Break free from Business-as-Usual


Getting Scale Ready is a 5-week online training course designed to help you fulfil your vision while addressing the day-to-day challenges of running a nonprofit.

Through practical guidance and structured support, you’ll:

  • Secure protected time to plan for your organisation's growth
  • Gain the skills, tools, and mindsets to navigate scaling challenges
  • Identify the right pathway to achieve meaningful, lasting change
  • Develop a robust and financially sustainable plan for success

OUR IMPACT

“An excellent guide to assessing if your organization is ready to scale, with strong facilitators and a very valuable toolkit to guide an organizational strategy process.”

Susan Bornstein,

Global Director, World Bicycle Relief

"Gave us the opportunity to reflect, through excellent facilitation and practical tools, on scale and apply scale models to our strategy for growth. A structured programme enhanced by the opportunity to share ideas and receive feedback from peers.”

Denis Byrne,

CEO, Sussex Prisoners' Families

“An eye opener for my knowledge enhancement and understanding of best practices in scalability especially as we are at a stage where we are thinking scale and sustainability."

Wangiwe Joanna Kambuzi,

Managing Director, Mzuzu E-Hu

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About Getting Scale Ready


Big ideas and real impact demand bold action—but without the time, space, and structure to plan, scaling can feel out of reach. Getting Scale Ready was created to change that.

This practical, online training programme is designed to help nonprofit leaders move from ambition to action.

Over five weeks, you’ll join a cohort of ambitious social leaders and change-makers, gaining the skills and confidence to lay the foundations for long-term scale, invest in the right success factors, and take the first steps towards getting scale ready.

You’ll explore the best scaling pathway for your organisation, learn how to test and assess your potential in the real world, and build a strategy that ensures you can do it all sustainably.

Course structure

Live Session Schedule

  • Live session 1: Introduction and Scale Readiness, Tuesday 30th September 2-4 pm (UK Time)
  • Live session 2: Strategy for Scale, Tuesday 14th October 2-4 pm (UK Time)
  • Live session 3: Pitching and Next Steps, Tuesday 28th October, 2-4 pm (UK Time)

Curriculum

Week 1: 22nd September – Assess Scale Readiness

  •  Introduction to week 1 – Assess your starting point
  •  The difference between growth and scale – Reaching further with your resources
  •  Tackling societal problems at scale – Implications for what sustainable impact looks like for you
  •  Finding the sweet spot for scale – Ensuring solutions are both impactful, valuable and sustainable
  • ASSIGNMENT: Scale Readiness Diagnostic Quiz
  • REFLECTION: Preparation for live session

Week 2: 29th September – Develop Scale Strategy

  • Introduction to week 2 – The scale strategy that will guide your journey
  • Components of a scale strategy – Key questions to answer when building your strategy
  • Importance of a Scale Strategy- A noble mission is not enough to have impact at scale
  • TOOL: Problem Definition – Define the societal problem you want to address at scale
  • TOOL: Intended Impact – Clarify the change you want to achieve
  • TOOL: Doer and Payer at Scale – Establish who will deliver and pay your solution at scale
  • ASSIGNMENT: Start Strategy Formula

Week 3: 6th October – Explore Pathways to Scale

  • Introduction to Week 3: Explore Pathways to Scale
  • Scale Pathways- Key considerations and trade-offs for choosing your pathway to scale
  • TOOL: Choosing a Scale Pathway
  • TOOL: Design Your Core
  • ASSIGNMENT: Complete Strategy Formula
  • REFLECTION: Preparation for Live Session

Week 4: 13th October– Test to Validate

  • Introduction to Week 4 – Redefining risk
  • Components of a Good Test – Key considerations to build effective tests and feedback loops
  • TOOL: Identify Risky Assumptions
  • ASSIGNMENT: Test risky assumptions

Week 5: 20th October – Plan and Pitch

  • Introduction to Week 5 – Create a compelling pitch and effective action plan
  • TOOL: Create an action plan
  • TOOL: Develop your pitch
  • ASSIGNMENT: Develop your pitch
  •  A final word – Key Scaling Mindsets




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