Podcasts about bursaries

Welcome to Season 10 of Choose UCalgary, the University of Calgary's prospective student podcast. The Choose UCalgary Podcast is intended for any prospective student who is hoping to learn more about the University of Calgary. We will chat with key representatives from the UCalgary community to help keep you updated and informed on all things UCalgary.In this episode Joel Dooley-May (Assistant Registrar, Student Financial Support) will talk about all things Awards, Scholarships and Bursaries! Tune in for application tips and more!Prospective Student Resources: Download the app today: https://ucalgary.ca/future-students/guidebook?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=organicUndergraduate Discover UCalgary Blog: https://discover.ucalgary.ca/portal/discoverucalgary_blog?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=organicHow to apply for admissions: https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students/undergraduate/admissions/how-to-apply?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=organicConnect with a recruiter: https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students/undergraduate/contact/recruiters?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=organicFor more information about UCalgary: https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=organicFollow us on Instagram @choose.ucalgary, YouTube, and the University of Calgary Future Students Facebook page! DM us your questions or any topic you would like to see on the Choose UCalgary Podcast! 

Lindsey Joseph, Head of Group Talent Solutions spoke to Clarence Ford about their 2025/2026 bursary programme. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk. This 3-hour long programme shares and reflects a broad array of perspectives. It is inspirational, passionate and positive. Host Clarence Ford’s gentle curiosity and dapper demeanour leave listeners feeling motivated and empowered. Known for his love of jazz and golf, Clarrie covers a range of themes including relationships, heritage and philosophy. Popular segments include Barbs’ Wire at 9:30am (Mon-Thurs) and The Naked Scientist at 9:30 on Fridays. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Views & News with Clarence Ford Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays between 09:00 and 12:00 (SA Time) to Views and News with Clarence Ford broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/erjiQj2 or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/BdpaXRn Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spring is the season when gardeners throw off the hibernation and slumber of months of wet feet, many layers and waterproofs and are reborn anew! The stirring of life in the garden is one of the years great experiences, and makes a gardening life such a worthwhile pursuit, not only is it good for the planet to see the earth greening up, it is also good for the gardeners soul. But there is still lots of hard work to get on with - seeds have to be sown, mulch laid, supports erected and lawns mown. So join Lucy and Saul as they continue their professional gardening lives in the pure heaven that is Spring!Lucy is off for her Easter break, so Saul invites an old friend, fellow Kew graduate and now Head of Horticultural Relations at the Royal Horticultural Society, Emma Allen, to join him in conversation about her teams role at the charity. She has a large remit of very interesting roles which includes Funding Bursaries, in which she wants to encourage a wide range of diverse backgrounds to apply for funding to help realise long held study and networking ambitions. We also chat about the evolution of the charities seven Expert Groups (formerly know as the Plant committees) and the long standing and fruitful relationships with the RHS Partner Gardens, a key benefit of being a member. Useful Links: Bursaries and Funding - Click hereRHS Expert Groups - Click HereTrials and AGMS - Click HereRHS Partner Gardens - Click HerePlant Societies - Click HereInstagram link:Lucy lucychamberlaingardensLinkedIn link:Emma AllenSaul WalkerIntro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Support the show

Welcome to Season 9 of Choose UCalgary, the University of Calgary's prospective student podcast. The Choose UCalgary Podcast is intended for any prospective student who is hoping to learn more about the University of Calgary. We will chat with key representatives from the UCalgary community to help keep you updated and informed on all things UCalgary.   Episode 8: In this episode Joel May (Assistant Registrar, Student Financial Support) will talk about all things Awards, Scholarships and Bursaries! Tune in for application tips and more! Undergraduate Discover UCalgary Blog: https://discover.ucalgary.ca/portal/discoverucalgary_blog?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=organic Open House October 26th, 2024! Pre-register here: https://discover.ucalgary.ca/register/?id=46395d5d-d201-4991-9fd4-69c1248cbd44   For more information visit: https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students   Choose from 250+ program combinations: https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students/undergraduate/explore-programs How to apply to UCalgary: https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students/undergraduate/apply   Connect with a recruiter: https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students/undergraduate/recruiters   Ways to customize your degree: https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students/undergraduate/choosing-your-degree/customizing-your-degree   Follow us on Instagram @choose.ucalgary, YouTube, and the University of Calgary Future Students Facebook page! DM us your questions or any topic you would like to see on the Choose UCalgary Podcast!

Welcome to the Team Ghana EU Podcast - news, content, updates & everything exciting and significant football and Ghana related. Committed to excellence. AKWABA! In episode 126, I discuss my thoughts following a recent conversation with a friend about education and bursaries - and why in the football community we only do courses if there is one. Are we slowing our growth, and holding ourselves back as a result of this? The Team Ghana EU Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast which aims to provide digestible bite size content. But also interactive. If you have any questions or queries please tweet or comment on our posts @teamghanaeu (instagram/twitter) or alternatively email us at teamghanaeu@gmail.com Website: Team Ghana EU - www.teamghanaeu.com Instagram | Twitter: Team Ghana - @teamghanaeu

What's the difference between population medicine and the kind of care a veterinarian gives to an individual animal? We learn on Ask a Vet with Dr. Danielle Jongkind (7:40). Holistic Nutritionist Julia Karantjas untangles the language around gut health. Plus, she offers tips and recipes to boost your microbiome (21:39)! Devon Wilkins shares the latest news and events for guide dog handlers on our monthly Service Animal Report (35:45). Applications are now available for CNIB scholarships & Bursaries. Alberta Community Reporter Toni Freimark has the details (51:28). Nella Figliano, Founder of the Annual Sick Kids Ride, chats with us about the upcoming 16th annual ride and their experience at the recent Motorcycle Super Show (1:04:07). Ryan Delehanty owns a reasonably sized collection of quirky VHS tapes, and enjoys getting creative with his own video editing. We get to his show and tell, on this month's Collections and Hobbies segment (1:18:59).

