Iulia Schiopu

Celebrating a year of leadership development in Hull & East Yorkshire

This week marked the final event of our HEY100 programme for leaders working across Hull and East Yorkshire’s voluntary, cultural and social sectors. Spanning over 2018, this intensive initiative has seen leaders of all levels - from new managers to trustees and community champions - come together and build their leadership abilities to advance social change in the region. They have been stretched, challenged, and empowered, and have demonstrated that leadership development can extend beyond the individual, and translate into wide, durable change across organisations and sectors.

With an inspiring and thought-provoking talk from Eve Poole on Leadersmithing, the celebration event acknowledged the value of innovative approaches to leadership and celebrated the dedication, collaboration, and progress shown by everyone involved.

Commenting on the HEY100 journey, Clore Social’s Director of Programmes & Leadership Innovation Louise Drake said: 'Unlocking the potential of over 100 leaders in Hull and East Yorkshire has been inspiring. The generosity of everyone to share knowledge, skills and resources with the openness for collaboration and the determination to do better and be better has been phenomenal. It feels like this is just the start of something magic and it is all because of the vision and willingness to 'give it a go' by the people of Hull and East Yorkshire.'

We are delighted to have been part of this and would like to congratulate everyone involved. Have a look below to see some pictures from the event.


Focus on Funding Event 2018

The Focus on Funding event will return this year in Hull.  Prior year’s events have been held in Selby and Wakefield.  This event is supported by the Yorkshire and Humber Funders Forum, and organised by East Riding Voluntary Action Services (ERVAS) Ltd in collaboration with a steering group made up of local VCS support organisations.

The free Focus on Funding event will take place at Jubilee Church, Jubilee Central, 62 King Edward Street, Hull, HU1 3SQ on 3rd October 2018 from 9.30am – 4.30pm.

The event’s morning session will be dedicated to funding advisors, development workers and funders, and afternoon session will be opening up the event to voluntary and community sector groups from across Yorkshire & Humber for a funders’ fair.

There will be over 20 funders attending the day, including The Big Lottery, Esmee Fairbairn, Lloyds TSB Foundation, Key Fund, Sir George Martin Trust, Heritage Lottery Fund, Two Ridings Community Foundation, Leeds Community Foundation, BBC Children in Need and Hull Community Safety Partnership with the availability of one to one slots to discuss your project idea with development workers and funders.

To book your place on the morning session please visit the following link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-on-funding-morning-session-funding-advisors-development-workers-tickets-47922834488

To book your place on the afternoon session please visit the following link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-on-funding-afternoon-session-voluntary-and-community-sector-tickets-47922878620

If you have any further queries or would like to discuss the event further please do not hesitate to contact Judith Leech on 01482 871077 or email judith@ervas.org.uk

HEY100 Stronger Together - Live Event 21 June 2018

Thank you to everyone who attended the Stronger Together event on Thursday, 21 June. It was great to see and hear from each one of you. Here are some photos from the day