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Submit Your Session Proposal for the Frontline Network Annual Conference 2025

Submit Your Session Proposal for the Frontline Network Annual Conference 2025

Submit Your Session Proposal for the Frontline Network Annual Conference 2025

Friday, January 3, 2025

Every year the Frontline Network Annual Conference brings together hundreds of frontline homelessness workers and stakeholders for a day of interactive online webinars. These are run by a range of UK-wide expert speakers from across the sector; sharing their knowledge, skills, experience and insights. Our latest conference, in June 2024, with its theme of ‘Strength in Community’ was our biggest online conference yet.

Our 2025 conference date is Tuesday 24th June, and we are inviting organisations and individuals to submit proposals for delivering a session at the event.

We always strive for our content to be informed by learning from frontline workers, and our conferences are informed by the findings from our annual frontline worker surveys. We also consult with our eight UK-wide Frontline Network Partner organisations and consider event and training feedback to inform the topics and themes.

This year we are co-creating the event with frontline staff and organisations supporting people experiencing homelessness across the UK and inviting you to share perspectives, best practice and updates to support workers and people they support.

Submit your proposal

What we are looking for: We are seeking proposals for sessions that are highly relevant to our audience, that appeal to staff working across different sectors in a variety of roles supporting people experiencing homelessness. As a guide, our general focusses have included best practice in frontline service delivery, frontline worker wellbeing, policy and legislation updates and analysis of issues directly affecting people experiencing homelessness.

You can see a selection of our previous content here.

Each session can be up to 75 minutes, and not less than one hour. However,if you feel that you could contribute 15 minutes (but perhaps not offer a full hour-long session) to a discussion on a topic that is important to you, and you want us to hear about, we want to hear from you too!

Feel free to get in touch to discuss your ideas:Email Naomi at frontline@stmartinscharity.org.uk

More details:

Role: You may be proposing yourself as an expert speaker or proposing a session focusing on the work of your organisation, or as a participant in a discussion involving colleagues, stakeholders or experts by experience from your networks.

Audience: Our audience is made up of UK-wide frontline workers, managers, leaders and decision makers from across the voluntary, statutory and public sectors working with people experiencing homelessness. In 2024 we had an attendance of 400 people, with numbers increasing annually (from just under 350 in 2023).

Format: The conference is run as a series of webinars across the day, hosted on Zoom via the Hey Summit event platform. Interactive elements can be included using Zoom’s chat, polls, Q&A functions. Breakout rooms are not available.

We also record the webinars and make them available to watch on our website after the event.

Fees: We want to encourage people to come, share and learn at our conference and be comfortable in doing so. We recognise that some people can have valuable insights and experience to bring and share but face financial barriers in doing so. If some form of payment would enable you to participate and to run a workshop when you otherwise wouldn't be able to, then please indicate that and how much and we will consider your request on a case-by-case basis.

Contact information: Please email your suggestions, or any questions, to Naomi at frontline@stmartinscharity.org.uk.

Deadline: Closing date for applications is 3 March 2025.

Submit your proposal

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