgkc, My Oxygen and Barclays Eagle Labs will lead a discussion exploring and unpicking specific issues and barriers to growth, such as:
– Using technology, including AI, to increase productivity and improve products or services
– Accessing new markets, new opportunities and new customer relationships
– Innovating and collaborating with new partners
– Finding employees with the right skills and attitude
– Ensuring your leadership team has the mindset and capability to lead the change with you.
Location: Abraham Room
Time: 8:15am to 11:30am
For the week of International Women’s Day, Square Works is offering complimentary day passes to women in business.
This is to bolster the existing community of empowered professionals and enable greater networking amongst the fantastic women in our city.
If you know of anyone who might be interested, please get in contact at [email protected].
T&C’s apply.
Passionate about crafting stories that spark young imaginations? Ready to embark on a journey into the fabulous world of children’s literature?
Join the Storytale Futures: Writers’ Day – Writing Middle Grade Fiction, a full-day Adult only (18+) event for tailored for budding and emerging writers crafting novels for 9-12 year olds.
In the picturesque and inspiring surroundings of Arnos Vale, this writers’ day offers a unique blend of indoor and outdoor workshops led by acclaimed children’s authors Sophie Kirtley, Rachel Delahaye, Emma Read and Ash Bond.
Dive into sessions that will explore ideas, characters, setting and editing in a creative and interactive way with the aim of elevating your storytelling skills. Engage with fellow writers and seize the opportunity to network with local authors. With ample time for creative reflection and informal chats, plus a lively panel discussion with a publisher, editor and author, the Storytale Futures: Writers’ Day promises to ignite your imagination and fuel your journey towards publication. Don’t miss this immersive and inspiring experience designed to propel your middle-grade fiction writing to new heights.
An out-and-about workshop looking at how to use real life places to add richness and depth to the setting of your story. Some walking and exploring will be involved (weather dependent!) so no stilettos or glass slippers please!
Want to know how to build characters from faceless place-holders into living, breathing, and sometimes plot-changing people to remember? We’ll be discussing what makes a good character, playing with a formula that will help you build unforgettable personalities and then we’ll be exploring ways of melting a character’s looks, backstory and motivation into a plot frame without the dreaded ‘info dump’. By the end of the session, you’ll have a grasp of how to use your character’s physicality and psyche to lift your manuscript to a new level, and possibly a new direction.
Voice. That’s what everyone tells us they want, right? But what is ‘voice’ in fiction? Ash doesn’t promise any answers to this trickiest of writerly questions, but instead will take you through a series of writing exercises and prompts to help identify and hone the voice of your characters. Ash’s fantasy adventure series Peregrine Quinn is written in multi-POV – no easy feat! She will discuss how she crafted the characters and made sure that their voices were unique enough to be recognisable – even from the first line of a chapter. She will also talk you through the opening of her second book and give you the opportunity to write your own memorable opening paragraph.
What comes after you type The End on your first draft?
Relief? Probably.
Celebrations? Hopefully.
Editing? Certainly!
This session takes you through the basics of self-editing. I’ll show you where to start and how to stop. We’ll look at the various stages of editing – structural, line and copy, and proofreading and we’ll explore ways to achieve distance from your own work, including working with others – beta readers and critique partners for example.
The hour-long session will be delivered as exercises and discussion. By the end you’ll be able to step back from your work in progress and begin editing with confidence. Because The End is very much The Beginning.
The Writers’ Day will end on a high with a fascinating and informative publishing panel discussion with Penny Thomas (co-founder and publisher at Firefly Press), Jo Nadin (author, editor and academic) and Susie Day (author). Plus there will be time for you to ask the panel your publishing and writing related questions.
Adults (18+) only: £50.50p
Lunch and refreshments are included in the ticket fee.
Accessibility Info:
https://www.accessable.co.uk/venues/arnos-vale
A Creative writing workshop to connect & play with your inner creative.
What to expect:
– An opportunity to connect with your inner artist
– Structured & free flowing activities
– Connect with like-minded people
– Let go & unwind
Tickets £99
Low cost pay-what-you-can tickets also available.
About Carly:
Carly Brinkman is creative at heart and has always been led by her curiosity. Entering and winning local poetry competitions as a child to appearing on radio shows, magazines, tv and films as an adult, her creativity has taken her down many paths. She has finished her debut novel and has begun working on her new novel.
