We were thrilled to welcome charity CEOs to our celebratory networking event held in partnership with Sarasin & Partners last week. How lovely to meet with people in a face-to-face environment for the first time in over 19 months and, for many, the first trip back in to central London since last year. With webinar fatigue rife across the sector we opted to hold a 'Question Time' format session for everyone gathered to enter into a shared conversation.

We were fortunate to have an experienced panel of experts in Dayo Olomu from Black on Board Community, Kate Lee from Alzheimer's Charity and Sophie Andrews from Noah's Ark Children's Hospice. All three speakers offered valuable insights to all who gathered and we are very grateful to each of them for what they contributed to the discussion. We explored some massive topics, including CEO well-being, working with your trustees, partnership working and board diversity. The interactive nature was a welcome approach, giving opportunity for the session to explore these various topics and for us to learn from one another.

Following the session there was opportunity for networking with drinks and canapes on the balcony at Sarasin & Partners, overlooking the magnificent St Paul's Cathedral. After so long without this type of interaction the conversations were flowing and the atmosphere was full of energy and enthusiasm. We and those attending were having such a lovely time, but sadly light stopped play and we were forced to draw the event to a close!

It is lovely to receive such lovely feedback from attendees, saying lovely things like:

"Thoroughly enjoyable and so useful from a networking perspective. Nice to know the pressure we are facing in our individual roles are in fact common to the sector. Thank you for inviting me."

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"Brilliant and helpful, thank you so much!"

Jenny Warner, Managing Director at Charisma said, "it was so lovely to be able to have everyone together in person, it has been a fantastic evening and we are very grateful to all who came. We never cease to be inspired by such fantastic individuals and organisations doing so much good, it is wonderful to come together in this way and share our experiences."

We host these events to enable sector leaders to interact in a peer-to-peer environment, share learning and have the opportunity to grow their networks. If you'd be interested in hearing about future events then please do contact us through the website, or drop us an email at info@charismarecruitment.co.uk or call 0207 998 8888.

We look forward to seeing you at the next one!