Applications are now available for CNIB scholarships & Bursaries. Alberta Community Reporter Toni Freimark has the details.

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Cyra and Matthew sit down to talk about the NHS Bursary today! Join Sanay, Cyra, Max, and Matthew on: 'What Medical School Doesn't Teach Us'. Every week we'll be discussing either tips for medical students, careers, entrepreneurship, or wellbeing with a whole host of guests! Reach out here - medschoolpod@medicsmoney.co.uk Download our ebook here: https://www.medicsmoney.co.uk/what-medical-school-doesnt-teach-us/ Check us out here: https://linktr.ee/msdtu

Clarence Ford speaks to Dr Leigh Adams Head of Talent & Learning Solutions @ Shoprite Group.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In collaboration with East Coast Radio, Adcorp BLU, a division of Adcorp Workforce Solutions (Pty) Ltd (“BLU”), and the Production Management Institute of Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd (“PMI”) are set to award 10 bursaries, valued at R1-million (one million) rand, to outstanding individuals! Big Favour: 10 bursaries valued at R1-million, apply here with BLU & PMI · Webpage

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Emma Jackson has lived in the Cape York Peninsula for more than 20 years. She's originally from North Manchester, and the transition to life in rural Australia was a bit of a shock, not to mention the fact that yes, a snake tried to eat her son one night... but there is much more to her story!  Emma has four kids, and is in the thick of navigating the teen years. Mental health has been a huge focus for her family, especially after her nephew took his own life shortly after finishing year 12. That led Emma to start the Conquer the Corrugations charity walk. In 2021, Emma saved someone's life, which is why she was named the 2022 RFDS Queensland Hero. We cover a lot in our chat. This is Emma's story.Give the gift of craft this Christmas with R.M.Williams. Shop their festive gift guide full of thoughtful, handcrafted and Australian made gifts that promise a lifetime of adventures. Explore the full collection now at rmwilliams.com.au.The King's School is one of Australia's largest boarding communities and has welcomed boys from Regional Australia for nearly two hundred years.Applications are now open for King's 2025 Scholarships and Bursaries for Years 7 to 11. Visit www.kings.edu.auhttps://www.instagram.com/motherlandaustralia

Maggie Mackellar is a writer, living on a fine wool merino farm on the east coast of Tasmania. Maggie didn't grow up on the land, but her family's strong ties to farming were her saviour during the hardest years of her life. Maggie's husband suicided more than 20 years ago. At the time, she had a five year old and was pregnant with their second child. In  the same year, Maggie lost her mum. She escaped the city and sought refuge at her aunt and uncle's property to figure out her next steps. What happened over the next eight years, was not what she had planned. Her writing career flourished... and amongst it all, she found love again through the most unexpected way. In our chat Maggie reflects on grief, mental health, motherhood, and importantly, what's it's like in this new chapter of motherhood- with her children now grown up! This is her story. Give the gift of craft this Christmas with R.M.Williams. Shop their festive gift guide full of thoughtful, handcrafted and Australian made gifts that promise a lifetime of adventures. Explore the full collection now at rmwilliams.com.au.The King's School is one of Australia's largest boarding communities and has welcomed boys from Regional Australia for nearly two hundred years.Applications are now open for King's 2025 Scholarships and Bursaries for Years 7 to 11. Visit www.kings.edu.auhttps://www.instagram.com/motherlandaustralia

Getting internal buy-in for bursary programmes can be tricky - everyone is so busy that additional tasks for a new project can sink to the bottom of the priority list.In this episode, I share with you the top areas to think about as you navigate this:1. Educating  senior leadership2. Inspiring internal buy-in3. Strategic collaboration4. Seamless journeys for recipients and donorsReferences and ResourcesEpisode 102 - Bursary programmes: a whole school effortCatch up on previous podcast episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

More and more independent schools are committing to bursary programmes but to run one well requires a team effort with input from many departments across the school.I often see one team - development - being drawn into doing too much of this, at the expense of fundraising.In this episode, I cover the three key elements of a bursary programme, who should be doing what in the school, splitting remits and securing resources. All essential for a mature, impactful bursary programme.References and ResourcesCatch up on previous podcast episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

I recently attended the IDPE annual conference, both in-person in Nottingham UK and virtually, where there were many brilliant sessions covering the latest topics development professionals are talking about in the independent school sector. Here are the four key takeaways for me - three are trends that I was already aware of, but one was a big surprise!Listen to find out more...References and ResourcesFor support with the Ukraine crisis and the wider impact it can have on your school, take a look at my new resource: Preparing for economic downturn: A checklist for private schoolsCatch up on previous podcast episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

As highlighted in my round-up of the 2022 Bursaries and Partnerships Conference, hosted by HMC, AGBIS and IDPE, I'm so pleased to see that school partnerships are stepping into the spotlight in the educational sector.  In this episode, I'm joined by the fantastic Graeme Lawrie MBE, Partnerships Director at ACS International Schools, who has a wealth of experience in this area. We discuss how to make an impact with state school partnerships and the practicalities he's faced in his role in doing so.  References and ResourcesACS International Schools For support with the Ukraine crisis and the wider impact it can have on your school, take a look at my new resource: Preparing for economic downturn: A checklist for private schoolsCatch up on previous podcast episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

