Dunhill Medical Trust is partnering with the team at Moore Kingston Smith Nonprofit Advisory and the University of Birmingham’s School of Social Policy to deliver high quality training as part of a Capability Development Scheme. The training forms an integral part of the Trust’s Academy offering for community-facing organisations. The Academy aims to bring community-facing organisations together with academic and clinical researchers and other experts in the field to improve organisational resilience and effectiveness and help to deliver evidence-informed systemic change.
The programme is aimed at community-facing organisations working to support older people to thrive in safe, healthy and well-connected homes and communities. Free of charge, it will be delivered principally via a series of webinars: Focusing on Impact, Creating Financial Sustainability, Research Capacity and Effectiveness, and Re-Imaging Organisations and Design Thinking. These will be supplemented by downloadable videos exploring related topics in more detail. All the material, including the webinar content, will be available via the Academy webpages, allowing you to access it at a time convenient to you.
Flexible learning
We know that time and resources for community-facing organisations are precious, so that is why we have devised the programme to be as flexible as possible
- If you would prefer to watch the recordings at your own pace then you can view any of the content in your preferred order simply by becoming an Academy member.
- If you have capacity to attend some of the webinars then you can join the Academy and sign up to the webinars to become part of a learning cohort. Once an Academy member you can still watch the remaining content at your leisure.
- If you would like to take your learning further then Academy members who have taken an active part in all four webinars may be eligible to join our end of programme residential and have the opportunity to meet the cohort in person. Attendees at the residential will also have the opportunity to apply for a place on the second year of the programme. This involves focussed tutorials, action learning sets, anda grant of up to £15k to fund bespoke support from the faculty to use your learning from to the webinars to make a transformational change to your organisation.
The 2024/25 webinar dates are:
- Impact Measurement – 22 October 2024 – register here.
- Creating Financial Sustainability – 3 December 2024 – Register here.
- Developing Research Capacity and Collaboration – 28 January 2025– Register here.
- Re-imaging Organisations and Design Thinking – 4 March 2025 – Register here.
End of programme residential 18-19 June 2025, Derby Conference Centre. Please note that due to limited places this is an invite-only residential for leaders from organisations that have actively participated in all four webinars and work exclusively or predominantly with older people.
For more information on the DMT Academy and how you could join please click here.
You may also be interested in reading a series of posts from the participants of a previous version of this programme, here.