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We were joined on 21 March 2022 by Kaveed Ali, Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UK Community Foundations, Lela Kogbara, Executive Director of Black Thrive and Charlotte Amos, Senior Policy Officer, Cardiff Race Equality Taskforce.

Dr Fancesca Calo and Dr Daniel Haslam organised a free webinar on 9 March 2022 to explore the challenges and opportunities available when conducting impact evaluations. Hugh McLean, Director of Lorn Healthy Options, joined the conversation. Watch again here.

A new suite of courses has been developed by our colleagues in Executive Education, including one specifically for people who want to understand how the UK immigration system works.

A new grant will help to level the playing field for leaders of the 'seldom-asked, seldom-heard, and not-yet-engaged BME groups and support their engagement and collaboration with service providers', including Thames Valley Police.

This webinar brought together academics and practitioners to share their learning and give tips to other leaders and organisations considering starting leadership development learning clubs.

Rhys Griffiths, the OU’s Business Relationship Manager in Wales, Carol Jacklin-Jarvis, Director of CVSL and Owain Smolovic Jones, Director of Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures discuss the nature of leadership.

A new course launches today (8 March 2021) on FutureLearn, designed to help small charities develop their understanding of how video can expand and enhance their organisation's communications and skill staff with practical production skills. 

The Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL) is part of a research team, funded by the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, which has launched The Value of Small in a Big Crisis report. 

A project led by Dr Fidèle Mutwarasibo in the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership has received almost £10,000 to research the leadership capacities of Black and minority ethnic leaders in Milton Keynes. 

In December 2020, Dr Nik Winchester, Senior Lecturer in Management in the OU Business School, hosted a Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership webinar which looked at ethics in leadership. You can now watch the seminar back and access our additional resources.