Welcome to the
Charity Leaders' Exchange
The experience-sharing network for forward-thinking Charity Leaders, helping to drive positive change.
If you are grappling with a strategic challenge, planning organisational change or just looking to compete within the current economic climate, often the best place to look for help is from your peer group. You’ll find that many of our Charity Leaders’ Exchange (CLE) members have already successfully navigated the same issues – we bring those people with the relevant experience directly to you. Made up of medium and large Charities, Not-For-Profit organisations, CICs and Social Enterprises with turnovers of £1m+, you’ll find yourself in good company.
The CLE provides intelligently selected guidance to help inform your decision making. Structured around topics that will challenge you and your team to think differently, it facilitates connections between like-minded senior charity leaders and provides easy-to-access insights into their experiences.
We provide:
- Content – case studies, video content, blogs and talking guides
- Research – quarterly reports, topical insights and sector-wide learning
- Networking – regular contact with other members, topical learning events and evening seminars
- Expertise – access to leading sector CEOs, legal, accountancy and HR specialists
- Events – Charity Leaders’ Event Series, six annual learning and networking events as well as access to our Exchange Conference Series
Sign up individually from £20/month or for just £200 per year or register your team annually for only £375 .
Sign up"I find that Knowledge Peers' practical research stimulates me to think differently by pulling together lessons from the commercial and not-for-profit side.Roger Chester, FD, LionHeart
It's enabling to meet fellow professionals across sectors both on- and offline for top-level exchanges on increasing performance."
"Knowing Knowledge Peers, I'm always impressed by how they bring leaders together for meaningful exchanges. Their purpose - helping organisations become more effective as businesses - is something that charities should embrace."Daniela Barone Soares, CEO, Impetus Trust
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Alex Swallow, Programme Director, Charity Leaders' Exchange
- Following our first seminar for 2015 last month, the Charity Leaders’ Exchange has produced a short videocast of the Alex’s seminar presentation. CLE Seminar Presentations 06 Mar 2015 Comments (0)

James Whiting, Executive Director, Malaria No More UK
- The Charity Leaders’ Exchange and Harris Hill Executive Search interviewed the Executive Director of Malaria No More UK, James Whiting. Malaria No More UK’s goal is simple: to end deaths from Malaria. They inspire the public to rally behind the fight; encourage the UK government to lead the charge and fund innovative, impactful programmes to save lives in Africa. CEO Interviews: The Charity and its Cause 30 Aug 2014 Comments (0)


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Is it just me, or is everyone in the sector talking about innovation at the moment? As charities budgets’ continue to be squeezed, many nonprofits are exploring new ways to generate income and deliver services. Forward thinking organisations are also taking the opportunity to explore different ways of doing things, driven by the need to be more efficient and to match the increasingly sophisticated demands of donors and other stakeholders. There are some brilliant examples of innovative wo...
As an analyst, hearing so much about the Internet of Things (IOT) gets you thinking about how life will change. And as a registered blind person, it also makes me wonder what frustrations will be smoothed out by this pervasive technology.
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If you’re your authentic self, you have no competition.
We are very happy to be able to share with you our personal branding report, ‘Growing and Maintaining a Personal Brand as a Char...
This week, as invited by Charity Leaders’ Exchange member Jo Youle, I ran a session on social media for charity leaders at Missing People’s leadership away day. The session before mine closed with a discussion about people with inspiring communication styles. It got me thinking more of who has inspired me in my life, how I can try to inspire others and what inspiration means.
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