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  1. Storytelling workshops: From March to May 2021, we commissioned a series of six storytelling workshops, run by B&G Partners, to help 84 participants use their evaluation data to tell a better story about the work of their charities. The initial workshops were for programme grantees only, with the final set of workshops being opened up to the network as a whole. Read Ben and Gerald from B&G’s top tips for telling better stories about your impact.
  2. Digital accessibility: In March 2021, we ran a Digital Accessibility online panel event with 65 attendees. The event was open to grantees and the wider network. Our speakers were Robin Christopherson (AbilityNet), Graham Longly (Aspire Consultancy), Rizwana Khan (ProjectFunction Notts) and Andrew Coleman (Galloway’s Society for the Blind). The panel answered a number of attendees’ questions during the event, but we received many more, and commissioned a blog from AbilityNet to answer these surplus questions.
  3. User research: In April 2021, we ran an online event on The Life Cycle of User Research (open to grantees and the wider network); this was attended by 28 participants and featured presentations from Katherine Vaughan (Monzo), Joshua McGovern (Tectonic), Ailin Martinez (Médecins Sans Frontières) and Cameron Spilman FRSA (Paper).
  4. Digital inclusion (grantees only): In June 2021, social change charity Good Things Foundation ran a digital inclusion workshop exclusively for EDA grantees. The 90-minute workshop was attended by 38 grantees. We then shared the resources online, so that they were available to the wider network.
  5. Digital inclusion (full network): In June 2021, we held a panel event bringing together five digital inclusion experts: Atif Choudhury (Diversity and Ability), Adam Micklethwaite (Good Things Foundation), Helen Dobson (Citizens Online), Jumoke Abdullahi (Inclusion London) and Chris Ashworth (Nominet) to discuss how charities can tackle digital exclusion. The event was open to all: 128 people attended and a recording was shared with others who had registered. Following the event, we shared the recording - along with an open list of digital inclusion assets - in a blog.
  6. Impact Measurement workshops: During August and September 2021, we arranged two workshops focusing on impact measurement: Bobi Robson delivered a session exploring the ‘why’ of impact measurement, whilst Dr Lucy Maynard looked at the ‘what and how’. Blogs summarising all of the information from the sessions can be read here:
  7. Catalyst Network Meetups: This monthly event, first launched in March 2021, provides a space for agencies, funders and VSCEs to collaborate, learn and explore together, in a welcoming online environment. Topics so far have included managing mental health within agile project teams, the possibilities of reuse of a mobile app, and no code. Recordings are made available after the event: see recordings of talks on the power of no code, unlocking / benefitting from data, managing mental health, working on a mobile app and working with the British Red Cross. Maryan Ali has also captured the insights she shared during July’s meetup event in a blog: How to easily build and test a solution using no-code.

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