Back for its 3rd year, the annual AVPN Roadshow will travel to five cities – Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo. This time, apart from the seminar in Tokyo, all the other events are by invite only.The dates are as per follows, please click on them for more information and to find out more about the local speakers in each city:
Workshop leader
Fiona Halton, Chair of Pilotlight
Background
Pilotlight was set up to address the needs of small charities and social enterprises who have the expertise to support their beneficiaries but do not have, and could not afford to buy, the time and skills to develop their own infrastructure. In a survey of small charities, Pilotlight found that only four per cent said they received effective professional help. Pilotlight then surveyed leading business people and found various barriers, such as being time-poor, which prevented them from offering their professional help. Pilotlight then trialled several models of professional skills-giving and arrived at one that overcame those barriers.
Fiona Halton is chief executive of Pilotlight and the creator of Pilotlighting – a unique method that enables business leaders to work effectively with charities so that they increase impact. The model also creates a community of philanthropists. Fiona has a track record in establishing and running new organisations. She set up British Film Year which won the British Sales and Marketing Award and was runner-up for Veuve Cliquot Business Woman of the Year. Fiona was part of the team that ran the first Comic Relief which raised more than £13 million. She was acting director of TimeBank and took it to launch – it is now an established, BBC-supported campaign, inspiring a new generation of volunteers.
More information on PilotLight can be found at http://www.pilotlight.org.uk/
Stay tuned for more updates on the speakers, topics and event details. For information on the previous editions, please check here.
To get an invite to the workshops, please email: [email protected]
