Small Charity Leaders Club™ is great for anyone that wears all the hats at their small organisation. You might be a founder, a trustee, a manager, or a CEO. Basically, it’s designed for anyone who has the weight of the world on their shoulders - and wants to learn the skills to help their organisation thrive. It's open to any social good structure whether you're an unregistered group, a registered charity, CIC, social enterprise or individual.

This is one of the most common questions I get.

Small Charity Leaders Club™ is designed for people at very different stages of their small charity leadership journey. In each cohort, there’s usually a real mix, from people stepping into their first charity leadership role, to leaders with 10, 15, even 20+ years of experience.

If you’re more experienced, some of the more fundamental teaching content may feel familiar. That’s normal, and many people say it’s actually reassuring to realise how much they already know. That said, leaders consistently tell me they still take something new from every module whether that’s a different way of framing an issue, a practical tool or idea they haven’t used before, or simply the chance to step back and think more clearly.

Each module also includes a guest speaker who offers a deeper dive into a specific topic, moving beyond the basics and into up-to-date sector insight and expert practice.

Where experienced leaders often find particular value is in the peer support. The small, confidential peer groups provide protected space to talk through real, live challenges with others who genuinely understand the complexity of leading a small charity.

If you’re unsure whether the Club is right for you, a more useful question than “what if I already know a lot of this?” might be: "do I have the capacity for more learning, and would it be valuable to have structured thinking space, shared understanding, and a trusted group of peers to sense-check things with over the year?"

Small Charity Essentials™ and Small Charity Leaders Club™ are designed to do slightly different (but complementary) jobs.

Small Charity Essentials™ is a self-paced, DIY learning resource. It’s there to give you clear, practical foundations for running a small charity - things like governance, strategy, fundraising, finance, people, and systems. You can dip in and out, go at your own pace, and return to it whenever you need.

It’s particularly helpful if you want straightforward guidance, templates, and clarity without needing to show up live. It doesn’t come with the accountability of learning alongside a group or cohort, but if you know you’ll prioritise it, it can be a really solid option.

Small Charity Leaders Club™, on the other hand, is a cohort-based leadership programme. It runs over 6 months and includes live teaching (covering the same core topics as Small Charity Essentials™), plus guest speaker sessions, and structured peer support.

As well as covering the fundamentals, the Club goes deeper. The guest speakers offer focused deep-dives into specific and timely sector topics, and the programme creates space for sense-making, reflection, and leadership practice - thinking things through, talking them out, and learning alongside other people doing similar roles.

A simple way to think about it is:

• Essentials gives you the what and the how

• Leaders Club gives you the what and the how, plus thinking space, guest-speaker deep-dives, peer support, and real-time application

Many people do both. Some start with Essentials to build confidence and understanding, then join Leaders Club when they want deeper learning, connection, and support over time.

If you’re deciding between the two, a helpful question to ask yourself is:

Do I mainly need practical guidance I can work through in my own time - or would I benefit from live learning, shared reflection, and being part of a group of peers?

Most (not all!) people who join Small Charity Leaders Club™ come from organisations with an annual income of under £1.5 million. Within that, there’s a wide range - from people who are genuinely on day one with very little money in the bank, through to what I’d call the “larger end of small” maybe bringing in £750k-1.5million.

That said, I also have participants from organisations with incomes of £2–3 million a year.

That’s because income is only one way of thinking about the size or complexity of an organisation. Some people define “small” by turnover. Others think about staff numbers, volunteer reliance, or the scale and intensity of their delivery.

Two organisations with the same income can feel completely different to run.

Rather than focusing on a single metric, it’s more helpful to think about what you’re hoping to get from the Club. If revisiting (or properly grounding yourself in) the fundamentals of running an effective, sustainable, impactful organisation would be useful (governance, strategy, people, money, fundraising) and avoiding burnout along the way - then the Club is likely to be a good fit.)

In other words, whether your income is £5,000 a year or £5 million, if you’re navigating the realities of leading a smaller organisation and carrying a lot of responsibility, you’ll probably recognise yourself in the (virtual) room!