Fireside Chat and Q&A with Anita Eade | Capacity Building Programme
Join our upcoming free Capacity Building Programme training workshop on empowering language, Fireside Chat and Q&A with Anita Eade on Monday 17 March 2025 6-8pm on Zoom.
During this fireside chat and Q&A with Anita, we’ll explore language and the importance of using empowering words. All events are free and open to individuals, organisations and businesses working and living across the local communities in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
Join special guest Anita Eade for this fireside chat with Lisa Stepanovic MBE and Zak Addae-Kodua. During this fireside chat and Q&A with Anita, we’ll explore language and the importance of using empowering words when speaking about beneficiaries we work with. We’ll also discuss equity, shifting power, people-led approaches, funding, strategy, business planning, and everything in between. You’ll learn about different techniques and ways of working to help strengthen your own charity or social enterprise and have the opportunity to ask questions, too.
You will leave with:
- Respectful and language alternative examples
- Principals for Equitable practice
- More confidence and understanding of people-led approaches
- Loads of gems for funning your enterprise!
“I’m excited that our community has access to this session. Anita inspired me to change the language I used when speaking about the young people I work with at Social Ark. I’ve learned so much from her over the years, and she’s an absolute legend!” – Lisa Stepanovic MBE
This event is free and open to individuals, organisations and businesses working and living across the local communities in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets,and Waltham Forest.
Please register your place and we will send you details about how to participate closer to the time. Places will be made available on a first come, first served basis.
About Anita Eade (formerly Kerwin-Nye)
Anita is a charity leader with 30 years experience building and running multi million pound programmes and fundraising across multiple funding sources. Currently Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Communications at WWT (a large environment charity) Anita was formerly Director at YHA (Youth Hostels) and the founder of Whole School SEND (a 2000 strong schools programme with a focus on inclusion.)
Anita is working class and realised early on in her charity career that the charity sector is a middle class culture with power in the hands of a few. Funding and influence held by the largest national bodies. Her work has attempted to put access and inclusion at the core of a charity’s work – rather than as a nice to have at the edges. Language and models of power are key to this – as is calling it out. This does mean she is not always very popular and has been called a ‘difficult woman’ on many occasions. Indeed she is currently designing the t-shirt.
Mother of four kids and her husband are active community workers alongside. They are currently in the battle with their school, who is refusing their son to into education.