Hilary Gilbert

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Hilary Gilbert Executive Director
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About Derbyshire
Area c. 5000 km2 Population c.
1,000,000 Ethnic pop 3 county gt10
city ? Peak District Nat. Park Cultural/industri
al heritage ? Rural poverty Post-industrial
decline
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Derbyshire Community Foundation
1994 Southern Derbyshire CF founded 1996
Full-time director appointed Area expands to
cover whole county Strategic Plan 1 New
chairman appointed 1997 Fundraising starts 1999
First 1m in funds and pledges 2000
Capacity-building year Three major grants
obtained 2001 New staff appointed (6FT,
5PT) Major art project launched Strategic
Plan 2 2002-3 Challenge Campaign to raise
2m Grants programmes 1.2m
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Strategic Planning Process

• Select consultant
• Run Board self-evaluation questionnaire
• Run Board skills audit
• Hold Board awayday
• Define Mission
• Priorities
• Action
• Resources

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Strategic Planning Product

• Contents
• Purpose and vision
• History and current position
• Context and environment
• Key Result Areas
• Human resources
• Financial resources

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Strategic Planning Product

• Written plan
• Authorship?
• Audience?
• Revision
• Frequency?
• Regular use
• Staff
• - objectives
• - reporting
• Committees
• - workplans

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Strategic Planning Lessons

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• Engages trustees
• Expresses vision
• Unites organization
• Focusses work
• but may lead to
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• Silo working
• Loss of relevance in times of change
• Complacency
• planning is not the same as doing!