WHAT WE DO

At Social Sector Support, we understand the current challenges facing mission-driven organisations.

You're a change-maker who achieves huge impact but a rapidly shifting landscape means you have to adapt to survive and thrive.

That's why we've created a comprehensive solution that combines an innovative learning platform with professional freelance services —

Giving you everything you need to strengthen your organisation and amplify your mission.

You can join our supportive learning network and learn with us:

Live collaborative events
On-demand video library
Guest speakers
Downloadable, customisable resources

The topics are chosen and developed for the sector, by the sector and created to give you the confidence and tools to find a path forwards. This summer the focus is on sustainability, diversification and strengthening your organisation into the future.

We also offer one to one support, to increase your capacity and to help achieve your goals or to offer personalised support for your organisation's journey.

Does this feel familiar?

Fighting the storm, with others dependent on you?

Leading in a social sector organisation has never felt more like this image than now. The Sector is facing unprecedented changes: increases in need and decreases in funding - from all fronts. The world is changing fast, economically, politically, socially and environmentally, increasingly people are marginalised and side-lined.

But never has the social sector been more needed than today.

We need to start doing things differently, adapting to survive and thrive. Social Sector Support will help with new ideas, fresh thinking and new problem solving techniques.

Are you:

Applying for funding, but your bids aren't being accepted?
Need to engage more volunteers, but don't know where to start?
Leading a team, but feel too overwhelmed to set the direction?

We are here to help...

Join us today for ongoing support made for you.

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About

I help people working in social sector organisations feel supported, inspired, connected and provide relevant knowledge in short bite-sized sessions.

After 20 years of experience in a wide variety of UK based social sector organisations, I help support the passionate people and organisations striving to make our world a better place. This has been carefully designed as a direct response to the current challenges and the rapidly evolving environment that organisations are currently working in.

I am a qualified trainer and I am about to complete a Masters of Business Administration giving me detailed experience of business tools in the context of the social sector. It draws on my previous experience leading learning sessions for Derbyshire Voluntary Action. These popular sessions, welcomed over 893 participants and resulted in 97% of organisations agreeing that the sessions were useful and that their new-found knowledge was used to benefit the organisation that they work for.

The WHY

I LOVE the social sector. I firmly believe that it has a huge role to play in making the world a fairer and kinder place. It provides an opportunity for us all to make a difference to the world, a chance to choose, every single day what kind of world we want to be in and build for the future. The traditional shape of our society with divisions between state and corporations leaves an enormous gap for individuals and communities. Community activity can often provide more specialised, more individual and more effective interventions for people. Community action can bring real change on topics overlooked by governments, or be effective in holding governments to account. We are part of a long tradition of change-makers and will continue to be so.

UK or Austria?

I am a UK citizen and lived in the UK for 40 years. I worked in social sector organisations in Sussex, Surrey and Derbyshire. In the summer of 2024 I moved my family to Austria to be closer to my husband's extended family.

This move left me with the challenge of how I could support the organisations I loved working with from 1000 miles away? How could I support the organisations which I knew needed support? And so, Social Sector Support was created to do just that.

I am still understanding how the Social Sector outside of the UK works, and have found some interesting differences and opportunities for learning which I will be sharing with you all soon. However, the more I discover, the more I realise how universal social sector challenges are - whether you are working in Austria, Africa, America or the UK or anywhere in between. So don't let your location, or mine, be a barrier for joining us today.