We're seeing a welcome rise in partnerships between independent and state schools, and there are a wealth of opportunities for schools to continue to explore.In this episode, I'm joined by John Smith, Director of Partnerships at Royal Grammar School Newcastle and we discuss the work they've been doing with partnerships, his vision for the future and the benefits of independent schools getting involved in partnership work within communities. References and ResourcesRoyal Grammar School Newcastle: www.rgs.newcastle.sch.ukISC news story about Royal Grammar School Newcastle's Partnerships Teachers projectFor support with the Ukraine crisis and the wider impact it can have on your school, take a look at my new resource: Preparing for economic downturn: A checklist for private schoolsCatch up on previous podcast episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode I'm joined by the brilliant Guy Ayling - Head Master of Mount Kelly in Tavistock. We take an in-depth look at how Mount Kelly has responded to the crisis in Ukraine so far, in the hope of generating conversations around the role independent schools can play in supporting their community both locally and internationally. We explore how leaders can inspire their network to respond with compassion, ensuring people always come first when dealing with a range of hurdles and change. References and resourcesDownload this free resource to help you navigate the impact of the Ukraine crisis: Preparing for economic downturn: A checklist for private schoolsCatch up on previous podcast episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastMount Kelly website: www.mountkelly.com Thank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

Join me in this episode for a round-up of the Bursaries and Partnerships Conference on 8th March 2022, hosted by HMC, AGBIS and IDPE.I walk you through some of the themes that emerged from the conference and leave you with my main takeaway: We all have to start this journey somewhere. Don't give up - keep learning, keep sharing and together we'll make an impact.References and Resources019 Craft your bursary strategy020 Bursaries and strategy in practice with Bart Wielenga, Head, Blundell's School060 Social mobility with David Goodhew, Head, Latymer Upper SchoolCatch up on previous podcast episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastFor support with the Ukraine Crisis and the wider impact it can have on your school, take a look at my new resource: Preparing for economic downturn: A checklist for private schoolsThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

As we had the Bursaries and Partnerships Conference run by HMC, AGBIS and IDPE in London earlier this week, I thought it would be apt to re-share one of my most popular episodes around the topic. In this episode, I talk to Emily Clarke, Director of Development at Highgate School, about fundraising for community partnerships. Expanding on previous episodes about the building blocks of bursary strategy and my exploration of the real situation schools face getting bursaries established in my conversation with Bart Wielenga, the Head of Blundell's School, I move on to considering community partnerships. This is an area that is potentially rich for fundraising opportunities, and the work Emily Clarke has been doing is an excellent illustration of this.I also ask Emily about the fundraising journey Highgate has been on during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they have adjusted their fundraising to serve the increased need for support in their local community. References and resourcesHighgate SchoolChrysalis and Chrysalis EastLondon Academy of Excellence Tottenham Episode 019: Craft your bursary strategyEpisode 020: Bursaries and strategy in practice with Bart Wielenga, Head, Blundell's SchoolCatch up on previous podcast episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastDownload your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebookThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

Former Miss South Africa Sasha-Lee Laurel Olivier has secured R1-billion in bursaries for disadvantaged young people in South Africa. Olivier spoke to Rian van Heerden about the bursary fund.

Former Miss South Africa Sasha-Lee Laurel Olivier has secured R1-billion in bursaries for disadvantaged young people in South Africa. Olivier spoke to Rian van Heerden about the bursary fund.

