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Thoughtful, practical insight on charity finance and governance

Emma Willder provides paid speaking and panel contributions for conferences, sector events and online audiences.

Her speaking work is grounded in real, day-to-day experience of supporting charities with their finances and governance, not theory or generic best practice. She focuses on clarity, practicality and relevance for those responsible for leading and governing charities.

Emma Willder

Where Emma speaks

Emma contributes to:

  • Charity and third-sector conferences
  • Sector-led events and roundtables
  • Online panels and webinars

Her sessions are particularly well suited to audiences of trustees, senior managers, finance leads and governance professionals.

Topics covered

Emma’s speaking focuses on the realities charities face, including:

  • Charity finance in practice: what trustees and managers really need to know
  • Financial sustainability and resilience
  • Understanding management accounts and using them effectively
  • Governance, accountability and financial oversight
  • Full Cost Recovery and understanding the true cost of charitable activity
  • Building confidence in charity finance without jargon

All talks and panel contributions are tailored to the audience and context.

Approach

Emma brings a calm, values-led perspective to speaking engagements.

Audiences can expect:

  • Clear, plain-English explanations
  • Honest reflections from real charity experience
  • Practical insight that can be applied immediately
  • Respect for the complexity and pressure of charity leadership

This is professional input designed to inform, reassure and build confidence.

Engagement terms

Speaking and panel contributions are planned and paid engagements.

Emma is happy to discuss format, audience and objectives in advance to ensure the contribution is the right fit for the event.

Let’s talk

If you are organising a conference, sector event, panel or webinar and are looking for a thoughtful, experienced speaker on charity finance and governance, Emma would be happy to explore whether she is the right fit.

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Trustee and Management Team

As a new charity, Emma has been brilliant in supporting us through the process of preparing our financial information to enable us to submit to the Charities Commission. Emma has taken the time to establish a valued interest and working knowledge about the charitable work we are aiming to deliver for a vulnerable group of young adults with special needs.

LifeBridge Asend

Helen Ashley Taylor

Emma is a proficient, efficient and resourceful finance professional with leadership and board level experience gained in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. The finance dashboards and commentaries Emma produces help board members make informed decisions demonstrate technical and specialist knowledge whilst also being easy to understand for any trustee/board member who isn’t experienced in finance.

Principal Consultant, Charity HAT

Trustee

In 20 years operating at the most senior levels of the public and private sectors, I have never seen a more effective (or enjoyable!) session run to identify and prioritise risks than Emma did for my fellow trustees and I; she helped us to identify and focus on the key risks and as a consequence moved us on as a Board so much and so positively.

Co-operative Heritage Trust

Fran Ferris-Ockwell

We were lucky enough to become clients of Beyond Profit at just the right time. Emma helped us navigate a period of change and uncertainty, and she has made significant improvements to both our finance and governance processes. … She goes above and beyond for us… I cannot recommend her highly enough.

CEO, Nomad Opening Doors

Kirsten Mitchell

You have really helped me add some real structure to Spoons

Founder and Chair at Spoons

Geraud de Ville de Goyet

I have worked with Emma on setting up the accounts of our growing organisation and I have to say she has been fantastic.

Her wealth of experience, attention to detail, and flexibility to work around our deadlines has been absolutely great for us and I would highly recommend her services to any non profit organisation needing help.

Chief Executive at Barking & Dagenham Giving

Diane Vernon

Emma worked with EmployabilityUK to prepare the latest accounting records and reports. An excellent service delivered quickly and thoroughly.

Emma’s expertise has helped the charity to better prepare for funding applications and her can-do approach makes her a highly valued supplier.

CEO & Founder Director, EmployabilityUK

Sophie Easteal

Emma provided expertise on verifying our QuickBooks set up, providing advice on our Chart of Accounts and correcting some coding errors/journals. … I’ve not got a finance background and she gave me confidence to ask any question and relayed details to me in a straightforward way without finance jargon. … Our charity’s finances are now better categorised giving trustees more control and transparency.

Trustee, The Green Backyard

Paul Sommerfeld

Emma was Deputy Principal and Finance director throughout the 5 years (2009-15) that I was Chair of Governors at the Co-operative College. She is quite exceptional as a finance leader, being among those rare people who are not only very competent at the technical tasks of finance policy and management but who also never lose sight of the purposes of the organisation. …

Former Chair of the Co-operative College

Trustee

Clearest set of accounts I have seen in my time at the Guild and just what I have always been looking to achieve. We can look forward to well informed decisions from the Board. Thank you.

Bolton Guild of Help

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