Are you 16-25 years old and interested in arts and culture?
Join a free event at M Shed on Tuesday 11 March which will equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to explore your next steps in your creative career.
With space to talk and engage with other young creatives and organisations, learn about what opportunities are available, and ask questions to professionals in the industry, this event should empower you to think about your own career and provide access to support.
Join Daisy Morris, Marketing Strategist and Founder of The Selfhood and Natalie Brereton, a Bristol Digital Marketer and TikTok Expert, for an evening of honest and actionable insights on how to be your full self online!
What You’ll Learn
About the Speakers:
Daisy Morris is a community growth and content strategist and Founder of the content studio and community, The Selfhood. She is also a TEDx speaker, lecturer and Author of ‘Community Is Your Currency’ a book which has been dubbed as ‘the social media bible’ by Refinery29. Clients of Daisy range from tech companies such as Adobe, Apple and Instagram, fashion brands such as Gucci and ASOS. Daisy is on a mission to make URL feel as human as IRL and has a community first approach to her work.
Natalie Brereton is a passionate Digital Marketer with a specialty in TikTok and Instagram strategies. She brings a wealth of experience from her tenure as Head of TikTok at the UK’s leading TikTok agency, where she led campaigns for brands like Go.Compare, Marks & Spencer, Specsavers, BooHoo, and HunsNet. Natalie’s dedication to social trends and human-centered marketing has driven her success in creating captivating campaigns that stand out in the fast-paced digital landscape.
This event is more than just a talk, you’ll gain the tools, mindset and motivation to confidently grow and create meaningful connections with your community!
All tickets come with an arrival drink and nibbles!
Please note by attending this event, you agree to be photographed and have your image used in promotional material.
Across Europe and beyond, there is much research on effective and coherent place marketing. Join to explore the latest findings in this area and discuss practical place marketing approaches to attract visitors and investors.
Led by Dr Paweł Capik & Dr Tom Bowden-Green (Bristol Business School), with Dr Hanne Knight (University of Plymouth) this session will outline key steps and discuss the importance of coherence between stakeholders involved with these complementary yet diverse target groups. They will also share recent and ongoing research in this field at Bristol Business School.
The workshop is first in the planned series of events aimed at developing a dialogue with wide-ranging stakeholders engaged in place promotion, marketing and branding across the South-West and beyond.
What separates a forgettable TV idea from one that sparks industry buzz?
In this in-depth workshop, Zia Holloway (writer for BBC, World Productions, Fully Focused, and more) will demystify what makes a TV concept truly stand out. From the initial idea to a marketable pitch to the first steps of a pilot, this session will break down the essential elements of crafting a concept that sells.
More than just structure and storytelling, this workshop will explore the intangibles—what makes YOU the right person to tell this story, and how that authenticity becomes part of your project’s appeal.
This event will take place over Zoom on March 11th 6pm to 7:30pm (BST)
Workshop Focus:
✅ Concept Stage: How to develop an idea that is both original and commercially viable
✅ Pitching & Positioning: How to frame your concept to attract producers and commissioners
✅ Pilot Development: Understanding what makes an idea sustain a full series
✅ You as Part of the Package: Why your personal connection to the story matters and how to use it to sell your project
✅ Case Studies: Breakdown of successful series, including one of Zia’s projects that built industry buzz from a simple concept.
The agency landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by AI, shifting client expectations, and new business models. Spencer will explore the key strategic considerations agency leaders need to future-proof their businesses.
He will share how agency models, team structures, and success metrics will change, the rise of agentic and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) approaches, and the biggest threats agencies must navigate.
What attendees will gain from this talk:
Who the event is best suited to:
About Spencer
Spencer is a Founding Partner at Cactus, Europe’s largest dedicated corporate M&A PE advisory and growth consultancy for agencies. Spencer likes to share practical actionable advice, cutting through the noise to help agency leaders grow, scale, and achieve the success they’re working so hard for.
Tickets
> Early bird BCI member tickets are priced at £20 +VAT until 9th March.
> BCI member tickets are priced at £30 +VAT.
> Non-member tickets are £45 +VAT.
All tickets include a buffet lunch.
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