Charityworks provides non-profit organisations with a cost-effective way of recruiting brilliant new talent at the same time as providing high potential graduates and the next generation of leaders with a programme to develop their careers in the third sector.

As someone who has spent over 20 years working in and around the social sector, I know that being a manager and leader in this sector can be as exhausting and challenging in its low moments as it can be rewarding and thrilling at its high points.

As we move towards a collective response to recovery through the COVID-19 pandemic, the most pressing social leadership challenge of our generation, it could not be more important for us to collectively inspire and support the next generation of leaders who will be able to ensure that the non-profit and charity space continues to serve those who need it across the country – both now, and in the future for many years to come.  Charityworks exists in this context. To place talented and committed people into the teams and organisations focused on serving the people, communities and causes that rely on them, even in the most testing circumstance

This year we’ve taken a record 5,500 applicants through a rigorous recruitment and selection process comprising written, group-based and strategic exercises and a panel interview. All candidates were assessed against a robust competency framework, designed from over a decade of best practice in recruiting graduates

“By combining consistently excellent candidates with an immediate cost saving, the question for us is less, ‘Why would we participate in Charityworks?’, and more ‘Why wouldn’t we?’”

Charity Chief Executive

Charityworks is designed to foster connections across organisations and disciplines, and the value of those relationships is consistently identified by our partners and participants as one of the most valuable aspects of the programme.

Our partners past and present have included:

“Our graduates are brilliant, full of energy, enthusiasm and customer focused. I would recommend Charityworks to any service company based on our experience this year.”

Charity Director of Services

With the vision and mission behind the programme more important than ever, we are incredibly proud to say that our 2021 offer will be our most diverse yet with a cohort that is 40% Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME).  This presents an amazing opportunity for us to collectively power up and accelerate the development of BAME leaders across the piece and I’m delighted that this will be such a strong part of our offer this year.