In this episode I discuss techniques you can use to make time for the activities that are critically important. As a leader, you need to be spending a good proportion of your time on the strategically important activities on your to-do list. With this in mind, this week I present one deceptively simple time management tip and I then suggest ways to help you turn it into a habit and to stick to it.Firstly, I talk about my time management tip: diary blocking. This is the process of blocking sections of an hour to ninety minutes in your diary and assigning the critically important activities to those sections. This seems obvious, but it's surprisingly hard to stick to! Secondly, I suggest strategies that will help you stick to diary blocking as a way of carving out time for strategically important activities. These include tips on setting the system up, such as finding a time of day most suited for you to focus on one task, making it the same time each week and blocking out time to align with the rest of your team. Finally, I look at the importance of making diary blocking a habit and to have the discipline of sticking to the dates and times you have blocked out. Episode highlightsThe importance of time (01:09)Diary blocking (04:19)Sticking to the system (05:01)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode I talk with Karen Yankovich, host of the 'Good Girls Get Rich' podcast and an expert in relationship marketing focusing on the use of LinkedIn. Through our conversation, we primarily discuss the use of LinkedIn by school fundraisers who are seeking to develop personal relationships with potential major donors. However, all of Karen's tips are equally helpful for others across a range of school activities. Firstly, we discuss how you can create a magnetic profile to build credibility and trust. Karen identifies the importance of the role of the personal profile in elevating the school's profile and outlines her top tips for avoiding common mistakes.Secondly, we talk about techniques for searching LinkedIn for alumni and how LinkedIn Sales Navigator can give you more search functionality allowing you to access more information about profiles on the platform. We look at how, once you have found the individuals, you can make that connection with them and how engagement on LinkedIn can be built into a routine. We look at how the use of LinkedIn can be beneficial in the build up to alumni events, how connecting with attendees in advance can build a relationship and create a bond between you and alumni before the event takes place. Finally, Karen suggests ways of identifying the point where you move from a conversation on LinkedIn to a phone or video call.   Episode highlightsIntroducing Karen Yankovich  (04:24)Creating a magnetic profile (08:08)Searching for alumni (19:03)Creating relationships through LinkedIn (21:17)Making a routine for using LinkedIn (24:54)Using LinkedIn for events (27:48)Taking the conversation off LinkedIn (34:17)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Connect with Karen Yankovich and Juliet Corbett on LinkedIn Listen to Karen Yankovich's 'Good Girls Get Rich' podcastCatch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode I talk about the art of saying 'no'. I explore the idea that saying 'no' is a critical skill that helps you focus on activities that make a difference in driving your school strategy.   I begin by outlining how you prioritise activities that support your strategy and how you form a criteria for assessing what you say 'yes' and what you say 'no' to. To this end, I outline a three-step process in identifying the narrative that can be used to turn down activities that don't help drive the strategy you have in place.   Step one is the process of recommunicating to people what the details of the strategy you have in place is and what the intended focus of the strategy should be. The aim of this step is both to remind people of the strategy, but also to reinforce the importance of it. Step two is the process of praising the proposed activity or idea that has been presented, but then communicating how the new activity or idea doesn't fit the strategy. This is extremely important - without this explanation people will remain in the dark about your decion-making criteria. The final step in creating a narrative is to continue to praise the fact that new ideas are being presented, but to clearly and kindly say no this this idea. Then remind people that you are looking for innovation in areas which do fit the strategy.The objective of following these steps is to allow you to say no to ideas whilst keeping your team on board and encouraging them to continue to form ideas that might fit with the strategy you have in place.Episode highlightsIntroducing the art of saying 'no' (02:44)Prioritising activities (04:20)Forming a narrative that allows you to say 'no' (04:45)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook 013: Strategy: Four essential building blocks029: What's your vision? Strategic question #1031: What's working in your favour? Strategic question #2033: What's holding you back? Strategic question #3035: What are your options? Strategic question #4037: What are your tactics? Strategic question #5038: How will you communicate your strategy? Strategic question #6 Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode I talk to Fran Malarée, Fellow and Development Director, Churchill College, and Chair of the Cambridge Development Directors' Committee, University of Cambridge. With over twenty years' experience in alumni relations and fundraising in higher education, Fran is the ideal person to talk to about regular giving and giving circles.We discuss first how the development and alumni offices work within the University of Cambridge, how the colleges work alongside the University and specifically the launch of Churchill College's 'Think Forward' campaign and the challenges the COVID posed to that launch.We then talk about how Churchill College instigated an annual telephone campaign, direct mail and email campaigns to increase the number of regular donors. We discuss the importance of a telephone conversation to forge a personal connection with a prospective donor and of having a consistent message across all communications channels. Finally, we look at how Churchill College uses giving circles to incentivise major donations and Fran's thoughts on the role educational fundraising should play in enhancing social justice and social mobility.Episode highlightsIntroducing Fran Malarée (03:33)Overview of how development works within the University of Cambridge (03:50)How Churchill College has increased the number of regular donors (08:19)The importance of consistent messaging (19:34)Using giving circles to incentivise major donations (26:30)The role fundraising plays in enhancing social justice and social mobility (39:35)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Think Forward Campaign website: www.thinkforward.chu.cam.ac.uk Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode I focus on strategic fundraising and outline five essential steps to help you make sure your day-to-day work in a fundraising office has a strategic foundation, is guided by an effective plan and is leading towards a positive outcome.  Firstly, you need to identify the transformation you are seeking to make through your fundraising. A successful fundraising strategy will generate agreement between your senior team, your head and your governors about which fundraising projects you're planning to focus on and the transformation you are seeking to achieve.Secondly, I explore the importance of identifying where your fundraising opportunities are, understanding your own school and communities to focus on the best possibilities for fundraising. Thirdly, I look at the best ways for you to cultivate your prospects, and the day-to-day activities you can undertake to turn the fundraising opportunities into a reality. Fourthly, I suggest ways you can identify what might get in the way of delivering your fundraising strategy, and finally I look at strategies to help you overcome these blocks. These final two steps are often overlooked but are essential for success.Episode HighlightsStep 1: What transformation are you seeking to make? (03:50)Step 2: Where are your fundraising opportunities? (06:43)Step 3: How are you going to cultivate these prospects? (09:55)Step 4: What might stop you? (12:27)Step 5. What are your tactics to overcome the blocks? (14:21)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

Resilience is “a set of characteristics, abilities and resources that enable the achievement of positive outcomes despite exposure to significant threat or adversity”, as defined by the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. The COVID-19 pandemic has created just such an environment of extreme uncertainty and challenge that highlights why building personal resilience for school leaders and fundraisers is so vital.In this episode, I speak to Jo Beckett, former CEO of the Institute of Development Professionals in Education (IDPE), the leading membership organisation for schools fundraising here in the UK. Over half an hour, we talk about the critical importance of resilience in the independent schools' sector.Jo and I discuss practical ways school leaders and fundraisers can build their personal resilience. Through the course of the episode, we make the connection between personal resilience and strategic thinking. In particular we discuss how building resilience is more than just gaining confidence, but can also help to shape and refine performance. We explore the benefits of executive coaching, the importance of emotional intelligence and how to avoid thinking traps. Finally, Jo shares her practical top tips for building resilience through the COVID-19 pandemic.Episode HighlightsWhat is ‘resilience'? (05:27)The benefits of executive coaching (09:06)Trends in resilience in the independent school sector (11:13)The importance of emotional intelligence (18:50)Avoiding thinking traps (21:42)Strategic thinking and resilience (24:10)Resilience tip 1: Self before others (29:46)Resilience tip 2: Ask “why not?” (30:56)Resilience tip 3: Reflection (31:46)Making time to build your resilience (33:14)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook To contact Jo confidentially about executive coaching email her jo@jobeckettdevelopment.com or give her a call on +44 (0)7775 861564Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

Today we will be talking to Buhle Mbele about taking control of your job search. She will be sharing some insight on how to position yourself in the job market and advise on ways to stand out to recruiters. Buhle will also be taking us through her career journey and sharing some key values that have shaped her life.Buhle is heading the Gauteng Regional Audit Graduate Recruitment programme for a Global Audit Firm that provides Bursaries and Training Contracts to young top talent that want to build their career towards a Chartered Accountant Qualification. She's also an entrepreneur which has led her to collaborate with The Professionista and Wanawake Holdings.

