Speaker bios
Nora Dettor, Spring Impact Director of Capacity Building
Nora is the Director of Capacity Building. She leads Spring Impact’s work to demystify scaling and build the sector’s knowledge and ability to scale successfully through practical tools and training.
Since joining Spring Impact in January 2020, Nora has supported a range of partners on their journey to scale, both national and international, across a range of sectors.
Nora joined Spring Impact in January 2020 after leading the digital transformation of Clore Social Leadership to help develop leaders in the social sector. Prior to this she worked at Elrha supporting organisations to develop and scale Humanitarian Innovations as manager of the Accelerating the Journey to Scale programme and the Gender Based Violence programme. Prior to this, Nora co-founded the Swedish nonprofit Agenda: Jämlikhet, a digital platform that makes it easier for people to take action for equality. She also facilitated The Human Rights Lab, bringing together people from the non-profit sector with business and tech people to develop solutions to Human Rights issues.
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Alice Metcalf, Spring Impact Senior Consultant
Alice is leading and supporting on the delivery of projects, both national and international across a range of sectors. Current projects include working with CHDC, a research institute based in Uganda, to scale the impact of ‘Parenting for Respectability’, a community-based parenting intervention focused on reducing Violence against Children in Uganda, making it accessible to every parent in Uganda.
Alice is also working closely with funder Sport England to manage our 3-year partnership to support grantees of Sport England’s volunteering fund to replicate their solutions. Through this partnership, Alice is working directly with Active Life to scale She’s Ready, a movement of women empowering women to become more active in their communities.
Previously at Spring Impact Alice has supported organisations in the UK health and education sectors, including working with Reach Foundation to explore using a MAT model to replicate the enormous impact their all-through school in Feltham has achieved, and IRISi to pilot their social franchise model for IRIS, a specialist domestic violence and abuse (DVA) training, support and referral programme for General Practices.
Before joining Spring Impact, Alice worked within the International Secretariat at Penny Appeal, a non-profit that provides poverty relief across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Alice provided support to the international offices in implementing Penny Appeal’s global strategy, facilitating the expansion of the charity.
