This financial year, Step Up Network CIC has had a year of clarity and direction - we built on the success of the first year and sought how we could improve our service and offer for the following year. As we moved in our second year of operation, we decided to use the same formats as we did last year for our face-to-face events, but to change the location also. Therefore, we moved from North London to West London with our Coffee, Chat and Connections event; we moved from Birmingham to Wolverhampton for our Leadership Day, and then from Manchester to Leeds for our Lunch and Lead Meet. We did also try to launch a new format, our Brunch and Lead Meet in Bristol, as our first event in the South West, unfortunately, we had a lot of last minute drop outs and we had to cancel the event. We have recently built up some links and connections with people and organisations in the South West, we hope to return to this region again soon. For our virtual content, we trialled using one format across a number of topics. We held webinars based on our five key themes, hosted and facilitated by a Step Up supporter from a partner organisation. The content of these events have been fantastic and we will use this to support learning and action in the future. All recordings are on our YouTube channel. A measurement of our event success which we are really proud of is that we have retained our 100% Satisfaction Rate across our events. We have continued to diversify our content and community, we are proud of our work on diversity, equity and inclusion. Our diversity data that we have collected below is based on those choosing to complete surveys after our events, and does not necessarily capture our whole community: 58% of our community are over 40 years old compared to 42% in the previous year. 67% of our community are cisgender female compared to 62% in 2023/24. 16% of our community identify as sexual orientations other than heterosexual compared to 30% last year. 58% of our community are non-Christian compared to 68% in the previous year. 53% of our community are from a non-white background compared to 45% last year. 41% of our community have parental responsibilities, which is the same as our measurement from last year. Our full impact report is available on our website: www.stepupnetwork.uk

Throughout the year, we regularly survey our stakeholders including at the end of our events and through our annual survey. The stakeholders within our community include our volunteers, speakers, presenters, partners/collaborators and event attendees. This information is used by the volunteer team to plan future events and content.

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