In this episode, I speak to Louise Simpson, the Head of Exeter School. Louise joined Exeter School, a co-educational, independent day school, in 2020 after spending time as Head at St Paul's School in São Paulo, Brazil. Through our discussion, Louise and I cover a number of topics, including her perspective on moving back to the UK independent school sector following her time abroad.Firstly, we discuss why Louise got into education and what it was about education that sparked her interest. Louise then reflects on the transition of moving back to the UK following her time in Brazil and what she learned from working abroad and how that international perspective can benefit those working in schools in the UK.  We then talk about the role of character education in the independent schools sector, the importance of developing young people for a world beyond school and giving them skills that will help them to become good citizens.   We discuss the importance of diversity and inclusion, how bursaries and state school partnerships can help independent schools become more accessible, and specifically what approach Exeter School is taking in this area.Finally, we talk about the importance of collaborative leadership and how the COVID pandemic has changed the way school leaders have operated and reinforced the qualities and benefits of collaboration. Episode HighlightsIntroducing Louise Simpson (03:46)How to be more intentionally international (07:20)The role of character education (17:36)The importance of diversity inclusion (23:16)The importance of collaborative leadership (29:18)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, I look at strategy away days, unpacking a series of top tips for you to employ to make your away days more effective, and to help you avoid hitting the many negative stereotypes that exist about the subject. I begin by discussing why away days can be an important tool in your strategy toolbox and how they can bring people together to focus on decision-making without distraction. Throughout my top tips, I explore the benefits of using a facilitator for the away day. I look at the importance of setting the agenda with the end goal in mind, and of allowing enough time for broad discussion.I discuss the importance of inviting school governors and senior leaders to your away day and enabling all participants to be fully involved by circulating draft papers for the day in advance.I look at how allowing informal time for team building can help foster coherence between the participants, and how breakout discussions can allow for debate and ensure that everyone has input. Finally, I note how outlining clear next steps following the away day is essential for ensuring the away day discussions influence strategic decision-making in your school.Episode HighlightsWhy strategy away days are important (03:18)Top Tip number 1 - using a facilitator (06:30)Top Tip number 2 - agreeing an agenda for the session (07:53)Top Tip number 3 - allowing enough time (09:24)Top Tip number 4 - inviting governors and senior leaders  (10:11)Top Tip number 5 - preparing papers in advance (11:24)Top Tip number 6 - allowing informal time for team building (13:02)Top Tip number 7 - using breakout discussions (16:45)Top Tip number 8 - outlining clear next steps (17:42)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, the last in a series where I identify the six essential questions that leaders of private schools should consider when trying to define their strategic approach, I ask: 'how do you communicate your strategy?' Through this episode, I explore how visual thinking can help your decision-making within the school and how it can help align the actions and decisions of staff in various areas of your school.I reinforce the importance of involving your staff in that process and I discuss how you can help your staff understand what your strategic plan means for them and how their day-to-day decision-making might be affected by it. I look at how you communicate your strategy to others such as pupils, parents, alumni, state school partners and potential lettings partners, how you can present your strategy online, and how a well-presented strategy can be a vital and powerful marketing tool for prospective parents.I explore what the content of your external strategic plan should be and how to form an impactful external strategy that is based around themes.  Finally, I discuss how, when done well, strategic plans can tackle the challenges your school faces head-on. Episode HighlightsIntroducing the sixth question (02:56)Aligning decision making across your school (03:23)Communicating your strategy to your staff (05:52)Communicating your strategy to others (08:18)Forming your external strategic plan (10:00)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook 029: What's your vision? Strategic question #1031: What's working in your favour? Strategic question #2033: What's holding you back? Strategic question #3035: What are your options? Strategic question #4037: What are your tactics? Strategic question #5014: How to involve people in strategy016: Strategic thinking in three dimensionsCatch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, the fifth in a series where I identify the six essential questions that leaders of private schools should consider when trying to define and shape their strategic approach, I ask: 'what are your tactics?' With this in mind, I explore how you can best form your operational plans to shape the strategic options that will deliver your vision for your school. I discuss how school leaders rather than governors should step forward as the process moves from one of strategy to an operational basis. I then briefly explore the importance of creating an action plan and then reviewing and refining these actions on a continually rolling basis, and how being agile will help you be more effective in the way you form and deliver your actions.Finally, I consider the ideal timeline for your action plans and how this will help you evolve your processes to make them more effective, targeted and fruitful. Episode HighlightsIntroducing the fifth strategic question  (03:06)Reviewing action plans on a rolling basis (04:40)The ideal timeline for action plans (05:30)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook029: What's your vision? Strategic question #1031: What's working in your favour? Strategic question #2033: What's holding you back? Strategic question #3035: What are your options? Strategic question #4Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, I talk to Andrew Gordon-Brown, Head of Kingswood School, about strategic thinking in schools. Andrew switched from a career in banking and finance to one in teaching in 2003, becoming a teacher in Economics at Radley College. He moved to his current position in 2020 and has been most recently working on a strategy for Kingswood School. We discuss Andrew's regard for strategic thinking and how important it is to embed strategic thinking in the culture of the school. We then consider the importance of distributed leadership rather than a more hierarchical leadership structure and how a move away from a single, charismatic leader can benefit the school strategy.We examine the importance of being strategic when setting up partnerships, how to develop partnership ideas that can bring additional resources into your school and how you can use strategy stacking to address multiple challenges that might be solved by partnerships.We explore how to gain and retain focus when allocating limited resources, how to prioritise where to put your efforts and developing a strategic plan that pinpoints the two or three key areas where you wish to drive change. Finally, we discuss the challenges that have arisen in forming a strategy during the COVID pandemic, and what Andrew sees as the challenges and opportunities for the sector going forward.  Episode HighlightsIntroducing Andrew Gordon-Brown  (01:43)The importance of strategic thinking (03:55)The importance of distributed leadership (07:09)The importance of being strategic when setting up partnerships (13:34)Keeping focus when allocating limited resources (19:42)Adapting to the COVID pandemic (26:07)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Download the ‘Rethinking Strategy in Independent Schools' report which Andrew mentioned. 016: Strategic thinking in three dimensions013: Strategy: Four essential building blocksCatch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, the fourth in my series looking at six essential questions that you need to be able to answer in order to clarify your school's strategy, I ask: what are your strategic options? I begin by explaining what I mean by strategic options: the strategic level choices that you can make as a school leadership team or as school governing body that will shape the future of your school.I then discuss the importance of coherence and of focusing on either one or a small number of strategic choices, and I explore the concept of 'strategy stacking', the act of making strategic choices that are coherent, so each choice reinforces and supports the other.I look at examples of strategy stacking and at some of the biggest strategic level choices you can make, I underline why selectively tackling them is important and I also examine more granular choices many schools may make to strengthen their offering.Finally, I look at how you might approach making your strategic choices, how you can brainstorm to gather and define all of the different options that you have open to your school, how evidence can be collected and analysed and how sticking points can be overcome.Episode HighlightsDefining strategic options  (03:30)The importance of coherence and 'strategy stacking' (05:22)Examples of strategy stacking (06:40)How to approach the strategic choices (12:01)029: What's your vision? Strategic question #1031: What's working in your favour? Strategic question #2033: What's holding you back? Strategic question #3Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, I speak to Sam Davies, Head of Philanthropy at the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST), the UK's leading family of independent girls' schools. During her career Sam has been responsible for annual giving activities at the University of Warwick, established a sustainable fundraising and alumni engagement operation from scratch at the University of Brighton and was awarded the CASE Crystal Apple Award for Teaching Excellence in 2015. I draw on Sam's experience as an educational fundraiser to explore the subject of harnessing the power of testimonials: why testimonials work from a fundraising point of view and for other school activities. Firstly, I ask Sam about how she uses testimonials from recipients in her fundraising at the GDST, how she overcomes the potential stigma of making an example of the situation of a current bursary recipient and about the key messages she aims to get across in testimonials. We discuss the power of storytelling and questions about the anonymity of those giving the testimonial.I then ask Sam whether she uses testimonials from donors, how testimonials can help overcome objections from donors and what her insights are in the process of gathering testimonials from the rest of the school community.Finally, we discuss Sam's top tips for school fundraisers looking to up their testimonial game.Episode HighlightsIntroducing Sam Davies (01:48)How Sam uses testimonials at the GDST (05:00)The importance of storytelling in testimonials (08:05)Sam's system for testimonials (19:19)Using testimonials from donors (25:30) Top tips for school fundraisers looking to up their testimonial game (32:43)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

