This online meetup focused on team leadership behaviours, psychological safety, and practical, low-cost strategies to support staff wellbeing and combat burnout within small charities. Moving away from theoretical models, the session combined interactive discussions, peer-to-peer networking, a guest presentation from Leela Shanti (Raising Futures Kenya), an action-learning mastermind breakout, and a physical stress-release exercise.

Key themes centred on identifying structural barriers to returning to in-person sector events, defining actionable workplace behaviours that build “kindness” and “trust,” and outlining organisational policies that improve talent retention under intense funding pressures.