Our Lunch and Learn sessions are a chance to share insights, explore fresh ideas, and spark meaningful conversations.
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Join us for live, informal webinars where we explore important, thought-provoking topics from across the social impact sector.
We offer practical insights, expert-led discussions, and opportunities to engage with your peers.
Grab your lunch, tune in, and learn together with us!
Series 2 of the Firetail webinar programme (September 2025 onwards) will be published here soon.
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Firetail Webinars: Series 1
Our first Lunch & Learn webinar series offered bite-sized insights across strategy, futures, impact, learning, and innovation—helping charity leaders reflect, adapt, and stay ahead in a changing world.
Each 45-minute session explores a vital question: from how you relate to the state, to identifying confirmation bias, to building futures-ready strategies and sustaining global action amidst foreign aid cuts.
Lunch and Learn 1: Strategy
What’s your Theory of the State?
19th December 2024. 12:00 - 12:45 GMT
Based on the framework introduced in this blog, we’ll explore how charities can have different relationships with the state, and first impressions on how this is changing with the new government.
Lunch and Learn 2: Futures
Do you have a Futures Gap?
16th January 2025. 12:00 - 12:45 GMT
Good futures work inspires change today. We’ll ask how futures work can inform strategy and engage stakeholders. Different methodologies, approaches and engagements
Lunch and Learn 3: Impact
Disconfirming Evidence
27th February 2025. 12:00 - 12:45 GMT
How to identify and challenge confirmation bias in your organisation, especially with evidence that challenges your core assumptions.
Lunch and Learn 4: Equity
Sustaining the global fight for women and girls amidst US and UK foreign aid cuts
20th March 2025. 12:00 - 12:45 GMT
What is the impact of foreign aid cuts on the global fight for women and girls? We will be joined by expert guests from Refugees International and ODI Global for this webinar to discuss the resilience of the sector, and highlight the critical elements we need to protect as we forge ahead.
Lunch and Learn 5: Learning
Connecting impact, learning and strategy
17th April 2025. 12:00 - 12:45 BST
How you can move from thinking about evaluation as a backward-looking, audit-focussed exercise, to a vital tool for learning that informs strategy and drives impact.
Lunch and Learn 6: Financing
Innovation Funds
15th May 2025. 12:00 - 12:45 BST
How innovation funds can help charities support new solutions in their sector.