This week, I've been joined by Andrew Cook: chief development and commercial officer at Repton, a co-educational independent boarding school for pupils aged 3 to 18 whose history stretches back more than 450 years. I previously spoke to Andrew in the summer of 2020 about generating commercial income for schools. In this episode Andrew and I explore the subject of broadening the fundraising mix. We begin by discussing Andrew's inspirations for making the move into the independent school sector and how his experience of attending an independent school on a bursary has driven him to utilise his professional experience to create opportunities for others. We then explore what led Andrew to diversify the income streams and broaden the fundraising mix at Repton beyond the traditional fundraising we see in independent schools.We discuss two different sources of fundraising:Firstly, I ask Andrew about his experience with events fundraising, including the time and budget events take, how they tap into the competitive nature of independent schools, the benefits of these events beyond just fundraising income and the effects of COVID on events.Secondly, we discuss how institutional or corporate fundraising is under-utilised in the independent schools sector. We explore how overcoming objections from institutions about donating to the independent school sector and developing an inspirational and comprehensive case for support is key.Episode HighlightsIntroducing Andrew Cook (03:51)What inspired Andrew to make the move into the independent school sector (04:36)What led Andrew to diversify income streams (07:00)Events fundraising (08:37)Institutional or corporate fundraising (20:40)004: The outlook for commercial income with Andrew Cook, Repton SchoolDownload your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, I tackle the second essential question you need to be able to answer to help shape you school strategy. Last time I discussed how to identify and shape your vision for your school, but this time I'm focusing on what is working in your favour: the internal strengths and external opportunities that you can identify. These qualities I refer to as 'accelerators': positive things which are already working in your favour, propelling your school towards delivering its vision.The first action I suggest taking is a consideration of your internal strengths, by which I mean the strengths of everybody from your staff and pupils to parents and alumni, all of whom are an integral part of your school community. Also, what's going well in your academic provision, your extra-curricular activities and your pastoral support? The second action I suggest is a consideration of your external opportunities: the national and international societies in which we sit, but also the wider local community and local forces that might present opportunities to us. I discuss the benefit of using a PESTEL (political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal) analysis to help identify the external opportunities in each of these spheres.Episode HighlightsWhat are 'accelerators'? (03:22)Considering your internal strengths (04:56)Considering your external opportunities (07:36)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, I welcome back John Claughton, former Chief Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham. John was a Classics master at Eton College from 1984 to 2001, where he was also in charge of cricket. He was Headmaster of Solihull School from 2001-2005, and then Chief Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham, his old school, from 2006 to 2016. More recently, he is author of the book Transforming young lives: Fundraising for bursaries, which was published by the Independent Schools' Council in 2020, in partnership with IDPE, Graham-Pelton and ISBA. During our conversation, John and I look back at some of the decisions about school strategy that he made as a Head. Through this conversation, we will reflect on how, whilst at the time John may not have felt that the decisions he was taking were strategic, he was actually using some of the hallmarks of robust strategy. Firstly, I ask John about his experiences of making decisions and whether he recognised them as strategic when he was making them. We discuss long term decision making, how the trends around you can help you identify long term solutions and the role of governors in forming these strategies.Finally, we explore John's decision making process at King Edward's School and how he adopted a set of core questions for forming a strategy, primarily: how to restore the academic spark of the school, the answers to which lead to switching from A Levels to the International Baccalaureate, focussing on bursaries and outreach.Episode HighlightsIntroducing John Claughton (01:35)John's experience of decision making through his career (04:55)Finding the simplest solution to overcome the challenge (10:25)The long term nature of strategy and the role of governors (13:45)Making key decisions to focus your resources (16:05)Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebook Catch up on previous episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

