EACTP Mastermind: Balancing Financial Sustainability with Social Purpose
Can social purpose survive a depleted balance sheet?
In the social care and charity sectors, a crisis rarely begins with a single event. It develops gradually through unexplained deficits, shrinking reserves, and delayed strategic decisions. In the operational reality of a distressed charity, delaying intervention depletes reserves and jeopardises vulnerable beneficiaries.
When governance weakens and non-profit organisations face distress, how do turnaround professionals navigate the intersection of fiduciary duty and charitable mission to prove a regulated entity is still viable?
The Masterclass:
Join David Hole, CTP (Interim CEO, CRO, and turnaround practitioner, as he dissects the operational and governance realities of managing charity deficits.
Drawing on over 35 years of turnaround, restructuring and crisis leadership experience, David addresses a fundamental challenge: preserving social purpose requires immediate financial visibility and a strict separation of operational recovery from strategic restructuring.
He reveals how to navigate statutory scrutiny and execute complex turnaround mechanisms in heavily regulated third-sector environments.
Session Thesis:
"Effective governance is the bridge between financial sustainability and social purpose."
You will learn:
- Governance Under Pressure: How to identify early warning indicators of governance breakdown and reserve depletion before options become limited.
- The Financial Backbone: How to implement 13-week cashflow forecasting to secure immediate financial visibility and stabilise operations.
- Strategic Separation: Methodologies to separate day-to-day operational recovery execution from board-level strategic restructuring.
- The Credibility Factor: How to manage communications with regulators, trustees, and vulnerable beneficiaries to maintain stakeholder confidence.
- Protecting Mission-Critical Services: Frameworks to execute complex restructuring mechanisms, including pre-pack administrations, whilst preserving continuity of care.
The Mastermind will conclude with EACTP's Bright Minds Together session, providing an opportunity for peer discussion and the exchange of practical restructuring and turnaround insights.
About the Speaker:
David Hole, CTP, is a charity turnaround and governance specialist, Interim CEO, CFO and CRO specialising in distressed charities and non-profit turnarounds. A Certified Turnaround Professional, EACTP Fellow, Founding 50 Member, and member of the EACTP Standards & Admissions Committee, he has spent over 35 years leading organisations through distress and renewal. With a background as a licensed insolvency practitioner, he supports social care organisations through severe operational crises. In 2026, David was shortlisted for the EACTP European Turnaround Practitioner of the Year Award after leading a complex pre-pack administration that preserved 450 roles and secured continuity for over 500 vulnerable individuals.
Event Details:
Date: Wednesday,18 November 2026
Time: 14:00 - 15:15 BST / 15:00 - 16:15 CEST / 16:00 - 17:15 EEST
Location: Online (Zoom)
Cost:
- EACTP Members and Students – Free of charge
- TMA Members – £29
- Non-Members – £59
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About the EACTP:
The focus of the European Association of Certified Turnaround Professionals (EACTP) is to educate, train and certify turnaround professionals and for the CTP qualification to be recognised as an industry-standard ‘kitemark’ of quality in the practice of turnaround and restructuring.
It aims to promote turnaround ahead of insolvency, thus saving more jobs and value in the public and national interest.
The EACTP promotes the benefits of turnaround ahead of insolvency through engagement with shareholders, company directors, business management organisations, creditor groups and governments.
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