Conferences should be an opportunity to bring people together, exchange ideas and experience, learn new things and agree creative action plans. Often they do not live up to this. Mellor Lawrie can provide a service to organisations designing and managing conferences by:

Leading plenary and workshop sessions on a wide range of issues from future strategy, challenges for the voluntary sector and organisational effectiveness.

Facilitating sessions to ensure that participants are fully involved and can share experience rather than simply being talked at.

Suggesting ways of designing staff conferences, network events and other meetings that are lively, engaging and worthwhile.