The 'moves management' system is a great way for you to boost your success in the area of major gift fundraising. Moves management is a way of efficiently but effectively managing the major donors, or prospects, you have in your school community, so in this episode I want to explore what the system is, why you should use it and to outline a five step process to get you started.Firstly, I consider the 'major gifts pipeline', the way that fundraisers manage people who have the potential to give a major gift to their organisation. I examine the stages of the major gifts pipeline from identification, qualification, cultivation and solicitation to stewardship. Then, I go on to consider moves management, to explore how the system works and why you should use it in your school. I outline the advantages that can come from systematising the process of moving people along the pipeline, to make it feel personal to prospective donors, but without sacrificing the quantity of prospects you can look after. I look at the benefits it can bring, not only to the school, but to the prospective donors as well.Finally, I outline a five step process to help your school get started with the process of moves management, starting, not with a database or IT system, but with a brainstorming session. Then I suggest moving through a reflection stage, then organising your ideas and preparing the system itself and, finally, personalising the process for each prospect. Episode HighlightsWhat is the major gifts pipeline? (02:33)What is moves management? (06:30)Why should you use it? (07:55)How much is it used? (11:55)The five step process to get started (13:04)References and resourcesEpisode 11: Major gifts fundraising: Overcome these four barriers to boost your incomeEpisode 25: Fundraising mindset: Three shifts you may need to makeIDPE and Graham-Pelton's ‘Schools' Fundraising and Engagement Benchmarking Report 2018' Sign up to Juliet Corbett's newsletter at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/signup to find out about upcoming School Fundraising Q&A sessionsFind out more about Juliet Corbett's work and discover a host of free resources at www.consultjuliet.co.ukThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, I explore five shifts you may need to make in your fundraising mindset in order to improve your results. I discuss how you can identify five limiting and unhelpful beliefs that you might hold about fundraising and I share with you, through my own experience as a fundraiser, how you can overcome them.   The first of these limiting beliefs is that asking for money is the equivalent of begging. I discuss how this can be overcome by reframing your thinking. By shifting the way you think of the act of asking to see it as an opportunity for people to do something transformational. The second limiting belief I unpack is the self-perception that an individual is not a natural fundraiser. I demonstrate how this might countered by finding a personal connection to a vision. The third is the belief that people won't donate money, which I suggest might be mitigated by creating a compelling reason for people to give to your project and by outlining a case for support.The fourth limiting belief is the flipside of the third: that being the perception that anyone will donate money if you send them a letter. I explore how this belief can prevent big donors contributing money, so is countered by using face-to-face meetings and cultivating prospective donors.The final limiting belief is the tendency to focus on one person at a time and to put all your energy into one potential donor. Instead, I discuss how you might build relationships with a number of people, to gain practice and to reduce the impact when individual potential donors say no.  Episode HighlightsDefining fundraising mindset (04:45)First limiting belief: 'Asking for money feels like begging' (02:28)Second limiting belief: 'I am not a natural fundraiser' (03:48)Third limiting belief: 'People won't give us money' (09:36)Fourth limiting belief: 'Anyone will give us money if we just write a letter' (12:33)Fifth limiting belief: 'I'll focus on one person at a time' (14:33)References and resourcesEpisode 9: Reimagining your fundraising case for supportEpisode 11: Major gifts fundraising: Overcome these four barriers to boost your incomeSign up to Juliet Corbett's newsletter at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/signup to find out about upcoming School Fundraising Q&A sessionsFind out more about Juliet Corbett's work and discover a host of free resources at www.consultjuliet.co.ukThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode I talk to Emily Clarke, Director of Development at Highgate School, about fundraising for community partnerships. Expanding on previous episodes about the building blocks of bursary strategy and my exploration of the real situation schools face getting bursaries established in my conversation with Bart Wielenga, the Head of Blundell's School, I move on to considering community partnerships. This is an area that is potentially rich for fundraising opportunities, and the work Emily Clarke has been doing is an excellent illustration of this.Emily Clarke has worked in the Development Office at Highgate since 2014 and she has lead the school's fundraising campaign since 2018. Firstly, I ask Emily about Highgate's commitment to partnerships and bursaries, and how it stems from the school's history as a charitable foundation. We then explore what Highgate's specific community partnerships, the Chrysalis Partnership Programme and the London Academy of Excellence in Tottenham, involve in terms of inspiring children and making change around improving social mobility and social injustice.   I ask Emily about the fundraising journey Highgate has been on during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they have adjusted their fundraising to serve the increased need for support in their local community. We discuss the types of fundraising Highgate has employed, both major gifts relationships and mass fundraising including challenge events. We talk about the challenges of breaking a perfectionist approach by taking risks and boldly speculating. Finally, I ask Emily what advice she would give to other school leaders as they fundraise for bursary programmes and community partnerships.Episode HighlightsIntroducing Emily Clarke (03:01)Highgate School's historical commitment to partnerships (04:53) What Highgate School's community partnerships involve (09:28)How the fundraising journey has changed during the pandemic (15:30)Types of fundraising employed by Highgate (23:21)Breaking a perfectionist approach (30:30)Moving beyond crisis response (33:22)Advice for other school leaders (37:02)References and resourcesHighgate SchoolChrysalis and Chrysalis EastLondon Academy of Excellence Tottenham Episode 019: Craft you bursary strategyEpisode 020: Bursaries and strategy in practice with Bart Wielenga, Head, Blundell's SchoolSign up to Juliet Corbett's newsletter at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/signup Find out more about Juliet Corbett's work and discover a host of free resources at www.consultjuliet.co.ukThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In last week's episode, I used the four building blocks of strategy to identify the key choices that governors and heads need to confront and make when they are crafting a robust bursary strategy. In this episode, I welcome Bart Wielenga, Head of Blundell's School in Tiverton in Devon, UK to talk about how this model can be practically used and how we have worked together to develop a robust strategy for his school. In our conversation, we discuss both bursaries and strategy. I begin by asking Bart about his reflections on crafting his bursary vision, and forming his school's bursary ‘why'. We discuss how Blundell's found a balance between transformational and smaller bursaries and between endowment and ‘spend now', and how the school communicates how it is committing financial resources to the bursary programme.We then cover the accelerators and sticking points faced at Blundell's when it comes to bursaries and how they overcame the sticking points, specifically finding the right applicants and finding enough money to fund bursaries.Finally, I ask Bart how the four building blocks of strategy has been successfully employed at Blundell's, and how the model has helped clarify the thinking of the senior leadership team at the school.  Episode highlightsIntroducing Bart Wielenga (02:06)Crafting the bursary vision at Blundell's (04:00)Accelerators and sticking points at Blundell's (22:15)How did the model help at Blundell's? (30:17)References and resourcesBlundell's SchoolEpisode 019: Craft your bursary strategyEpisode 013: Strategy: Four essential building blocks (Strategy Toolkit 2)‘Rethinking Strategy in Independent Schools' research reportSign up to Juliet Corbett's newsletter at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/signup Find out more about Juliet Corbett's work and discover a host of free resources at www.consultjuliet.co.ukThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, I explore how two of my passions can be combined: strategy and the importance of focusing your resources on the things that will make a difference, and bursary provision within independent schools and the way that it can impact on social mobility. I consider the questions that you need to ask and the options you have going forward as you craft your bursary strategy.I begin by defining what I mean by bursaries and bursary strategies. I outline the differences between a bursary and a scholarship, and note the increasing shift towards means-tested bursaries in the UK and a subsequent shift towards fundraising campaigns and away from capital campaigns.After defining bursaries, I look at the how the 'four building blocks of strategy' can help structure your thinking around strategy. I look at the strategic choices you need to make as you define your big picture, long term vision for bursaries in your school. I outline possible accelerators and sticking points: internal strengths and weakness and external opportunities and threats. I look at how you can identify the general approach to overcoming the sticking points and, finally, I reinforce the importance of an action plan. Episode highlightsDefining Bursaries (01:40)Four building blocks of strategy (04:42)Your vision and strategic choices (05:18)Accelerators and sticking points (17:14)Identifying the general approach (22:23)The importance of an action plan (23:26)References and resourcesEpisode 004: The outlook for commercial income with Andrew Cook, Repton School at: http://www.consultjuliet.co.uk/004Episode 009: Reimagining your fundraising case for support at: http://www.consultjuliet.co.uk/009Episode 013: Strategy: Four essential building blocks (Strategy Toolkit 2) at: http://www.consultjuliet.co.uk/013‘Rethinking Strategy in Independent Schools' research report at: https://www.consultjuliet.co.uk/rethinking-strategyDiscover all the Series 1 episodes at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastSign up to Juliet Corbett's newsletter at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/signupFind out more about Juliet Corbett's work and discover a host of free resources at: www.consultjuliet.co.ukThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

