FE HR Breakfast Club
Join together with people professionals as you connect, share & grow
A Community of People Professionals
When you’re busy delivering on multiple projects, strategies, and action plans, finding time to develop your professional network isn’t easy. Yet you’d love to belong to a community of People professionals who understand FE, and share similar challenges.
The FE HR Breakfast Club allows you to do just that. For a ‘golden hour’, once a month, FE HR folk come together online to:
- Connect with others in the FE sector across the UK
- Share ideas, practice and resources and challenge the status quo
- Access advice, support and other expertise
- Gain access to free FE-focussed discussions on topics such as Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), Well-being, Business Planning and Employment Law updates
Celebrate and showcase successes and learn more about sector-leading practice.
Connect
share
grow
Who Can Join?
Anyone who works in an HR-related field within an FE institution. You could be an HR generalist, or Learning & Development, EDI, Recruitment, Reward, Well-being or other specialist.
Through our varied programme, you’ll meet fellow HR Directors in one session, and Recruitment specialists at the next.
The diversity of topics and round-table discussions stretches across all strands of HR activity and provides valuable learning and development for all People professionals.
So, whether you’re a team of one or of twenty, our guest speakers provide thought-provoking insights for those working at both strategic and operational levels of HR.
“The FE HR Breakfast Club is great! The events focus on relevant topics and show case best practice across FE.” – HR Manager, Addysg Oedolion Cymry | Adult Learning Wales
How does Breakfast Club work?
When is Breakfast Club?
8.50 – 10.00 am on the second Friday of each month.
How do I join?
All FE HR Breakfast Club sessions are run online, avoiding unnecessary travel time.
Simply register beforehand and find somewhere you can comfortably sit at your laptop for an hour.
How do the sessions work?
Each month, you’ll share in:
- An in-depth discussion about topics specifically relevant to the Further Education sector.
- Free resources and a Q&A session on this month’s topic.
- Opportunities to connect with other People professionals in FE, sharing experience, advice and resources.
What happens in between?
There’s a private LinkedIn group for the FE HR Hub to help you connect with the wider FE HR community, share posts and initiate or continue topic discussions.
Over time, you’ll build more connections and create on-going relationships outside of the monthly sessions, as you continue knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
How much does it cost?
Membership to the Breakfast Club is FREE.
How do I join?
Just sign up below and we’ll send you all the details for upcoming sessions.
What topics does the Breakfast Club cover?
The FE HR Breakfast Club provides a forum to help you keep up to date on all the hot topics and key issues facing the sector. So the range of topics we cover is broad and varied.
We also encourage members to share suggestions for Breakfast Club sessions, so you can be sure you’re getting support and time to explore the issues that matter to you.
Recent sessions have included:
Inspiration for Inset
Strategic Partnerships: What is Best Practice?
Is Your Culture putting your wellbeing strategy at risk of burnout? (Guest speaker from JBE Health)
A Case Study: Setting up an alternative pension scheme in a FE/HE setting? (Guest speaker from Shakespeare Martineau)
Menopause: Are you currently working with risk or opportunity? (Guest speaker from The Menopause Team)
What’s Coming Up?
Breakfast Club sessions are held online on the second Friday of each month, 8.50 am – 10.00 am.
You can register on our Eventbrite page, which lists the upcoming dates:
Suggest a Topic and Share Your Success
The FE HR Hub is all about growing a community that supports each other, so:
- What’s your biggest HR challenge right now?
- What would you love to get other people’s thoughts on?
- What projects are you really proud of?
Send through your ideas for topics that would help you in your work. And tell us what’s going well in your college, so we can recognise the work that went into overcoming those challenges and help you celebrate its success!
What Our Members Say
Read how the Breakfast Club supports our members.
Collaboration in Practice
The FE HR Hub is all about sharing knowledge and experience within our community. Take a look at some of the recent collaboration projects our members have been involved in.
Join the Breakfast Club
The FE HR Breakfast Club is the right place for you if you’d like to:
Connect with a community of supportive People professionals in the FE sector who understand and share your challenges.
Share advice and ideas with others, and gain access to resources and ideas you can use in your college
Grow professionally, through connecting with other colleges, experts and specialists
Simply complete the form below to become part of our supportive, inclusive community.
Sponsorship and Guest Speakers
Are you a Service Provider supporting People professionals in the FE sector? Would you like the opportunity to improve your brand awareness across the wider FE HR community?
Perhaps you’re an expert in a topic of interest to the FE HR community and would like to share your knowledge as a guest speaker at one of our Breakfast Club sessions?
We have a range of opportunities for you to raise your brand profile and connect with your target audience through our sponsorship packages and guest speaking slots. Contact us for more information.