FREE Webinar
Grow Without the Grind:
How External Support Can Actually Help Charities Thrive
This is a free 60-minute webinar for charity professionals and charity freelancers across the UK, particularly those feeling the pressure to keep everything moving with limited time and capacity to think. The session focuses on real-world decision-making, healthy collaboration, and how charities can grow without grinding people down.
What you’ll learn
When external support genuinely adds value for charities, and when it doesn’t.
How to tell the difference between needing more capacity and needing greater clarity.
What good external support looks like in practice, across consultants, freelancers and interim roles.
How to build healthy boundaries, trust and collaboration so support feels steady rather than disruptive.
Ways to protect people’s energy and well-being while strengthening fundraising and leadership capacity.
Why join us?
Charity leaders and fundraisers are under increasing pressure to deliver more with limited time, capacity and headspace. Often, the issue isn’t commitment or competence, it’s that the work has outgrown the systems and support around it.
In this candid, practical session, Bethany Helliwell-Smith, founder of Awen Coaching, and Analiese Doctrove, draw on their experience working inside charities and alongside them as external consultants to explore how support can be used thoughtfully and effectively.
This session isn’t about outsourcing everything or fixing charities overnight. It’s about making intentional choices, so external support brings clarity, steadiness and confidence, rather than becoming another source of pressure.
You’ll leave with clearer thinking, practical reflections you can apply straight away, and reassurance that it is possible to grow without the grind.
When?
📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 4th March [11 am - 12 pm]
📍 Online – live on Zoom (recording available to those registered afterwards)
Webinar technical support by Sarah Rose from Office Unicorn.
“Growth doesn’t have to mean endless hustle.”
About your Speakers
Bethany and Analiese
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Bethany Helliwell-Smith
Bethany Helliwell-Smith is an experienced coach, facilitator, and accredited C-Me Colour Profiling Practitioner with over 15 years of experience in the charity sector. She began her career in fundraising, securing significant income for organisations such as the British Red Cross, Wales Millennium Centre, and Frank Water.
In 2020, Bethany founded Awen Coaching to help individuals and organisations in the charity sector prevent and overcome burnout. She now supports fundraisers, leaders, and freelancers in building healthier working lives and creating sustainable impact.
As Mum to two young children, Bethany understands the juggle and emotional load many professionals carry. She brings empathy, real-world insight, and a calm, client-led approach to her coaching, helping people clarify their priorities, set strong boundaries, and take purposeful action without burning out.
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Analiese Doctrove
Analiese is a fundraising consultant with nearly 20 years’ experience working in the charity sector. Not just advising from the sidelines, but leading teams, growing income, and figuring things out in real time.
Now, she works alongside small and medium-sized charities who are doing important, urgent work and need fundraising support that they can actually use. Analiese specialises in income diversification, developing confident fundraising teams, and turning good ideas into plans that get delivered — without burning people out or piling on more pressure.
She’s a big believer in values-led, achievable fundraising that works in the real world — not just on paper.
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When you sign up for this webinar, you’ll also join the Awen Coaching and Analiese Doctrove mailing lists, which are full of practical tips and support. You can unsubscribe whenever you like. We promise only to share ideas, tools and stories that are genuinely useful — no spam, just support.
“Bethany has become part of my village of support. She brings calm, clarity and perspective at moments when everything feels heavy, helping me make decisions that are sustainable rather than reactive.”
— Sarah Jones, Charity Fundraising Consultant (Bethany’s Client)
This webinar is for you if…
You feel the pressure to do more with less, and sense that something needs to change — but you’re not sure what support would actually help.
You’re carrying a lot of responsibility for income, direction or delivery, often with limited space to step back and think.
You’re curious about external support but worry it might add complexity, cost or scrutiny rather than relief.
You work in-house or freelance and want healthier ways of collaborating that respect boundaries and people.
You care deeply about your work and want growth that doesn’t rely on burnout, over-responsibility or constant urgency.
If any of this sounds familiar, this session will help you pause, reflect, and think more clearly about when external support helps, and how to use it well.
Why now?
Charity leaders and fundraisers are under increasing pressure. Expectations continue to rise, while time, headspace and capacity remain tight.
Often, external support is framed as a last resort — something to turn to only when things feel unmanageable. But in reality, the most effective support is usually brought in before people reach that point.
External support is already part of how charities operate. The real question is not whether to use it, but how to use it in ways that build clarity, trust and resilience rather than adding strain.
This is a chance to step back and think differently — choosing support that helps charities grow without grinding people down.
Join Bethany and Analiese for a candid, encouraging conversation that models the kind of collaboration we’re talking about. Webinar technical support by Sarah Rose from Office Unicorn.
This session is about finding a better way forward, one that allows charities, leaders and freelancers to do good work and be well while doing it.
What you’ll take away
This session isn’t about outsourcing everything or finding a quick fix. It’s about clarity, confidence and making thoughtful decisions. You’ll leave with:
A clearer understanding of when external support genuinely adds value for charities.
Insight into the difference between needing more capacity and needing greater clarity or capability.
Practical ways to think about consultants, freelancers and other support without it feeling risky or reactive.
Guidance on setting clear expectations, boundaries and scope so collaboration feels steady and constructive.
Greater confidence in making decisions that protect people’s energy as well as organisational impact.
You’ll walk away with realistic reflections and next steps you can use immediately to move forward more calmly and sustainably.
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When you sign up for this webinar, you’ll also join the Awen Coaching and Analiese Doctrove mailing lists, which are full of practical tips and support. You can unsubscribe whenever you like. We promise only to share ideas, tools and stories that are genuinely useful — no spam, just support.
"I wanted you to know that earlier today we had the first business planning meeting following receipt of your report. Everyone agreed that you had made sense of so much of the stuff that has been floating around our heads. Following today, we have a clear action plan to implement, and we are all feeling positive about what we need to do. Thank you!"
— Fiona Sandford, Visionary, CEO (Analiese’s Client)