In this episode, the first of season 2, I talk to Lucy Gower, the director and founder at Lucidity and founder of The Lucidity Network. Through her work as a coach, trainer and facilitator Lucy has given thousands of professionals worldwide the confidence and tools to think creatively, develop ideas and make their innovations happen. We discuss how independent schools can be innovative about their approach to the delivery of their education, their alumni relations and their fundraising. Firstly, we explore how to describe innovation in an organisation that isn't familiar with the term, and discuss the difference between incremental and radical innovation.We then talk about how innovation fits in to your school strategy and activities the school leader might employ to encourage themselves and their team to innovate more. We discuss how schools can overcome a perfectionist culture and become more comfortable with failure and risk and how schools can innovate on a tight budget. Finally Lucy gives us her tips for creating a culture of innovation in your organisation by focusing on leaders as role models, connecting people and getting everyone involved. Spark! episodes of The Independent School Podcast are designed to spark fresh insights and innovation, by introducing you to ideas from other sectors.Episode HighlightsIntroducing Lucy Gower (01:33)Describing innovation in schools (04:30)Getting the ball rolling with innovation (11:33)Overcoming a perfectionist culture (19:17)Working on a budget (26:07)Creating a culture of innovation (30:58)References and resourcesDiscover The Lucidity Network - get the environment, training, and support to craft the working life you want.'The Innovation Workout' by Lucy Gower‘Where good ideas come from: The seven patterns of innovation' by Steven JohnsonExplore all the Series 1 episodes at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcastSign up to Juliet Corbett's newsletter at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/signupFind out more about Juliet Corbett's work and discover a host of free resources at: www.consultjuliet.co.ukThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

The types of projects independent schools fundraise for and the messages they use when communicating with donors have shifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With an accelerated move away from buildings and facilities fundraising and the growth of bursaries fundraising, it's important to understand how to reimagine your school's case for support.This episode explores why schools should connect their fundraising case for support to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and how to do this for hardship, bursary and capital (building) fundraising. It also revisits one of the foundations of an inspirational case for support: the importance of storytelling.Episode highlightsWhy you should link your fundraising case for support to the COVID-19 crisis (2:35)Linking hardship funds to COVID-19 (5:40)Linking bursary fundraising to COVID-19 (8:30)Fundraising opportunities for partnership projects with state schools (12:00)Linking capital (building) projects to COVID-19 (13:02)The move away from capital campaigns towards bursary fundraising (17:15)The importance of storytelling for inspirational fundraising (18:55)References and resourcesFundraising Focus Programme: Expert fundraising advice to fit your school's budgetSign up to Juliet Corbett's newsletter at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/signupFind out more about Juliet Corbett's work with independent schools and discover a host of free resources for schools at www.consultjuliet.co.ukSutton TrustIDPE/Graham Pelton Benchmarking Report 2018Thank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!